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November 17, 2023 @ 7:30 pm.

“I feel the respect and affection for him that a father feels for his son. He is one of the most serious blues guitarists you can find today. He makes me proud,” said B.B. KING. “A genuine virtuoso, he continues to release top quality, deeply emotional recordings…Pretty much any Ronnie Earl album is an essential purchase,” raves BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE.  “When it’s time for spiritual rejuvenation, it’s time for a visit from Ronnie Earl, pastor of the church of tone,” states VINTAGE GUITAR. Originally scheduled for (27-MAY-2023 at 7:30pm) Previously purchased tickets will be honored for the new date.

2x-GRAMMY® Award Nominated, 4x-Blues Music Award-Winner, 43x-Blues Music Award Nominated & Legendary Blues Guitarist RONNIE EARL returns to Jimmy's following a mesmerizing 2021 Sold Out show! Ronnie Earl is a four-time Blues Music Award-Winning "Guitar Player of the Year" (1997, 1999, 2014, 2018) and has been Nominated a stunning 23 times! In 2022, RONNIE EARL & THE BROADCASTERS celebrated 35 years as a band. The recent releases by Ronnie Earl and The Broadcasters, Spread the Love (2010), Just for Today (2013), Good News (2014), Father's Day (2015), Maxwell Street (2016), The Luckiest Man (2017), Beyond The Blue Door (2019) and Rise Up (2020) all debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard Blues Album Chart and received wide critical acclaim. The Broadcasters are: DAVE LIMINA (Hammond B3 & Piano); DIANE BLUE (Vocals); FORREST PADGETT (Drums); and PAUL KOCHANSKI (Electric and Upright Bass). "Ronnie Earl is the John Coltrane of the guitar," raves ELMORE MAGAZINE.

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Ronnie Earl, Guitar

Legendary Blues guitarist Ronnie Earl is a four-time Blues Music Award winner as Guitar Player of the Year (1997, 1999, 2014, 2018), most recently receiving the award on May 10, 2018, in Memphis. He has served as an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music and has taught at the National Guitar summer workshop in Connecticut.

In 1995 Ronnie released Ronnie Earl: Blues Guitar with Soul, an instructional VHS tape rereleased in DVD format in 2005. Earl’s discography includes acclaimed albums on Stony Plain Records, Black Top, Bullseye Blues, Verve, and Telarc. His 1996 Bullseye Blues release, Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads, won Downbeat Magazine’s Blues Album of the Year, and in 2004 Earl’s Hey José won the Best Blues/R&B Song at the 3rd Annual Independent Music Awards. In 2022, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters celebrate 35 years as a band. The recent releases by Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Spread the Love (2010), Just for Today (2013), and Good News (2014), Father’s Day (2015), Maxwell Street (2016), and The Luckiest Man (2017), Beyond The Blue Door (2019) and Rise Up (2020) all debuted on the top ten Billboard Blues charts and received wide critical acclaim. Mercy Me (2022) is Earl’s 14th album in partnership with Stony Plain and his 28th career album.

Ronnie Earl has played alongside such legends as Hubert Sumlin, Earl King, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Kim Wilson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band and many others, including, B.B. King, who said about Ronnie, “I feel the respect and affection for him that a father feels for his son. He is one of the most serious blues guitarists you can find today. He makes me proud.”

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Dave Limina, Hammond B3 & Piano

Dave Limina is a Professor in the Piano Department at Berklee College of Music, where he received the Most Valuable Contribution to the Performance Curriculum Award in 2001 for his work in creating and developing the Hammond organ program. As a keyboardist, composer, and arranger, Dave has performed with Gloria Estefan, Duke Robillard, Courage Brothers, Mark Murphy, Lori McKenna, Mighty Sam McClain, Kenny Neal, Catie Curtis, Freedy Johnston, Martha Reeves, Brooke Benton, Toy Caldwell, Felix Cavalieri, Steve Forbert, and The RB Funkestra with Fred Wesley and Eric Krasno. Also Grammy winning songwriters, Robert Lee Castleman, Gary Nicholson, Paula Cole, Mark Walker and Steve Leslie. He has been the keyboardist/conductor for the first national touring company of the Broadway musical Rent. He received Boston Music Award nominations for his work with Courage Brothers, Ronnie Earl, and Mighty Sam McClain. He played keyboards on Michelle Willson’s Wake Up Call, which was a Boston Music Awards winner in 2001 for “Best Blues Album”. He is the author of “Hammond Organ Complete” (Hal Leonard), and the instructional video/DVD “Accelerate Your Keyboard Playing” (Rittor Music).

Diane Blue, Vocals

Boston’s Diane Blue is a soul-stirring vocalist, skillful harmonica player and a crowd-pleasing entertainer. Ms. Blue is the first female member of Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, prominently featured on the band’s albums since 2013, and has received rave reviews on her vocals and performance. Voted “Outstanding Female Singer” in The Blues Audience 2015 & 2011 Readers’ Poll, Ms. Blue is a soulful and sassy performer with a strong and energetic delivery, serving up her own spin on soul, blues and R&B. She won the 2010 Massachusetts Blues Challenge, earning the honor of competing at the 2011 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee. She was nominated “Best Blues/R&B Act” and “Best Female Vocalist” in 2007 by the Providence Phoenix and also nominated “Best Local Blues Act” by Motif Magazine in 2007. Diane has shared the stage with many greats including Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, Irma Thomas, Toni Lynn Washington and the late Big Jack Johnson of Clarksdale, Mississippi who called Diane a “monster on the harp.

Forrest Padgett, Drums

Forrest Padgett joined the Broadcasters August 2016. Forrest is a highly regarded and respected drummer in the Boston area and we welcome him to the group! Forrest has played drums professionally for over forty years, performing with such artists as The Radio Kings, Brain Templeton, Paul Rishell, Duke Robillard, Little Charlie Baty, Charlie Musselwhite, Luther Guitar Jr. Johnson, Lavern Baker, the Radio Kings, East of Eden, and more. He attended Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY, and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He graduated from Framingham State University with a B.A. in English.

Paul Kochanski, Electric and Upright Bass

Paul Kochanski is a Grammy-nominated electric and upright bass player who brings his solid time and feel to the current Broadcasters lineup. He was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where he began his performing career at age 14. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston before becoming immersed in that city’s vibrant original music scene. In 1990, he co-founded the Swinging Steaks – an Americana/alt.country group that landed a recording contract with legendary Capricorn Records, leading to national tours with Los Lobos, The Band and as headliners. Around that time, Paul became involved in the Boston blues scene, where he first had the good fortune to perform with Forrest Padgett, the Broadcaster’s current drummer. As the Steaks’ activity waned, Paul began working as a sideman for many New England-based singer-songwriters, and has recorded and/or performed with over 100 artists including Alastair Moock (with whom Paul shares his Grammy nomination), the legendary “Big Al” Anderson (formerly of NRBQ) and Lori McKenna (appearing with her on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert February 2017). Paul’s instinct to serve the song and remain in the moment makes him a natural fit with Ronnie and the Broadcasters. He had subbed a few shows with the group over the years and was proud to contribute to the band’s “Spread the Love” album, playing and co-writing “Blues for Dr. Donna.” Honored to be including in the elite club of musicians who have been named Broadcasters, Paul looks forward to writing the next chapter in the history of this illustrious band.

Per New York City’s guidance, Sony Hall is requiring all guests, staff & musicians ages 12+ to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to enter. Children ages 5 to 11 must have received at least one dose. Proof of vaccination may include your physical CDC card, photo of your CDC card, NYC Covid Safe App, or the NYS Excelsior Pass. In addition to the vaccination policy, New York City continues to encourage masks for all indoor gatherings, except while you are actively eating and drinking.

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Blues Legend Ronnie Earl Returns To Hometown New York City

Alexander Hom , Contributing Writer | March 29, 2023

Ronnie Earl freestyles on his electric Fender guitar with his blues band, The Broadcasters. (Courtesy of Alexander Hom for The Fordham Ram)

I first met Ronnie Earl at a baseball card convention in his Boston hometown, where I was running a vendor’s booth with my family that he sat in front of with an exudence of inspiring sincerity. The first words he ever spoke to me was a calming music to my unrelenting soul, enriched with warm kindness too few are ever blessed to know. Even then, I knew that was the start of something special.

Earl was born Ronald Horvath in Rego Park in my native Queens, N.Y. 70 years ago on March 10. While earning his dual Bachelor’s degrees in special education and education at Boston University, he visited the city’s famed Jazz Workshop venue, where blues revolutionary Muddy Waters was giving a concert. Earl would then, at the age of 20 like Paul McCartney of the Beatles, begin playing guitar for the first time. I’m not making any comparisons, except to say Earl went on to be lead guitarist of three successful blues bands, release 32 albums (plus 40+ collaborations) and win dozens of awards for his work (with two Grammy nominations). And he’s still bringing albums to the people, and those masses to their feet.

I grew up brimming with an adoration for truly classic 20th-century tunes and genres, from Delta jazz to California surfer rock’n’roll to Motown funk and whatever inbetween. My love for reading as a child taught me that all those musical derivatives had their roots in African folk traditions, slave spirituals and European marching bands. During my adolescence, I was an enthusiast of nearly all genres, but an expert in none.

Somehow with an aura as seductively elusive as the music itself, blues consistently evaded me, entering my ears and thoughts at times, but I became distracted by what its children — jazz, rock, early disco pop — were up to, working to decipher their antics. Not once did it dawn on me that true blues was a landscape I had never begun to explore in full. 

Earl changed that the moment we met, and our friendship has transformed me and my family’s lives since then. When Earl himself surprised me with the news that he and his revered blues band, The Broadcasters (named for his favorite guitar), would be returning to New York City for his first concert in over half a decade, I knew it’d be a night to remember. I’d only ever seen and heard him play on videos I found and CDs he later gave me, so I naturally seized my first opportunity to enjoy witnessing a live performance of his at Sony Hall on W 46th St. in Manhattan, on Jan. 13.

He evokes blues greats like Muddy Waters and B.B. King, reminiscent of Bill Withers’ voice, and notably, the devious genius of Jimi Hendrix. Willis brought us home to his Georgian family, weaving an intricate tapestry of life and longing. In the true spirit of the blues, Willis possessed his maple six-string to coax it to speak to the audience. Quite literally. Paying homage to Hendrix’s infamously transcendent Star Spangled Banner rendition, he coaxed his instrument to mimic the intonations of human speech to the audience’s uproarious delight.

Everyone murmured with admiration for Willis, and it was now Earl’s time to shine. He’d only stepped silently into the spotlights for two seconds when the crowd rose in a standing ovation. The rest of the gang followed: vocalist Diane Blue, keyboardist Dave Limina, bassist Paul Kochanski and drummer Forrest Padgett on drums. For the first time in half a decade, Earl and The Broadcasters finally reunited, and they hit the stage running, firing up their 2015 hit “Higher Love.”

Earl has an aura of purity and uniqueness that simultaneously emerges in all forms of his expression, complementing honesty and rarity that aren’t found anywhere else. He dances for the sharp notes and flirts with the flats, electric emotion taking everyone along on his rollercoaster journey of colorfully climactic melody. Through his respective character and gift of talent, Earl’s absolutely made from greatness at guitar and goodness at heart. His and The Broadcasters’ blues are so beautiful it cannot be accurately described in mere words, it has to be seen and heard live to be understood best.

I listened to a good deal of his music in the three years we’ve known each other, but the treat of being in his presence as he performs live is like no other. Not only do you literally feel the music physically resonating with you, in duality of his guitar’s sustained strumming in conjunction with the synchronized amplification, but you receive the feelings Earl so eagerly seeks to communicate. That’s the magic of the blues, and Earl’s a wizard.

Like Earl and Sir Paul McCartney, I picked up my first guitar while also 20 years old this past September. It was only after I taught myself some Beatles and Elvis riffs (and the Seinfeld jingle) that I realized the connection: Earl was self-taught too. He continues to be an inspiration in bringing out the best in us — reciprocating free kindness and liberating passions for music.

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From the opening traditional acoustic arrangement of ‘I Shall Not Be Moved’ the classic protest song you know that this is going to be something special. It’s a beautiful vocal free vocal that captures the essence of that powerful song with quiet simplicity. You’re then plunged head first into the cabaret room for the strutting swing blues of ‘Higher Love’ that sound like it hails from a Chicago Club of yesteryear. The impeccably picked Strat on ‘Blues for George Floyd’ is sublime.

If you love your smooth assured Blues then this is for you. Earl and his band are crazy good: with Dave Limina (keys,) Diane Blue (vocals), Paul Kochanski ( bass), and Forrest Padgett (drums) all given time to shine. Ronnie Earl   has been around since he first appeared in Boston bars in the 1970s and I’m quite ashamed only to have picked up on him now! This is real Blues with a social consciousness and the record comes as a response to  both Coronavirus and racial issues.  The star for me of course is the guitar but the soul in Diane Blue’s voice is amazing and a wonderful counterpoint.

Highlights for me have to be the wonderful live version of ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is’, the soothing ‘Blues for Lucky Peterson’ (man that guitar speaks!) and the slow Blues  of ‘Black Lives Matter’. Best of all though just might be the sublime of ‘Lord Protect My Child’ and the traditional feel of closer ‘Navajo Blues’. Brilliant!

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