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Tony D to play Elks Lodge on Saturday, Nov. 16
The Central Music Festival Society’s 20th anniversary season will wrap up with a performance from Juno award-winning musician Tony D.
The blues and rock musician has spent the past 15 years as lead guitarist of the band MonkeyJunk, which has won two Juno awards for Blues Album of the Year: To Behold in 2012 and Time To Roll in 2018.
When Tony D was in his late teens, he played rhythm guitar for legendary blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy, and has opened for Stevie Ray Vaughan in Ottawa, Ont. Throughout his career he has released seven independent solo albums as the Tony D Band, in addition to his work with MonkeyJunk and recording with other Canadian musicians, such as Dutch Mason, David Wilcox and Suzie Vinnick.
On Nov. 1, Tony D released a solo album entitled Electric Delta, featuring the single Modern Times. He will celebrate the release of the album with a live performance at Red Deer’s Elks Lodge at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16. This will be the 12th and final performance of the Central Music Festival Society’s 2024 season.
“Tony’s such a great musician. It’s going to be a great blend of blues and rock,” said Central Music Festival Society producer Mike Bradford.
Bradford said the Central Music Festival Society, which is a volunteer-run organization, has grown significantly since its first show back in 2004.
“The first concert we ever did as the society was in the basement of what was then the Stanford Inn in downtown Red Deer. It was an act from Texas … and we had a paying audience of about five. We’ve just grown from there,” he said.
“We put on these shows for the community dynamic it creates. People can get together to hear a good band or solo act and have a good time. They can leave their troubles aside and be there for two or three hours. It’s a really good thing — the energy at the shows is really positive. The Elks Lodge has great acoustics and we’re fortunate to have one of the best sound men in the area Doug Lowry.”
The society aims to have lineup of artists to Red Deer each season — some performers are touring artists while others are local.
“There’s a good base here for blues and roots music. We do that and we do folk music, we’ve had Indigenous acts. We try to mix things up as much as we can to put the point forward that … good music is good music,” said Bradford.
“If you took country, blues, jazz and pop musicians and put them together, then they’d be able to play together. Music is a universal language. That’s one dynamic we like to do once in a while — we’ll throw four songwriters together from different areas with different perspectives and we’ll see what they come up with.”
The society’s concerts also serve as a fundraiser for the Red Deer Food Bank, Bradford added.
“At all of our shows, people are encouraged to bring non-perishable items and cash donations (for the Red Deer Food Bank). During our shows we usually do a 50/50 draw as well in support of the food bank — a lot of times the winner of the 50/50 will donate a sizable chunk to the food bank,” he said.
To purchase tickets to the Tony D show on Nov. 16, visit www.centralmusicfest.com.
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