Chris Bergson & Ellis Hooks event page 2025
Chris Bergson is an internationally acclaimed American born guitarist, singer, andsongwriter. Hailed as "the New York street poet with a blues soul” (MOJO) and "one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music," (All Music
Guide) Bergson is best known as the leader of the Chris Bergson Band. Elmore Magazine calls the Chris Bergson Band “one of the most talented bands playing today,” whose soulful blend of American Roots music encompasses “blazing rock to funk to soul to Delta blues and all that's in between.” Bergson is also an
accomplished sideman who has performed with luminaries across a wide range of genres including Pop/Rock (Norah Jones, Levon Helm) Blues/Soul (Hubert Sumlin, Bernard Purdie) and Jazz (Annie Ross, Al Foster, and Matt Wilson.) The Chris Bergson Band’s 2007 album Fall Changes, recorded at Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock, New York, was named MOJO Magazine’s Number One Blues Album of the Year in 2008. Bergson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as a Master Blues Artist in 2015.
Ellis Hooks is an American soul blues and electric blues singer and songwriter, who has released eight albums to date. His voice invokes the sounds of Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke &
Otis Redding. Hooks was born in Bay Minette, Alabama to a Cherokee mother and an African American father, who was a Baptist raised sharecropper. By the age of fourteen, Hooks had
heard secular music on the radio and left his strict upbringing. He hitchhiked across the United States, travelled around Europe and resided in Paris and Amsterdam, before relocating to NY
and busking on the streets of the city. Record producer Jon Tiven released Hooks debut album, “Undeniable”. Hooks headlined at the BBC's World Music Festival in 2003, and opened
for Terence Trent D'Arby. Hooks also performed with Carla Thomas at the Montreux Jazz Festival. His 2003 album, Up Your Mind, was nominated for a Blues Music Award. He’s released
8 albums to date.
When it comes to the blues, this dynamic collaboration of award-winning talents and infectious
energy is simply unbeatable.
Local favorite The Fabulous Rhythm Aces will get the party started. The Fabulous Rhythm Aces
are a Blues, Jump, Swing and Rock & Roll band based in NJ & NY Hudson Valley.
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