Roots guy, working guy from the east side of Vancouver Canada.  40+ years with Mud Bay Blues Band as a guitarist singer, crossing paths with Stevie Ray Vaughn, James Cotton, Albert Collins, Koko Taylor, Long John Baldry. Scattered internships with 1980s Vancouver groups Melody Pimps, IBraineater, Frantic Technicians Later wrote and recorded singles with Bachelors in Paradise, releasing a video aired on Much Music "Daddy's Got a Bungalow"
This century... 
Post- 2000 rejoined fellow-Bachelor in Paradise Bill Oliver for two albums as The Ormidales. Recieved FM airplay in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe.
Singer Songwriter guitarist with The Ormidales 
Studio Album" The Ormidales" 
Studio Album "These Little Dreams" 
EP " Bijou Blue"

Singer Songwriter guitarist with Mud Bay Blues Band - 
- Studio Album - "Death Taxes and The Mud Bay Blues Band " 
- Studio Album - "Mudified" 
- Studio Album - "Colebrook Road" 2015

 2014- Released solo album" Grandview" recorded in Vancouver with Melissa Bandura, pd Wohl and Jesse Waldman. The album features songs written by Mark Branscombe exploring pop, country, rock and folk genres.

2017 - Formed The Gravel-Aires, a roots and folk Americana duet with Vancouver guitarist/dobro player Michael Mahoney, releasing 2 albums National Avenue in 2020 and Headlights In The Rear View Mirror in 2021
2020/21 - Continued work with The Ormidales releasing a number of singles and videos

Brian Africa is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from Vancouver, BC, Canada, who is taking the DIY approach to creating and releasing music. His music leans towards Indie Folk with a hint of nineties Alternative Rock and Sixties Folk music sensibilities. Follow Brian on Spotify and @brianafricamusic on Instagram and Facebook for more from this up and coming Canadian Indie artist.

Growing up with a single mother in San Benito, Texas, the hometown of Tejano star Freddy Fender was not easy for blues singer Charley Crockett. Hitchhiking across the country exposed Crockett to the street life at a young age, following in the footsteps of his relative, American folk hero Davy Crockett, who also lived a wild life on the American frontier. After train hopping across the country, singing on the streets for change in New Orleans’ French Quarter, busking in New York City and performing across Texas and Northern California, Crockett set off to travel the world and lived on the streets of Paris for nearly a year before searching for home in Spain, Morocco, and Northern Africa.

The blues artist returned home to Texas and released his debut solo album titled A Stolen Jewel
in 2015, receiving critical acclaim in Dallas and ultimately landing him a Dallas Observer Music Award that year for “Best Blues Act”. A record “rich with Southern flavor, a musical gumbo of Delta blues, honky-tonk, gospel and Cajun jazz,” Jewel proved that Crockett, born into poverty in the Rio Grande, had come home to make his musical mark on the South. Crockett, who is self-described as elusive, rebellious and self-taught, has been compared to legends like Bill Withers, Merle Haggard, and Gary Clark Jr. 

He released his sophomore record In The Night, an admirable nod to his Texas country and Louisiana blues roots, on June 4 and ended 2016 having played over 125 shows. “In the Night” and Crockett’s song “I Am Not Afraid” received international recognition from top tastemakers after being picked by NPR Music as one of the "Top 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing” and selected by David Dye to be featured on World Cafe in late July. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram called it “an impressive calling card, full of Crockett's plaintive soulfulness and swinging tempos" and Central Track noted the artist as having "the well-rounded songwriting capabilities of Van Morrison and a vocal approach that finds common ground between Bill Withers and early Dr. John." Crockett graced the cover of Buddy Magazine in May 2016, who called him “the archetype of the new American vagabond.”

He has shared the stage with artists like Turnpike Troubadours, Leon Bridges, Justin Townes Earle, Citizen Cope, Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, Sean Hayes, Tab Benoit, Ace Enders and others. 

For more information www.CharleyCrockett.com

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