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Ray Bonneville and guitars.

Ray Bonneville

media release: Café Carpe is bringing Juno award winning Americana/blues artist Ray Bonneville to town for  a  show on Friday, August 2. Canadian born, and now living in Austin, Ray has shared the bill with blues heavyweights Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Dr. John, J.J. Cale, and Robert Cray.

Bonneville has been called “a poet of the demimonde” with a style that sometimes draws comparisons to JJ Cale and Daniel Lanois. His music is blues-influenced, New Orleans-inspired, and has earned him the apt description of “song and groove man.” His original songs are gritty narratives inspired by a lifetime of hard-won knowledge set against his steely, soulful guitar and harmonica playing, accented by stirring foot percussion.

He is a winner of Canada’s coveted Juno award, and in 2012 won the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge Award. In addition to his own work, Bonneville has performed on albums by Mary Gauthier, Gurf Morlix, Eliza Gilkyson, Ray Wylie Hubbard and other well-known Americana/Roots artists. He shares songwriting credits with Tim O’Brien, Phil Roy and Morlix, among others.

The concert takes place on Friday, August 2^nd   at 8:15 pm at Café Carpe, 18 S. Water St. West, Fort Atkinson. Café Carpe offers  homemade soups, salad dressings, salsa, iced tea, desserts, entrees, sauces, and breads.  Local & regional microbrews on tap, as well as wine, liquor and non-alcoholic beverages are also available. Tickets are $20.  Purchase at the door or online  at  www.cafecarpe.com   More about the artist at www.raybonneville.com