J.P. Soars: Blues & Rock

Saturday, June 1, 2024, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Location: Firehouse Cultural Center

Event type: Center Stage

Join us Saturday, June 1, 2024, Center Stage at the Firehouse.

J.P. Soars: Winner & 2013 Blues Music Award Nominee for Best Contemporary Male Blues Artist of the year!

JP Soars "Deep Down In Florida" by Blues Pros Talent from BLUES PROS TALENT on Vimeo.

“Soars is not an empty suit of technique. He is instead a studied practitioner of the guitar arts, and he demonstrates this on the standards of originality brought together on this recording. (Full Moon in Memphis 2015)”
— C. Michael Bailey “All About Jazz”, Reviewer

Not every blues artist can create a cohesive sound in the genre by weaving in a diversity of other influences, but guitarist and vocalist JP Soars is obviously not just any blues artist. A 2009 winner of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN with his band the Red Hots (and the festival’s Albert King Award winner as best guitarist to boot), the Arkansas native toured extensively through the United States, Canada, South America and Europe with metal bands after relocating to South Florida, and is one of the few guitarists also capable of adding nuances of his long-standing, Django Reinhardt-inspired “Gypsy jazz” side project.

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