Mark Hummel's Allstar Harmonica Blowout
Sun, 22 Feb, 4:00 PM PST
Doors open
3:00 PM PST
Moe's Alley
1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95065
Description
Moe's Alley presents Mark Hummel's Allstar Harmonica Blowout! This legendary lineup features Curtis Salgado, Magic Dick, RJ Mischo, Mark Hummel, Anson Funderburgh, Steve Freund, Rodrigo Montovani and Wes Starr.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Doors: 3pm / Show: 4pm
$40 in advance / $45 day of the show
21+
*All sales are final
*Avoid scammers! Only purchase tickets from moesalley.com or ticketweb.com
===
CURTIS SALGADO-Curtis was half of Robert Cray Band as a co-front man in the first five years of the band’s busy touring schedule starting in 1977. Salgado has since been one of the leading lights of the Northwest’s R&B world, racking up BMA awards every year for Soul Man of the Year in Memphis, Best CD, Song Of The Year and many other notables.
MAGIC DICK is the original harp man from the J. Geils Band, whose many hits flooded the airwaves during the 1970s and 1980s. Chart-toppers like "FreezeFrame", "Centerfold", "First I Look At The Purse", "Must a Got Lost", "Give It To Me" and Magic Dick's own "Wammer Jammer" were in the Top Ten off and on for 20 years and made them one of the few top bands(other then WAR) that featured a harmonica prominently in the frontline. Dick went on to start "Bluestime" with J. Geils after the original band broke up, making two CDs for Rounder Records.
Throughout his career, ANSON FUNDERBURGH has had the privilege of sharing the stage, and working and recording with many of the biggest names in blues, including Delbert McClinton and Jimmie Vaughan, along with countless others. His unmistakable style, tone and sensibility has made him one of contemporary blues music’s most important guitar players. Anson has developed into a legacy artist and his influence on innumerable guitarists is immeasurable.
MARK HUMMEL - Hummel has been featured on over thirty recordings since 1985, including his Grammy-nominated, Blues Music Award-winning 2014 Blind Pig Records release, Remembering Little Walter. Mark Hummel is a celebrated figure in the world of blues and has long been recognized for his exceptional talent and deep reverence for the blues tradition.
RJ MISCHO Is from the Twin Cities in MN and has garnered a stellar reputation for his harmonica prowess worldwide, thanks for consistently great recordings and constant touring. RJ has been a Hohner Harmonica sponsee for twenty years! Mischo last played the Blowouts in 2018 w/John Primer & Billy Boy Arnold.
STEVE FREUND hails from Brooklyn, NY but moved to the Windy City of Chicago in 1970 at the invitation of legendary blues pianist Sunnyland Slim, who Steve accompanied for twenty years. During this time Steve played with every noteworthy blues person in the city, including Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Koko Taylor( winning a Grammy on her live LP), James Cotton( 12 yrs), Lonnie Brooks, Hubert Sumlin, Big Walter Horton, Lee Jackson, Eddie Taylor, Snooky Pryor, Magic Slim, Henry Gray, Robert Jr Lockwood, Floyd Jones, BB Odom and more.
ROUNDING OUT THIS LINE UP IS WES STARR ON DRUMS (Asleep at the Wheel, Delbert McClinton, Marsha Ball, Omar and the Howlers, Anson & The Rockets, Willie Nelson) AND BMA WINNING BASSIST RODRIGO MANTOVANI (Nick Moss, Jontavious Willis)
Event Information
Age Limit
21+
Blues
Curtis Salgado
Curtis Salgado
Blues
CURTIS SALGADO - Curtis was half of Robert Cray Band as a co-front man in the first five years of the band’s busy touring schedule starting in 1977. Salgado has since been one of the leading lights of the Northwest’s R&B world, racking up BMA awards every year for Soul Man of the Year in Memphis, Best CD, Song Of The Year and many other notables. Curtis new cd, Fine By Me on Little Village has stayed at the top of the charts most of 2024. Curtis is the Best blue eyed soul singer alive as well as a great harmonica man.
Jazz
Magic Dick
Magic Dick
Jazz
MAGIC DICK is the original harp man from the J. Geils Band, whose many hits flooded the airwaves during the 1970s and 1980s. Chart-toppers like "FreezeFrame", "Centerfold", "First I Look At The Purse", "Must a Got Lost", "Give It To Me" and Magic Dick's own "Wammer Jammer" were in the Top Ten off and on for 20 years and made them one of the few top bands(other then WAR) that featured a harmonica prominently in the frontline. Dick went on to start "Bluestime" with J. Geils after the original band broke up, making two CDs for Rounder Records.
Harmonica Blues
RJ Mischo
RJ Mischo
Harmonica Blues
RJ MISCHO is from the Twin Cities in MN and has garnered a stellar reputation for his harmonica prowess worldwide, thanks for consistently great recordings and constant touring. RJ has been a Hohner Harmonica sponsee for twenty years! Mischo last played the Blowouts in 2018 w/John Primer & Billy Boy Arnold.
Harmonica Blues
Mark Hummel
Mark Hummel
Harmonica Blues
MARK HUMMEL -born on the East Coast but raised in Los Angeles. He took up an interest in blues harp & rock-blues
music in high school but soon discovered the originators - Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter, to
name a few. Soon, Hummel was frequenting the legendary Ash Grove on Melrose Avenue in LA where he saw three
blues legends he would later work with on a regular basis: Charlie Musselwhite, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and
James Cotton. By 1985 Mark Hummel's Blues Survivors hit the road full time and never looked back. Hummel has been
featured on over thirty recordings since 1985, including his Grammy-nominated, Blues Music Award-winning 2014 Blind
Pig Records release, Remembering Little Walter. Mark Hummel is a celebrated figure in the world of blues and has long
been recognized for his exceptional talent and deep reverence for the blues tradition.
Blues
Anson Funderburgh
Anson Funderburgh
Blues
"AS LONG AS I'M IN THE CONVERSATION, I'M GOOD....."
IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE FOR BLUES GUITAR LEGEND ANSON FUNDERBURGH FROM PLANO, TEXAS
For close to 50 years, those words pretty well sum up Funderburgh’s life and love of just being “in the moment” when he’s on stage coaxing some of the very best blues guitar sounds in the world from his Fender Stratocaster.
In the moment indeed. That’s where Funderburgh lives every day. “I’m just a simple country boy,” he says. But this is one country boy who felt the call of the blues early on and turned his love of country music into blistering blues that tell the tale of the working man. The every-day, simple man. People just like Funderburgh himself.
Funderburgh isn’t like a lot of other musicians and performers. He shuns the spotlight…. He’s not big on small talk, either. He’s more than happy to let his guitar do all the talking. And man, do people listen. At 5’9, Funderburgh is an unassuming figure. With his understated Southern manners and laid-back conversational style, it would be easy to mistake him as a wallflower.
Until he straps on his Strat.
That’s when he says all he needs to say. And people love it. From local joints in Texas to blues clubs and festivals around the world, Funderburgh has earned his reputation as one of contemporary blues music’s most relevant and esteemed guitar players with his unmistakable style, tone and sensibility.
While he takes it all in his typically mellow stride, Funderburgh is beloved and respected by fans and fellow musicians alike. Just don’t ask him to talk about himself. “I’d rather let the conversation on stage be what people remember and react to. It's the conversation without the big words. I want to play music. I want to play music that moves me and moves who I'm playing with and, hopefully, it moves the people that come to see us.”
Man, does it ever.
Blues
Steven Freund
Steven Freund
Blues
STEVE FREUND hails from Brooklyn, NY but moved to the Windy City of Chicago in 1970 at the invitation of legendary blues pianist Sunnyland Slim, who Steve accompanied for twenty years. During this time Steve played with every noteworthy blues person in the city, including Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Koko Taylor( winning a Grammy on her live LP), James Cotton( 12 yrs), Lonnie Brooks, Hubert Sumlin, Big Walter Horton, Lee Jackson, Eddie Taylor, Snooky Pryor, Magic Slim, Henry Gray, Robert Jr Lockwood, Floyd Jones, BB Odom and more. Freund produced Pryor, Slim & Grey for Blind Pig Records. Steve played on Boz Scaggs’ Come On Home cd as well as toured it. He’s recorded three CDs on Delmark Records.
Blues
Rodrigo Montovani
Rodrigo Montovani
Blues
Blues
Wes Starr
Wes Starr
Blues