Learn the secrets of Delta blues guitar technique with one of its masters! In this workshop, Donna will teach a Tommy Johnson classic, Big Road Blues, in drop D tuning and a song in open G. Feel free to bring your recorder.
Donna Herula is, in order, a classic folk blues singer and guitarist, a UIUC grad, winner of the 2010 Chicago Blues Challenge (with John Johchem), and, in 2011, the Windy City Blues Society representative at the International Blues Challenge. She brings back to Champaign her clear, powerful voice "with the bite of a dagger," as well as her adept slide guitar and National steel guitar work. A born storyteller with deep roots in the Delta Blues tradition, Donna and her guitars tell tales from sardonic to dramatic, from wistful to laugh out loud funny.
Saturday afternoon, Nov. 5
1:00-2:00pm, Corsons Music
Free! No wristband necessary