Performer Name: Phil Okwedy

Show Name: Blues Echoes

Show Description

The Barnone Brothers: Bill Taylor-Beales and Phil Okwedy are long standing Singer-song writer and Story teller with a passion for weaving music - song and word together to explore the human condition. Myth, legend, social history and autobiographical story interlaced with music and song from the Blues tradition. The show explores themes of enslaved peoples; working class poverty and protest; the 19th & 20th century struggle of man against machine and humanity’s current 21st century experience all in the light of the Blues/Spirituals tradition as a catalyst of resilience and hope. Audiences have found it: entertaining - informative - interactive - moving - inspiring - powerful - personal - uplifting - fun

For large mainstream theatres we have a lighting plan and thumb drive with pre set LX cue sheet - with ETC ION showfile. For smaller venues we can adapt to whatever is available.
Tech Spec – Audio When in house PA is available: 1 x DI for on stage (retro casing) dynamic mic (small amount of reverb helpful) 1 x DI for guitar rig from line out of on stage amp (we have 4 x guitars all running through the same pedal and amp and levels adjusted on stage) Large auditoriums only 2 x discreet headset mics When house PA not available for small intimate venues We will channel all audio through the on stage amp both Vox and guitar Any further enquiries regarding sound: Bill Taylor-Beales – bill@billtaylor-beales.com
We can supply template posters/flyers for the host to print and or put online as required. Our website has promotional videos and info and photos. https://www.hushlandcreative.com/bluesechoes
"Born in Cardiff of a Welsh mother and Nigerian father, Phil Okwedy is a performance storyteller and myth-maker who draws on his dual heritage to tell tales from the world's oral traditions that are by turns deep and direct, playful and poignant, gleeful and grave. "