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On Friday, December 22, 2001, Blue Miracle will bring their decade
of jamming the Mid-Atlantic and beyond to a close, with a final
hometown show at the Clipper in Annapolis, MD. Chances are, if
you were in the DC-Baltimore area in the first half of the nineties,
you were among the many whose early morning plans on
Wednesdays and Thursdays were shot due to having been out way
too late the night before at the Paragon in College Park, MD or the
Bank in Baltimore. The band quickly grew from these weekly
events of performing dead-on covers of Santana, the Allmans,
James Brown, and others to writing two albums worth of original
material and touring the country from Maine to Florida and as far
west as Alaska.
Along the way, they shared bills with everyone from Santana to
Blues Traveler to Widespread Panic to House of Pain. Fans were
drawn in by the instrumental wizardry of John Arthur on guitar and
Jon Gillespie on keyboards, as well as the raw hick power of KOB
on bass and the pounding beat of Ryan Wick on the kit, not to
mention the signature growl of Steve Cyphers vocals and the
soulful voice of Derek Leininger. Some members came and went
over the years, but the core remained, delivering their own brand of
Southern fried, blue-eyed funk and soul. The Clipper show will be a
reunion of sorts, bringing together many who met at the Miracle.
Go see Blue Miracle one last time on Friday, December 22nd @ Eastport Clipper in Annapolis, MD!
Read a hilarious Washington City Paper article about Blue Miracle from May of 1997
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