Carla J. Lehrer is the sister of Brad Lehrer, who owns and operates The Lehrer Bar & Grill, a venue that supports our local blues and music community. She is currently in a battle with breast cancer, having gone through surgery and now undergoing chemotherapy treatment.  In support of Carla and to honor anybody who has gone through cancer or been affected by someone who has, Brad has gathered some of the finest blues ladies in town for a benefit show to show solidarity and to help with the mental, physical and financial burdens that Carla is facing.

This event …

In the early 1960s, while the blues languished in obscurity here in the U.S., teenage guitarists all across England were wearing the grooves out of scratched 45s by Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley and dozens of American blues artists. The first wave of the British Invasion was led, not by The Beatles, but by working class bands that first put their own stamp on classic blues covers, and then tapped the blues idiom for a new generation of original rock ‘n roll.

The British Blues Explosion pays tribute to those English lads who kept the blues flame …