The Music Calendar is Back Online! Posted on: Jul. 10 2007,13:03 by SoopaFlyYT
Hello all, there have been many requests, comments, emails, forum posts and drunken requests about when the candlelight calendar would be updated. For the past month or so it's been down and it is now back, better than ever and updated.
Thanks to everyone that comes here and checks it. I know I use it when I want to go out and now you can once again.
Paul deLay, local blues legend, dies Posted on: Mar. 08 2007,00:18 by SoopaFlyYT
Paul deLay, the larger-than-life Portland bluesman who redefined the harmonica and its musical potential, died Wednesday morning, March 7th at Providence Portland Medical Center from end-stage leukemia diagnosed just days before. He was 55.
"He was the most inventive harmonica player in the history of the planet," says John Mazzocco, who played bass with deLay for several years in the 1990s. "He was gifted -- he had incredible tone, but more important, he could look at things differently than any other harmonica player. He was the best in the world."
"He was the best harmonica player in the blues world," says bassist Jimmy Lloyd Rea, from Baker City. "His big body -- mind, heart and soul -- was in every note he ever played."
DeLay recorded a dozen albums in his four-decade career, won several music awards and was nominated for a W.C. Handy Award. He and his band toured constantly, and his last show was just last Saturday -- a benefit show at Klamath Fall's Ross Ragland Theater.
"What amazes me is the energy he brought to the show," says guitarist Pete Dammann, who played in deLay's bands for the past two decades. "He wasn't pirouetting onstage, but he was joking and yakking with the crowd, and he played hard. We did two long sets, and nobody had any idea anything like this was going on."
Neither did deLay. After that show, Dammann says, deLay felt under the weather, presumably from bronchitis he'd suffered on the band's recent jaunt to Mexico for several benefit shows. But doctors found that deLay was suffering from leukemia so advanced that his organs began shutting down and he lapsed into a coma from which he apparently never recovered.
Paul Joseph deLay was born Jan. 31, 1952 in Portland, where he lived all his life. In the early 1970, he and then-drummer Lloyd Jones and guitarist Jim Mesi formed an electric blues band called Brown Sugar and played to eager crowds up and down the West Coast. They laid the foundation for Portland's reputation as one of the country's great blues towns.
Nineteen seventy-six saw the formation of the Paul deLay Blues Band, which toured hard for more than a decade. At the same time, deLay suffered from alcohol and cocaine problems. In January of 1990, deLay was busted for cocaine trafficking and eventually served time in the federal prison in Sheridan. But before that sentence, deLay cleaned up and started writing and recording his own music with a new band.
While deLay was in prison, his band played on as the No Delay Band, and it was waiting when he got out. They went on to record ground-breaking albums such as "Ocean of Tears" and "Nice and Strong," and Evidence Records released his two post-bust albums -- evidence that whoever said there are no second acts to American lives had never heard of Paul deLay.
To watch a video of deLay shot before last year's blues festival, click here.
Music Calendar Updated Posted on: Jan. 20 2007,15:53 by SoopaFlyYT
Here's a quick note to let you know the music calender is now posted through June of 2007. If you want to know who's playing at the Candlelight, just come to this site and click on the calendar and you'll be in the know!
Message Forums Now Installed! Posted on: Sep. 18 2006,14:39 by SoopaFlyYT
What are Message Forums?? A forums system allows users to create a free account and then post messages in the various topics of the forum. For example, the Candlelight forum has topics like: Live Music at the Candlelight and Candlelight Gossip as well as Off Topic (where anything goes) and the Official News and Announcements forum.
Come create an account and be a part of the Online Candlelight Room Community!
New Candlelight Website is Here! Posted on: Sep. 18 2006,14:00 by SoopaFlyYT
The all new Candlelight Cafe & Bar web site is finally launching. The entertainment schedule is still a few days away but it will be up to date soon. Come back often to see how the site changes and all the things you will be able to do here.
