Red Hot and Blues Show.
"If I would've known you were in the audience, I would have asked you up to play!" : B.B.King
Danny Draher is a guitarist, singer, musical director, consultant and producer. Born in Indianapolis, he started playing piano and bass at a young age, then switched to the guitar and soon moved to Chicago. By age fourteen, Danny was performing at parties with local bands and began his professional life as a guitarist with Otis Rush. He recorded his first album with the Bob Reidy Band on Flying Fish Records at the legendary Chess Studios. He left Chicago and toured nationally with many popular, ‘top 40′, rock, rhythm and blues bands.
He moved to New York City and soon became the guitarist, singer and bandleader of choice. Through his reputation, he and his band have been hired by the who’s who of the music industry.
Danny has played many jazz and blues festivals including “The North Sea Jazz Festival”. He was the musical director for the 1992 Rhythm and Blues Foundation Awards with some of the award recipients being Aretha Franklin, Bobby Bland, Sam Moore, The Staples Singers, Rufus and Carla Thomas.
The Danny Draher Band performed for the Radio America documentary, The Blues Story, An American Art Form, featuring B.B. King, Ruth Brown and Buddy Guy at the Whitney Museum. He and his band were also in the 1994 first annual VH-1 Awards with BonnieRaitt.
He was the producer for Cephas & Wiggin’s CD, Blues Men, on Chesky Records. He also worked with producer John Snyder as a session guitarist for Polygram and Verve Records, and appeared on Delmark Records Fifty Year Anniversary Jazz and Blues Collection CD.
He has a great reputation within the industry and he is known for his style and finesse.
To add to his prodigious list of accomplishments, Danny can now add a sparkling new CD, BIG FUN TONITE! which showcases him on a program of shuffling, jazzy, funky and slow blues vocals and instrumentals.
Dannys CD "Big Fun"will be on sale at all the UK shows.
About Danny "Double Dynamite" Draher.
Danny, New York Blues and Jazz Society’s Best Award Winner began his professional life as guitarist with Otis Rush and Buddy Guy at the Checkerboard lounge in South side Chicago and continued with artists including Paul Butterfield , Dr John ,Etta James and the Staples singers. This journeyman of talent and passion has mesmerized audiences at such prestigious events as the Montreux jazz festival and at venues such as the Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden.
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