Written by Salli Squitieri Sunday, 25 January 2009 04:09
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Butterfield's Roadhouse
118 Municipal Avenue |
Butterfield’s Roadhouse is an old fashioned down to
earth music venue for local and national artists, a special venue for
traveling artists and performers, special events and jams.
Salli and Gabriel are currently featuring and introducing “The Paul Butterfield Fund and Society” and exhibits that will be rotating artifacts and continually growing.
Beginning in January they will be holding Blues Jams every second and fourth Thursday of the month and Acoustic Jams every second and fourth Friday of each month.
Gabriel Butterfield, despite holding his father’s famed name, has achieved his own musical accomplishments and is continually involved with varied music endeavors and projects and has helped orchestrate many benefits for some great causes.
Started in 1993, the Gabriel Butterfield Sunday Night Woodstock Blues
Jam at The Joyous Lake in Woodstock, NY became an immediate success and
was rapidly known as one of the largest hot spot events in the area.
Woodstock was known for its many recording studios which brought in a
vast amount of name performers who soon sought out Gabriel's Blues Jam,
likewise luring the extensive collective talent pool and esteemed
local Woodstock musicians.
It is Gabriel and Salli’s hope that area musicians will come and visit and join them in their effort, helping to create a similar Jam session for the area.
"The Paul Butterfield Fund and Society Educational Archival Exhibit
is one of our signature projects," Gabriel states. The exhibit
represents segments of Paul Butterfield’s life and career, which
currently includes memorabilia -- posters, handbills, tickets, art
work, photographs, music, videos and personal artifacts of Paul's;
representing the arts and artists of that era.
The PBFS Educational Archival Exhibit was unveiled as part of a three day multi-media extravaganza on Dec 17th, 2004 at the Key West Hard Rock Cafe on Paul's birthday -- a day when radio stations nationwide joined in memory of Paul and support of PBFS, by playing Paul Butterfield’s music throughout the day.
This collection continues to grow & they hope to have it on the road at various special events in the very near future. A segment of the exhibit is permanently displayed at Butterfield’s Roadhouse.
Their Own Music Projects/Freelance Drummer
Gabriel is currently working towards a music project which will be incorporating some members of his father’s band, as well as upcoming musicians and a line up of quite a few stellar performers.
Gabriel Butterfield’s Blues Sessions -The Painted Blues is intended to
enhance the musical careers of all involved merging local, national and
renowned talents (musicians are already in place, eager and waiting),
while carrying on the rich traditions of the Blues styles of music,
integrating other styles and bringing this forth to a new generation,
providing cultural enrichment to communities and children's endeavors
and enhancing public awareness of PBFS.
Additionally Gabriel (pictured above on drums), an east and west coast performer, is a freelance drummer and singer and often engaged in a variety of musical activities. They will be laying tracks and doing recordings with a variety of stellar performers as well as some members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Salli and Gabriel are open to ideas and if folks have a special event or idea, please talk with them about the possibility of having Butterfield's Roadhouse host it their event. The space is a 30 x 30 foot area with 12 foot high ceilings with a very warm ambience.
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