This one was a landslide: Tony Holiday and the Velvetones are a self-described “dirtbag blues” band based on Holiday’s harmonica and a crowd-pleasing mixture of funk and soul added to the base.

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Tony Holiday is a bluesman. He lives and breathes blues. He’s a student of the blues and he’s becoming a master. Holiday found the blues at 13-years-old, when he was given his first B.B. King album. The stories and the sounds moved him. He had come from a classic country background, so it was only natural that the passion and soul of blues music would sit well with him.

Their upcoming album “Tony Holiday’s Porch Sessions’’ is due to be out Fall 2018.

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