Erica Brown Band at Mercury Café February 14, 2012

Colorado Blues Dance Presents:

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the

ERICA BROWN BAND

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - LIVE at the Mercury Café - 8 p.m. $5 Beginner Dance Lesson / 8:30 p.m. Live Music and Dancing - $8 cover

Erica Brown is a bona-fide Blueswoman. She has worked with some of the finest artists in the world, and has shared stages with such heavyweights as B.B. King, Al Green, Delbert McClinton, Tab Benoit, Kenny Neal, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Bob Margolin, and Debbie Davies. As frontwoman for the Award-winning Erica Brown Band, Erica electrified audiences all over the Rocky Mountain region with the band’s brand of searing blues rock. The band won every award the region offered, including Best Blues Band (Westword Magazine) Best Underground Blues Band (Denver Post) and The Rocky Mountain News’ Best of in the Blues Category. The band released two critically acclaimed CD’s, “Body Work” in 2000, and “Rough Cut Stone” in 2003.

Erica was dubbed “Denver’s Queen of the Blues”, a moniker that was used by the Altitude Network in their concert showcase feature “OnStage”, which was broadcast to five million households in ten western states in 2005. The segment continues to run on Altitude today. In 2008, Erica went solo, and with the help of a host of top-notch musicians, has been continuing to spread the word of the blues locally, regionally, and nationally!

Her vocals were featured in the Sony Pictures movies, “The Fan”, with Wesley Snipes and Robert DeNiro in 1996, And in 2005, the award-winning CD “African Wind” released by the Northern Blues Label. She lent her voice to tracks of the 2006 CD “Smoke and Mirrors” released by MojoHand Records. In 2008, Erica sang on the CDs “Beautiful Day” by Two-Time International Blues Challenge Winner Lionel Young, as well as stretching out into Americana on “Cipher” the internationally acclaimed CD by Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. She also contributed to a track on Rock Genius Xiren’s CD “Trip-R”.

Colorado Blues Dance presents Erica Brown Band - Tuesday, February 14 @ 8:30 p.m. $8 - Mercury Café, 2199 California St., Denver. Reservations at 303-294-9258. Information is available by calling 303-294-9281 or at www.mercurycafe.com or www.coloradobluesdance.com