BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260620T165923Z UID:2932-494682@kucparksville.ca DTSTART:20261109T030000Z DTEND:20261109T050000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260611T143432 DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, November 8th @7:00 pm for a fantastic eveni ng of blues with Ken Hamm\, Doug Cox\, David Gogo &\; Sam Hurrie\, Knox presents...Acoustic Blues Reunion.  Tickets are $40.00 each and availabl e online through Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/knox-presentsacous tic-blues-reunion-tickets-1990697501816?aff=oddtdtcreator or at local reta ilers Close To You Boutique &\; Fireside Books in Parksville and Edge O utdoors in Qualicum Beach.\n\nWhen looking at the line-up for Blues Reunio n one can’t help but think of the lines to the chorus of Old Friends\, a tune from the book of the late\, great Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark. \n“Old Friends\, they shine like diamonds. Old Friends\, you can always call”\nYou won’t get any argument about those sentiments from the quar tet of Ken Hamm\, Doug Cox\, Sam Hurrie and David Gogo who have decided to come together on stage as BLUES REUNION.\nThese are four artists who musi cally intersect in “the blues”\, but four musicians with decidedly uni que perspectives and approaches to dispensing songs and sounds that have b een a storied part of global culture for well over a century.\nThe songs\, the styles\, the influences are also “old friends” to each of these i nstrumentalists\, songwriters\, interpreters and singers\, but relationshi ps are just as important of a component when it comes to making BLUES REUN ION click.\nAsk Doug Cox who has been juggling duties in the world of musi c for a number of decades\, as an award winning performer\, session player \, album producer\, collaborator\, and tunesmith about the importance of h unkering down with “old friends”\, and being a catalyst in bringing hi s friends together for this project.\n“Ken Hamm and I played together fo r at least seven years\, almost full time\, on and off\, and I was lucky e nough to play on his "Eagle Rock Road" album in the mid-nineties\, which h as some of my best playing on it. Ken played on my first two albums as wel l. So we have a long history. We toured in Canada numerous times and did a couple of runs into the United States. I never thought I'd get to hang ou t with Ken again\, let alone play music with him\, so I can't tell you how much this means to me. Add Sam and David to the mix and it's a wonderful mix of friends and masterful musicians. It's a full circle moment.”\n“ In 1996\, David Gogo and I were playing a duo gig in Powell River\, and Sa m opened for us\, and that's where we first met Sam. Sam and I went on to have a very long musical friendship\, including three albums. We used to h ost what is now kind of a legendary gig at the long-gone Edge Pub in Comox with Todd Butler. It was a blues gig with visiting guests every week. Sam and I went on to host jams at the Waverly and Cumberland Pubs (both in Cu mberland). This lead to numerous tours and Festivals all over Canada\; to Texas\, and even into Germany\, Slovakia\, Belgium and France together ove r the years\,” says the dobro and guitar playing Cox of these friendship s that have traversed so much time and territory.\nHurrie\, the elder stat esmen of this crew\, dipped his toe into the blues as a fan back in the la te fifties when he first caught John Lee Hooker back east. Before long he was immersed in the music as a player of note and one who was a witness to and participant in the heyday of the Younge Street rhythm and blues scene in Toronto and New York with his band the Churls. The band hosted a gig i n New York that lead to numerous jams with Jimi Hendrix and other musical legends of the 60's.\nSince leaving Vancouver Island a few years ago and f ollowing a fine run with Cox as a duo that produced three albums\, includi ng their last album titled after the aforementioned Guy Clark song\, Old F riends\, Hurrie has been living in southern B.C. in the Kootneys.\nDavid G ogo\, the junior member of this troupe\, concurs with Cox when he starts t hinking of when and where these musical intersections took place and the i mpact these mainstays of the Canadian roots music scene have had on him.\n “The first time I ever saw a National guitar\, it was being played by Ke n Hamm at a concert in Nanaimo when I was 14 years old. Despite our age di fference\, we struck up a friendship through music. His collection of blue s on cassette became my personal lending library to hear these great artis ts. When I started going on the road as a young man\, Ken recommended that I try to see Big Dave McLean and Tim Williams\, which I did. Eventually I met Doug and Sam through touring and played various shows with them over the years\,” recalls Gogo\, who speaks of his fellow members of BLUES RE UNION with great respect and fondness. Since being inspired by Hamm and ot her superb bluesmen Gogo has gone on to record a string of albums that hav e helped him win the Maple Blues Award as Guitarist of the Year three time s. He’s also been honoured with Blues Recording of the Year from the Wes tern Canadian Music Association and named Musicians of the Year at the Wes t Coast Music Awards.\nThat Ken Hamm has not been out on the road for a fe w years now is an obvious reason for blues/roots fans to be delighted this crew is hitting the road and when it comes to rating discs in the great C anadian blues library\, albums from Hamm immediately come to mind\, with K en Hamm and Friends\, Sheet Metal Shuffle\, the aforementioned Eagle Rock Road and Cross The River\, standing out as classics. Ken is easily one of Canada's most influential acoustic guitar players for at least two generat ions of musicians.\nThis BLUES REUNION foursome\, of Hamm\, Cox\, Gogo and Hurrie have collectively created a ridiculously impressive body of record ed work\, played all of the major festivals and folk clubs in Canada\, as well as many beer parlours and coffee houses\, and many more beyond our bo rders. All the while they’ve kept the pulse of Canadian blues thumping a nd having the opportunity to witness all four making great music and shari ng stories will be something for roots and blues music fans to look forwar d to in the coming months.\nGogo perhaps sums it up best and puts an excla mation point on the package when he says…..\n“This is not a lineup tha t I ever expected to see on one bill\, especially at this point in time\, but we are making it happen because it NEEDS to happen!” LAST-MODIFIED:20260611T143432 LOCATION:Sanctuary SUMMARY:Knox Presents...Acoustic Blues Reunion (S) URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kucparksville.ca/events/knox-presents-acoustic-bl ues-reunion-s/2026-11-08 ATTACH;FILENAME=Accoustic Blues Reunion web image (5 x 3 in).png;FMTTYPE=i mage/png:https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2026/05/25/20/40/31/3887caab -26ea-40b7-99e9-2ea57b476502/Accoustic%20Blues%20Reunion%20web%20image%20% 20(5%20x%203%20in).png ATTACH;FILENAME=Grand Reunion Concert Poster .jpg;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https: //dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2026/05/25/20/31/06/bccc8731-4a41-459b-9a8f -b89ea4e96f44/Grand%20Reunion%20Concert%20Poster%20.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR