Performances and Programs
Sheryl Warner and the Southside Homewreckers perform at blues clubs and festivals, traditional music venues, and cultural institutions. For upcoming shows and programs, see our current schedule. Click here to see a list of places where we have played.
The Southside Homewreckers at the Herndon Blues Fest. Photo by Richard Nisbet
We have opened and/or performed on venues with Cephas and Wiggins, Saphire, Ann Rabson, John Jackson, Roy Bookbinder, Paul Rishell and Annie Raines, and Paul Geremia. The band took first place in the James River Blues Society's 2000 blues competition, and have twice performed at the Blues Foundation's international event in Memphis.
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Guitarist Gregg Kimball created this program as part of a larger project to honor pioneers of early Virginia blues with the James River Blues Society that includes a historic marker program and publication. (Go here to learn more.)
"Old Dominion Songsters" is a 45-minute program using period recordings, live music, images, and hand-outs to explore Virginia's blues traditions. The program explores the bouncy, ragtime-inspired picking of William Moore of Tappahannock, the powerful slide guitar of street singer Calvin "Big Boy" Davis, and the gospel-blues of Louisa County native Flora Molton. Not only the music but also its larger cultural and historical meaning is fully explored.
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The band developed, with scholar and educator Leni Sorensen, "BluesWomen," a performance evoking the music and times of the pre-war era through spoken narrative, period images, recorded song, and live musical performance.
Presenting songs such as "Down-Hearted Blues" (Alberta Hunter and Lovie Austin, 1922), "Won't You Be Kind to Me?" (Hattie Hart, 1934), "Wild Women Don't Have the Blues" (Ida Cox), and "Nothing In Rambling" (Memphis Minnie, 1941), "BluesWomen" honors the legacy and achievements of these blues greats while also telling a larger story.
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