Blues and Jazz Guitarist T.J. Wheeler and the Smokers at Daniel Webster College, Sunday, April 15, 2-4 pm
Free and open to the public at DWC’s Collings Auditorium

Daniel Webster’s Intercultural Student Association is proud to host acclaimed blues and jazz ensemble “T.J. Wheeler and the Smokers” Sunday, April 15, from 2-4 pm at the college’s Collings Auditorium

Blues and jazz guitarist, vocalist, educator and overall musical activist, T. J. Wheeler takes his audience from the Delta Blues to New Orleans second line jazz, to his contemporary blues and jazz original compositions.

His workshop/concert tour, “Hope, Heroes and the Blues” has been performed for more than 250,000 students throughout the country, winning accolades from the Blues Revue magazine, Teaching Tolerance magazine, and the Boston Globe.

He is a 1993 recipient of the WC Handy “Keeping the Blues Alive Award” in education and received a 1996 Artist Fellowship from the Start Arts Council. He was the resident blues scholar on C-Span’s Magic Bus and he is executive director of the non-profit arts-education organization, The Blues Bank Collective.

A winner of the Paul Robeson Award in 2004 and the Granite State Award in 2006, Wheeler and his band have performed at major jazz, folk, and blues festivals throughout the US, Europe, Canada, and Brazil.

For more information about T. J. Wheeler, visit www.bluesbankcollective.org/education.shtml.