Katie Knipp
The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts [Sacramento, CA, 95816]
Event info
| Date: | October 28, 2023 |
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| Time: | 7:00 pm |
| Location: | The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts |
| Address: | 2700 Capitol Ave Sacramento, CA, 95816 |
| Website: | https://bstreettheatre.org/ |
Details
Three-time Top 10 Billboard Blues Albums artist (#9 Katie Knipp Live at The Green Room Social Club, #4 The Well, and #10 for Take it With You,) and two-time Sammie Winner (Sacramento News and Review) brings her big band back to the Sofia. Featuring Neil Campisano, Jen Rund, Chris Martinez, Otis Mourning, Justin Au, Brandon Au, and Steve Utstein. Northern California Blues Americana Siren Katie Knipp is equipped with powerful vocals and plays a variety of instruments from boogie woogie piano to slide guitar to honest harmonica-laden stories in between. She has shared stages with Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Joan Osborne, Walter Trout, The Hidalgos (David Hidalgo of Los Lobos), The Doobie Brothers, Tim Reynolds, Jon Cleary, Ruthie Foster, Joe Louis Walker, The James Hunter Six, William Duvall of Alice in Chains, among many others.
Katie played the 2019 Mammoth Blues Festival as the only solo female act that included headliners Buddy Guy, Trombone Shorty, Charlie Musselwhite, and more. Her band is brought back there again this year. She has won two Sammies: 2020 and 2019 (Sacramento Music Awards) for Best Blues Artist, and was nominated Artist of The Year by The Sacramento News and Review. She has been honored Female Artist of the Year in both 2021 and 2020 by the Country Folk Americana Blues Music Realm. She has gained worldwide radio support, putting her last 3 Billboard albums on the Roots Music Report for Top Contemporary Blues Albums spun (2018-present) as well as her BBC 2 Radio debut in February 2022. Her 7th album, Katie Knipp Live at The Green Room Social Club, was released 6/10/22 worldwide and (aside from Billboard #9) hit #6 on the iTunes Top 40 Blues Albums Chart upon its debut.
“…Serves up a radiant platter of her patented NOLA-steeped brand of slidin’ blues rock — smokey, syrupy and ever-genuine.” – Aaron Davis, The Sacramento Bee
“Extraordinary vocals with lyrics that comfort or cut like a knife…delta deep slide and lusty insanity…this is the real deal Katie, brash and unruly, belting out originals from six previous releases as the band delivers in stereo hi-fi tightly behind her.” – Darrell Sage, Blues Matters Magazine
Doors open 1 hour prior to show/