Live music at the Sunnyland Taproom, every Monday night from 6-8 pm. Free and all ages welcome!

'Delta Promenade Acoustic Blues Band'

Featuring:
Steven Dolmatz on Guitar and Vocals
Jan Peters on Harmonicas
Johanna Rocester on Bass

Delta Promenade immerses its listeners in the rich experience of the blues from the 1920's to the 1950's-- encompassing the acoustic blues of the Delta and the Piedmont, and ragtime and hokum music from New Orleans and early Chicago. Each Delta Promenade show not only lays down an infectious groove but includes a history lesson as well.

Guitarist and vocalist Steven Dolmatz is a lifelong student of the blues, wearing out Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Boy Fuller albums and imbibing the rich history of the blues at concerts with the masters and at workshops with the likes of John Cephas. He has performed on Bellingham and Northwest stages since the mid 1970's. He loves to share the history of the songs to any and all and plays with vigorous abandon. 

Jan Peters has been playing and performing blues and various folk music since 1979 when he decided to make music his full time occupation. He used to make his living in the Sacramento area playing in a full time blues band that toured to Ukraine in 1991. 

Since moving to Bellingham 1998 he as created several bands that have all become well known and loved: The Monday Night Project, The Naked Hearts, and co-founded Gallowglass Celtic Folk band. In addition to also creating a long standing folk music series for which he was awarded a 2022 Mayor's Arts Award called Irish & Folk Mondays, he has been devoting himself to the harmonica and playing more and more blues, both electric and acoustic, as well and Celtic and folk, for the last ten years. 

They often play as a duo as well as feature acoustic bass and/or old time blues fiddle in this highly contagious joyous music.