PUTNEY — Twilight Music begins its 15th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of folk rock, world beat, rock, pop, Celtic, blues, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, May 28, with blues quartet Sunny Lowdown and the Ice Cream Men.
Sunny Lowdown plays a raw and rhythmic blues that was burned into him on his first professional gig playing guitar behind John Lee Hooker. Since then, he has worked with such blues greats as R.L. Burnside, Pinetop Perkins, Otis Rush, and Jimmy Rogers, and his own band has shared stages with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, and Greg Allman.
Sunny's latest CD, The Blues Volume Low, has received rave reviews internationally. The Ice Cream Men are Sunny Keys (Paul Nadeau), Sunny Bottom (Luke Houk), and Sunny Tubs (Ben Carr).
The seven-concert series continues every other Sunday through Aug. 20. All concerts begin at 6 p.m. in downtown Putney on the Putney Tavern lawn (bring a lawn chair or blanket) or at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill in case of rain.