Saturday Session - Jason Ricci - 8 November 5pm UK Time

Jason Ricci was born in Portland, Maine, USA, and is an award-winning and decorated American singer and harmonica player. In 1995, Ricci moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to be near and informally study with Johnny Winter's sideman, harmonica player and singer Pat Ramsey. Ramsey would become Jason’s mentor on and off stage and a surrogate father for many years until his death. In  2013, Ricci also formed a new band, “Jason Ricci and The Bad Kind”, with New Orleans guitarist John Lisi. Signing with The Eller Soul Label. By 2015, Ricci was nominated and won another Blues Music Award for Best Harmonica. Also in 2015, Jason Ricci was invited to induct The Paul Butterfield Blues Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ricci would appear televised on HBO for twelve and a half million viewers performing Butterfield's song “Born In Chicago” with Zac Brown, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Paul Shaffer, Anton Fig, Felicia Collins and Willie Weeks. The same year, Jason Ricci would go on to work with and record on Johnny Winter’s Grammy Award Winning recording “Step Back” as a featured performer alongside Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa, Dr John, Brian Setzer, Paul Nelson, Joe Perry, Ben Harper, Billy Gibbons and more. In 2017, Jason Ricci would win the S.P.A.H. (Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica) Bernie Bray Award for “Harmonica Player of the Year”. ‍

From 2017 to the present, Jason Ricci has been touring with his band Jason Ricci and The Bad Kind, as well as with JJ Aplleton. Additionally, Ricci can frequently be found playing locally in New Orleans, nationally, and abroad with New Orleans pianist and organist icon and Kenny Wayne Shepherd sideman Joe Krown in a Jazz, Funk, Blues, and New Orleans music-based outfit. Jason has an extensive online presence, including a very popular YouTube channel featuring hundreds of free harmonica lessons, product reviews, addiction awareness videos, stories, interviews and more.

A Zoom link to the session will be posted in the members' area the day before the event.

This is a members-only workshop, not a member? No problem, you can join for as little as £25.