News: POPA CHUBBY UK tour dates 18-29 January 2017

Pete Feenstra chatted to Popa Chubby for his Feature show broadcast on 11 December 2016 on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio.  Thos sequence includes tracks from ‘The Catfish’

Popa Chubby

The self-proclaimed ‘King Of The New York City Blues’ plays UK dates in January.

Popa Chubby also releases a new album ‘ ‘The Catfish’ via earMUSIC drawing on more than 25 years of consistent recording and touring.  The album features a heady mix of blues rock, soul, and R&B.

Popa Chubby - The Catfish

Born Ted Horowitz in 1960, Popa Chubby’s first album – ‘Booty And The Beast’ – was released in 1995.

When asked what he wanted to achieve with this latest release, Popa Chubby simply said: “Bigger, Badder, Older,Wiser, Louder, Stronger.”

JANUARY 2017

Wed 18  London 100 Club 100 Oxford St, Fitzrovia, London W1D 1LL 020 7636 0933 www.the100club.co.uk 7.30pm – 11.00pm  £17.50 Adv + Bf / £20.00 Otd

Fri 2o Wavendon, The Stables,  Stockwell Lane Wavendon Milton Keynes MK17 8L Box Office – 01908 280800 8pm £16.50 http://www.stables.org/Whats_on/Event/Popa_Chubby

Sat 21 Barnoldswick, Music & Arts Centre, 22 Rainhall Rd, Barnoldswick BB18 5AF

Sun 22 Skegness Great British Rock & Blues Festival

Mon 23 Boom Boom Club, Sutton, Surrey
Ticket Line: 0208 761 9078 – 0788 865 7952. www.feenstra.co.uk

Tues 24 Chislehurst, Beaverwood Club Beaverwood Road Chislehurst, Kent BR7 6HF. Ticket Line: 0208 761 9078 – 0788 865 7952. Tel Venue: 020 8300 1385 / 0635 www.feenstra.co.uk/chislehurst/index_f.htm#

Fri 27  Stirling Tollbooth  Jail Wynd, Stirling FK8 1DE   01786 274000    8pm  £14  £12

Sat 28 Southport, The Atkinson Lord Street, Southport PR8 1DB 0161 480 2833 http://www.theatkinson.co.uk/whats-on/events/  8pm  £18 + B/ fee.

Sun 29th Minehead, Giants of Rock

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