Saturday Afternoon at Springfest 2019

One of the bands that I really wanted to see at Springfest was Black Cherry Perry's Mississippi Medicine Show.  We missed these guys last year and heard that they put on a great show.  We got a seat right down in the front row and the band lived up to our expectations.  The lead guitarist was really good.  The bass player had an unusual six string bass.  The drummer was pretty bizarre and had the most unusual and disinterested facial expressions.  The lead singer, Black Cherry Perry, was very theatrical and a real showman.  Visually the show was pretty cool and it made for some great photographers.

The Springfest Guide described the band like this...
Conceived in 2003, Black Cherry Perry's Mississippi Medicine Show has been out supporting their all original contemporary blues album, "Where There's Smoke", throughout Western Canada.  In addition to being finalists for the Calgary Blues Music Association, "Road to Memphis Blues Challenge", Black Cherry Perry was voted CBMA 2016 Harmonica Player of the Year.

The show was quite loud, and our seats right down in front made it even more so.  By this time I was starting to feel the effects of the late night and early morning.  By the time the set ended I was beginning to get a migraine.  We ended up heading back over to the shop for a while and I had to lay down and have a bit of a nap.  I missed out on seeing a couple of the acts that I wanted to, but by late afternoon I was up and at it again, and we went back out to catch a few more bands in the evening.