BELLEVILLE DOWNTOWN BLUES EVENT SCHEDULE

NOTHING BUT THE BLUES
History Workshop

Paul Denyes, musicologist, former board member and vice president of the Toronto Blues Society will be giving a workshop on blues history and its influences.

Paul Denyes on Sept 12th from 11am to 12:30pm at the Belleville Public Library (3rd floor) will be having a blues workshop of a rare collection of video performances of premiere bluesmen with discussion afterwards.

Kenny Pauzé Presents: The History and the Invetion of National Guitars

Discover the story behind the iconic National guitar in an exclusive workshop led by gifted Delta blues and folk musician Kenny Pauzé. Hailing from Elgin, Quebec, Pauzé is a seasoned performer who has graced major stages, including the Ottawa Folk Festival and the International Tremblant Blues Festival.

In this interactive session, he will trace the invention and evolution of these legendary resonator instruments. Attendees will explore the unique characteristics of different National models, learn about the legendary musicians who played them, and experience their distinctive sound through live musical demonstrations.

Zebulum Barnow

Graham Fiet

The Role of Drums and Piano in the Blues

Local music educators Zebulun Barnow and Graham Flett join forces to discuss and demonstrate the roles of drums and piano in the Blues.

Zebulun Barnow is from Marquette, Michigan. He lived in Chicago until 2015. Through the years he performed with a variety of groups playing different styles including “B1g T1me”, a live tribute to Tom Waits. From 2004 to 2014 he was with Blue Man Group playing Chapman stick and electric zither. Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s “Timon of Athens” featured his voice in the soundtrack. He toured the People’s Republic of China in 2014 as an orchestral percussionist and studied throat singing in Tuva in 2017. Since moving to Belleville in 2021 he has remained active in music.

He graduated from Valparaiso University in 2025

Graham Flett is a diverse composer who has written for numerous ensembles and musicians in Europe, Canada, and the USA. He has established a repertoire of pieces for small and large ensembles, including compositions for vocalists, bands, soloists, works for film and theatre, operetta, and some rather experimental works. His music frequently features a sense of mystery, subtle humour, and unpredictability. At balance with the rational and the playful, Flett enjoys exploring the limits and expectations of certain musical styles, with an intent to determine ways music can be critically combined or dismantled.

Tim Campbell

Timothy Campbell, is one of our region’s finest and most respected musicians. His deep lineage goes back to widely popular bands: The Sands Of Time, Boojum & Urgency…through to being a founding member of Bentwood Rocker & All You Need Is Love.!

A bluesman at heart, Timothy has established a stellar reputation as a top blues artist…representing our community as far afield as Memphis, Tennessee! Be it solo or with The Timothy Campbell Trio, the blues is always served up, red hot! He’s also shared the stage with a number of well-known acts, including Pat Travis and Colin James. Tim founded ‘Keynote Studios’ where he continues to produce, record and teach music and do guitar setup & repairs. Currently, he’s busy writing and recording original material, performing his own brand of “rockin’ boogie blues.”

Dave Mowat and the Curbside Shuffle (past Chief of Alderville)

Dave Mowat hails from Alderville First Nation, 135 km NE of Toronto, but took up playing harmonica back in the early 80s after making the jump to Winnipeg. It was there that he eventually met Big Dave McLean and Gord Kidder, two of Winnipeg’s premier blues men and for the next decade there he worked the blues clubs with forays out on the road. Moving back to Alderville where he built his home in 1995 Mowat has continued working in the blues over the years with such musicians as R.L. Burnside, Hubert Sumlin, and sharing the stage with the likes of Big Jack Johnson, Mel Brown, Smokey Wilson, and a number of Canadian greats. Dave’s love of old Mississippi Blues and the post-war recorded Chicago styles of Little Water and Howin Wolf, continues to ground him in this music.

Dave’s latest CD release “Crooked Road” is a reflection of that love for the old styles, and his colleagues on that album in Clayton Yates, Terry Wilkins, Jesse O’Brien, Steve Marriner and Jim Bowskill are a testament to that love of the blues!