Pat Ramsey Memorial Benefit for Big Bend Hospice October 14, 2017 In Tallahassee FL

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The 9th annual Pat Ramsey Benefit Concert for Big Bend Hospice raised $9,500 for patient care! This year’s concert at Bradfordville Blues Club featured more than 16 musical acts, who donated their talents. THANK YOU to everyone who participated!https://www.bigbendhospice.org/donate/special-events — with Leila McClure, Nikki Jones, Steve Howell, Connie Palmer, Debbi Ramsey and Nigel Allen.

 November 10, 2017

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2017
The Big Bend Area's
Best Day of Music and
Community

"This Was His Wish, To Give Back."

This will be the 9th year of this event benefiting Big Bend Hospice in Pat's honor. Pat Ramsey was a well-known and loved person, musician and blues singer around the globe. Pat passed away on Nov. 17, 2008 but his music lives on and he is remembered in the hearts of his family, friends and fans. This annual gathering brings together all of these people for a celebration like no other in Florida.

Music will be held on the inside stage and outside stage under the Mossy Oaks - and around the bonfire into the night. Come hear the blues, jazz, funk, bluegrass and Americana and spend time with the best of the Big Bend area, and beyond, musicians. This is a day of real music made by real people in a real place in northern Florida.

RVs welcome - make it a weekend stay. Save the date & we'll see you at the gate!  Need a hotel?

2017 Performers:

OAKS STAGE (Outside)
Brown Goose Band 2-3pm
Bill Pandolfi Trio & Friends 3:30-4:30pm
Swingin' Harpoon 5-6pm
Lauren Mitchell 6:30-7:30pm
Jerry Thigpen Trio 8-9pm

SAW STAGE (Inside)
C.S.Holt Blues Band 2:30-3:30pm
Mary Everhart Band 4-5pm
Good Little Chickens 5:30-6:30pm
Major Bacon w/ 
Choo Choo Charlie McGin 7-8:15pm
Frank Jones Band w/ 
Special Guests 
9-10:30pm 
(w/ Live Radio Coverage 
by The Path - FM 106.1)
HighTest 10:45pm-12:30am

FIRE STAGE 
Old Soul Revival 1-2pm
Lamar "Doc" Alley 3-3:30pm
Mike Howell & Tom O'Kane 4:30-5pm
Lisa Barry Trio 6-6:30pm
Lori Kline 7:30-8pm
Debi Jordan 9:30pm-til?

SPONSORSHIP PARTICIPATION INFORMATION:

We would like to cordially invite you to participate in this year’s 9th Annual Big Bend Hospice benefit in memory of Pat Ramsey on Saturday, October 14, 2017, at the Bradfordville Blues Club located at 7152 Moses Lane, Tallahassee, FL.

Proceeds will be used to support patients and families as they face the difficult challenges that come from dealing with a life-limiting illness.  Your support for this event will provide additional funding to support essential programs like music therapy, children’s bereavement, emergency care and patient support.

We look forward to having you join us this year as a sponsor as you enjoy a day of fun for a great cause.  As always, we will have three stages with great bands, inside and outside of the club.  There will be raffle drawings with prizes awarded, 50/50 drawings, a silent auction, food vendors and a live radio broadcast from 106.1 “The Path” of the Frank Jones Band performance.

We are in need of items for our silent auction and raffle drawing.  If you would like to become a sponsor, or donate an auction item, please contact Debbi Ramsey, event coordinator.

Come join the fun and support a great cause at the Big Bend Hospice benefit in memory of Pat Ramsey.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Contacts for Sponsorship and Info:

Debbi Ramsey

Event Coordinator

850-597-6131

debbiramsey@gmail.com

Nikki Jones

Nikki053107@gmail.com

850-570-4475

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2017
AT
Bradfordville Blues Club

7152 Moses Lane, Tallahassee, FL 32309

(850)906-0766

bradfordvilleblues.com

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Pat Ramsey Biography

Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1953, Pat Ramsey began playing the harmonica at the age of 17. After a couple of years honing his chops while hitchhiking around the US, Pat joined the Bunny Brooks Band in Denver (an offshoot of the 60's band, Jam Factory) in 1973.

In 1978, he impressed Rick Derringer, who told Johnny Winter of this "long haired kid in Denver" who played a mean harp! Johnny liked what he heard so much that he hired Pat to play all the harp parts on the album "White Hot and Blue".

In late 1978, Pat met Butch Trucks of Allman Brothers fame. After a couple of sizzling jams in Colorado with Butch and his band, Trucks, Pat signed on, and made the long move to Tallahassee, Florida. When the Allman Brothers Band reunited in 1979, Butch disbanded Trucks and introduced Pat to a local Tallahassee band called Crosscut Saw.

Julien Kasper, a seventeen year old guitar prodigy and Pat became partners and the band quickly thinned from seven to four when they decided to take the band on the road. In the next five years, Pat and Crosscut Saw played every Juke Joint and Roadhouse from Key West to Connecticut. They opened for B.B. King (twice), Johnny Winter, Johnny Van Zandt, .38 Special, Bobby Bland, The Nighthawks, and others. Before disbanding, Crosscut Saw released their album "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know". Crosscut Saw's annual reunions are still one of Tallahassee's top draws!

In 1985, the Pat Ramsey Band was formed when Julien opted to study Jazz at the graduate level. They opened for many notables as well, including a seven-city tour of Florida (in 1987) with his old friend Johnny Winter.

Pat moved to Sarasota, Florida, in 1991, to play with his friend from the Freddie King band, guitarist Greg Poulos. The Poulos-Ramsey Band was born. Within months they were opening for acts like Charlie Musselwhite, Solomon Burke, Albert Collins, Ronnie Earl, James Cotton, and Pinetop Perkins. Jerry Wexler hailed them as "Sarasota's ONLY Blues Band"! Two years later, they were ready to make the jump to Memphis, TN. Alas, while Pat was busy scouting gigs in Memphis, tragedy struck Greg's family in Florida, bringing a premature end to this endeavor.

A new face in a new city, Pat began dealing craps in a casino on the muddy Mississippi River, an hour south of Memphis. Jamming on Beale Street on his days off, Pat was quickly accepted by local musicians and was hired to play at "Blues City Cafe" as part of the house band. Living out of a trailer in a nearby fish camp, Pat scrimped and saved for the next two years.

With the help of his old friend Julien Kasper (now PROFESSOR Julien Kasper at Berklee College of Music, Boston) and some of the best local Memphis musicians, Pat produced the aptly titled CD "Its About Time". The CD received very strong reviews and Pat began touring once again. Pat's stellar live performances with The Blues Disciples produced the live CD's, "Live at the Grand", and "Live at the Big Bend Blues Bash" and the posthumously released "Live in Key West".

Pat passed away on Nov. 17, 2008 but his music lives on and he is remembered in the hearts of his family, friends and fans.

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