The Big Boy Little Band
Bret Littlehales, Matt Kelley, “Wolf” Crescenze & Robby Leebrick
BBL finishes in Top 11 at the Blues Foundation's Int'l Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN - billed
as the "World's Largest Gathering of Blues Bands" - out of 110 bands from 39 states and 14 countries!
Our guitarist Matt Kelley wins the coveted Albert King Award for best guitarist! Matt
was awarded a custom blue Gibson guitar with the Blues Foundation logo and a custom Category 5 amp!
It was an honor to represent the DC Blues Society and the DC blues community in Memphis!
A huge thank you to the DC Blues Society for sending us to Memphis and thanks to all our friends who have
come out to hear us and made contributions to the trip fund! Thanks to the venues that hosted our Memphis trip fundraisers:
Zoo Bar Cafe (Washington, DC), JVs Restaurant (Falls Church, VA), Bangkok Blues (Falls Church, VA) and Old Bowie Town Grille,
as well as the musicians who performed at our fundraisers - we really appreciate all your support!
www.zoobardc.com
www.jvsrestaurant.com
www.bangkokblues.com
www.oldbowietowngrille.com
www.blues.org
www.dcblues.org
Bret Littlehales “Big Boy Little” has been singing and
playing blues harp in the Washington, DC area since 1967. He’s opened for such blues greats as B.B.
King, Koko Taylor and Junior Wells. The Big Boy Little Band has had the honor of being the house band at
the Zoo Bar – DC’s only all-blues club – for the past six years. The band also features
young guitar sensation Matt Kelley, along with the great Robby Leebrick on drums, and blues bass maestro left-handed Steve
"Wolf" Crescenze on bass. The enigmatic, quixotic, mysterious, always entertaining – Big
Boy Little Band.
Bret's opened for B.B. King, Koko Taylor, Junior Wells, and more!
"Great
job guys. You all sounded great."
– Bill Wax, XM Radio
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"This guy's a real blues player."
- Huey Lewis of The News
“He was a major influence on shaping the Washington blues scene
back then & he's still playing the real 100%, low down & dirty blues to this day."
- Bobby Radcliff
“Now Bret's back. I guess I better tighten up."
- Mark Wenner
of The Nighthawks
"These
guys play blues for grown-ups."
- Bill Kirchen
Matt Kelley's a "stunning young guitarist-singer
...."
- Washington Post
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