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Public Appearance:
Saturday July 11th, 2009
John Henry Days' Festival (Open to the Public)
7:00pm until 10:00pm
Great Bend Tunnel
Talcott, West Virginia ___________________________________________________________________________
The ESQUIRES' music represents the sixties
RHYTHM and BLUES era with a repertoire of songs recorded
by such R&B greats as James Brown, Wilson Picket, Otis Reading,
The Four Tops, TheTemptations, and many others. Their down to
earth funky R&B sound reflects the
individual members love for this style of music.
Formed in the early
sixties, these nineteen year old musicians performed in the South
Eastern United States Area for almost a decade, primarily for
the college student "dance" crowds. After a twelve year
hiatus the band reformed in 1983 and began performing once again
to the delight of the now thirty to sixty year old audiences.
They have performed with the Beach Boys, Three Dog Night, Chubby
Checker, The Ink Spots, The Four Aces, and Jan & Dean since their revival. In 1995,
The Esquires embarked on an 11-day whirlwind tour of Moscow, Russia
where they performed at 5 of the most prestigious nightclubs in
Moscow plus performed for a live television viewing audience of
approximately 120 million.
The
current accompaniment of instruments consist of a lead guitar,
rythm guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, drums, bongos, congos, trumpet, and two saxophones. The
band features one female and two male lead vocalists that provide
audiences with a variety of vocal ranges. Combined with the addition
of our six background musicians/vocalists, the band is able to
produce a "Rich and Gutsy" R&B sound from the fifties do woop era through the nineties.
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