The Eli Yamin Blues Band explores the healing power of the music and its range from spiritual to classical, from bebop to folk

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Eli Yamin Blues Band plays the blues to dispel the blues. This ensemble welcomes audiences of all ages into the varied and rich world of America’s primary musical art form. The band explores the healing power of the music and its range from spiritual to classical, from bebop to folk. In some instances, the music is folksy, fiery and brassy. At other times, it is quiet and restorative. The group explores the blues’ unique capacity to bring people together of all different backgrounds. The quartet sings to its audiences, “It’s not just a song for me/ Take a breath and you will see/ Why the blues has the power to be/ A healing song/ A healing song.”

In addition to being spirited performers, members of the Eli Yamin Blues Band are also skilled educators. They have taught with Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. During their performances on The Rhythm Road tour, audiences “will be getting up and stomping, really feeling the juice of the blues,” says band leader Yamin. “They will relate their own personal experience to these practices and melodies.” Some members have traveled with previous Rhythm Road tours.

For its Rhythm Road tour in May 2009, Eli Yamin Blues Band visited Romania, Montenegro, Greece, and Albania.