Biography
DELTA WIRES is a big, high-energy harmonica & horns blues band out of the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area. FINALISTS @ the Blues Foundation's 2008 INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE: Memphis TN, Voted Oakland Magazine Readers' Poll: "BEST BAND" 2008 Oakland/East Bay, Voted Best LIVE Band, East Bay Express, Readers' Poll - 2002.
San Francisco Blues Festival 2008, Russian River Blues Festival 2009, Monterey Bay Blues Festival: 8 appearances, Shasta Blues Society’s Redding Blues by the River Festival: Headliners - 2005, Crescent City Blues Festival, Central Valley Blues Festival, Oakland Blues & Heritage Festival, Napa Valley Mustard Festival, Stockton Civic Auditorium w/ Van Morrison, Solano County Fair Blues Festival, Black Diamond Blues Festival, Shasta Blues Society New Year's Eve, North Beach Festival - San Francisco, Brewery Arts Center – Carson City NV, High Desert Jazz Festival - Carson City NV, Concord Blues & Brew Festival, Sonoma Salute to the Arts, Music in the Plaza - Los Gatos, San Carlos Art & Wine Festival, Menlo Park Summer Concert Series, Calaveras County Concert Series, and many, many more…
APPEARED WITH: Van Morrison, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King, The Doobie Brothers, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite, Boz Scaggs, Bad Company, The James Gang, Elvin Bishop, & many more!
DELTA WIRES 5TH CD, LIVE @ 105 Degrees, Released 1/9/09.
For a tight, kick-ass live performance, a get'em up & dancin' show, BOOK the DELTA WIRES.
BOOKING: info@deltawires.com or Manager, Diana, @ 510-601-9277. BUSINESS OFFICE: 510-814-0872
"DELTA WIRES rocked the stage at the 36th Annual (2008) San Francisco Blues Festival, proving what great talents these stalwarts of Bay Area blues truly are. They got the crowd shaking and moving and set the pace for a simmering day of blues." -Tom Mazzolini, Producer, San Francisco Blues Festival
"a tough, rocking, socking band, knocking out crowds...the WIRES are burning up!" -Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle
"From jump rhythms to nasty, lowdown Windy City laments, DELTA WIRES electrifies the audience... This tight Bay Area troop, fronted by vocalist/harmonica genius/composer Ernie Pinata, melds Mississippi Delta tunes and Chicago-style arrangements with rock, soul, and swing sensitivity... It's terrific! This rockin' blues band is spectacular -- tight, topical, and torrid". -Lee Cooper, Ph.D. - Rock & Blues News
"They blow hard from the get-go, a tight horn section blending comfortably with the spirited, intense harmonica from lead man Ernie Pinata…as fierce a Sonny Boy Williamson-influenced harp as you will find" -Bill Kisliuk, BLUES ACCESS Magazine
"A 10-degree drop in the temperature...and a light rain...didn’t stop DELTA WIRES from playing like men possessed. The band features [part of] the original horn section from Cold Blood, augmented by the SUPERNATURAL harp playing of Ernie Pinata! I’d heard of the DELTA WIRES but had not investigated how good they are! They played Chicago Blues! They played New Orleans Blues! They definitely played the Oakland Funk which they claim as their turf." -"CyberSoulMan" Tee Watts - Lake County News & KPFX 88/1 fm- 33rd annual Russian River Jazz and Blues Festival (2009)
Instrumentation
Ernie Pinata - Harmonica/vocals
Tom Gerrits - Bass/vocals
Richard Healy - Guitar
Tony Huszar - Drums
Larry Jonutz - Trumpet/backup vocals
Jim Orsetti - Sax/backup vocals
Danny Sandoval - Sax/backup vocals
Discography
DELTA WIRES has released 5 CDs on Mudslide Records.
DELTA WIRES 5TH CD, LIVE @ 105 Degrees, Released 1/9/09.
DELTA WIRES available on Tunes.com, CDBaby.com, Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, Rhapsody.com and MORE.
DELTA WIRES is No. 1 in BLUES GENRE DIGITAL DOWNLOADS on international independent radio distribution site RadioDirectX.com.
Links
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