John “Broadway” Tucker is coming out of retirement to make a special performance at the 2024 West End Celebration with special guests Jon Harpin’ Troutner and the Unpaid Bills featuring Bill Haines on guitar and Bill Sullivan on bass.

For over 40 years John “Broadway” Tucker  performed at clubs and major festivals on the West Coast including the San Francisco Blues Festival in 2000. Tucker, who performed on the main stage at the 2006 Monterey Bay Blues Festival, was also the recipient of the prestigious Monterey Bay Blues Festival MOBAY Award. The MOBAY has previously been awarded to such blues legends as Etta James, Clarence Carter, Koko Taylor and Charlie Musselwhite. He has released 5 albums; ‘Impromptu Blue’ featuring pianist Bill Heid; two CDs on the Messaround label; a live recording of a concert that he performed in Poland; and his latest international release “Somebody New”. 

A soldier in the mid-1960s, Tucker was transferred from Germany to Fort Ord, near Seaside, California. It was in Seaside that he started performing 6 nights a week, singing soul, r&b, and straight-up blues with ‘the Invaders’ at a now-defunct club at the corner of Fremont & Broadway, a hot spot where many West Coast luminaries would come to jam (After Jimi Hendrix’s now-famous appearance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, he came down to the club to finish out the night by playing with Tucker, getting back to his Chitlin Circuit roots). The club is long gone, but John was so associated with it that locally the name “Broadway” became synonymous with him. He was then sent to Vietnam and in 1975 he resettled in Seaside. 

John, who performed regularly on Saturdays in San Francisco at the legendary Saloon with guitarist Dave Workman performed over 30 European dates the summer of 2011 performing in Poland, Switzerland, Hungary and Italy.  Check out one of his many videos of his third European tour at You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQVnB3NpeE . 

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