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Bamboo Room - Ben Prestage

Friday, September 06, 2013, 09:00pm

FRI. 09.06.2013 · 09:00PM · $7, $10

Ben Prestage has been soaked in Blues tradition and Mississippi culture since birth. Growing up in the swamps of south central Florida, Prestage began to mix Mississippi Country Blues with his own brand of Florida Swamp Blues. This muddy- water- meets- black- water stew has led him to perform from California to the Carolinas to the Florida Keys, in large festivals, every kind of bar, and sometimes on downtown sidewalks. In his show, Prestage plays a cigar box guitar (made by Memphian a one-man-band John Lowe) which has stereo guitar and bass strings that can be played independently, at the same time. Then Ben added a series of four foot pedals that can be manipulated by the heels and toes of both feet to play a drum kit. The final result is Ben playing guitar, bass, and drums while singing his own brand of Blues which leaves bottles empty and dance floors full wherever his music takes him. The Key West Newspaper says Ben is “one of the best you’ll ever hear if you live to be 100.”