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.”