Sweet Bev Perron
Years of hitting jams and schooling herself, learning music and meeting many musicians is what she credits to where she’s at now. She paid her dues and still pays them. Humble beginnings are never far from her mind. Singing on a corner with a two piece band, (they didn’t have a bass player) working for $25 dollars and an ice cream cone. Which later became a song she wrote is always on the back of her mind. It was easy she say’s because it was real. This was a few years ago when she got a gig singing at a car show in front of the local Dairy Queen. Looking back now, that was just another chapter in her book called ‘Dues’. Bev still continues playing the local scene and has recently caught the attention of Europe. She was offered a summer full of shows and completed a mini tour with Max Dega of Switzerland. She toured between southern Switzerland and northern Italy. Since then she has returned to Europe twice and now has a twelve peice band and plays at major festivals all over Europe! She has now honed in on a style that is non other but her own. She was just mentioned in an article as the magazine’s number one fave pick of the year in the blues genre. Sweet Bev Perron is what she goes by….given respectively by another blues artist, Glen Davis. A few years back Sweet Bev performed at Kingston Mines in Chicago for a benefit that Koko Taylor was in fact the mastermind behind it. After Bev’s performance Miss Koko had called her over to where she was sitting. She asked Bev to sit down by her, she said, “Sweet, you knocked my sock’s off!” Bev thanked her, and said, “I’m just getting’ started”
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Category Blues
Posted Thursday, November 4th, 2010
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