The Laurie Morvan Band, will stop at Perrysburg while on a national tour to perform a free concert to open Wednesday at Woodlands Concert Series on Wednesday, June 7 at noon, marking the start of the Wednesday lunchtime concert series that will run through Sept. 6.
The concert will take place in the shelter area of Woodlands Park, 429 E. Boundary St.
The Laurie Morvan Band is a 5-piece high energy, rocking blues band based in Long Beach, California that honed its sound through relentless touring throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico and Europe, amassing more than 80 festival performances along the way.
Laurie Morvan’s talents as a guitarist, singer and songwriter have been celebrated on the covers of numerous music industry and guitar magazines, the band, and recordings have won numerous music industry awards as well as making it the second round of the Grammy nominations for their album “Gravity.”
The band includes: Pat Morvan, bass guitar; Lisa (Grubbs) Morvan , backup vocals, percussion; Tommy Salyers, keyboards; and Lonnie Jones, drums.
The native of rural Illinois Laurie Morvan played her way through the University of Illinois on a volleyball scholarship, earning a degree in engineering.
She picked up the guitar while in high school, and inspired by the rock legends honed her skills as an electric guitarist to the point that she quit her aerospace job and hit the road with a band doing Top 40 covers. She would play guitar up to five hours every night at the shows and practice as many as four hours every day in her hotel room.
Morvan has described playing lead guitar as being “a lot like doing a life-long dance of seduction with your true love. It’s just as important to know when to shut up and listen as it is to hoot and holler, when to tease and when to please, when to be tough and when to be tender.”
When she was introduced to the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan her whole life changed. Morvan dedicated her career to paying electric blues.
The News Gazette (Champaign Illinois) wrote: “Morvan has all the soulfulness of Bonnie Raitt and the swaggering, muscular guitar tone of Stevie Ray Vaughan”
Laurie Morvan often speaks on stage about her belief that “music is the most healing force in the universe and that we, as musicians, have a sacred calling to get out there and share that love and healing with the good folks in this world.”
Listeners are encouraged to bring a chair or enjoy lunch at one of the many picnic tables in and around the shelter area.
Next concert will be June 14, Pilewski, Snyder and Roth
This series is possible through the support of The City of Perrysburg, and the Norma Stark Memory Garden and Labyrinth Foundation.
Presented by Main-ARTery.
