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Southside Denny & The Snyders: Music in the Park

Friday, July 20, 2012
7:00PM - 9:00PM

In the summer of 2011, blues artist Denny Snyder(aka Southside Denny)decided to include two of his three children in his band’s live concert. presentation.At just 12 years of age, his daughter Lorrie had already appeared on two songs of Snyder’s eighth album (Full Circle, winner of blues album of the year in Québec for 2010), and performed with him in the summers of 2009 and 2010. Since that time she has taken up the electric bass. and holds down the bottom end for the Snyders. The addition of her voice in the band breathes a whole new life into her father’s blues. Denny’s son, Philip , who began playing the drums at 3 years old is already a drum and percussion veteran at age 11. He first performed with his father in October of 2010, and last August played both the caron and drum set in his father’s shows in Québec and in the U.S. After the successes of last summer the trio decided to make this entity an official band and call it simply by their given family name: The Snyders. Deeply rooted in Chicago blues, this band merges a diverse group of musical elements into their sound, making it very difficult to categorize t