FINLEY — The “Blues and BBQ” benefit for KPFZ 88.1 FM Lake County Community Radio is back.
KPFZ has been back on the air since April 25, after a three-year hiatus. To celebrate the return to the air and to raise funds for ongoing expenses, KPFZ will be holding a blues dance party and barbecue on Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Finley Grange, 1510 Big Valley Road in Finley.
Blues diva Bettie Mae Fikes will be performing her inspirational and one-of-a-kind blues stylings. Fikes is known world-wide, has performed at Carnegie Hall and has recently returned from a State Department sponsored tour of Turkey.
Joining Fikes is Levi Lloyd and The 501 Band. Lloyd is a veteran in the world of blues music and has opened for B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Joe Louis Walker, to name a few.
Rounding out the evening will be the band Without a Net with KPFZ”s own Herb Gura, who is a programmer at the radio station.
LCCR is a non-profit, non-commercial radio station and this will be one of its biggest fundraisers of the year.
The event starts at 3 p.m. with dinner being served at 4 p.m. Admission price includes all the music and a barbecue dinner with all the fixings. A vegetarian meal will also be available.
Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. Children ages 7 to 11 are $10 and younger than 7 are free. There will be a no-host bar as well.
Advanced tickets can be purchased at The Healing Earth, 350 N. Main St. in Lakeport; and at Java Express, 14624 Lakeshore Drive in Clearlake. Call 263-3640 for more information.
Susan Krones is president of Lake County Community Radio.
