JULY 25-28 | Blues Week
Jul 25, 2024
Joe Henderson Lab
Dubbed “the Blues Professor” by no less an authority than the legendary John Lee Hooker, stalwart Bay Area blues artist, visual artist, and filmmaker Mike Henderson settles into the Joe Henderson for two memorable sets of songs and storytelling.
A native of Marshall, Missouri, Henderson was steeped in the blues since childhood, though it was his love of art that drew him to San Francisco for studies at the Art Institute — the first racially integrated art school in the country.
Arriving in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Henderson was a witness to and victim of blatant racism and police harassment — experiences that made lasting impacts on both his music and his visual art.
As a painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, Henderson has created a lifetime’s worth of provocative work that tackles issues of race, social justice, and class, earning a Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the NEA, and showings at London’s Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum, New York’’s Museum of Modern Art, and SFMOMA.
As a musician, the guitarist has performed alongside Albert King, Albert Collins, Bo Diddley, James Cotton, and Lightnin’ Hopkins, and he’s released three superb albums on the Pathway label.
The blues guitarist, singer, and painter has been a Bay Area legend for over five decades.
As a blues musician, Henderson has performed with a Who’s Who of blues masters
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As a blues musician, Henderson has performed with a Who’s Who of blues masters
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Watch & Listen
Mike Henderson
Fool That I Am
Mike Henderson
Only Time Will Tell
Mike Henderson
Fool That I Am
Mike Henderson
Only Time Will Tell
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