Bill Toll & Cidy Zoo
Bill Toll & Cidy Zoo
Flint, MI
Alternative / Modern Blues / Classic Rock
| Status | Bill Toll & Cidy Zoo has a show coming up on 11/14/2009 at 08:00 PM @ Downtow... in Brighton, MI http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/6725200 |
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Bill Toll & Cidy Zoo
Cidy Zoo is a touring band featuring Bill Toll on vocals, guitar, harmonica, and keyboards. The group can perform different types of shows for different venues. The bands line-up varies from Bill's solo acoustic performances to engagements as a duo, trio, or a four piece combo with guitars, bass, drums and piano/organ.
Cidy Zoo has opened for national acts as well as worked in the smallest clubs. They have 30 min., 45 min, 1 hour and 2 hour sets as well as being able to provide an entire evening's entertainment in a club or special occasion setting. The band's shows are "scalable" for any size venue.
Cidy Zoo can perform an "educational" blues review show featuring selections performed in chronological order and accompanied with facts and trivia about the artists and their material, beginning with pieces performed on vintage instruments (Dobros & acoustic guitars) starting with the earliest 1936 Delta Blues recordings of Robert Johnson, classics by Sonny Boy Williamson, Rufus Thomas, Tin Pan singers like Fats Waller, the transitional electric Chicago Blues of Muddy Waters and Albert King, country blues from the likes of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, continuing through the Memphis sounds of B.B. King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, and ending with the blues derivative sounds of artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and contemporary Detroit style blues artists like Larry McCray (to list only a few).
Cidy Zoo can also perform a complete show featuring a variety of blues/rock songs and their own material without the educational component for traditional show/club venues featuring music from the blues of B.B.King to classic rock standards by Jimi Hendrix and everything in-between.
Bill has an extensive background in Second City style improv theatre as both a director and performer and brings lots of audience participation, good humor and energy to engagements.
Cidy Zoo can provide their our own complete sound and light support and technicians (if needed) for venues up to approx. 1,000 persons indoors or outdoors or provide only back line gear and work with your "front of house" crew.
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