Willie Green with Little Mike and Tornadoes at Arts Garage

Delta style bluesman, Willie Green was born in Montgomery, Alabama in the early 1930s and learned the blues early on in his teens when he would hitchhike or hop freight trains to town to hear the old blues masters in the juke joints. He is self taught on both harmonica and guitar. Has opened shows for John Hammond, Jr (who calls him “the real deal”), Tommy Castro, Charlie Musselwhite, Maria Maldaur, John Lee Hooker, Jr, James Cotten, Eddie Kirkland, Joey Gillmore, JJ Grey (MOFRO) and many others including an outdoor opener at Veterans Coloseum for Eric Clapton.

He is joined by Little Mike and the Tornadoes who enrhralled the audiences at Arts Garage last summer....

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Delta style bluesman, Willie Green was born in Montgomery, Alabama in the early 1930s and learned the blues early on in his teens when he would hitchhike or hop freight trains to town to hear the old blues masters in the juke joints. He is self taught on both harmonica and guitar. Has opened shows for John Hammond, Jr (who calls him “the real deal”), Tommy Castro, Charlie Musselwhite, Maria Maldaur, John Lee Hooker, Jr, James Cotten, Eddie Kirkland, Joey Gillmore, JJ Grey (MOFRO) and many others including an outdoor opener at Veterans Coloseum for Eric Clapton.

He is joined by Little Mike and the Tornadoes who enrhralled the audiences at Arts Garage last summer.

Little Mike is “…a modern American blues master.” -Jazz & Blues Florida Magazine

This powerhouse blues and rock n’ roll band from New York City is led by singer, songwriter, producer and harp master Mike Markowitz. The band is well-known for its flawless, high energy blues sound, modeled after the great Chicago bands of the 50′s.

They have played nearly every major metropolitan area in the United States and Canada, some of the toughest hangouts, as well as the most sophisticated stages in the world, never straying from their course of delivering hard back alley blues and rough rock and roll. Little Mike Markowitz, is a mean harmonica player who cut his teeth into New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s, backing up legendary Bluesmen Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, and Jimmy Rogers.

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