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Middletown Elks Summer Music Series

Middletown Elks Summer Music Series Features Friday Night Aug 3rd: " The Paul Gabriel Blues Band".

Paul Gabriel is a Electric and Acoustic Blues guitarist, Singer -Songwriter, recording session musician and an instructor. His professional career began in 1969 and has spanned forty three years as a working artist. Early in his career Paul Gabriel appeared on three albums by singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, played slide guitar on Rory Block's Grammy nominated "Mama's Blues", toured with Michael Bolotin (a.k.a. Michael Bolton), and eventually formed a number of his own groups, most notably The Paul Gabriel Band and Blue In The Face. Blue In The Face recorded three highly acclaimed albums, the first receiving a four star review from DOWNBEAT Magazine.

In 2001 Paul Gabriel released his first solo album entitled FATE. This album is a transition recording in the sense that it is the first release featuring Paul Gabriel as a vocalist. Five years after it's release it gained international attention. In September of 2006 Paul Gabriel and his Blues Band was formed. Further transforming into a complete artist, in 2007 Smoke Ring Records released two new CD's featuring Paul Gabriel as a mature songwriter, vocalist and life-long artist. During 2008 -2011 the new CD's garnered exellent reviews world wide as Paul Gabriel continues to perform his own brand of Blues,
Jazz and American Music into 2012.C

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