LAST GIGS OF 2016

Tonight in New Jersey

Robert Ross @ Whole Foods Market BBQ Restaurant

When: Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Time: 7pm to 9pm

Address: 2245 Springfield Ave, Vauxhall, NJ 07088

Phone: (908) 688-1455

Whole Foods Market is now featuring live “organic” music as well as food. This is my second performance at this WF store. Come on down and listen to some blues and have a some BBQ while you’re at it. Featuring: Two time NY Music Award winner Robert Ross (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, & harmonica) from 7pm to 9pm. FREE Admission. Thank you Steve Fugett of Road Warrior Agency for feeding my twin addictions to blues and organic food. I will include a few humorous food & drink songs to my repertoire such as One Meatball, Wine Spo Dee O Dee, Let’s Go Get Stoned, and Oreo Cookie Blues among others, and maybe some holiday tunes as well as as variety of blues and jazz tunes. 

Staten Island

Robert Ross & Vincent Vok @ Hop Shoppe

When: Thursday, December 29, 2016

Time: 9pm to 12am

Address: 372 Van Duzer St, Staten Island NY 10304

Phone: 718-448-3400

Featuring: Vincent Vok will play several songs, and then two time NY Music Award winner & NY Blues Hall of Fame inductee Robert Ross (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, & harmonica) will perform from 9pm to 12am. Good food. FREE Admission! Thank you Vincent T. Vok for keeping the music alive on Staten Island.

FIRST GIG OF 2017

Rockland County

Joe Ham & The True Blue Blues Crew featuring Robert Ross @ The Pomona Cultural Center

When: Saturday, January 7, 2017

Address: 584 Route 306 (Just north of Pomona Road), Pomona, NY 10970

Phone: 845-362-8062

Time: From 8pm to about 10pm 

Featuring: Joe Ham (drums); Mark Dann (bass); and two time NY Music Award winner Robert Ross (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, & harmonica) from 7:30pm to about 9:30pm. Beautiful art work can be seen all over the gallery on the main floor as well as downstairs where we will set up. FREE Admission!!

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GUITAR / BASS / HARMONICA LESSONS
From award winning recording artist & seasoned educator Robert Ross

EMAIL: Bluesman@PROTECTED

I will be taking on a limited number of dedicated guitar, bass, and harmonica students regardless of age or current level of expertise.

Robert is a two time New York Music Award winner and a New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee. Robert is known for a wide variety of blues, jazz, soul, country, rock ‘n’ roll, folk, and other roots music. Robert worked and recorded with Big Joe Turner and also worked with Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Otis Rush, Big Mama Thornton, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, and other legends. One of Robert’s songs was recorded by Johnny Winter, and two other songs appeared on the soap opera “All My Children”. The Robert Ross Band has released 7 internationally distributed CDs and toured two continents. Robert has been teaching guitar for more then 25 years privately, and 13 years in NYC public schools. Robert’s work in the schools has been cited by the NY State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) for “best practices in arts in education programming”.

Lessons are $40 per half hour, and $60 per hour.
http://www.robertrossband.com/guitar-lessons