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Latest News
Monday, February 1st, 2010
BRIEFCASE BLUES™ is still going strong -
and 2010 is our 27TH year!
We begin the year with the annual Mardi Gras Masquerade for the Dallas Chapter of the AMERICAN RED CROSS, this Saturday night at Dallas' House Of Blues. On February 16th - the REAL Mardi Gras - come meet with us at:
COOL RIVER
1045 Hidden Ridge
Irving, Texas
It's an early show - 6:30pm to 10:30pm - call 972-871-8881 for details! We will be having many more shows - it's only the first of February, after all - so hang with us, and stay tuned!
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
VOTE FOR OUR VIDEO!!!
BRIEFCASE BLUES™ is going global again - our SAFE AUTO video / jingle is UP - and the VOTING has BEGUN! We need YOU - and everybody in the WORLD to VOTE for our jingle by clicking the above pic. It takes you straight to our video. Just hit the RED "VOTE" BUTTON when you get there - that's all it takes. Go see for yourself...
WHEN CAN I VOTE?
Once every hour, or 24 times a day. NO KIDDING!
HOW LONG WILL THE VOTING GO ON?
Until Jan 31st 2010. Also NO KIDDING!
Anyone can vote as many times as they want, up to 24 times per day for the next 64 days, so give us your best! If there are enough votes, BRIEFCASE BLUES™ will be awarded the contract for the next SAFE AUTO television commercial!
Friday, October 30th, 2009
BRIEFCASE BLUES™ is going global again - THIS time with a bid for a national television spot! The boys were recently contacted by media group Pocket Change NYC to do their version of the the SAFE AUTO commercial jingle. After a writing session by Graham Richards of Richards Brothers Music, a quick trip to Garland Recording Studios (thanks to producer Tom Jordan), the audio was done - click the above button to hear it!
THE NEXT THING: the video will be finished and posted here about the 5th of November - and will also be seen on YouTube. Looks even better than it sounds!
NOW FOR THE BEST PART: we will be having the video VOTED upon by YOU - and everybody in the WORLD - ON NOVEMBER 26th. If there are enough votes, BRIEFCASE BLUES™ will be awarded the contract for the next SAFE AUTO television commercial!
Come back next week for the video unveiling - and VOTE at www.dothejingle.com for US on November 26th!
Thursday, October 2nd, 2009
BRIEFCASE BLUES™ regrets the cancellation of Thursday night's show (last night) at the Dallas Arboretum. The weather conspired, at the last hour, to dump over an inch of rain on the venue, flooding the electrics and all - it just wasn't safe for all concerned. Our best goes out to Cris Emrich, Terri Lendecker, Ruthie Rogers and all the staff and management at Dallas Arboretum for setting things up for us - plus Bobby Clouse and the gang at Pro Audio Dallas for getting drenched in the bargain...
This weekend we hope to announce a re-set for the show within the next few weeks - stay tuned, and we'll email everybody that we can.
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
BRIEFCASE BLUES™ welcomes you to Thursday Night, October 1st 2009, at the Dallas Arboretum – our second or "ENCORE" appearance for the City Of Dallas - you gotta BE there! Show begins at 7:30pm and ends at 9:30pm, so don't be late! We don't get many chances to play here in Dallas, so you might want to come out...
Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Gardens
8617 Garland Rd
Dallas, TX 75218
Go to the Dallas Arboretum website for tickets - CLICK HERE!
You can also catch ads for us on the radio at 9.87 KLUV if you're in the Dallas area, anyway...).
One show - from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Be there.
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
BRIEFCASE BLUES™ - the longest-running concert tribute to the Blues Brothers - will headline at BLUESFEST on Saturday, Sept 19th at Riverwoods, Camden, Bradley Ferry Road. Proceeds from the event will go to benefit the American Cancer Society's RELAY FOR LIFE.
Gates open from 3:30 p.m. to midnight, and BRIEFCASE takes the stage at 9pm. Gate Tickets $10.00 per person (Kids 15 and under get in Free - Food and Beverages sold separately)
To Get Tickets call: 870-574-2300 or 870-574-0031
Sponsored by NTS & Spectra Technologies - tell everyone to BE THERE!
Ticket Info: 10.00 per person
Click here for MORE information!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
FOR THOSE THAT MISSED OUT LAST MAY 2nd - BRIEFCASE BLUES™ will make an encore performance live at SAMBUCA ADDISON - 15207 Addison Road - on Friday, 19 June. A lot of reservations were cancelled due to inclement weather that last show, so do NOT miss this one! Performance time is 8pm to Midnight and - best of all - there is NO COVER CHARGE! And
PLEASE...reservations are required for guaranteed seating, so call 972-385-8455 for YOUR table NOW!
BTW: email this to anyone you know who love the Blues Brothers - have we got a night for YOU. The word is out: "Jake" and "Elwood" are alive and well here in Dallas.
Friday, May 22 2009
The 30 May show at Camden, AR has been POSTPONED to a later date in June, announced Gary Rebis today of SPECTRA-TECH, one of the prime sponsors of the upcoming concert. The cause of the postponement was due to the excessive rains that have plagued the Arkansas River area - and subsequent flooding of the venue at RIVERWOODS.
The show will be reset for a weekend in June, possibly as early as 6 June.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Well - the most recent shows in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were big HITS! First, the fundraiser at TEXAS WESLEYAN LAW SCHOOL on April 11 - then the almost all-nighter at SAMBUCA in ADDISON on May 2! We're still waiting for folks to send us pics from those events - so get them in, folks! (P.S.: the email to send pics is jblues@briefcaseblues.com - or to reach us for anything else...)
Coming up on May 30 - if you can make it to CAMDEN ARKANSAS - we will be headlining the RELAY FOR LIFE Cancer Society Benefit. They will have us doing on-air spots on the local radio stations ... more to come next week on that but, in the meantime, here's the poster for the event...
Thursday, April 30, 2009
BRIEFCASE BLUES will perform live at SAMBUCA ADDISON - 15207 Addison Road - on Saturday, 2 May. Performance time is 8pm to Midnight and - best of all - there is NO COVER CHARGE! Call 972-385-8455 for more details; better yet, email this to anyone you know who love the Blues Brothers - have we got a night for YOU.
BRIEFCASE has been doing some traveling this year but, thanks to a near-record turnout last September at the Dallas Arboretum (where over 2,000 folks came out to see us), the word is out that "Jake" and "Elwood" are alive and well here in Dallas.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
25 years – can ya believe it?
You’d better. BRIEFCASE BLUES™ is the only full-band tribute to Jake & Elwood Blues that has been around since 1983 (as of last September 24th), and we got to celebrate it IN CONCERT in Dallas TX, right where we started “way back when”.
The show was at the Dallas Arboretum, and it was a ball for everyone there – nearly 2,000 Dallas folks, some of whom still remember us from as far back as the 1980s. Anyone remember SCHOONERS or FROGGY BOTTOMS?…
2008 was especially great because of travel! In June we performed for the wedding of James P. Pinkerton, a regular panelist on the FOX News program Fox News Watch and White House Senior Staffer Elizabeth Dial in Washington D.C., then found ourselves doing a concert in the city of Bell Gardens, CA (east L.A. County, baby!) for their Independence Day Celebration on July 3rd. Our continuing relationship with Dallas HOUSE OF BLUES has kept us busy too, and it is a true honor every time we are there (kudos to Senior Sales Manager Geoffrey Taylor and everyone else at HOB). Let’s face it: we’ll go anywhere people love the blues.
2009 will find us at many new places – and some old familiar ones as well. More pics are on the way - more videos to show (just look up our YouTube channel here) - and we are just pleased to be still out there and "doin' it" for folks worldwide.
More later, as always ... but email us, and tell us what you think about the new look at BRIEFCASEBLUES.COM – we want the whole world to come to our website at least once!
Sunday, September 7th 2008
By now you can see that BRIEFCASE BLUES™ has been around for a while - considering that as of the 24th of this month we will have been "at it" since that date, 1983. That's twenty-five years, a fact to which NO OTHER BLUES BROTHERS tribute group can lay claim.
More pics are on the way - more videos to show (just look up BRIEFCASE BLUES on YouTube) - and we are just pleased to be still out there and "doin' it" for folks worldwide...
More later, babies ... but email us and tell us what you think about the new look at BRIEFCASEBLUES.COM!
Regards,
J. Leggio
Your humble "Joliet" Jake since 1983 - and STILL HERE, dammit!
Tuesday, October 9th 2007
YOWEE!!! - and HELLO AGAIN, WORLD!
At LAST - a new look for the BRIEFCASE BLUES™ world-wide website! Now you can keep up with the world's longest-running tribute to the original "brothers in the Blues", see streaming video and even check out LOADS of pics - culled from the show's 24-year history - from 1983 to TODAY!
We will be adding more pics to the gallery over the next week; we MIGHT even categorize them by decade, there are SO MANY! Watch on the video page, too, for a "teaser" video...a short clip from one of our recent corporate videos, in which Jake gets sprung from "SING-SING" PRISON, just to head to a corporate chili cook-off in Mexico!
More later, babies ... but email us and tell us what you think about the new look at BRIEFCASEBLUES.COM!
Regards,
J. Leggio
Your humble "Joliet" Jake since 1983 |
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BRIEFCASE BLUES™ is a live musical show-band and revue based on the “Blues Brothers” characters originally created by Saturday Night Live comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Of all the tributes and look-alikes around the world dedicated SOLELY to portraying the Blues Brothers live onstage (with or without a band) only one group – BRIEFCASE BLUES™ - has held the honor now for a total of TWENTY-FIVE years, complete with a full-sized professional band.
BASED in the UNITED STATES, founded in 1983 (one year after John Belushi's untimely death) and STILL going strong, BRIEFCASE is backed by a hot 8-piece showband (4 horns, 4 rhythm players) - while the stars of the show J.W. Leggio (as Jake) and Lee Schwing (as Elwood) faithfully re-create the “Brothers” characters in true Belushi & Aykroyd style!
BRIEFCASE BLUES™ has performed for every type of event, party, public concert and social gathering imaginable. In the past few years, BRIEFCASE has added to its list of credits with on-camera commercial and industrial film appearances, including a 14-minute “mini-movie” (available upon request) produced for the GAMBRINUS COMPANY, the largest privately-owned beer importing company in the world.
EXPERIENCE the fun of “JOLIET JAKE” and his brother “ELWOOD” … get together with us soon, email us or give us a call - and make the entertainment of BRIEFCASE BLUES™ part of your musical world!
Want more information! Click the press kit below!
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