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The free Friday
Night Live concert series continues July 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. in downtown Milford with bugs Beddow
band serving up a unique, danceable blend of rhythm and blues, soul, funk and
blues sounds.
Doug Beddow, aka bugs Beddow, sings and plays both
the trombone and the flute. He is an experienced musician and music teacher
who’s been performing for more than 30 years. His band has won best R&B
Band at the Detroit
music awards five times.
“We will be performing Trombone
Driven R & B Funk music,” says Beddow. “One of the songs to be performed is
a Tower of Power composition called Soul with a Capital S.”
His life’s work can be summed up in a quote by
President Woodrow Wilson: “We
are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we
impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand.”
Beddow is a certified music teacher who has earned
his degree in music education from Northern
Michigan University
and continuing education credits from Madonna University.
He served as the band director of Highland
Middle School during the
2009-2010 school year.
Other members of bugs Beddow band include Bing Burris on guitar/vocals, Tim
Freeman on drums/vocals, Michele Hobbs on bass/vocals and Robert Reeves on
saxophones.
In 1992,
Beddow played trombone in the movie, Hoffa,
with Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, and Armand Assante. The group has shared the stage with Boz Scaggs, Eddie Money,
Robert Cray, Spyro Gyra, Earl Klugh, Blood, Sweat, & Tears, Christian
McBride and many more in addition to providing music to actor Jeff Daniels over
the last decade.
Music of the
bugs Beddow band can be found on YouTube & iTunes as well as on other
artists recordings with artists like Mitch Ryder and J.D. Lamb.
For more information about this Friday Night Live
concert, or the series, please contact Leah Ohmer, executive director of the
Huron Valley Council for the Arts at 248-889-8660.
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