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2010 Friday Night Live Performances

 
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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