An evening featuring metro-Detroit’s finest blues musicians!

2 Stones Events and the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts have teamed up to present the Brighton Blues Bash! 2 — presented by Cooper & Binkley Jewelers.

At 5:30, the great Etta James is paid tribute by an all-star cast of 12 of Detroit's finest blues musicians: The Woodward Horns (Bobby Streng, Jimmy Smith, Matt Martinez, and James Hughes); bassist David Uricek; drummer Rennell Gonsalves; keyboardist Mark Thibodeaux; guitarists Johnny Rhoades and Kris Kurzawa; and vocalists Tosha Owens, Raye Williams, and Lenny Watkins.

Kicking off the evening at 4 p.m. — A tribute to the late Johnnie Bassett, Detroit’s Gentleman of the Blues, with The Brothers Groove (Chris Codish, keys; Skeeto Valdez, drums; and James Simonson, bass) joined by Brett Lucas, guitar; and Keith Kaminski, saxophone. Learn more about the Johnnie Bassett Tribute by clicking HERE.

Tickets are $30 before Sept. 13. Price will increase to $40 day-of at the door.

The doors for this special Sunday show at the BCPA will open at 3 p.m. The evening will top off a full weekend of blues music with the Brighton Smokin Rock-N-Blues Festival on Sept. 11-12.

COMMUNITY BENEFITS

This event will include a food drive for the Livingston Hunger Council, and attendees are asked to bring a non-perishable item. Of course, they’ll also take a monetary donation — every dollar donated provides three meals locally.

Results from the 2025 Brighton Blues Bash! food drive were impressive: “It was a PERFECT event!!!,” said Cathy Wormsbacher of the LCHC, noting that $563 was donated along with 247 pounds of food. “This is incredible. Thank you again for all of your support!!”

Special thanks to Media Partners, LivingstonPost, WHMI 93.5 FM and The Marketeer.