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Ray Charles Tribute: Patrick Lamb, Thara Memory, Curtis Salgado, Linda Hornbuckle, Duffy Bishop, DK Stewart, Baby James, and more Portland's finest blues, soul, jazz and rhythm & blues musicians come together to pay tribute to the late Ray Charles, one of the great forces in American popular music since the 1950s. The tribute, pulled together by saxophonist Patrick Lamb and trumpeter Thara Memory, uses as its model, 'O Genio ? Live in Brazil', a recently discovered film of a Ray Charles concert and rehearsal televised in Sao Paolo in 1963 when Ray, then 33 years old, was in his prime and at the top of his game. With backing from full horn section and "Ray-lette" backup vocalists, the tribute will feature blue-eyed soul man Curtis Salgado, Portland soul diva Linda Hornbuckle, blues belter Duffy Bishop, 'boogie cat' bluesman Norman Sylvester, former Stevie Wonder collaborator Lee Garrett, crooner Sweet Baby James Benton, pianists Janice Scroggins and D.K. Stewart, and more.

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