Alexis P. Suter
ALEXIS P. SUTER
Saturday, November 23 8:00 p.m.
DoubleTree Grand Ballroom
3-time Blues Music Award nominee Alexis P. Suter is the owner of that big, booming voice you can hear roaring out of Brooklyn into the heart of North America and beyond. The Alexis P. Suter Band is on the rise as accolades pour in and they continue to captivate audiences from town to town.
APSB is a powerful and unique 6 piece ensemble who artfully blend the lines between Blues, Soul, and Rock music. Alexis' voice ranges from a pained passion to explosive and soul-bearing. Her band is also on fire manned by the power trio of Bennett, Bennett, and Grappone. Jimmy Bennett is a guitar phenomenon with a fierce and ferocious tone. Drummer Ray Grappone and Peter Bennett on bass lay down the groove like a heavy-duty Rhythm and Blues machine. Dan Weiss is absolutely masterful on keyboard and piano, and rounding out the group is the very talented backing vocalist Vicki Bell.
When the late, great Bluesman B.B. King first heard Alexis sing, he was visibly impressed and said so after her opening set for him at BB Kings in NYC. Shaking his head in wonder in his characteristic way, he remarked:
“It’s a rare thing to share the stage with great talent like that young lady.”
Alexis and the band have earned similar honors from other well-known musicians and performers, including Dan Aykroyd and Levon Helm of The Band. Suter and her band have been blazing trails and taking their music to festivals and venues both nationally and internationally.
The band burst onto the music scene as regular performers at Levon Helm’s legendary Midnight Rambles in Woodstock, NY. Levon was captured by what he called Alexis’ wonderful spirit and had the band open for him nearly 100 times. "She is one of those wonderful spirits, she's got her arms around you; you can feel that” Helm has said.
APSB has been in high demand at North American Roots and Blues festivals, venues, and events. They have opened for BB King several times at his club in New York, as well as Etta James and Johnny Winter. At the highly prestigious Blues Music Awards, Alexis was nominated in the Best Contemporary Blues Artist, The Koko Taylor Vocalist, and for Best Soul/Blues Female Vocalist categories.