Blues and Bourbon Wednesdays: Blow X Blow Jump Blues

One of the most popular “Blues and Bourbon” concerts! Now with an expanded Starlet Room dance floor!

Two Tone Steiny on vocals and harmonica with Danny Sandoval on saxophone is a high energy West Coast Jump Blues Band, bringing their own brand of jumping, swinging, harmonica driven Chicago style blues. This award winning band has carved a name for themselves by recording and performing their own original music, while staying true to the blues roots that shaped their individual style.

Mark “Steiny” Steinmetz is a blues singer, songwriter, and harmonica player. A California native, he has spent considerable time traveling the country developing his own style of performing his own original blues music. Steiny has surrounded himself with a host of seasoned blues veterans that provide a perfect mix of blues classics and original tunes.

He is the winner of the 2010 Sacramento Blues Society International Blues Competition, winner of the Sacramento Blues Society Best Self-Produced Blues CD of 2010 and 2015, and he was nominated for a SAMMIE Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Danny Sandoval grew up in San Pablo and started playing saxophone at the age of eight. He discovered a place at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond for him to explore his passion and dream of becoming a professional jazz saxophonist. He started playing semi-professionally when he was 16, and continues to perform all over the Bay Area and Central Valley. By the age of 17, Danny was playing up to five nights a week in San Francisco, paying his way through college. Over the course of his training, Danny has had the honor of studying with Tony Archimedes, Frank Sumares, and Mel Martin. By playing the saxophone, Danny feels that he has been able to express his most inner passions out to audiences all of these years. Danny continues to pursue his love of performing, and is actively involved in touring, recording and playing live soul, funk, blues and salsa in area groups such as, Peter Petty, The Mick Martin Big Blues Band, and The Tropicali Flames.