Blues Brunch with Sam Hooper Group: B.B. King’s 100th Birthday

Sam Hooper Group is an exciting Cleveland band rooted in the blues. Originally formed when Hooper lived in Boston, the band has evolved through tours and recording in the USA and Asia to develop its own interpretation of this classic art form. Hooper has kept the approach fresh, since returning to his hometown roots in Cleveland, OH twelve years ago and performing all over Northeast Ohio. The current band is a mix of talented musicians who are old and new friends with experience in jazz, rock, funk, and blues. The mailing list grows with every performance so the bands influence is steadily growing! Check them out on their most recent CD, Sam Hooper & Mike Null, HOODOO BLUES which won 2015 Best Self-Produced CD from The Cleveland Blues Society.

Hooper’s songs have been heard by millions on TV’s All My Children and The Young & the Restless.

Sam Hooper Group won the 2018 Northeast Ohio Blues Association, (NEOBA) Blues Challenge and were semifinalists in the The INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE, (IBC) at B.B. King’s Blues Club in Memphis, TN, January, 2019.

They have opened for American blues greats Shemekia Copeland, Coco Montoya, Ronnie Earl, Curtis Salgado, Samantha Fish, Matthew Curry, Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, John Nemeth, and British Blues Hall Of Fame Inductee, Matt Schofield.

The group has showcased at New York City’s Soul of the Blues Festival and Alabama’s W.C. Handy Music Festival. Sam Hooper Group was a finalist in Boston’s “Battle of the Blues Bands.” Hooper has toured as a featured performer in Chinese recording artist Zhu Ming Ying’s “Dream of an Artist” tour, playing in front of over 84,000 people in 14 cities in China. In 2009, Hooper won the “King of the Blues” competition hosted by Guitar Center’s Cerritos, CA store. A documentary of Hooper’s musical journey was produced by a Boston area Cable TV provider and can now be enjoyed on YouTube.com.

After years in Boston and Los Angeles, Hooper returned to his hometown roots in Cleveland twelve years ago. He and his new bandmates have been winning over new fans with performances at popular locations including Music Box Supper Club, Brite Winter Festival, Nighttown, Kent Blues Fest, Canton Blues Fest. Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, House of Blues, Bop Stop, Broadview Brewing Co., Larchmere Porchfest, The Winchester Music Tavern, internationally renowned, Tri-C JazzFest, and on TV’s FOX 8 Morning Show.