FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 6, 2010
Morgan Arts Council . Berkeley Springs, WV
www.macicehouse.org

Press Contact only: Mary Hott -- 304-258-2300
mary@macicehouse.org


WORLD CLASS BLUESMAN PERFORMS AT ICE HOUSE

BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV ---- Famed blues guitarist, Tom Principato, 
brings his award-winning sound and band to the Ice House in Berkeley 
Springs for a concert on Saturday, February 13 at 7:30pm. Advance 
tickets are now on sale for the limited seating hall. The concert is 
produced by the Morgan Arts Council.

Billed as the "Potomac Superpicker" on the cover of Vintage Guitar 
Magazine, Principato has been playing virtuoso blues with some the 
world's finest performers for more than 25 years and is repeatedly 
described as a great unsung hero of the blues guitar. He has more 
than 16 CDs to his credit including the most recent: "Raising the 
Roof" which won Best Blues Recording from WAMA in 2008, one of nearly 
two dozen he's won from the Washington-based music association over 
his career. Principato and his trio of back up musicians toured 
clubs and festivals extensively in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Principato is a blues veteran who's been working the club circuit 
since he first discovered B.B.King in high school. A rootsy, blues- 
rock guitarist and passionate vocalist, virtuosic instrumentals have 
always been an integral part of his live shows. His fluid style 
encompasses everything from traditional blues and rock to Latin, funk, 
New Orleans, R&B, and even some Hindustani slide guitar riffs. " I 
don't play jazz but I get jazzy at times," he said.

As one music reviewer claimed, "It's difficult to understand why this 
blues-rocking Telecaster master isn't a major contemporary blues/roots 
star. Principato is sure talented enough and he's been leaving mouths 
agape with his classy yet searing guitar pyrotechnics over the United 
States and Europe for the better part of four decades."

The concert is funded in part by grants from the National Endowment 
for the Arts, West Virginia Commission on the Arts and hotel taxes 
from Bath and Morgan County. For more information on the concert and 
Tom Principato, check online at www.macicehouse.org or call 
304-258-2300. The Ice House is located on Independence and Mercer in 
downtown Berkeley Springs.