BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Athens X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Athens BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST DTSTART:19700329T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET DTSTART:19701025T040000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1982923:Event:238641 DTSTAMP:20260414T182334Z SUMMARY:Mississippi Heat DESCRIPTION:About Mississippi Heat MIssissippi Heat Straight out of Ch icago, Mississippi Heat has been performing and recording pure vintage blues for more than two decades. It all began one night at a 1991 gi g at the now-closed Cafe Lura in Chicago, where guitarist and singer J on McDonald invited Pierre Lacocque to join him onstage. Jon had hired drummer and vocalist Robert Covington (with Sunnyland Slim at the tim e) and bassist Bob Stroger (also with Sunnyland Slim and with Jimmy Ro gers). It went so well that the three musicians decided to form Missi ssippi Heat. His brother Michel–also in attendance that night–volu nteered to become the band’s manager. Since then, the band’s curr ent and former members have released a total of 11 albums, touring Nor th America, South America and Europe. Throughout it all, the band’s always stuck to its motto: “Traditional blues with a unique sound. \nPIERRE LACOCQUE'S INTERVIEW @ BLUES.GR\n Mississippi Heat’s uniqu e sound has its roots in the diverse upbringing of Pierre Lacocque, bo rn in Israel to a Christian Belgian family and raised in Europe. Laco cque lived as a young child in Alsace, France, not far from the theolo gian Albert Schweitzer’s birthplace. He was influenced by the the in tense and impassioned scriptural upbringing of his father–a Protesta nt minister who became a world-famous professor of the Old Testament and his beloved maternal grandmother, after whose hometown Lacocque w ould later named his publishing company, Ransart Music. (He also used his grandmother’s maiden name for his record label, Van der Linden R ecordings.) Pierre, his brother Michel and his sister Elisabeth–who later did the artwork design for Mississippi Heat’s first three CDs were the only non-Jewish students to ever attend the Athénée Maimo nides, a Jewish Orthodox school in Brussels. Following the Holocaust, Lacocque’s parents and paternal grandfather–also a minister–felt that their children and grandchildren should learn about Judaism and the suffering and plight of the Jews. During WWII, his family was invo lved in hiding and helping Jewish families and involved in the Resista nce. Although Lacocque’s father encouraged him to prioritize his st udies, he developed a passion for music. At home, he listened mostly t o classical music with his family, and Lacocque was drawn to American pop artists such as Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding, who he’d liste n to on the radio and at friends’ homes. Lacocque received a toy har monica from his father at around age 3. But it wouldn’t be until his family moved to America, at age 16, that he’d take up the harmonica . In the summer of 1969–shortly after his family settled in Chicago s Hyde Park neighborhood–Lacocque heard Big Walter Horton play a c oncert on the University of Chicago campus. The amplified harmonica wa s unlike anything he’d ever heard. It was at that point he knew play ing the blues harmonica was his destiny. Lacocque bought his first rea l harmonica just a few days later. He became obsessed with practice, p icking up records, instruction books and wisdom from seasoned players whenever possible. Chicago was ripe with inspiration; golden era lumin aries of the 1950’s electric blues, like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, still loomed large. Lacocque continued to play in bands in the ’70s, while he studied psychology at McGill University. There, his r ock-inspired band Oven won the 1976 Montreal Battle of the Bands. Aft er he returned to Chicago, Lacocque’s focus turned increasingly to h is work as a clinical psychologist. But in 1988, he returned to the ha rmonica, and after a few years of playing the Chicago circuit, he foun d a new home with Mississippi Heat.\n\nFor more information visit http s://blues.gr/events/mississippi-heat DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20161014T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20161017T235900 CATEGORIES:blues, live LOCATION:Half Note Jazz Club WEBSITE:http://mississippiheat.net URL:http://mississippiheat.net CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Half Note Jazz Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2253045928?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Music Ne twork by Michael Limnios":https://blues.gr/profile/MichalisLimnios ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Giannis Pachidis":https://blues.gr/profile/ioannis ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Dimitris Ioannou":https://blues.gr/profile/DimitrisIoannou END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR