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Youth - 2009

2009

Gary Allegretto: <em>Many Shades of Blue</em>

21/03/2009
Harmonica ace Gary Allegretto is equally fine in cowboy, Piedmont, Mississippi Delta and Chicago styles. On Many Shades of Blue he sings well, has great guests and writes good songs. Gary is wonderful with/to children too! (see next paragraph). Allegretto is a seriously good, no-nonsense bluesman. By all accounts, he is also a seriously good bloke. His non-profit organisation Harmonikids brings music therapy to children in extremis, worldwide. In his own land, post-Katrina New Orleans (it prompted a fine song that Ivan Neville sings on Gary’s new CD) is one Harmonikids place he’s been. Australia and post-tsunami Indonesia are two others. Gary Allegretto's site: http://www.myspace.com/garyallegretto Harmonikids site: http://www.harmonikids.org Its 'videos' prompt is worth following. There's a good interview about Harmonikids here: http://www.harmonikids.org/press/pr080820_naunewsletter.html?c=evKYLiMSIqG&;b=4419753 The above includes a remarkable 'this happened in Australia' story. A revealing, wide-ranging interview with Gary is here: http://www.hohnerusa.com/index.php?413a82