Friday, April 6, 8p.m.
The Redstone Room, 129 Main Street, Davenport IA
With Blues Rock Review calling her “a captivating artist with a new take on a familiar genre” and RockAndBluesMuse.com labeling the musician “a gutsy and emotionally charged singer with a vocal range to die for,” blues rocker Danielle Nicole brings her Kansas City outfit the Danielle Nicole Band to Davenport's Redstone Room on April 6, sharing the talents that, this past February, made her sophomore solo album Cry No More the number-one hit on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.
Raised in a musical family that included her blues-musician father Bob Schnebelen, Nicole – performing as Danielle Nicole Schnebelen – began her music career in her early teens, singing at local coffee houses and open-mic nights. In 2000, while active in various other Kansas City-area bands, she and her brothers Nick and Kris formed the soul-blues ensemble Trampled Under Foot, which went on to release a self-titled album in 2006, followed by 2008's May I Be Excused, 2011's Wrong Side of Blues, two live records, and 2013's Badlands. The latter title won Contemporary Blues Album of the Year at the 2014 Blues Music Awards, with Danielle winning the award for Best Instrumentalist: Bass – the first woman in the awards body's history ever to do so.
After signing with Concord Music Group, the newly monikered Danielle Nicole released an eponymous debut EP in 2015 featuring keyboardist Mike “Shinetop” Sedovic and drummer Stanton Moore of Galactic, and her first solo LP – the New Orleans-recorded soul and blues release Wolf Den – followed later that year. The album, described by Blues Rock Review as “a fitting tribute to a historic city of innovative music and monumental talents,” reached number-two on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart, and was followed by 2017's Live at the Gospel Lounge and 2018's chart-topping Cry No More.
The Danielle Nicole Band, featuring multi-instrumentalist Brandon Miller and drummer Rodd Bland, plays the Redstone Room on April 6 with an opening set by the Brandon Miller Band. Tickets to the 8 p.m. concert are $10-12, and more information and reservations are available by calling (563)326-1333 or visiting RiverMusicExperience.org.
