Friday, August 14 | Doors 6:30 | Show 7:30 | All ages
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“Glorious and memorable… Salgado’s voice is center stage just as it should be. Highly recommended” – Blues & Rhythm UK
“Salgado’s vocals are soulful beauty. Fresh, unexpected, authentic, percolating…perfectly executed… simply delicious” – Living Blues
“Salgado inspires chills. Upbeat and original…poignant and wise with a great sense of humor” – Blues Music Magazine
Curtis Salgado walks onstage, tells a room full of strangers he’s about to play some blues, some rhythm and blues, some funk and soul — “are you with us, music lovers?” — and within three songs the place belongs to him. Not because of volume. Because of a voice that can whisper a ballad into absolute silence and then blow the walls out on a deep-pocket funk groove thirty seconds later. Ninety minutes in, the audience feels like they went to church.
That voice has been the throughline for over five decades. Salgado is a singer-songwriter whose work crosses funk, soul, gospel, R&B, and blues without asking permission from any of them. He calls his sound “swinging rhythm and blues, funk, soul — serious pocket.” Billboard calls it “hard-nosed blues, beautifully nuanced R&B, phat and funky.” NPR just calls him “an icon.”
The credentials run deep. Salgado has won the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award and collected 14 Blues Music Awards across multiple categories. He co-led the Robert Cray Band, backed Albert Collins — coining the nickname “The Master of the Telecaster” — fronted Roomful of Blues, and served as lead vocalist for Santana. In 1977, he schooled a young John Belushi on the soul and blues canon, directly catalyzing the creation of the Blues Brothers. Briefcase Full of Blues was dedicated to him.
But the Belushi story only matters because it reveals the real work: Salgado has spent his entire career transmitting the music he loves to anyone who will listen. He introduces audiences to OV Wright, Clay Hammond, Guitar Slim — artists most rooms have never heard of — and makes them care. “I just want them to know and love this music,” he says. “That’s who I am.”
He has overcome major health obstacles that have only deepened and refined his artistry as both writer and performer — returning each time with new music and undimmed conviction.
His new live album, Legacy Rewind: Live in ’25 (Nola Blue Records, April 2026), was recorded at The Triple Door in Seattle with a 15-piece band. It captures what Salgado does best: a full evening of soul, funk, gospel, and R&B delivered by one of the most distinctive voices in American music — and a performer who still believes the stage is where the real teaching happens.
