The Coffeehouse Series presents the Clarence Spady Band

The second concert in the Coffeehouse Series will take place on Wednesday,
February 8th, 2023, with THE CLARENCE SPADY BAND performing at Anomaly
Craft Brewing, 135 West Front Street, in Berwick, Pa. Sponsored by the
Berwick Arts Association, with booking and sound by The Exchange, the
Coffeehouse Series features regional, national, and international musicians
in this intimate venue at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month.
Previously known as A Perfect Blend, Anomaly Brewing has added craft beer
to the same great food and same great family.
You won’t find better music or a better place to see it live!
Coming on April 12th, Dave Keyes and friends. Later in the year, guitar
gods Claude Bourbon and Brooks Williams will make their Berwick debuts —
both of them based in Europe and including the Coffeehouse Series on their
American tours.
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By any standard, Clarence Spady embarked on his musical odyssey at an
uncommonly tender age. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Clarence began playing
guitar when he was only five years old due to encouragement from two
guitarists in his immediate family, his father (also named Clarence) and
his Uncle Fletchey. “In the beginning, I really didn’t work hard. God gave
all of us a gift,” Clarence says. “It was just innate.” The family Blues
band jammed every weekend at his uncle’s pad in New Jersey. For his stage
debut (also at age five), he played Tommy Tucker’s “Hi-Heel Sneakers” with
the band at the local Elks Club, for a special close to the evening’s show.
During the early ‘80s, Clarence joined a touring R&B band, A Touch of
Class. Working with John Pougiese, the musical director, was like going to
Berklee for two years, because he learned horn arrangements, harmony,
rhythm and the chord progressions he still uses today. From there, he
joined Pennsylvania-based singer Greg Palmer’s band, and spent six years
touring with that Top 40 R&B band. The dawn of the ‘90s brought a return to
his roots, and he put together the West Third Street Blues Band in the
unlikely town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the place he still calls home to
this day. A union excavator by day, Clarence played music at night and
began writing his own originals.
By the mid-‘90s, the success of his first album, “Nature of the Beast”,
helped influence his nomination for a 1997 W.C. Handy Award for Best New
Blues Artist. The record had legs, and Clarence toured for six years behind
that release. During that time, he also picked up what has become a
standard monthly rotation at Terra Blues in New York City’s iconic
Greenwich Village, exposing countless tourists from all over the world in
search of an authentic Blues experience to Clarence’s sound.
His sophomore release, “Just Between Us”, garnered a 2009 Blues Music Award
nomination for Soul Blues Album of the year. Now available for order and
download, “Surrender”, Clarence’s latest release, is a strikingly personal
collection of nine tracks, including seven original compositions. A
retrospective of his life and career, this pivotal album bridges the
challenges of a past plagued by addiction with the bright promise of a
blossoming future. A 12-page collectible booklet of musical history, photos
and song information is included with each CD.
For more information about Clarence, visit clarencespady.com.
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