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Welcome to the Steve Polezonis website! The LIONS page is back up so you can find out there what the local Lions are doing as well as information on recent disaster relief efforts. I'll be updating the other pages soon as well as updating the gig schedule weekly (or more frequently) so keep checking back periodically. Thanks for your interest and enjoy!

Steve Polezonis, Blues Musician.

Blending original blues with traditional blues favorites, Steve Polezonis and his friends entertain a crowd with professionalism, taste and danceable blues.

Steve's influences are varied...the "masters", such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson II, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Freddie King, Albert King, B.B. King, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Louis Jordan, as well as the "pupils" such as Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughan, Kim Wilson, Gary Moore, Peter Green, Robben Ford, Robert Cray and Debbie Davies. He studied guitar with Dino Lappas and Gary Fortier and vocals, harp and guitar as well as blues musicology with Ed Vadas. Along with his "Blues Brother" Les Cooke, he played in various blues bands in the Springfield, MA and Hartford, CT areas including the Blusicians, Mudcats, Pythons (with Rich "Super Harp Junior" Badowski),and Free Chicken & Beer (with Jim McNamara and Dallas Harkless) which was voted "Best Blues Band" in the Valley Advocate poll in 2000.

He's opened for Johnny Hey & The Bluefish and Debbie Davies. He played the 2003 Berlin Blues Festival, which was headlined by The Nighthawks and Jeff Pitchell, and has played the Terryville Fair, both as supporting and featured act. He's blessed to have played with bassist Rich Neville (Poco, Dave Mason) and has jammed with Paul Cotton, Mark Nomad, Bonnie Bramlet and James Montgomery just to name a few.

A regular at the famous Tic-Toc Blues Jam he recorded his first album there in 2002 -- "Steve Polezonis & Friends Live at the Tic-Toc" captures the feeling of their Thursday night open jams and Saturday night "Free Chicken & Beer" invitation jams. A second album, "Live @ The Berlin Blues Festival" is a raw testament to the band in action.

Steve is currently appearing as The Steve Polezonis Trio, featuring "West Coast Lounge Blues" and The Steve Polezonis Band with the Enfield Horns (Sante Isopo on harp and tenor sax and Wendy Mancini on tenor sax and backing vocals) as well as the featured guest with the JoBluz Band. All formats feature Steve's originals as well as chestnuts from the American Blues Catalogue.

Come on out and see what it's all about...and ask your favorite venue to book Steve Polezonis.

Steve is a member of the Connecticut Blues Society.