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Welcome to the Steve Polezonis website! Please check the LIONS page for information on Haiti Relief as well as the latest on our MD 23 MidWinter Conference. Check out the video, recorded at Black Eyed Sally's this past June (also on You Tube) as well as the new Steve Polezonis Trio demo recordings and some new links located under the LIONS, OPTOMETRIST and MUSIC LIBRARY headings. There'll be more additions, photos and things as time goes on 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, Freddie King, Albert King, B.B. King, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan, as well as the "pupils" such as Eric Clapton, 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 since the early '90s, including the Blusicians, Mudcats, Pythons (with Rich "Super Harp Junior" Badowski),and Free Chicken & Beer (voted "Best Blues Band" in the Valley Advocate poll in 2000).

He's opened for Johnny Hey & The Bluefish and Debbie Davies and for the 2003 Berlin Blues Festival which was headlined by the likes of The Nighthawks and Jeff Pitchell. He's blessed to have played with bassist Rich Neville 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 guesting with the JoBluz Band as well as appearing as The Steve Polezonis Trio, featuring "West Coast Lounge Blues" and The Steve Polezonis Band with Sante Isopo on harp and tenor sax. 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.