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Michael \\\\"Hawkeye\\\\" Herman
United States, Oregon, Ashland
Blues R&B

About Michael \\\\"Hawkeye\\\\" Herman

With 50 years of performing experience, Michael "Hawkeye" Herman exemplifies the range of possibilities in acoustic blues, and personifies versatile musicianship, originality, and compelling artistry as a blues storyteller. His dynamic performances have won him a faithful following, and he leads a very active touring schedule of performances at festivals, concerts, school programs, and workshops. Hawkeye performs a wide variety of traditional blues, ballads, swing, and original tunes, on six-string and twelve-string guitar, and is an adept and exciting practitioner of slide guitar and slide mandolin. His music has been included in video documentaries and in three hit theatrical productions, and his solo CD, Blues Alive!, released in 1998, was greeted by rave reviews and greatly increased the demand for his live performances at major blues and folk festivals. His most recent CD is entitled "It's All Blues To Me!"

Hawkeye received the Blues Foundation (Memphis) prestigious 1998 "Keeping The Blues Alive" Award for lifetime achievement in blues education.

He was inducted into the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame in 2004.

Hawkeye was born in Davenport, IA, on January 11th, 1945. As a teenager, he taught himself to play the ukulele and guitar. He 'discovered' a broad variety of blues music in late-night radio broadcasts from Memphis, Shreveport, Dallas, New Orleans, Little Rock, Chicago, Detroit, from Del Rio, TX, to Toronto, from The Rocky Mountains to the East & SE Coasts, he explored & absorbed, & learned to play and perform the musics of America. Hawkeye also sought out and learned directly from many of blues music's most iconic and influential artists and performers. He enjoys touring, performing, and sharing his love and passion for Americana/Roots Music with auiduences worldwide, and he is well known as one of America's finest blues musicians and educators.

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