Stanford Jazz and Ruth Davies present Blues Night

This year’s featured artist is 23-year-old Sean “Mack” McDonald, an Augusta, Georgia-raised guitarist at the forefront of a new wave of brilliant young Black musicians revitalizing the blues. Steeped in Chicago and West Coast postwar blues, he channels the sounds of Bobby “Blue” Bland, Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker, and early B.B. King.

Sean “Mack” McDonald, guitar & vocals

• Ruth Davies, bass

• Kristen Strom, saxophone

• John R Burr, keys, piano & organ

• Danny Caron, guitar

• Leon Joyce Jr., drums