Congress Cookout with Ernie Peniston
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sunday, Jan 30, 2022 4pm
Location
Hotel Congress
311 E Congress St
Details
Congress Cookout
Ernie Peniston
Ernie Peniston
For more than 50 years, Iowa Blues & Midwest Music Hall of Fame Inductee, Ernie Peniston has been a staple of Black Iowegian music, and while his mother & her family hail from the Lake Rathbun area of southeast Iowa, Ernie was born and raised in Muscatine Iowa on the Mississippi River. Ernie’s music invokes great blues, funk and soul artists including Bobby Rush, Stevie Wonder, Solomon Burke, James Brown and Ronald Isley. Ernie’s latest self-released CD entitled “These Blues” is set for release in Summer 2021.
Ernie Peniston has performed with Morris Day, Prince, Koko Taylor and has travelled throughout the world as an international artist playing not only in North America, but also in Europe such as places like the Lionel Hampton Jazz Club in Paris, France.
