By DAVID GRIMA
CAMDEN – The Bailey Bros., three blues-style musicians from New York, will return to the Midcoast next weekend, with other local bookings also in the works. Their performance Saturday night at Gilbert’s Publick House is being filmed for a documantary.
Russ and Nick Bailey and Drummer Craig Johnson will play 9:30 p.m. Friday at Bruno’s in Belfast; and the same time Saturday night at Gilbert’s on Camden’s waterfront, with a $6.- cover charge.
Together around 12 years, the band is promoted locally by Bruce Jarry of Hatchet Mountain Road in Hope, who saw them play in a bar about six years ago near Laconia, N.H., and decided he would do pretty much anything to get them booked into Maine venues.
Filmmaker Wolf Zoettl, associated the Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport plans to make a documentary out of this visit according to Jarry. Jarry had talked to Zoettl about making a short promotional video for the band and the idea for the documentary project grew out of that, he said. Both gigs will be filmed this weekend.
“There’s an excitement about the band coming back”, Jarry said.
The band has a CD out, and has just about accumulated enough material for a second one, said Jarry.
They mostly play their own music but also cover tunes by Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry and Elmore James, among others.
The Bailey Bros. are also booked into Rockland’s Time Out Pub for May 20 and will play the night beforee at the Better End in Portland’s Old Port district. Jarry is planning on a date for the band in Rockland after the city’s annual North Atlantic Blues Festival.
THE CAMDEN HERALD – APRIL 6, 2000