Members
- Don Scott - Guitar, slide, rack harmonica, vocals
- Rosanne Licciardi - Cajon, Octosnares, foot bass, highhat
Influences
Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee, T'Bone Walker, Count Basie, Big Bill Broonzy, Etta Baker, Richard " Hacksaw" Harney
About BLUES NOMADS
WELCOME BLUES LOVERS! We are the BLUES NOMADS, Don Scott and Rosanne Licciardi. We truly are nomads as we play our special brand of blues, swing, funk and and zydeco throughout the US, and Mexico including Zihuatanejo, with standing winter gigs there for the past 12 years. With Don on guitar, national resonator, rack harmonica and vocals, and Rosanne on various cajons, foot bass and highhat, we get a full band sound. Our repertoire includes over 450 songs including 32 originals.
Don Scott was inducted into the Minnesota Blues hall of Fame, October 17, 2021 as Best Performer. A disabled Vietnam Veteran, he has three cassette recordings with his band, the Dust Bowl Blues Band plus 8 solo CD's to his credit, garnering a Minnesota Music award for best blues recording in 1997, an IBC nomination in Memphis for the best blues recording from the Minnesota Blues Society in 2013. In a career spanning over 50 years, he has shared the stage with Lazy Bill Lucas, Mighty Joe Young, Pinetop Perkins and the Legendary Blues Band, James Harmon, Janiva Magness, Rusty Zinn, William Clarke and countless others. He has toured the country and Europe performing in France, Ireland, Amsterdam, Scotland, England and Mexico.
Percussionist, Rosanne Licciardi, classically trained on piano, with awards in music, competition drum corps, dance, art and theater originated from Rochester, NY. All that finesse and rhythm came together when she moved to New Orleans in 2010 and met Scott at a James Booker tribute. They hit it off, married and soon after, she picked up her first drum, a djembe, at 69 years old. Moving on, she fashioned her own unique kit of octo snares, a Flamenco cajon, a highhat and a foot bass. Now, in their late seventies, they rock it wherever they can.
Links: YouTube/@bluesnomads
Don Scott - bluesscotty@hotmail.com
Rosanne Licciardi - licciardirosanne@gmail.com