The Bellrays – on tour with their new album!

Blues is the teacher. Punk is the Preacher. It’s all about emotion and energy. Experience and raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide.
Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula made The BellRays happen in 1990 in Riverside, California. They wanted to play music and they wanted it to feel good. They wanted people to WANT to get up, to NEED to get up and check out what was going on. Form an opinion. React.
So they took everything they knew about; the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB’s, Jimmy Reed, and Led Zeppelin (to name a very few to whom “BLUES IS THE TEACHER”) and pressed it into service.
Those bands and artists have since become “buzz words”, things to imitate and sound like. That was never The BellRays intention. The BellRays were never about coming up with a “sound”, or fitting in with a scene. It was about the energy that made all that music so irresistible. The BellRays’ influences learned from the Blues and then learned how to to make it their own. The Beatles wanted to play R&B, converted that energy and invented “Rubber Soul”. The Ramones were trying to be Del Shannon or Neil Sedaka and out came “Rocket to Russia”.
Their new and 15th album „Heavy steady go“ got released on the 30th of August 2024.

Tourdates:
14/11/2024 D-Dortmund, Subrosa
15/11/2024 D-Berlin, Lido
16/11/2024 D-Erfurt, Museumskeller
17/11/2024 D-Essen, Freakshow
19/11/2024 D-Düsseldorf, Pitcher
20/11/2024 D-Stuttgart, Goldmarks
21/11/2024 D-Lichtenfels, Paunchy Cats