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MISTY BLUES
DISCOGRAPHY 2012-2025 (15CD)
Gina shortly started her own duet, Cole-Connection, which blossomed to a
five-piece band that allowed her to showcase some of her original music.
Gina has performed in the Williamstown Theater Festival as the lead gospel
singer in “A Raisin in the Sun.” She also made several appearances at
NYC’s famed Bitter End. Misty Blues was a featured group at Mass MoCa’s
blues festival.
Gina and the band have had the pleasure of performing with Charles
Neville from the legendary Neville Brothers at several venues in Western,
MA and opening for blues staples. Musical influences include Janis Joplin,
Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Tuck & Patti. In 2019 the band
became a finalist in the International Blues Challenge and released a
music video directed by documentary filmmaker, Dave Simonds. In fact,
their original recordings have hit the airwaves on blues radio stations
across the globe.
In 2020 album titled Weed 'Em & Reap. Misty Blues' released the first
live, first acoustic, and first tribute album to the late great Odetta
"Tell Me Who You Are: A Live Tribute To Odetta" (2023). Misty Blues and
lead singer, Gina Coleman, celebrate 25 years of composing and performing
original blues with hints of jazz, funk, soul and tent revival
gospel.
Misty Blues has recorded with Charles Neville, Joe Louis Walker, Eric
Gales, Justin Johnson, Kat Riggins, Early Times and Matt Cusson. They have
also opened for traditional & contemporary blues artists like Tab
Benoit, Mike Zito, Albert Castiglia, Shemekia Copeland, John Primer,
Michael Powers, Roomful Of Blues, Albert Cummings, James Montgomery and
Gray Clark Jr. "Carry On This Way" marks the first single from their 17th
album, "Other Side Of Blue," which will be released in 2025.