Greensboro Blues Festival February 13, 2011

The Greensboro Coliseum Complex has announced the Greensboro Blues Festival will return to War Memorial Auditorium on Sunday, February 13th at 6:00pm. The spectacular line-up of performers will include Marvin Sease, Mel Waiters, Latimore, Clarence Carter and Theodis Ealey.

Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster, Ticketmaster outlets, charge-by-phone at 1-800-745-3000 and the Coliseum box office.

Sease straddles the line between blues and gospel-drenched soul, much like fellow Southern singers Johnnie Taylor and Tyrone Davis. Fans, particularly his strong following among female followers, are enamored of his signature song and breakthrough jukebox hit "Candy Licker."

Waiters (pictured) has enjoyed chart success with a string of hits including “Hole In The Wall,” “Man Shoes,” “Show You How To Love Again,” and “The Smaller The Club”.

Deep-voiced Latimore's sultry mid-'70s output for Miami's Glades label was a steamy marriage of soul and blues. He topped the soul lists in 1974 with the anguished "Let's Straighten It Out," a simmering soul/blues hybrid, and encored with the incendiary "Keep the Home Fires Burnin'" the next year.

Carter's strong soul sound is known for hits including "Slip Away," “Snatching It Back," "At the Dark End of the Street," "Patches," and "Strokin".

Blues guitarist and bandleader Theodis Ealey is a Mississippi native who first learned to play the instrument when he was four years old. In 1997, he took home top prize as the Mo' Better Blues Male Artist of the Year in Atlanta. He has also appeared on television in the movies Miss Evers' Boys on HBO and A Kiss to Die For on NBC.