Presented by Hawaii Public Radio

7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 14

Atherton Performing Arts Studio, 738 Kaheka St.

Tickets: $20 general admission; $17.50 HPR members; $10 students

Reservations: 955-8821

On July 14, Hawaii Public Radio will present "Hoodoo Man Blues," a salute to the masters of Chicago Blues harmonica, in the Atherton Performing Arts Studio.

The performance will focus on the music of Junior Wells, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Walter "Shakey" Horton — harmonica virtuosos from the golden age of Chicago blues who created a powerful, incendiary style.

Vocalist and harmonica virtuoso Mark Prados will be featured with the Chris Vandercook Band.

Prados and Vandercook are two of Hawai'i's well-established blues artists, with an extensive background in the hard-rocking Chicago blues style.

Prados, who was born and raised in Hawai'i, has been the leader of the band Mojo Hand for more than 20 years; Mojo Hand was named Honolulu Magazine's "Best Band" of 1994. During his travels as bandleader and musician, Prados has shared the stage with such luminaries as the Moody Blues, Greg Allman, Jimmy Buffet, John Mayall, Queen Latifah, Stewart Copeland, Bonnie Raitt, Clarence Spady, CJ Chenier, Li'l Malcolm and the Imperials, Guitar Shorty, Grant Green, Ginger Baker and Taj Mahal.

Vandercook learned his trade in the early 1970s in Madison, Wis., where he worked with blues artists Luther Allison, Jimmy "Fastfingers" Dawkins and others. From 1977 to 1979, he played rhythm guitar in the Paul Filipowicz Band with legendary drummer Clyde Stubblefield, the original "funky drummer" of the James Brown Band.

In 1982 Vandercook moved to Hawai'i, where his bands, Backstreet and the Chris Vandercook Band, have performed continuously ever since. As a solo performer, he has accompanied vocalists Azure McCall, Keahi Conjugacion and Kimberlei Bradford, and has performed as a duo with singer/organist Bobby Thursby. Vandercook is also a writer who has contributed liner notes to Verve Records releases by Kenny Burrell and Dizzy Gillespie, as well as recordings by Azure McCall, Keahi Conjugacion, John Kaimikaua and Hawaiian slack-key master Raymond Kane.

In addition to Prados on harmonica and vocals and Vandercook on guitar and vocals, the evening's musicians will include Joey Wolpert, guitar; Vance Keever, bass; and Alvin Cameros on drums.