By George Varga / PacificSanDiego / Oct. 16, 2019
The Friday event at Newbreak Church in Ocean Beach will also honor blues ace Robin Henkel, Americana vocal dynamo Eve Selis, Latin-jazz mainstay Bill Caballero and bluegrass fingerpicking wiz Walt Richards.
The nonprofit San Diego Music Hall of Fame, which held its first induction ceremony and concert last fall at the Ocean Beach Playhouse, will move to the nearby Newbreak Church for its second edition on Friday, Oct. 18.
This year’s honorees include jazz sax legend Charles McPherson, blues ace Robin Henkel, Americana vocal dynamo Eve Selis, Latin-jazz mainstay Bill Caballero and bluegrass fingerpicking wiz and music educator Walt Richards.
Also being inducted is charismatic blues, rockabilly and boogie-woogie vocal sensation Candye Kane, who died from cancer in 2016 at the age of 54 and had built an international following over the previous two decades.
Scheduled performers at Friday’s induction concert include Henkel, Selis, the Richards-led group Trails & Rails, Angelo Pizarro, Gato Papacitos, The David Sullivan Jazz Group and 2018 Hall of Fame inductees Mark Goffeney and Sue Palmer, who was Kane’s longtime musical partner. In addition, the Candye Kane Alumni Band —
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