Delta Promenade

Delta Promenade immerses its listeners in the rich experience of the blues from the
1920’s to the 1950’s– encompassing the acoustic blues of the Delta and the Piedmont,
and ragtime and hokum music from New Orleans and early Chicago. Each Delta
Promenade show not only lays down an infectious groove but includes a history lesson
as well (unless it’s a dancing crowd who want to just keep dancing!

Guitarist and vocalist Steven Dolmatz is a lifelong student of the blues, wearing out
Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Boy Fuller albums and imbibing the rich history of the
blues at concerts with the masters and at workshops with the likes of John Cephas. He
has performed on Bellingham and Northwest stages since the mid 1970’s. He loves to
share the history of the songs to any and all and plays with vigorous abandon.

Jan Peters has been playing and performing blues and various folk music since 1979
when he decided to make music his full time occupation. He used to make his living in
the Sacramento area playing keys in a full time blues band (Bill Scholer) that toured to
Ukraine in 1991. Since moving to Bellingham 1998 he has created several well known
and loved bands: The Monday Night Project, The Naked Hearts, and co-founded
Gallowglass Celtic Folk Band. In addition to also creating a long standing folk music
series for which he was awarded a 2022 Mayor’s Arts Award called Irish & Folk
Mondays, he has been devoting himself to the harmonica and playing more and more
blues, both electric and acoustic, for the last ten years. He performed and recorded with
Hambone Wilson 2021-2023 including playing the Sunbanks Blues Festival together in
2022.

Delta Promenade enjoy playing as a duo and more and more as a full band featuring
some of Bellingham’s finest and most hard working musicians: Acoustic bass (Andy
Simmons or Jim Matthews), Drums (Kevin Chryst), Dobro (Nakos Marker or Andy Rick)
and Blues Fiddle (Kian Dye) in this highly contagious and fun dance music.