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Andy Lackow's' 3 Year Blues Jam-A-Versary Celebration at SuzyQues

Milestone in the Making-Its Blues Jam Master Andy Lackow's' 3 Year Blues Jam-A-Versary Celebration at SuzyQues Restaurant in West Orange, NJ

If anyone on the Planet or across the Galaxy's hasn't figured it out yet :-), it's another Andy Lackow 3rd Jam-A-Versary Tuesday Night Blues Jam at SuzyQues BBQ!

All across social media the following message has been popping up. "Wow! 3 Years! Come celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the Tuesday Night Blues Jam at SuzyQue's BBQ. I will be begging and bribing the biggest talent in the NJ/NY area to come make this a night to remember as we embark on our 4th year. Wow, it seems just like yesterday that we started. Actually, it seems more like 100 years ago and that I hosted 5,000 jams. Just kidding." https://www.facebook.com/event...

As you know, running jams are not easy so celebrations are in order. Here's my quick illustrative, interesting visual recap because as you may also know, Andy is one master graphic artist at Andy Lackow Illustration https://www.andylackow.com/. Here's a quick look back over the years and few highlights. .

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Year 1 2016 - Initial Installation of the Andy Lackow Blues Jam

Andy dreaming bout years and tears of Blues Jams

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Year 1 - 2016 - 2017 - One Year Anniversary


Trivia is Andy Lackow Blues Jam use to be on Mondays, than he switched to Tuesday

One of the things you notice is the visually appealing and so very relevant promotional material. :-)


Another Visually Fabulous Highlight was the October Halloween Blues Jam

The musicians came dressed to play and have a good time.

Year 2 - 2017 - 2018 - Two Year Anniversary

Year 3 -2018 - 2019 - Three Year Anniversary

A highlight for me was that it took me 3 years to convince Andy to do an outdoor Downtown After Sundown Blues Jam in Spiotta Park in South Orange, NJ.

It rained all week but the weather cleared up just in time to make my dreams come true. :-)

Andy Lackow's 1st Outdoor Blues Jam in Spiotta Park May 31st, 2019

Year 2019 - 2020 - Come Join in the Fun and Blast Off Into The Future of Andy Lackow Blues Jams

It's going to be a big old Happy Anniversary Celebration and of course it's formally called :

Andy Lackow's' 3rd Jam-A-Versary Tuesday Night Blues Jam at SuzyQues BBQ! .. Andy Lackow 3rd Anniversary Cake

Andy Lackow 3rd Jam-A-Versary cake

Since the Town Mayor can't come thru, actually all the Essex County Town Mayors were busy (hmmmm), so I will come thru, take a lot of pictures and have a good time listening to some good old Blues for sure :-) Hope to see you there.

To learn more about tonight's event, click the link to discover more about this fabulous, unbelievable Blues Jam live music event. As Andy says "this is a must attend event" Yup he said it :-)

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