Manitoba Music
Giving Tuesday FD Brain Injury Survivor Blues Concert
- Date
- Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 2pm
- Performers
- Fred Dugdale
- Location
- Facebook Live
- Address
- Winnipeg, Manitoba (MB), Canada
- Promoters
- Manitoba Brain Injury Association (MBIA)
About
Fred Dugdale Profile for MBIA Brain Injury Survivor Blues event on 2020-05-05
Fred Dugdale was employed in several not-for-profit organizations through the years, before having all that come to an end from the capacity-limiting effects of Post-Concussion Syndrome resulting from a motor vehicle accident (MVA) in September of 2000. Fred now serves within and for the disabilities community that has become his support network, as well as his passion and purpose.
Fred has served on Manitoba Brain Injury Association (MBIA) Board of Directors and as Treasurer from 2013 to 2019, and is currently on the Provincial Council of Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and serves as Treasurer, as well.
Fred also has a love of music that began in childhood and has lasted his lifetime. Following singing in choirs and related events, Fred was swept up in the surge of local Winnipeg bands that emerged arising from the “British Invasion” of the Beatles and many other such bands. Eventually, Fred was attracted to Blues music, having been introduced to Paul Butterfield Blues Band, a high-energy Chicago-style blues unit that drew him into that style of “blue-eyed blues”.
As Fred developed his interest, he discovered the whole other world of British Blues, featuring such icons as John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and so many more. The Rolling Stones were basically a blues band when they broke onto the music scene. Cream, Led Zeppelin, John Mayer and Joe Bonamassa have included several blues songs in their repertoires.
As part of his TBI / PCS recovery therapy, Fred has returned to his love of music and, in particular, his loves for Blues. He is a vocalist and manages to include some blues harp (harmonica) in his array of cover songs. He says that his music is for enjoyment, as in “for the loving and not for making a living”.
https://www.mbia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MBIA-2017-Handbook-Web-version.pdf
https://givingtuesday.ca/gtnow
