95 Blues Berry Way / Черника

Evgeny Borovikov (MD): songwriting, guitars, vocals
Evgeny Bisk (MD): bass, back-vocals
Aleksei Gavril (MD): lead guitar, back-vocals
Maxim Tsvetovat (VA): flute, keyboards
Victor Yakovenko (MD): drums, percussion
Sergey Yershov (MD): sax, keyboards, percussion

"95 Blues Berry Way" is a Russian-American rock band created in 2000 by a group of musicians who live along the road I-95 connecting Washington, DC and New York, NY. We strive to write and perform songs with nice music and meaningful lyrics. We sing mainly in Russian, but are no strangers to songs in English and other languages. Our style can be defined as melodic rock music. Even though we present ourselves as a rock group, we experiment with various music styles, rock-related and not. Our repertoire includes ballads, blues, rock-n-rolls, bossa novas, as well as some jazz, folk, and country pieces.

Shows

9 January 2010: 95BBW/Chernika winter jam session at Borovikovs place.
12 September 2009: Yakovenko and Borovikov played at the Calvert Hills Summer Music Concert/Jam at College Park, MD.
10 September 2009: Borovikov and Bisk performed at the Russian-American musicians networking event/jam session also featuring Mikhail Bashakov, Kirill Komarov, Sergey Khrichenko, in Rockville, MD.
5-7 September 2009: Borovikov and Gavril participated in the Russian rock festival OCTPOB that gathered many interesting musicians and songwriters from both sides of the Atlantic at Camp Merryelande.
26 July 2009: We (Borovikov, Sapronov, Tsvetovat, Yakovenko, Yershov) played a 3-hour gig at Castaway's in Ocean City, MD
27 June 2009: Evgeny Borovikov performed with Dmitry Legut at JetLag festival in Pennsylvania.
20 June 2009: Borovikov & Gavril performed with Dmitry Legut at the "instrimental" Guitar Poetry salon.
30 May 2009: A jam session by Chernika and friends at Borovikovs, Ellicott City, MD.
9 May 2009: Tsvetovat and Borovikov performed in the "The Victory Day" concert organized by Ellina Graypel at Russian Bookstore, No.21, 174 5th Ave, New York, NY.
28 March 2009: Our spring 2009 jam session by 95BBW/Черника and friends at Borovikov's residence.
21 February 2009: 95BBW (Karnaukh, Ponomarev, Borovikov) met Vadim Astrakhan Band in a language barrier breaking program "High Octane Storytelling" at M1-5, and played a gig breaking lanugage barriers - a night of translations.
29 January 2009: 95BBW (Tsvetovat, Borovikov) performed in concert with Umka at Pizza Zero, Bethesda, MD.
3 January 2009: Winter jam session by 95BBW and friends at Borovikov's place, Ellicott City, MD. Special guest - Dmitry Legut, acoustic blues.

Links

historical narrative in English and Russian
chronological sequence of notable happenings
band and show review by Valera Berman

Last updated on January 17, 2010 by administrator

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