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Where else am I going to hear authentic rockabilly, much less pure blues these days as his latest album provides? Bedard\u2019s music has been in my head for decades and I love it. George is a national treasure\u201d. (Michael Erlewine, Founder of the All-Music Guide)\r\n\r\n\u201cVariety and craft have always been the hallmarks of Bedard\u2019s style. While his music is rooted in what might now be called traditional rock and roll, he\u2019s a product of the Chicago blues players whom he heard in the clubs and at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival. His artistry extends to many streams of twentieth-century music: country, pop, and a remarkable amount of jazz in which he artfully reduces ensemble arrangements to the dimensions of a small rock band. He\u2019s a guitar polymath\u201d. (James M. Manheim, The Ann Arbor Observer)\r\n\r\nA founding member of the Silvertones, in 1984 he formed the first version of the Kingpins. Their debut CD won CD Reviews \u201cBest Blues CD of the Year\u201d award. He has closed the Ann Arbor Summer Festival for more than 25 years and headlined festivals and clubs from St. Louis to Barcelona. In 2014 he and the Kingpins toured Honduras as part of the U. S. State Department\u2019s Arts Envoy program. \r\n\r\nBedard has backed such luminaries as Johnnie Johnson, Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, Big Joe Turner, Earl King, Eddie Taylor, Koko Taylor, Johnny Adams, and Kim Wilson. 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It's also the primary office space for the Resource Navigator team, a group of students who help undergrads & grads find the spaces, places, and people they need on the Ann Arbor campus.\r\n\r\n*Stop by and find the code for the Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game; (1) first location by the Main Floor Lobby, on the bulletin board near the Info Desk; (2) second location right inside the South Entrance doors near the accessibility door panel! (This is the entrance for the Mendelssohn Theater. nearest Rackham.)* Participants enrolled in the Summer Game can redeem those codes for points, badges, and prizes awarded by the AADL. For Summer Game information and registration, visit play.aadl.org.\r\n\r\nKnow before you go, especially over holiday weekends and during Art Fair! 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