“This will be a real treat, ya’ll, having Canada’s ‘Sweetheart of the Blues’ and the ‘Harmonica Extraordinaire’, as a duo. ”
Front Porch proudly presents, Southern Supper, Buffet & Blues, with Suzie Vinnick and Roly Platt, as our musical guests, Saturday, December 2nd. This is an authentic, Southern style, ‘all you can eat’ buffet, alongside live blues music.
The buffet will open at 5:00, and the music will get started at 5:30. There will be three sets, over the course of the buffet, and those set times are as follows: 5:30 - 6:15; 6:30 - 7:15; and 7:30 - 8:15.
This is not a ticketed event. HOWEVER, RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. We are managing the event, with reservations, to ensure food in the buffet is kept hot, and fresh, and ready, as folks arrive.
Seating is available in the music room, and also, on the restaurant side, for those folks who’d prefer the live music, as background. Please note there is limited seating in the music room. Please be sure to reserve your table soon.
BUFFET MENU DETAILS:
Pulled Pork; Chicken & Sausage Gumbo; ‘Chicken Fried’ Steak Medallions (yes, this is beef); Blackened Chicken; Mashed Potatoes with Country Gravy; Green Beans cooked with bacon; Baked Mac n’ Cheese; Coleslaw with Remoulade Dressing; Buttermilk Biscuits; Mississippi Mud Cake; Peach Cobbler; and Luzianne Iced Tea.
*** Please note our regular dinner menu will not be available this night. ***
Reservations ARE REQUIRED, by email at reservations@frontporchsouthernkitchen.com,or by phone, at 226-397-1223. Price is $65 per person, for food and music.
BIO FOR SUZIE: A Saskatoon native transplanted to the Niagara Region of Ontario, Suzie Vinnick is the proud owner of a gorgeous voice, impressive guitar and bass chops, and an engagingly candid performance style. Her career has seen triumph after triumph. Among her most recent successes: being awarded the 2022 Maple Blues Female Vocalist of the Year, the 2019 Saskatchewan Jazz Festival Special Recognition Award and being nominated for a 2018 Canadian Folk Music Award for Producer of the Year with her co-producer, Mark Lalama. Suzie achieved finalist status in the Solo/Duo Category at the 2013 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN; received the 2012 CBC Saturday Night Blues Great Canadian Blues Award and the 2012 Sirius XM Canada Blues Artist of the Year. Suzie has won 11 Maple Blues Awards, 1 Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Vocalist of the Year and is a 3X Juno Nominee.
In July 2023 Suzie was a special guest of Blackie & the Rodeo Kings at Ottawa Bluesfest along with Daniel Lanois. She has also toured nationally with Downchild, Stuart McLean’s The Vinyl Café, with ASV (Charlie A’Court, Lloyd Spiegel and Vinnick), the John McDermott Band and she has performed for Canadian Peacekeepers in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf. She was also the voice of Tim Horton’s for 5 years. Her latest album is entitled “Fall Back Home”.
Tune your ears to one of Canada’s music greats, with “…a voice of spun gold and honey” Access Magazine
Bio for Roly:
Highlights:
• Recorded on over 1,700 individual album cuts, movie scores and jingles
• Pete Pedersen Lifetime Achievement Award– Nominee (2022) for the US’s SPAH international harmonica organization
• Roly’s original instrumental “Shuffle the Deck” was aired on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the WWE Network (2019)
• Gold record: The Toronto Blue Jays theme song – “OK Blue Jays”
• Two Double Platinum & Juno Award album credits
• Multiple Maple Blues Awards – “Harmonica Player of the Year” nominations. (national blues awards)
Roly Platt has enjoyed a long and rewarding career as both a live and studio harmonica player in the Canadian scene for the past 45 years. He has had the pleasure of touring and recording with many greats in the business, including: Ronnie Hawkins, Matt Minglewood, David Clayton-Thomas, Dutch Mason, Susan Aglukark, Suzie Vinnick and Rick Fines.
Getting his start practicing to his older brother’s Blues and Bluegrass records, Roly’s early years on the road quickly introduced him to a wide variety of music including Country-Swing, Country Rock, R&B & Traditional Jazz. This experience of having to incorporate harmonica into some of these non-traditional roles helped form his melodic approach to playing and define his unique style. As Roly puts it, “None of the songs these bands would play had any harp in the original versions, so I had to quickly figure out something that “worked” and sounded pretty good, or I’d be out of work. That was the best musical schooling anyone could have asked for.”
Roly’s distinctive sound, versatility, and intuitive sense of “what works”, has elevated him to “first-call” studio harmonica player in the Canadian recording scene. Roly had been recorded on over 1,700 individual album cuts, movie scores and national jingles and is now working on sessions for clients from around the globe via his home studio.