“Bill’s blues sound is old school, greasy, dirty blues. He’s a BAD**S, and then, together with Joe, they sound ‘full band’. ”
Front Porch proudly presents, Southern Supper, Buffet & Blues, with Bill Durst & Joe De Angelis, as our musical guests, Saturday, December 16th. 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:
ButtERMILK FRIED CHICKEN (BREASTS, WINGS, LEGS, AND THIGHS); RIBS; SHRIMP CREOLE; GREEN BEANS COOKED WITH BACON; BAKED MAC N’ CHEESE; MASHED POTATOES WITH GRAVY; COLESLAW WITH REMOULADE DRESSING; BUTTERMILK BISCUITS; BANANA PUDDING WITH NILLA WAFERS; SWEET POTATO PIE; 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.
Bill Durst, always an audience favourite, is a Canadian Blues- Rock- Roots guitarist, singer, songwriter, entertainer who has written and recorded over 125 songs on 12 albums with 7 national radio chart hits. Bill has opened for or shared the stage with Rush, Areosmith, BTO, Yardbirds, John Mayall, Savoy Brown, Bobby Rush, Little Feat, George Thorogood, Bad Company, Loverboy, Edgar Winter Group, Jeff Healey, Burton Cummings, Johnny Winter, Rick Derringer, Jack de Keyser, April Wine, L.A. Guns, David Wilcox, Bob Seger, Sly And The Family Stone and more. Mr. Durst has toured across North America and in Europe and tours extensively in Canada.
As a kid growing up in Wingham and then London, Ontario (which is halfway between Toronto and Detroit), Bill was heavily influenced by Motown, R&B, Toronto Psychedelic Soul music as well as the British Blues Invasion and Jimi Hendrix.
Bill’s entrance on the national/international stage was with his classic rock band Thundermug formed from London R&B groups in 1969. By the summer of 1972 the band had a number one hit and a fan following in Eastern Canada. The band went on to record a total of 5 albums, (3 albums in the early/mid 1970s and two CDs in the mid 1990s) releasing records in the US and Europe. Bill put out his first two solo releases in the mid eighties but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that Durst got some real career momentum. In 2004 he proclaimed his intention to start up a “little, fuzzy, psychedelic blues band” and since then Bill and his co-writer Joe DeAngelis have produced 5 full length CDs: The Wharncliffe Sessions (’05), The Great Willy Mammoth (’09), Bill Durst Live (‘12) and Hard And Heavy (’13) Good Good Lovin ('15).