The Norman Sylvester Band

Over 4000 gigs in more than thirty years of the Norman Sylvester Band’s history have included major festivals such as Portland’s Rose Festival, the Mount Hood Jazz Festival, The Rose City (now Waterfront) Blues Festival (nearly every year since 1987), Good In The Hood, and Seattle’s Bumbershoot; hundreds of nightclubs, schools, appearances with the Oregon Symphony, wedding receptions, corporate events, prisons, state and county fairs, and private parties of every kind. Entertaining so many diverse audiences in so many different settings has made the band better than ever. The Norman Sylvester Band has opened for BB King, James Cotton, Mavis Staples, Little Ed and the Blues Imperials, Tower of Power, the Five Blind Boys, and many others.