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Get ready for some harmonica blues/rock

James Supra and Sarah Ayers are combining Saturday afternoon for a high energy harmonica driven blues rock performance.

The two Lehigh Valley award-winning favorites will be mixing classic rock covers and original music from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, with the help of their all-star rhythm section, which includes Phil Pilorz on guitar.

For more than 30 years Supra has been playing the blues with variations of his own bands and sharing the stage in the U.S. and abroad with blues notables as diverse as B.B. King, Catfish Hodge, Bobby Radcliff, Tommy Castro, Rhett Tyler, Slam Allen and Kid Bangem.

He has won best harmonica player honors in a 19-year Lehigh Valley Music Awards streak before refusing further nominations and earning the first LVMA Legacy Award.

Supra’s other LVMA multiple year (fan and Industry) awards have also included best all around performer and best blues band.

Works include “Hard Times” (2005) with Craig Thatcher and “Tip My Hat to the Maker,” which won the World of Harmonica’s Best Album of 2012 (beating out Julio Inglesses’s second place “Everybody’s Been Somewhere” album).

Classically trained Sarah Ayers began singing the blues while in college even before she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Opera Performance. Ayers is one of the youngest ever to win an award at a Metropolitan Opera competition.

She later sang with the Anchorage Opera Company in Alaska. While there she continued to expand her extraordinary vocal talent to the blues, jazz, and rock and roll.

After returning to the Lehigh Valley and filling in for Bev Conklin of BC and Company at a Musikfest performance, Ayers formed her own blues band in 2002. Since then, Ayers has continued to pile up accolades and awards for her vocal virtuosity that has included multi-year LVMA (Fan and Industry) awards for best all-around performer, best female vocalist, best singer-songwriter, and best album “3 AM Epipheny” (2007). Ayers has also recorded backup vocals for an early Tyrone Vaughn (nephew of Stevie Ray) CD.

Ayers continues to be a prolific blues vocalist with a dedicated fan base and music appreciation following that rewards her with ongoing nominations and awards for her performances.

James Supra/Sarah Ayers Band will take the stage from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO