Pat Grover's Medicine Chest

If you are, or have ever been a gig goer at the Queens Hall Narberth, or Tenby Blues Festival, you might have come across Pat Grover’s name as the leader or a player in a number of different bands. Kelvin and the Absolute Zero’s. The Blue Zeros, The Hawk’s, have all been vehicles for Pat Grover’s talents as a singing guitarist, a drummer, or a blues harp player.  Pat is currently coping with cancer by herbal and other methods not NHS funded, so this gig is to help with the costs of special treatment. Some of the best blues and RnB players in the country have come together to pay tribute to his lifetime in music. So many of the local musicians have offered their talents, it may not be possible to fit them all in on night. Pat’s current band (The Hawks), with Narberth based Davey Jones on guitar and Morris May’s The Mean Mistreaters, will be there to support many of the musicians he has worked with over a lifetime in music. Among the special guests who have agreed to come and perform will be the phenomenal guitarist Todd Sharpeville, who has just returned from a tour in Russia, and star harp player Giles Robson "Britain's Harmonica Hero" Classic Rock Blues Magazine. Pat Grover is a real British bluesman, who arrived on the London scene from Newcastle way back in 1969, he appeared with Stackhouse Blues Band on The Mike Raven Show and The Alexis Korner Show, both forerunners to the Paul Jones Show on BBC Radio. He then met up with the ‘South London Delta’ bluesers, Bob Hall, Bob Brunning, Dave and Jo Ann Kelly, John Dummer, and joined the Brunning Sunflower Blues Band.  Featured on the CD ‘A History of UK Blues and R&B 1955 – 2001’, Pat has not only played in such historical venues as Studio 51, The Marquee Club and The 100 Club but has also toured and gigged with Blues Legends Lightnin’ Slim, Whispering Smith, J. B. Hutto & The Hawks, Eddie ‘Guitar’ Burns, Gene ’Mighty Flea’ Connors, Snooky Prior, Doctor Ross, Eddie Taylor, Boogie Woogie Red, Sunnyland Slim, Champion Jack Dupree and Arthur Crudup, and can be heard on record with Eddie Burns, the Doctor and J.B. Longstanding guitarist with the Johnny Mars Band, he toured Europe in the early ‘70s and during 1980 – 82 toured and recorded on Appaloosa Records with both blues maestro Gordon Smith and Helen Watson. His current band, Pat Grover & The Hawks, have been together since 2008.Paul Lewis of Blueprint Magazine said of him “Any budding musicians out there who would like to see how good British Blues can be played when it’s played right, I’m sure P.G. could give you a few tips (ouch).”