7x-Blues Music Award-Winner RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS are 2x-“Blues Band of the Year” Award-Winners.
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats have 8 Blues Music Award Nominations for “Blues Band of the Year” (2010-2011, 2013-2016, 2018, 2021) & Estrin has 8 Blues Music Award Nominations for “B.B. King Entertainer of the Year” – the most prestigious blues music award.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE raves, “Estrin is an amazing harmonica player, a soulful lead vocalist and a brilliant original songwriter. Estrin’s harmonica sings alongside blues tunes that entertain audiences like no other in the genre.”
BILLBOARD declares, “Fabulous, remarkable original material.”
LIVING BLUES claims, “Infectious, captivating, powerful blues…”
DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE states, “Rick Estrin sings and writes songs like the brightest wiseguy in all bluesland and blows harmonica as if he learned at the knee of Little Walter.”
The band includes: Rick Estrin (Harmonica, Vocals); Kid Andersen (Guitar); Lorenzo Farrell (Organ, Piano); Derrick D’Mar Martin (Drums).