The South Sound Blues Association returns to the Spanish Ballroom for their annual Holiday Party, featuring the Lloyd Jones Band.

Portland-based blues and roots artist Lloyd Jones has recorded six critically acclaimed albums, toured internationally, and racked up dozens of major awards. He’s forged a 30-plus-year career as an impassioned singer and fierce guitar slinger, a clever and soulful songwriter, bandleader, and record producer. He’s been a featured performer on six of Delbert McClinton’s blues cruises and is a regular fixture at the Portland Waterfront Blues Festival. Many blues artists have recorded his songs, including Gatemouth Brown, Joe Louis Walker and Coco Montoya, and he’s toured and shared stages with musical legends such as Big Mama Thornton, B.B. King, Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, Dr. John, Taj Mahal and many more.

His newest recording, “Tennessee Run,” recorded in Nashville, features 14 original songs. It’s garnered rave reviews and received the Cascade Blues Association’s Muddy Award for National Album of the Year. Glide Magazine wrote, “Jones and band bring unrelenting energy and contagious, infectious hooks and groves that make it impossible to sit still... A “must-have” for lovers of high powered, horn-fueled rowdy roadhouse fare.”

For this performance at the 2024 SSBA Holiday Party, Lloyd is bringing his full six-piece band, including a horn section. It promises to be a rocking, high-energy show that will keep the dance floor packed all night.