Blues Beat: Black-Eyed & Blues Fest returns this weekend
Domenic Forcella
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Neal & The Vipers are playing the Black-Eyed & Blues Fest on Saturday.Domenic Forcella / Contributed photo
The blues scene kicks into high gear as the free Black-Eyed & Blues Fest returns to Hartford’s Bushnell Park on Saturday and Sunday.
The Mighty Soul Drivers start things off Saturday. They bring the classic soul sounds of Memphis, Muscle Shoals and points South to the hills of New England. The Mighty Soul Drivers take their inspiration from the giants of Southern soul and combine that with contemporary tunes. The band won the 2015 Connecticut Blues Society Blues Challenge and went on to represent the state at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
Family, friends want answers after two teen girls died in Northwest Miami-Dade crash
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The full circumstances of the tragedy are still under investigation.
Meanwhile, a memorial grows daily for two teens who died in the crash the night before Valentine’s Day.
Jennifer Ospina and other loved ones gathered Wednesday night at the spot where her daughter and her friend tragically lost their lives.
“She was always happy, never sad,” Ospina said of her daughter, Emily Luna. “My daughter died literally instantly from the impact.”
Luna, 14, and Valery Leah Santos, 16, died Saturday night in a violent crash along Northwest 79th Street.