Blues & Brews Series: Paul Thorn

Dive into the heart of the blues!

Starting January 2025, the Orange Blossom Opry introduces the OBO Blues & Brews Series—a listening room experience where national blues legends take the stage. Enjoy intimate performances with a cold beer or a glass of wine in hand. Where the blues come alive!

Paul Thorn with special guest Beth McKee
Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Time: 7:00pm
Cost: $51 - $45 - $40 - $36

Paul Thorn
Paul Thorn has created an innovative and impressive career, pleasing crowds with his muscular brand of roots music—bluesy, rocking and thoroughly Southern American, yet also speaking universal truths. Among those who value originality, inspiration, eccentricity and character—as well as talent that hovers somewhere on the outskirts of genius, the story of Paul Thorn is already familiar. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, raised among the same spirits (and some of the actual people) who nurtured the young Elvis generations before, Paul Thorn has rambled down back roads and jumped out of airplanes, worked for years in a furniture factory, battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Duran on national television, performed on stages with Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Sting, and John Prine among many others, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet fully accessible music of our time. He’s also appeared on major television shows, received numerous National Public Radio features and charted multiple times on the Billboard Top 100 and Americana Radio Charts. His album Never Too Late To Callreleases on Aug. 6th via Thirty Tigers.

Beth McKee
Remembering the community of supportive New Orleans musicians, in 2010, Beth decided such an alliance of artists was needed in Orlando and beyond. She wanted to connect with and support her female peers and to include community service as part of the group's mission. Thus was born the grassroots movement she dubbed Swamp Sistas. These days, as the founding principal of the non-profit Swamp Sistas La La Foundation, Beth mobilizes an ever-growing coalition of more than 2,800 creative women of all ages and genres, along with friends and supporters of all genders. In 2022, the Swamp Sistas launched an initiative to be more inclusive and diverse, actively seeking more POC and LGBTQ artists to join the collective. Artistically, they collaborate, mentor, and perform. Philanthropically, they organize to raise money and awareness for targeted local causes like childhood hunger and organizations like Second Harvest Food Bank.