Slide guitar master Henry Cooper will be featured at Sunday’s (Fathers Day) Blues Vespers at Immanuel Presbyterian Church at 5 p.m.

Joining Henry is Bill Rhoades, the “Northwest’s Master of the Blues.”

Blues Vespers is a Washington Blues Society award winning monthly event at Immanuel Presbyterian Church featuring blues music, poetry and a brief reflection.

There is no cost but a collection is taken.

Immanuel is at 901 N J Street in Tacoma.

There’s plenty of free jazz this weekend at two Tacoma churches. Jazz Live at Marine View features 23-year-old crooner Danny Quintero, while the Immanuel Presbyterian Blues Vespers this months features blues artist Bill Sims Jr.

Danny Quintero is becoming known for a vocal talent that gets him compared to Frank Sinatra. Says John Hanford of the Fabulous Wailers: “That Danny possesses a great set of pipes is obvious; what strikes one on first hearing is the sheer quality of the voice mature and burnished sonority that belies his age. There is also the confident sense of swing, and …

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