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Concert at The Oaks of Clearwater – 420 Bay Avenue, Clearwater, FL – Memorial Day, Monday, May 30th, 2022 2 PM
Dumb Blind Luck had a great time at the last Concert for our friends at The Oaks! We love the people there and appreciate their rapt attention!!! One comment: "Your music really speaks to me." GD
Find out more »Clearwater, FL 33755 United States
Concert at The Oaks of Clearwater – 420 Bay Avenue, Clearwater, FL – Monday, July 11th, 2022 from 6-7 PM
Dumb Blind Luck totally enjoys playing Concerts for our friends at The Oaks! We love the people and appreciate enthusiastic response to our music!!! One comment: "Nobody plays violin like you." JM
Find out more »Clearwater, FL 33755 United States
Concert at The Oaks of Clearwater – 420 Bay Avenue, Clearwater, FL – Monday, July 11th, 2022 from 6-7 PM
Dumb Blind Luck is happy to put on an evening Concert for our friends at The Oaks, we love the people there and always have a great time!!! One comment: "You changed the face of jazz!!"
Find out more »Clearwater, FL 33755 United States
Concert at The Oaks of Clearwater – 420 Bay Avenue, Clearwater, FL – Monday, July 11th, 2022 from 6-7 PM
Dumb Blind Luck is delighted to put on an evening Concert for our friends at The Oaks. The folks there are lovely and always have a great time!!! One comment: "Your music really speaks to me." GD
Find out more »Clearwater, FL 33755 United States
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BIO

Our Dumb Blind Luck story starts in San Francisco…
All of us (with the exception of Mark), had been friends in San Francisco. Over the years we all played with different people around the Bay area but never formed into a band.
Cut to Clearwater, Florida. It’s now the 90’s. Cookie Leonard (vocals, violin, and keys) and Bob Forrest (vocals and guitar) had started playing together as a duo. Getting together to play songs for fun, appearing at local coffee houses, weddings, funerals, parties – you get it. Discovering that they were both good songwriters, they got busy and worked up a number of originals that became the foundation of DBL.
As luck would have it, it wasn’t long before Mike Alkema (bass and horns) also arrived in Clearwater from SF and became the third member playing trumpet and flugelhorn. We still needed a bass player. Cookie asked Michael to learn bass and he busted his chops and now holds down both horn and bass in his own inimitable style.
Mark Stevens (drums), originally from Michigan, was introduced to the band through a friend and fellow musician. Trouble was, we already had a drummer at the time. Mark persisted and eventually won us over to become the fourth member of the band.
Max Harvey (guitar and harp), our newest member, arrived from SF via Los Angeles. Cookie ran into him one day and asked him to sit in on one of the band’s rehearsals. We liked his guitar and harmonica playing so much we asked him to stay.
That’s our story in a nutshell. Just good friends creating a groove!
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