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$15 ticket in advance / $20 day of show. 
The Chris Bergson Band featuring Ellis Hooks returns to The Bitter End performing music from their latest album, Comforts of Home (2 Shirts / CRS) which garnered a Four Star review in MOJO and was named one of Soul Bag magazine’s Best Albums of 2024. 

Glide Magazine writes that "Bergson and Hooks have become a modern-day blues-infused Sam and Dave." Blues Magazine (NL) says “The music of Chris Bergson and Ellis Hooks is genuine Delta soul blues...The soulful voice of Hooks is reminiscent of the great soul men like Sam Cooke and Otis [Redding] and together with Chris, he turns it into a true party.” 

Chris Bergson - guitar, vocals 

Ellis Hooks - vocals
Moses Patrou - organ, vocals
Matt Clohesy - bass 

Diego Voglino - drums, vocals

"Four Stars...As elegant and affecting as ever."  - MOJO

“Bergson's guitar work is a masterclass in subtlety and sophistication."  

- Blues Matters (UK) 

“The music sits right at the intersection of blues and soul...This is Bergson’s most well-crafted, fully realized album to date."
- Rock and Blues Muse

Chris Bergson is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, singer and songwriter. “Chris Bergson plays the kind of guitar you can build a house on – it’s B.B. meets Steve Cropper meets John Scofield.” (ROLL Magazine) Hailed as "the New York street poet with a blues soul" (MOJO) and "one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music," (All Music Guide) Bergson is best known as the leader of the Chris Bergson Band. Elmore Magazine calls the Chris Bergson Band “one of the most talented bands playing today...From blazing rock to funk to soul to Delta blues and all that's in between.” Bergson is also an accomplished sideman who has performed with luminaries across a wide range of genres including pop and rock (Norah Jones, Levon Helm), blues and soul (Hubert Sumlin, Bernard Purdie) and jazz (Annie Ross, Al Foster and Matt Wilson.) The Chris Bergson Band’s 2007 album Fall Changes, recorded at The Band drummer Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock, New York, was named MOJO Magazine’s Number One Blues Album of the Year in 2008. Bergson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as a Master Blues Artist in 2015. Bergson is an Associate Professor of guitar at Berklee College of Music in Boston and endorses D'Addario Strings and MONO cases.