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Chris Daniels & The Kings featuring Freddi Gowdy are celebrating their 40th year with live performances over the summer, playing songs from their brand new album ‘40: Blues with Horns Volume II’, and BLUES WITH HORNS Volume I - their 19th and 20th Kings albums and their fourth with Freddi Gowdy of the Freddi Henchi Band. who joined in December 2010. Freddi joined Chris as an inductee into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame in 2019!! 

Doing more than 100 dates per year touring over two continents, Daniels and his band have been invited to appear in such diverse places as The Down Home Blues Festival in South Carolina, The Bob Hope Chrysler Desert Classic, The Curacao Swing Festival (South America), and all over Europe. Chris was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall Of Fame in 2013 with Judy Collins and the KINGS have been the backup band for Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John Oates, Bonnie Raitt, The Coasters, The Drifters, Sonny Landreth, Al Kooper, David Bromberg, Sam Bush, John Cowan and Bo Diddly, and also appeared with The Lumineers, Uncle Kracker, Blues Traveler, The Neville Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, The Pretenders and Toto,…. and the list goes on. 

The band has also headlined some major international festivals, including ParPop and Ribs & Blues Festival in The Netherlands, Marktrock, Berchem Blues, and the Lokeren festival in Belgium and they’ve played venues from The Roxy in LA to The Bottom Line in New York, the Mission Ballroom in Denver to Paradiso in Amsterdam.

Die-hard fans from Italy to Holland rocked with this remarkable band including appearances on major TV shows and channels across the world, including HDnet all High-definition TV, VH-1, TNN, Much Music/Canada, Nippon TV/Japan, Crooked River Grove in Cleveland, KUSA in Denver, and on Onhe Filter, AVRO, KAVRO, Paris MTV, and Brussels 1 in Europe, and on Swing TV in Buenos Ares, Argentina.