Show your support for Seattle's Iconic Blues Club! Read on for the full story!

The Orbiters will be swinging the blues this Friday at Seattle's “Home of the Blues”- The Highway 99 Blues Club! With cool juke joint decor, a big wood dance floor, cajun influenced menu, and plenty of seating, the Highway 99 Blues Club is the finest club in the Northwest. It's been a consistent winner of the Washington Blues Society "Best of the Blues" award for best club, and is nationally recognized as THE blues club in Seattle.

Brian and the Orbiters have played the Highway 99 Blues Club since they opened, and it has been a superb experience every step of the way. Sadly, the building's new owners have raised the rent by over 300% (!!!) and the club is projected to close at the current location at the end of this year. The club owners and staff are wonderful people who have dedicated years of their lives to furthering Seattle’s blues scene, and they are searching for a potential new location.

Columnist Danny Westneat wrote an excellent Seattle Times front page feature article about the situation facing the club specifically, and also how the situation serves as an example of the broader pressures impacting Seattle’s music scene and small businesses. It features interview comments from club founder and co-owner Steve Sarkowski, and co-owner Ed Maloney. Here’s a link to this excellent article: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/real-estate-gold-rush-has-club-by-viaduct-singing-the-blues/

Please show your support for the club to continue going forward, and this Friday take in a night of stellar blues from Brian Lee & the Orbiters! We'll be playing lots of great dance tunes, so bring your dancing shoes! Located on Seattle's waterfront, right across from the Aquarium, beneath the Highway 99 Viaduct. This will be a very special night, so come on out! For more on The Highway 99 Blues Club and for advance ticket orders, see: http://www.highwayninetynine.com