Peter Novelli

Peter is currently performing with:

  • Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips, the music of Louisiana
  • Peter Novelli & The BlueRide, where blues meets jazz on the funky edge
  • The Getters, a rock-blues-roots power trio 
  • Peter Novelli solo guitar, interpreting selected standards and originals

new tracks coming

Posted Fri, April 16, 2010

The BlueRide is working on new songs here in New Orleans with Millard Green on bass and Cameron Woods, drums...including a tribute to the late and legendary Gatemouth Brown, a thing called "The Gate" ... stay tuned..

Sammy Naquin back at Tropical Isle bayou

Posted Sat, June 26, 2010

Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips - we're back at newly rebuilt Tropical Isle Bayou at Toulouse/Bourbon - check the schedule - playing our own style of Louisiana music - sammynaquin.com

Northeast shows

Posted Mon, July 5, 2010

Friday July 30th I'll be at main stage Cortland NY with Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips...next day July 31 I'll be at Hickory Smoked Blues Festival in Owego NY w/ The Getters (blues-rock-roots) Sunday Aug 1 Sammy is at Oasis in Ithaca NY

Songs

Northeast shows

Posted Mon, July 5, 2010

Friday July 30th I'll be at main stage Cortland NY with Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips...next day July 31 I'll be at Hickory Smoked Blues Festival in Owego NY w/ The Getters (blues-rock-roots) Sunday Aug 1 Sammy is at Oasis in Ithaca NY

Sammy Naquin back at Tropical Isle bayou

Posted Sat, June 26, 2010

Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips - we're back at newly rebuilt Tropical Isle Bayou at Toulouse/Bourbon - check the schedule - playing our own style of Louisiana music - sammynaquin.com

Monday Jam at BMC

Posted Tue, June 15, 2010

check out a new blues jam at Balcony Music Club on Esplanade/Decatur, Monday nites 9:30, with Smoky Greenwell & Friends, I've been sitting in at this, some really great musicians there and all around a nice jam..

new tracks coming

Posted Fri, April 16, 2010

The BlueRide is working on new songs here in New Orleans with Millard Green on bass and Cameron Woods, drums...including a tribute to the late and legendary Gatemouth Brown, a thing called "The Gate" ... stay tuned..

Zydeco at LSU

Posted Thu, April 15, 2010

this Saturday we're at LSU in New Orleans, with Richard "Tricky Dick" Dixon on bass..Tricky has worked with Gatemouth Brown, Johnny Adams, Eddie Bo, Fats Domino, Walter "Wolfman" Washington..and he's even shared the stage with Stevie Wonder. It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to play with this bass legend.

OldPoint Bar New Orleans

Posted Thu, March 25, 2010

without a bassist an hour before the show last week, we found ourselves with two great ones. Richard "Tricky Dick" Dixon (who first played the Apollo in NYC in 1960 and is still going strong; worked with Fats Domino, Gatemouth Brown,Johnny Adams, Eddie Bo and many many others) and Jim Mitchell (formerly of L.A.) sat in too (Jim worked with Brian Lee and once shared stage with Buddy Guy). And Susanna played the rubboard with style, yes indeed!

St. Pete trip

Posted Tue, March 16, 2010

that was very cool playing w/ Sammy Naquin at Ferg's in St Pete, lots of dancers from the Crawfish Fest showed up and monster rhythm section Seth Rivet (bass, from Breaux Bridge LA) and Chris Fruge (drums, from LaFayette LA) did great work in more ways than one...and the Sun nite jam at Jerry and Lili's house was special -- we want to go back!!

Upcoming Shows

Date/Time Band Details
July 31, 2010 (Saturday)
noon to midnite
Peter Novelli w/ The Getters
Hickory Smoked Blues Festival
Owego, NY
Sun, Aug. 1, 2010
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Oasis Dance Club
Ithaca, NY
Sat, Aug. 7, 2010
1 - 5 PM
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Bayou Club
610 Bourbon St, New Orleans
Sun, Aug. 8, 2010
1 - 5 PM
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Bayou Club
610 Bourbon St, New Orleans
Tue, Aug. 24, 2010
6 - 10 PM
Peter Novelli & The BlueRide
Maxie's Oyster Bar
NY
Jan. 8 - 15, 2011
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips, special guest Al Berard
Cajun Zydeco Cruise, Caribbean

Past Shows

Date/Time Band Details
Fri, July 30, 2010
7 PM - 9 PM
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Cortland Summer Music Series
Main Street Stage, Cortland, NY
Sun, July 18, 2010
1-5 PM
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Tropical Isle Bayou
610 Bourbon St New Orleans
Sat, July 17, 2010
1-5 PM
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
w/ Sammy Naquin Band
TropicaL Isle Bayou, 610 Bourbon St, New Orleans
Sun, July 11, 2010
1-5 PM
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Tropical Isle Bayou
610 Bourbon St New Orleans
Sat, July 10, 2010
1-5 PM
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Tropical Isle Bayou
610 Bourbon St New Orleans
Sat, June 19, 2010
1-5 PM
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Tropical Isle Bayou
Bourbon St at Toulouse, New Orleans
Fri, June 18, 2010
1-5 PM
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Tropical Isle Bayou
Bourbon St / Toulouse, New Orleans
Sat, April 17, 2010
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Crawfish Boil LSU
1100 Florida Ave NEW ORLEANS
Thu, March 25, 2010
9pm - ??
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Old Point Bar
Algiers Point, New Orleans
Fri, March 19, 2010
8:00 - 10:30 PM dance lesson 7 PM
w/ Richard Naquin and Sammy Naquin
cajun dance at UTC Hall / Richard's nomination for 2010 CFMA award
11175 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge LA
Mar 13
10:30 pm TO 3 am
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Crawfish Festival AFTER HOURS DANCE PARTY at Ferg's
Ferg's, 1320 Central Ave, St Petersburg, FLORIDA
Mar 12
10:30 pm TO 3 am
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Crawfish Festival AFTER HOURS DANCE PARTY at Ferg's
1320 Central Ave St Petersburg FLORIDA
Fri, Feb. 26, 2010
7:30 pm to 11:30 pm
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Mardi Gras Party
Cook Conference Center, LSU Campus, Baton Rouge
Tue, Jan. 5, 2010
6-10pm
Peter Novelli & The BlueRide
Tuesday nite Shuck-n-jive at Maxie's Oyster Bar and Supper Club
Ithaca, NY
Sat, Oct. 24, 2009
20:00
Peter w/ The Getters
Lucky’s with 505 Blues
Cortland, New York
Sun, Oct. 18, 2009
6pm - midnight
w/ Sammy Naquin & the Zydeco Whips, featuring Al Berard
Klub 45 Room at Connolly's Pub
New York, NY
Sat, Oct. 17, 2009
7pm - 11pm
w/ Sammy Naquin and The Zydeco Whips, special guest Al Berard
Harmony House
Rochester, NY
Fri, Oct. 16, 2009
7:30 pm to 12:00 am
w/ Sammy Naquin and The Zydeco Whips, special guest Al Berard
TK Club
Philadelphia, PA
Thu, Oct. 15, 2009
8pm - 11pm
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips + Al Berard
Abilene's
Rochester, NY
Sun, Sept. 13, 2009
11am - 1pm
The Getters (Peter Novelli, Larry Ward, Dan MacLean)
Blues On The Bridge
Washington St Bridge, Binghamton, NY
Sept. 11, 12, 13, 2009
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Live at the 18th annual Bayou Boogie Festival
Grand Portage Lodge, MN
Sun, Sept. 6, 2009
16:00
Peter Novelli & The BlueRide
Americana Vineyards
Trumansburg - Interlaken, New York
Sat, July 25, 2009
Peter w/ The Getters
Hickory Smoked Blues Festival
The Hickories Park, Owego, NY
Mon, May 4, 2009
w/ Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips
Bayou Barn, New Orleans (Corporate Party)
April 30 and May 1, 2, 3
w/ The Bourbon Street Cajuns
New Orleans Jazz Festival
Tropical Isle Club

Guitarist Peter Novelli, now based in New Orleans, works in a range of styles and likes to absorb diverse musical influences.

Peter began study of violin at age 6, took up guitar at 13 after hearing a BB King record. The intensity, passion and raw emotional content of some of the blues masters (black and white, American and British) stuck in Peter’s ear and that is what drives him to this day. He likes to combine this feel with some of the harmonic ideas of jazz, and the relentless groove of zydeco, along with just about any cool and unusual style of music or rhythm that works for the project at hand.

Early influences, along with B.B., were George Barnes, Johnny Smith, Mike Bloomfield, early Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Freddie King, James Burton, Clarence White, Carl Perkins, T-Bone Walker, Roy Buchanan, Gatemouth Brown. Peter was also strongly influenced by some of the iconic jazz horn players.

Peter played in Syracuse, NY rock, blues and country bands. Peter frequented, gigged and jammed at the legendary and now-defunct Jabberwocky club (which hosted many icons from Townes Van Zandt to Gatemouth Brown to Bonnie Raitt to Buddy Guy to Albert Collins to Jackson Browne to James Brown!) Once, an early morning session had Peter jamming with "God"himself (whom Peter failed to recognize at first...Eric was near the end of Derek & The Dominos only tour). Several years ago after his band opened for Buckwheat Zydeco he began to absorb the zydeco and cajun influences, traveling to New Orleans and S.W. Louisiana, playing and jamming with some of the leaders in zydeco and cajun music including Roy Carrier, T. Broussard, Walter Mouton, Steve Riley, Lisa Trahan, Christine Balfa, Marc Savoy, etc. 

During this time Peter could also be spotted sitting in or jamming with artists as diverse as Barrence Whitfield (and The Savages), Whoopi (yeah, she can sing), guitarist-genius David Brown (Billy Joel, Simon and Garfunkel, McCartney, etc), blues harpist Kenny Dore (Maria Muldaur, Big Bill Morganfield).  Peter also played in a band that included one of his favorite bassists, the L.A. multi-instrumentalist Kalani (Keith Porter & The Itals, English Beat).

Several years ago Peter got a call to work with the Louisiana accordionist Sammy Naquin.  Sammy mixes cajun, zydeco, blues, New Orleans R&B and just about anything to create a hot musical "gumbo" with a strong dance groove. 

Peter currently makes his home in New Orleans and tours with Louisiana-based Sammy Naquin & The Zydeco Whips, sometimes with guest and fiddle-guitar virtuoso Al Berard (Grammy nominated: The Basin Brothers, LesTraiteurs, Sonny Landreth, etc). Peter fronts his blues-jazz-funk trio The BlueRide (based in New Orleans).  Peter  continues to play special gigs with New York-based The Getters, a blues-rock-roots power trio. He also performs on solo guitar, does session work, composes music and guests with various other bands and performers.

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at OldPoint Bar New Orleans w/ Chris Fruge (drums) and "Tricky Dick" Dixon, bass

w/ bass legend "Tricky Dick" Dixon (Fats Domino, Gatemouth, Johnny Adams etc at a gig in New Orleans

At Connelly's in Manhattan
(Photo credit: Ron J. Berard)
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The After Party, Crawfish Fest, St Pete

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Los Cerros is a beautiful, peaceful, quiet, shady, breezy neighborhood in the hills above Los Charamicos. 15 minute walk down a steep winding road and across highway Duarte to Sosua Beach, a 1000 meter crescent with palm trees and fabulous swimming and snorkeling. The house has spectacular views of ocean and sky, and sunsets can be stunning. Out over the ocean you can see Montagna de Isabella de Torres, one of the rugged peaks of the Cordillera Setentrional mountains. There are mahogany and palm trees, many species of birds, small harmless lizards (anoles and gekkos), cattle (vacas) or horses (caballos) grazing about the house. Nice neighbors, too.

A mile down the highway is the little town of Sosua, built in 1940s by European immigrants. To this day there are european-style cafes, bakeries and shops -- blended with and surrounded by the Dominican culture. Lots of dining, night life and dancing. Several miles east is the international windsurfing and kitesurfing destination of Cabarete.

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