Longtime bluesman Roy Carter has played so many Handy Fests he can’t say how many.
But the saxophonist for Evansville’s Blues 4U does know he and bandmates started playing at the first event in 1991—when it was a local event with local people playing music in Central Park—and they haven’t let up since.
“It’s just been great to come back every year,” says Carter, 78. “And see it grow.”
Blues 4U, the longest-running act in Handy Fest history is back at it again, taking the stage Friday, June 16, at 12 noon.
Carter, a working musician his entire adult life, which has taken him on tours around the region and country, grew up in Henderson County, in Spottsville.
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