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Blues musicians Miguel Primero and Steve Arvey play at Jiggs Landing April 24.
Photo by Lesley DwyerPapa Kev Friedman, Gigi Wiegman and Dan McAuley are regulars at Steve Arvey shows. Wiegman sells his merchandise.
Photo by Lesley DwyerBlues musician Steve Arvey plays a guitar made from a canoe paddle.
Photo by Lesley DwyerEast County's Terry Williams and Mick Lutz are at Jiggs Landings to hear Steve Arvey play. Lutz makes cigar box guitars.
Photo by Lesley DwyerSteve Arvey sells cigar box guitars. He started the Sarasota Cigar Box Guitar Festival.
Photo by Lesley DwyerTara's Moe and Lisa Pyeatt frequent Jiggs Landing so much that Moe does work around the place now. He's also wearing one of Steve Arvey's shirts.
Photo by Lesley DwyerSarasota's Robert Lee checks out the merch.
Photo by Lesley DwyerA crowd gathers for live music at Jiggs Landing April 24.
Photo by Lesley DwyerBraden Woods' Sue and Ron Clark enjoy the music with Bradenton's Steve Moore.
Photo by Lesley DwyerSteve Arvey plays a cigar box guitar.
Photo by Lesley DwyerMiguel Primero plays the harmonica.
Photo by Lesley DwyerJiggs Landing Outpost offers live music every night of the week through May, but Thursday nights are reserved for blues fans.
Steve Arvey, a blues musician from Chicago, plays the blues on every type of guitar imaginable. Detroit’s Miguel Primero backs him up on the harmonica.
Arvey started the Sarasota Cigar Box Guitar Festival 11 years ago and has hosted others around the world. Arvey will be on tour in Europe this summer.
His merchandiser Gigi Wiegman was selling shirts and cigar box guitars at the show.
She said a guitar can be made out of pretty much anything from canoe paddles, like the guitar Arvey was playing on stage at the time, to brooms and bedpans.
Mick Lutz was in the crowd. He learned to make cigar box guitars during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lutz spent 39 years working for Manatee County in the Public Works department. Now retired, he started his own business called Mick’s Licks.
He said a cereal box is the ideal size, but as long as it’s not too big or too tiny, he can turn a jewelry box or any other kind of box into a guitar.
Since paddles make great guitars, too, Lutz plans to experiment with shovels next.
