David Sturdevant's Medicine Ball Band at The Sound Room

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David Sturdevant started the Medicine Ball Band in 1971, playing on the street at San Francisco's Union Square. Originally performing old time jazz, the band has evolved and transformed over the years and included legends such as Randy Jackson, Richard Howell and James Brown bandleader- saxman PeeWee Ellis. As a bandleader, guitarist-vocalist Sturdevant has taken versions of Medicine Ball all over the world and is highly regarded for his diatonic and chromatic harmonica work. He is also music director at Plymouth Church of Jazz & Justice in Oakland. The Medicine Ball Band is renowned for creating big-fun music while crossing genres.