BLUE
BEARD
****BLUE BEARD’S BIG BAND BASH, Feb 28th, 2026***
Special one-night-only concert featuring the full Blue Beard Band lineup with musicians from México, USA and Germany.
Elihú Catalán “Blue Beard” is a professional musician from Mexico City. He is a guitarist, harmonica player, singer, composer and harmonica teacher.
He is one of the most prominent and active harmonica players in Mexico who has developed his own style as a harmonica player, which is energetic and powerful influenced by genres such as Rock, Blues, Funk, Swing and Manouche Jazz.
He has played in the United States and Canada with his band Radio Blues in 2018 and 2022.
He also performed as a soloist at the CAROLINA HARP FEST harmonica convention in 2021 and 2023 in North Carolina.
Radio Blues has been his group since 2003, a band whose starting point is Blues and Rock, merging it with other genres of the same root to create their own sound. From the year 2010 they incorporate the harmonica to their alignment and since then it has been the main instrument of the group and it is what has contributed to achieve their original and own style.
In addition to Radio Blues, he has two other projects: Bluebeard Ensemble, which is a project that combines the harmonica with a trio of strings (cello, viola and violin); and Harmonica and Guitar Duet.
Among his outstanding compositions are: Blues para Django, Infinito, Crazy Swing, Nuevos Aires, Metamorfosis y Mr. Cotton, composed in collaboration with Edgar Ordoñez (bassist of Radio Blu
He has alternated and played in the US with well-respected harmonica players, such as:
Rick Estrin, Lee Oskar, Will Wilde, Roly Platt, Charlie Barath, Todd Parrot, Jerry Fierro, Sandy Weterman, Gary Green, Richard Sleight, Paul Messinger, among others.
And in Mexico he has alternated with Billy Branch, Melvin Taylor, Canned Heat, Carlos Johnson, Steve James, Carey Bell, and Rod Piazza.