Schedule
Friday, September 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM (Juke Joint - blues stage)
Saturday, September 13, 2025 from 8:50 AM - 9:30 AM (Blisters & Brews 5k)
Sunday, September 14, 2025 from 5:30 - 6:30 PM (Blues Stage)
Hill County blues guitarist and bassist, Trenton Ayers is the son of Earl “Little Joe” Ayers, an accomplished bassist who played in Junior Kimbrough’s band. Little Joe gave his son a bit of advice about becoming a professional musician. Don’t do it, he said. Good thing Trenton didn’t listen.
While primarily a purveyor of the blues, Trenton’s instincts take him into many genres, a tip of the hat to his mother, who loved ragtime, Hill Country blues and easy listening. All music, Trenton says, can be traced to the blues and that is the thread that is stitched in every tune he selects for his performances. He calls himself a tone chaser and it is thepursuit that defines his music.” People like to keep me in the blues, but I’m an all-over man,” he says.
He's got a Best Blues album Grammy nomination under his belt for his work as part of The Cedric Burnside Project on their 2015 album, Descendents of Hill Country. Prior to that he toured with his own band, Electric Mudd. The future is wide open for this musical shape shifter. Bring it, Trenton!