Joe Keyes & The Late Bloomer Band - presented by The New Haven Sanity Lounge Series

The legendary New Haven Lounge Music Series returns to Guilford Hall Brewery, bringing the soul of Baltimore back to life! Get ready for nights filled with smooth jazz riffs, funky grooves, and soulful blues – all paired perfectly with our European – Crafted Brews.

Joe Keyes will be the first to tell you that he is a late bloomer. A lifelong musician who got his start DJing in middle school, it wasn’t until 2009, as he was approaching his 50s, that Keyes found his band, and his true sound. The Freehold, NJ, native formed Joe Keyes & The Late Bloomer Band around an ensemble of young musicians equally adept at playing the funk, R&B, soul, rock and jazz flavors Keyes throws at them.

Equal parts front man, poet, and conductor, Keyes draws on the influences of Miles Davis, Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra, and early Parliament-Funkadelic when bands were led by…