Be prepared for an emotionally charged and highly entertaining performance from one of the world’s best blues artists. Danielle Nicole infused with guitarist Brandon Miller, drummer Go-Go Ray and the Inturns will make this a show for the ages, held in the cozy confines of the Belle.

Danielle in 2019 received a Grammy Nomination for best Contemporary Blues Album “Cry No More” and the same year won two Blues Music Awards, one for Contemporary Female Artist and Best Instrumentalist on Bass, an award she also won in 2012, 2017, 2021 and is nominated for that award again this year along with best contemporary blues artist.

She began music from the moment she was born. Musical influences from generations on both sides of her parent's families ensured that a love of playing music would continue to be passed among her and her siblings. Nicole began singing publicly with her parent's bands as a youth and took ahold of her full time in her early 20s. "My Father really loved the Blues. He'd go to all the true Blues guys that were around in KC, specifically Little Hatch. He'd played for Abb Locke (saxophonist for Muddy Waters) and we'd get brought along sometimes. The pure, raw emotion relayed through the Blues was what really drew me to it. Its history is the foundation of American Music and is THE one that must be respected and not buried as myth or legend."

As a founding member of the "Heavy Blues" sibling band Trampled Under Foot, she and her brothers took top honors at the International Blues Challenge in the US, propelling them into Canada, Scandinavia, Europe, the UK and were featured on several Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruises. It wasn't until 2015, when Nicole set out on her own with over a decade of touring experience with the release of "Wolf Den" recorded in New Orleans with Anders Osborne.

Nicole's "distinctive, inventive bass work"—which resulted in her not only becoming the first woman to ever be nominated in the category of Instrumentalist on Bass in The Blues Foundation's 2012 Blues Music Awards, but also the first woman to receive the honor—"is the product of years of intensive roadwork. Although she had no experience with the instrument when she became Trampled Under Foot's bassist, now Nicole can’t imagine life without it."