THE Deep Blues Club goes deeper blues by hosting three shows this month rather than the usual one, as part of York Live Music Festival.

New York bluesman Jonathan Kalb plays on Bank Holiday Monday, fellow Deep Blues debutant Adrian Byron Burns on May 15, and club favourite Errol Linton on May 22, all at the Post Office Club in Marygate, York.

"This is our first attempt at doing this," says club co-promoter Tony Clarke. "Depending on how successful the month is for us, and how tired we are by the end of it, it could become at least an annual event."

In the first concert, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Jonathan Kalb performs in York for the first time in a long career that has taken him from San Francisco's streets, through Harlem's gospel churches, to the biggest clubs in the United States.

Adrian Byron Burns is "an act the Deep Blues Club has been trying to fit in for some time". He is a seasoned fixture on the UK blues circuit, having first performed in the USA as star-struck support for Neil Young in the late 1960s.

Errol Linton will be making a fourth visit to Deep Blues land. Linton taught himself the harmonica, inspired by listening to Sonny Boy Williamson records. He formed Blues Vibe with a fellow blues and reggae enthusiast, drummer Sam Kelly, and has since recorded such albums as Vibin It and his latest, Roots Stew. He has featured too on the Beyond Mississippi blues compilation, alongside Muddy Waters and Bob Dylan.

Doors open at 8pm for each show, and admission to Kalb's show is £4.50, concessions and CIU members £3.50; Burns, £4, £3; Linton, £7, £6.

Updated: 10:47 Friday, May 02, 2003