LAKEPORT, Calif. – Universally regarded as the Bay Area’s premier New Orleans R&B/boogie band, Macy Blackman and The Mighty Fines heat up the stage at the Soper Reese Theatre at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8.

Tickets are $25, $20 and $18, with reserved seating.

Made up of musicians who have all appeared with internationally known performers, this highly accomplished band will be playing several numbers from their latest CD release, “Shoorah Shoorah,” a tribute to the genius of the Soul Queen and King of New Orleans, Irma Thomas and Allen Toussaint.

This marks the sixth CD release for Blackman, who has accompanied Mac Rebennack (aka Dr. John) and backed up such national acts as The Coasters and The Drifters.

Joining Blackman is saxophonist Nancy Wright (John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Elvin Bishop), Ken “Snakebite” Jacobs (Neville Brothers, The Band, Temptations, Gatemouth Brown), bassist Bing Nathan (Lavay Smith’s Red Hot Skillet Lickers), and drummer Larry Vann (Martha Reeves, Elvin Bishop, Charles Brown, Buffy Saint-Marie).

Tickets are available at www.soperreesetheatre.com ; at the theater’s Box Office, 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, two hours before show time; and at The Travel Center, 825 S. Main St., Lakeport, Monday through Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The theater telephone is 707-263-0577; Travel Center phone is 707-263-3095.