Welcome to the Blues Handle!

This four-piece band of well-seasoned St. Louis urban blues musicians is eager to bring down the house at every club they encounter! 

Matt Morrell and Joe Gerst formed the Blues Handle Band in 1990.  This band can be seen at a variety of venues from nightclubs to Blues Festivals throughout the Midwest.

The Blues Handle band has performed at a wide variety of venues:

• K-SHE 95 Blue Monday Radio Show

• Soulard Mardi Gras Annually - 1994-2002

• St. Louis Blues Heritage Festival/Big Muddy Blues Festival 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003

• Soulard Bastille Day

• Bellevue Blues Festival, featured band

• Mid-Coast Mania, viewing audience of 2.2 million

• Harp Attack - St. Louis 1996, 1998, 2002

• Mid Mississippi Muddy Waters Blues Bash, Quincy IL 1998

• WSIE 88.7 Live Broadcasts

• Opening act for Chuck Berry and Bobby Rush 1999

• St. Charles Blues Festival 2003

Most recently performing one of their original hits "She's So Fine" on the television show Mid-Coast Mania, seen on KPLR in St. Louis.  Blues Handle can be seen throughout the St. Louis region weekly and look forward to their CD release in 2005.