Mikey Junior brings his harmonica home to Sellersville Theater on Nov. 28

The Bucks County bluesman headlines the 325-seat room in the old 1894 stable the Saturday after Thanksgiving, with Gypsy Joe Alves & The Groove Prophets on the bill.

The Saturday after Thanksgiving is the night the leftovers run out and everybody in the house wants to get out of it. This year in upper Bucks County, there is a good answer: a harmonica, an amp turned up just past polite, and 325 seats close enough to feel it.

Mikey Junior plays Sellersville Theater on Saturday, Nov. 28. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Gypsy Joe Alves & The Groove Prophets are on the bill with him. The date was announced Oct. 23, and tickets are on sale now through the theater's event page. In a room this size, the good seats will not wait for December.

For anyone who has not caught him yet, Mikey Junior is a local in the truest sense. He was born Andrew Michael Hudak in Trenton and now lives in Bucks County, and he started learning harmonica at 16 from his father, according to a profile at Midbrow. That same piece casts him as a kind of harmonica historian, someone who plays the old music with one eye on where it came from.

You can hear that in the records. His album *Traveling South* came out on VizzTone, as Blues Matters noted in its review. More recently he cut a tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson for 8th Train Records, and the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation praised it in 2025 for staying true to Sonny Boy's music while letting his own flair through now and then. That is a hard balance in the blues, where a tribute can easily slide into a museum piece. The reviews suggest he walks it.

Live, the pitch is simpler. Coverage of his band leans on words like electrifying, and on his showmanship and the visceral lyrics he brings to the stage. Expect harmonica blues played loud by someone who clearly enjoys being in front of a crowd, with a few old songs that sound newer than you remember.

The room helps. Sellersville Theater's stage sits in a restored horse stable built in 1894, which the venue's owners joined back up with the neighboring Washington House and renovated into a live performance space, according to the theater's own history. The building spent decades as a movie house; Cinema Treasures records it opening as the Selvil Theater in June 1950 and closing as a first-run cinema in May 2001 before it came back as a live music room. At 325 seats it is small enough that a harp player does not need to fill an arena to fill the place, and close enough that you will see every bend of the note.

It is also a room that already knows Mikey Junior. The theater has hosted a Blues & Brews night drafted by him, which tells you something about how the house sees him: less a booking than a regular.

For Lehigh Valley readers, this is the kind of show worth the short drive south: a hometown player in a hometown room, on a night when nobody has anywhere to be in the morning.

If you have spent the holiday hearing the same family stories again, spend Saturday hearing a few old ones told better. Get the tickets now, and bring the cousin who still thinks the blues is something that happened a long time ago.

Sources: Sellersville Theater: Mikey Junior (st94.com); Harmonica Howler Harmonizes Past And Present (Midbrow) (midbrow.org); MIKEY JUNIOR Travelling South (Blues Matters) (bluesmatters.com); Mikey Junior's tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson (JSJBF) (jsjbf.org); Sellersville Theater history (st94.com); Sellersville Theater (Cinema Treasures) (cinematreasures.org); Sellersville Theater: Blues & Brews drafted by Mikey Junior (st94.com); An Exclusive Interview with Mikey Junior (Making A Scene) (makingascene.org)