Bull Run Restaurant
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Wednesday & Thursday: 4PM - 9PM
Friday & Saturday: 4PM - 10PM
SUNDAY BRUNCH 10AM - 2PM
Sunday Dinner 2PM - 8PM
Holiday hours vary * Closed Sun. July 4
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Information Wheelchair patrons are most easily accommodated in the Sawtelle Room at designated table #21. Please enter through our front entrance on Route 2A for ramp access.

Doors open 2 hours prior to performance time to give patrons time to eat & drink. Full service cocktails & dinner are available right in the same room with your show. Your ticket confirmation is your reservation.
Cocktails & dessert are available during the performance as well. Please advise your server of any allergies or accommodations in your diet.

Please be aware of scammers claiming to have tickets for sale. Only tickets purchased through Bull Run are valid.

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Dinner:

Wednesday through Sunday from 4pm
Sunday Brunch:
10am - 2pm
Sunday Dinner:
2:30pm - 8pm

215 Great Rd., Rt. 2A
Shirley, MA 01464
Front Desk:  978-425-4311

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Vanessa Collier

Vanessa Collier
2-3-2024

2019 & 2020 Blues Music Award Winner for “Instrumentalist of the Year - Horn”
7-TIME BLUES MUSIC AWARD NOMINEE

“There’s a young lady, Vanessa Collier, came onstage with me, I forget where I was, but she’s playing an alto saxophone, and man, she was amazing.”

Those are the words of Buddy Guy in a recent issue of American Blues Scene, describing an impromptu performance with Vanessa Collier on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. If you haven’t been fortunate enough to meet Vanessa and witness one of her head-turning, fiery, and passionate performances, you should definitely make sure you do. As a master musician and multi-instrumentalist, Vanessa Collier, weaves funk, soul, rock, and blues into every powerful performance and she is downright impressive. With soulful vocals, searing saxophone and witty songwriting, Vanessa is blazing a trail, racking up an impressive arsenal of honors and has already singled herself out as an artist of distinction that we would all do well to watch.

In a very short time she has racked up two Blues Music Awards for “Horn Player of the Year” and a third BMA for “Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year,” eight Blues Music Award Nominations (BMAs), a Blues Blast Award nomination, the Jammingest Pro Award bestowed by the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, First Place for lyrics in the International Songwriting Competition and Best of 2014 Blues Breaker on Dan Aykroyd’s BluesMobile. A 2013 graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, she’s toured nationally and internationally, released four critically acclaimed albums (2014’s Heart, Soul & Saxophone, 2017’s Meeting My Shadow, and 2018’s Honey Up, 2020’s Heart On The Line. Honey Up spent 9 weeks atop the Billboard Blues Album Charts Top 15, 3 months on the Living Blues Charts at #10 and #23, and continues to be spun on Sirius XM’s B.B. King’s Bluesville radio station!

These days, Collier spends much of her time on the road, performing at some of the most prestigious music festivals in the world. In the words of the Blues Foundation, Vanessa “blew the doors off the Blues Music Awards!” At the Ottawa Blues Festival she earned two front page newspaper photos and rave reviews after her foot stomping debut there.On the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise she earned the Jammingest Pro Award and was a featured artist with Tommy Castro’s Blues Review. At the Briggs Farm Festival she was the “most popular Briggs Farm act in 2017” (Elmore Magazine), and the list goes on and on.
Vanessa Collier says she’s happy performing on stages across the world, hoping to make a difference with fans and followers along the way. “I am driven to do this because I find it a total form of expression and connection,” she explains. “I love connecting with an audience and feeling their energy and I hope to inspire people to follow their dreams and passions, to find what brings them joy, and then to pursue it doggedly.”

“A young singer with a fierce, compelling voice, she also played a mean saxophone and had the charisma to get the crowd in the palm of her hand for a full hour.” - Lynn Saxburg, Ottawa Sun

“This bluesy singing sax player knows how to bring the slinking funk to her captivating, award winning sound that has echoes in young Bonnie Raitt/Maria Muldaur vocal sounds. Impressing everyone right out of the gate… Killer stuff on every level, this sounds like one of the reasons you first became a music fan.” - Midwest Record

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