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Strongman on stage at Centre for Performing Arts Steve Strongman has had quite a year. On the heels of winning several national music awards and opening for musical legend B.B. King in October, Strongman will take the stage at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy St., tomorrow (Thursday) at 8 p.m. The 40-year-old musician endeared himself to the national music scene in Regina, Sask., when he topped an all-star eld of nominees to win the Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year in March. "That was pretty amazing," Strongman said. "I went in thinking that, win or lose, just go and enjoy it. To actually come home a winner was amazing." Strongman topped close friends Jack de Keyzer, Colin James, Steve Hill and Shakura S'Aida to win his rst Juno, a mark of success in the Canadian music industry. Two months earlier, Strongman brought home three honours from the Canadian Maple Blues Awards in Toronto, winning Recording of the Year, Guitar Player of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. The latter meant the most to Strongman, he said. "That one was special to me. To be considered a good songwriter was always important to me." In mid-October, Strongman was afforded the opportunity to open for the legendary B.B. King 23 | Wednesday, November 6, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com That was on my bucket list (opening for B.B. King). People sometimes say you don't want to meet your heroes because they might not be exactly what you had hoped. That certainly wasn't the case here. Steve Strongman in front of friends and family in his hometown of Kitchener, Ont. "That was on my bucket list," he said. "People sometimes say you don't want to meet your heroes because they might not be exactly what you had hoped. That certainly wasn't the case here." Strongman joked after everything that he has experienced in 2013, he should probably go out and purchase a lottery ticket. During his more than two-decade career, Strongman has also served as the opening act for Joe Cocker and Buddy Guy. He says it's all a bit surreal for the man who once bbed about his age to a bar owner in Kitchener so he could perform prior to his 19th birthday. A lifelong music fan, Strongman cultivated his love of the blues by listening to bands such Steve Strongman will be on stage at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts Thursday. The Kitchener, Ontario-born musician opened for B.B. King in October in his hometown. | photo courtesy Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts as Led Zeppelin. "I started digging a little deeper into them and where they got their sounds," he said. "I got into the stuff they loved and built my sound off of that." 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