Luke Winslow-King, the 2015 New Orleans Blues Artist of the Year, will perform at the Treehouse Café in Lynwood at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 for a special one-night-only, 21-and-older concert.

Tickets, $15 each, are on sale at www.treehousebainbridge.com.

Winslow-King never expected to win the New Orleans Blues Artist of the Year award. He only moved there after his tour bus (OK, it was his car full of instruments) broke down and left him stranded.

He’d gone to art school in his hometown of Cadillac, Michigan, and studied music theory. He always had a fascination with all kinds of music, from classical composition to jazz and even won a scholarship to study abroad. But gigging the mean streets of the French Quarter was his real schoolin’, and it paid off.

The budding bluesman learned gospel and jazz standards accompanying John Boutté, picked up bottleneck slide guitar watching blues maestro Roberto Luti, performed in John Sinclair’s Blues Scholars and immersed himself in staples of the traditional jazz songbook while playing with Ben Polcer and The Loose Marbles Jazz Band. During this time he was also a member of Meschiya Lake’s Little Big Horns and is featured on her album “Lucky Devil.”

By 2013 he was nominated as best male performer by Offbeat Magazine. In 2015 he won Gambit Magazine’s New Orleans Blues Artist of the Year award.

He is a guitarist, singer, composer and lyricist known for his slide guitar work and fascination with antebellum blues and jazz. His music is an eclectic mix of delta-folk, ragtime, rock-and-roll and even classical composition, traditional and original songs. He has toured extensively and shared stages with  the likes of Jack White, Pokey Lafarge, Taj Mahal, Chris Thile and the Rebirth Brass Band.