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We're celebrating 21 Years as Blues Industry Leaders!
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21st Annual BLUES FESTIVAL GUIDE Magazine!
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• The print and digital versions of the magazine have a long shelf life and are read and re-read throughout the year.
• Tens of thousands of magazines are shipped free to festivals, music museums, music venues, blues societies, etc. to be distributed free to blues fans.
• Thousands more order through a paid subscription so that the magazine can be mailed directly to them.
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Photo Moments with the 20th Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Here's the Danielle Nicole Band at autograph night on the Oct 2022 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise on the Sea of Cortz in Mexico. Left to right is guitarist, vocalist Brandon Miller (and new hubby), Danielle, drummer Go-Go Ray, and keyboardist Damon Parker.
The multi-award winning dynamic soulful singer, bassist, songwriter Danielle Nicole was recently nominated for a 2023 BMA for Instrumentalist- Vocalist and Instrumentist-Bass.
Photo: Cari Navarro
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The Blues Foundation is official sponsor of the 20th Anniversary Blues Festival Guide!
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Vero Beach Blues Festival Feb 25-26
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 (VERO BEACH, FL) – The Vero Beach Blues Festival happens Feb 25-26, 2023 at the 40-acre Indian River County Fairgrounds, 7955 58th Ave Vero Beach, Florida. The festival features 10 bands.
Headlining Saturday night is Mr. Sipp "Mississippi Blues Child" and headlining Sunday evening is John Primer.
Along with Mr Sipp on Saturday, other highlights include Selwyn Birchwood, Annika Chambers and Paul DesLauriers, regional favorites The Blues Crusaders, the spicy New Orleans sounds of Joe “Survival” Caruso, and from Georgia, the grass-roots blues of Gitlo Lee opening.
On Sunday, along with John Primer, it’s JP Soars & The Red Hots, Gabe Stillman Band and the compelling intensity and agility of young Ben Flourney opening
Enjoy the huge Blues Lounge, hand rolled cigar lounge, 180 booth vendor marketplace, yummy food, endless full liquor beverages and fun!
Admission is only $5.00!
An escape from normal with nothing but the Blues Feb 25-26, 2023 at the Vero Beach Blues Festival.
Enjoy the journey and a celebration of the human spirit.
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Winter Blues Weekend in Western New York Jan 20-22
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(ELLICOTTVILLE, NY) - In the Western New York town of Ellicottville, the village will heat up this winter during Winter Blues Weekend, held January 20-22 at various venues and establishments in town. These hot spots will feature live and local blues artists on Friday and Saturday night, with more events planned during the long weekend, all free and open to the public.
Located in the heart of the Chautauqua-Allegheny Region, Ellicottville is located less than an hour northeast of Jamestown and less than an hour south of Buffalo. Presented by the Ellicottville Chamber of Commerce, this high-energy, soulful celebration in the heart of the village will feature more than 15 regional acts. Ellicottville also offers eclectic shops, unique restaurants and two ski slopes all within walking distance.
The music kicks off Friday evening and continues through Sunday afternoon, allowing you to kick back and listen to amazingly talented musicians, perhaps after a day of skiing the local slopes.
“We want to make sure that everyone who comes to Ellicottville can enjoy these live performances at no cost,” said Wallace. “Many restaurants start their entertainment schedules in the afternoon, giving families with young children a chance to plan a fun, musically-inspired lunch or dinner out and take part in all the excitement.”
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Fort Mose stellar Jazz & Blues Series this February
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(ST. AUGUSTINE, FL) - The Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Series is a collection of six memorable performances honoring both the rich history of American music, and the legacy of the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States.
In the course of two weekends, from February 10, 11, 16,17, 18, and 19, world-class artists like Mavis Staples and Gladys Knight will grace these stages to celebrate music at Fort Mose Historic State Park (15 Fort Mose Trail) in St. Augustine, Florida.
Join in as they celebrate history, freedom, and creativity – through the incomparable joy of live music.
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44th Blues Music Awards Nominees & Ceremonies
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(MEMPHIS, TN) – Congratulations to all of the 2023 BMAs nominees! BB King Entertainer of the Year nominees include Bobby Rush, Eric Gales, Mr. Sipp (Castro Coleman), Sugaray Rayford, and Tommy Castro. Band of the Year nominees include Anthony Geraci & The Boston Blues Allstars, John Németh and the Blue Dreamers, Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, Southern Avenue, and Tedeschi Trucks Band. Album of the Year nominees include The Blues Don’t Lie, Buddy Guy, Hard Times, John Primer, Done Come Too Far, Shemekia Copland, May Be the Last Time, John Németh, and Leave the Light On, The Love Light Orchestra.
See the complete list of nominees in the 25 BMA categories here.
Tickets are on sale now. Voting ends March 20th. Visit here to purchase your tickets and you can also become a Blues Foundation voting member! To become a Blues Foundation voting member, join here.
The Blues Music Awards brings together Blues performers, industry representatives, and fans from all over the world to celebrate the best in Blues recordings and performances from the previous year.
The BMAs are generally recognized as the highest honor given to blues musicians and are awarded by vote of Blues Foundation members.
The 44th Blues Music Awards will be held on Thursday, May 11th, 2023 at the Renasant Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee. The Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place the night before, Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 at the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts and Education.
• Individual BMA Tickets are $150 per person. Regular Tables for 10 - $1,500. Premium Tables for 10 - $1,800.
• BHOF Induction Ceremony Tickets - $75 per person.
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The Unlikely Success of Son House’s Father Of Folk Blues
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 By the middle of the 1960s, the so-called “blues revival” was in full swing, with white audiences “discovering” the music of Black blues artists. As part of this process, some artists who had stopped performing and recording long before, such as Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James, were “rediscovered” and brought back onto stages and into studios. Their recording careers had stopped abruptly after the blues boom of the 1920s, as the Great Depression erased the market for blues records practically overnight. By the time recording resumed in earnest, following the musicians’ strike of 1942-1944, many more Blacks had moved North to big cities, and their tastes had shifted mainly away from country blues.
Robert Johnson and Charley Patton, two essential Delta blues standard-bearers, passed away in the 1930s. Still, young white blues fans wondered about the whereabouts of another singer at the epicenter of the genre in its early years. Patton mentored this man, inspiring not just Johnson but also Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and countless others. These fans knew of Eddie “Son” House, Jr. only through his few recordings from the past: four exceedingly rare Paramount 78s from 1930 and 18 Library of Congress field recordings from 1941 and 1942.
Three young, white blues fans – Phil Spiro, Dick Waterman, and Nick Perls – went looking for House in Memphis and Mississippi during the summer of 1964. It was hardly a safe endeavor to undertake at that time. When they were in Mississippi, the Ku Klux Klan murdered two other young, Northern whites and their Black friend, civil rights activists working to register Black voters. On that day, Spiro, Waterman, and Perls first spoke to House, but only over the phone, since he was living neither in Mississippi nor Memphis but in Rochester, New York. Two days later, on 23 June 1964, they arrived in Rochester and met House for the first time face-to-face.
...Read full story By Jordan Kessler at Pop Matters
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Nebraska Blues Challenge Winner Sendoff at Zoo Bar
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 (OMAHA, NE) - Friday, Jan 13 at Omaha, Nebraska's Zoo Bar (136 N. 14th St.) is your chance to support the Nebraska Blues Challenge winners, Steve Lovett Blues & In the Pocket, featuring Nebraska Jr., before they head to Memphis, TN, and represent the Blues Society of Omaha and Nebraska at the International Blues Challenge! $10 suggestion donation helps with travel expenses. Music is 5pm-8pm.
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 (LANSING, MI) - Sunday's (1/15) Beale Street Sendoff at The Green Door in Lansing, Michigan is a musical fundraiser to help send this year's winners of the Capital Area Blues Society Blues Brawl to the competition in Memphis. Several blues acts are slated to perform, including Blues Brawl winners James Reeser and the Backseat Drivers, and The Dedfoot Duo.
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 (BIRMINGHAM, AL) - Magic City Blues Society Birthday Bash and election happens on January 29, at Ranelli’s Deli & Café, in Birmingham, Alabama.
Entertainment provided by the engaging guitarist, singer, songwriter Johnny Burgin.
The event runs 4pm-7pm. Cover os $15 or MCBS Members $10.
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Which Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise Hits Your Groove?
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- #38 Eastern Caribbean: Sold Out
- #39 Mexican Riviera: BOOK YOUR CABIN Now!
- #40 Western Carribbean: Now Prebooking!
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#38 Eastern Caribbean SOLD OUT! Jan. 28 ~ Feb. 4, 2023
Sailing on Holland America’s ms Nieuw Statendam
from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to St. John, St. Maarten
& Half Moon Cay (Bahamas Private Island).
LRBC #39
Mexican Riviera
Oct. 28 ~ Nov. 4, 2023
Sailing on Holland America's ms Koningsdam from San Diego, CA to Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan & Puerto Vallarta.
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#40 Western Caribbean
Jan 28 ~ Feb 4, 2024
Sailing on Holland America’s Nieuw Statendam from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Grand Cayman, Roatán, Honduras & Costa Maya, Mexico. By placing a fully-refundable prebook deposit of $500 per cabin, you’ll reserve a space in line to book a cabin once bands are announced early Spring. Visit online reservations or call (816) 753-7979 to place deposit!
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LEGENDARY RHYTHM & BLUES CRUISE
Our Headliners Stay & Play, They Don’t Hit & Run!
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Dave Keyes :: RHYTHM BLUES & BOOGIE
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 Often overshadowed by electric guitar, the piano has played a significant role in the development of modern blues, R&B, and rock‘n’roll. Born with the perfect name, New Yorker Dave Keyes has spent his life pushing the keyboards into the limelight and carrying the torch of his heroes-Fats Domino, Dr. John, Johnny Johnson, and Professor Longhair, to name just a few. This mission has earned him three Blues Music Award nominations and landed him gigs on Broadway, in television and work on the road with big name acts and his own touring band.
For his sixth album, Rhythm Blues & Boogie, Keyes dug deeper into the roots of his passion on nine original tracks and one special cover that spell out his musical influences.
Keyes invited special guests for sessions recorded in New York, New Jersey, and Memphis, including the legendary drummer Bernard Purdie, the much-loved Doug MacLeod, guitar ace Early Times and the irascible Popa Chubby. They are joined by members of his NYC crew, guitarist John Putnam and drummer Frank Pagano with Jeff Anderson on bass and the horn section of Chris Eminizer on sax and trumpeter Tim Ouimette, who spent years with Keyes in the pit orchestra of the Grammy-winning Broadway show, Smokey Joe’s Café.
Rhythm Blues & Boogie is proof positive that good things happen when you gather friends and family for a project and Dave Keyes has every right to wear those honors with pride.
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"That's What The Blues Are For"
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Teeny Tucker "I Wish We Could Go Back"
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Just In Case... plus Holidays & Birthdays
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 • Jan 16 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Jan 22 Chinese New Year
Birthdays upcoming of note:
Jan 12-Ruth Brown (1928-2006), Mississippi Fred McDowell (1904-1972), Long John Baldry (1941-2005); Jan 13-David "Kid" Ramos (1959); Jan 14-Allen Toussaint (1938-2015), Clarence Carter (1936); Jan 15-Earl Hooker (1929-1970), Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968), Queen Ida (1929); Jan 16-Barbara Lynn (1942), Lester Davenport (1932-2009), Robert Wilkins (1896-1987); Jan 17-Paul Rishell (1950), Mick Taylor (1949), EG Kight (1966); Jan 19-Henry Gray (1925), Janis Joplin (1943-1970), Willie "Big Eyes" Smith (1936-2011), Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (1999); Jan 20-Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter (1888-1949), Luther Tucker (1936-1993); Jan 21-Snooks Eaglin (1936-2009), Richie Havens (1941-2013), B'nois King (1943), Wolfman Jack (1938-1995 DJ extraordinaire), Zora Young (1948); Jan 22-Hammie Nixon (1908-1984), Sam Cooke (1935-1964), “Blind” Willie Johnson (1897-1945), Teeny Tucker (1958)
 Just in Case: January 20 is "National DJ Day" and stems from the work of one jock: Alan Freed, whom one might know as "Moondog." This 1950s DJ promoted African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio. Some say he coined the term ‘rock and roll,’ and if not, he certainly helped popularize and redefine what it is. Alan Freed passed on Jan 20, 1965.
Of course we love live music but what about the radio and DJ's turning us on to not only our favorites, but new artists to discover. This, in turn, might cause us to attend a live concert and/or purchase an artist's recording. It's a win-win.
From wedding and party DJ's playing your favorite jams, to the radio personalities who help you get through the morning commute or your workday or your late nite. Recording greats B. B. King and Rufus Thomas worked as disc jockeys on WDIA out of Memphis. Wolfman Jack sure made an impression on us. Artist Big LLou Johnson is the deep voice of B.B. King's Bluesville in SiriusXM these days. The list is long. Who is or was your favorite DJ?
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20th Annual Blues Festival Guide
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20th Annual Blues Festival Guide Magazine
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 You can not only get a hard copy of the magazine via select festivals, blues societies or by ordering, but our 20th Anniversary digital edition of the Blues Festival Guide is available on our website! Click the image at left to read and enjoy all 84 pages. Turn on the speaker to hear Tulle Brae singing "Seven Bridges."
Blues legend Bobby Rush calls our magazine: "The roadmap to everything blues." Indeed, the articles offer something for everyone, all blues related, of course. This year’s engaging editorial from aficionados in the blues community includes articles from Victor Wainwright, Mitch Woods, Reverend Billy C. Wirtz and Roger Stolle among others.
Our cover by photographer Marilyn Stringer features the talented Tullie Brae and Calvin Johnson at the 2021 North Atlantic Blues Festival!
You can also order your own hard copy here!
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MLK Blues Festival
Jan-12-2023 – Jan-15-2023
Chester, South Carolina, USA
Pigz in Z’Hills BBQ & Blues Fest
Jan-13-2023 – Jan-14-2023
Zephyrhills, Florida USA
Go Mexico Rock ‘n Blues
Explosion Festival
Jan-21-2023 – Jan-29-2023
Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Clarksdale Film & Music Festival
Jan-27-2023 – Jan-29-2023
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
The February Blues XXIV
Feb-02-2023 – Feb-26-2023
Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
Cincinnati Winter Blues
Experience IV
Feb-11-2023
Mason, Ohio, USA
Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Festival
Feb-18-2023
Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA
Vero Beach Blues Festival
Feb-25-2023 – Feb-26-2023
Vero Beach, Florida, USA
Saskatoon Blues Festival
Feb-27-2023 – Mar-05-2023
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Leeds Blues, Rhythm
& Rock Festival
Feb-26-2023
Leeds, United Kingdom
2023 Byron Bay Bluesfest
April-6-2023 - April-10-2023
Byron Bay, Australia
Juke Joint Festival
& Related Events
Apr-13-2023 – Apr-16-2023
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Tampa Bay Blues Festival
April-14-2023 - April-16, 2023
St. Petersburg, Florida USA
Baton Rouge
Blues Festival
April-22-2023 – April-23-2023
Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA
Lincoln Blues, Rhythm
& Rock Festival
May-6-2023
Lincoln, United Kingdom
10th Annual Big Island
Jazz & Blues Festival
Jun-01-2023 – Jun-03-2023
Kailua Kona, Hawaii, USA
Billtown Blues Festival
Jun-09-2023 – Jun-10-2023
Hughesville, Pennsylvania, USA
Waterfront Blues Fest
July-1-2023 - July-4-2023
Portland, Oregon USA
North Atlantic Blues Festival
July 15-16, 2023
Rockland, Maine USA
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