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We're celebrating 21 Years as Blues Industry Leaders!
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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.
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Photo Moments with the 20th Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Here's Kim Wilson and The Fabulous Thunderbirds on the Oct 2022 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise.
The multi-award winning, Grammy Nominated band fronted by founder harmonica man and vocalist Wilson, is the quintessential Texas roadhouse blues band. Over the years since it's formation, the Fabulous Thunderbirds have had a lineup featuring some of the top players in the business. This current lineup is no different and they killed us, as usual, with their non-stop, and undeniable "tuff" grooves.
Photo: Michele Lundeen
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13th Clarksdale Film Festival & Music Festival Jan 27-29
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 (CLARKSDALE, MS) – The 13th Annual Clarksdale Film Festival & Music Festival in historic Clarksdale, Mississippi is Friday - Sunday January 27-29 at the new world headquarters of SharedExperiences (121 Delta Avenue). This curated collection of blues documentaries and Mississippi-connected films includes 'live' music, special guests and more.
Ticket sales at the door Friday 2:45pm and Saturday 10:45am. Tickets $5 per day or $10 for 3-Day Weekend Pass. Lineup subject to change.
Friday Jan 27th
• NATIONAL ANTHEM by Clarksdale’s Will Goss 3:00 PM (73 min): Clarksdale premiere is the story of a one-hit-wonder pop star, who’s fallen on hard times
• 3 MISSISSIPPI MUSIC VIDEOS by Tim Hardiman 4:15 PM (13 min): 2022 Blues music videos filmed in Clarksdale, Bentonia and the Mississippi Delta
• NIGHTHAWKS & OUR CORNERSTONE by Helena’s Nolan Dean 4:30 PM (25 min total) "Nighthawks" short suspense drama (7 min) – “Our Cornerstone: Centennial Baptist Church" historical documentary (18 min)
• TRAILER: James 'Super Chikan' Johnson — A Life in Blues 4:55 PM (3 min) Life story
• LOBBY RECEPTION - Anthony 'Big A' Sherrod Duo 5:00 PM (60 min)
• DEEP BLUES with director Robert Mugge 6:15 PM (91 min): No blues lover, popular music aficionado, nor devotee of American culture and folkways should miss.
Saturday - January 28, 2023
• BLUES DIVAS with director Robert Mugge 11:00 AM (120 min) Eight fabulous femmes with intro and interviews by Morgan Freeman
• BONNIE BLUE James Cotton film with guests 1:15 PM (86 min) Untold story
• TAIL DRAGGER film with guests 3:00 PM (88 min) Mississippi premiere documentary
• HARMONICA BEAN with director Ted Reed 4:40 PM (20 min) World-premiere documentary
• LOBBY RECEPTION - Terry 'Harmonica' Bean 5:00 PM (60 min)
• PARADISE HIGHWAY 6:15 PM (115 min) Morgan Freeman thriller (filmed in Clarksdale)
Sunday - January 29, 2023
• LIVE BLUES - Libby Rae Watson 1:00 PM (45 min)
• LIVE BLUES - Sean 'Bad' Apple 2:00 PM (45 min)
• LIVE BLUES - Lucious Spiller 3:00 PM (45 min)
See website for more event details. Questions? Please email Roger Stolle at Cathead or call 662-624-5992.
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Cincy Winter Blues Experience IV features 11 acts
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(MASON, OH) - Join us Saturday February 11th, 2023 for the 4th annual Cincy Winter Blues Experience featuring 11 incredible acts at the Manor House, 7440 Mason Montgomery Road, Mason, Ohio.
King Solomon Hicks (New York), GA-20 (Boston), Tullie Brae (Nashville), Gabe Stillman (Williamsport, PA), Ivy Ford (Chicago), and regional faves Lady Joya, Misterman & the Mojo Band, the Mojo Blues Cats, the Doug Hart Band, Tempted Souls and Johnny Fink & the Intrusion will be entertaining you in two grand ballrooms with nonstop music. Each ballroom seats 450+ patrons.
There is ample free parking, full bars, food concessions and large dance floors.
Tickets are $25 in advance and can be purchased here, or $30 the day of the event at the door.
The Courtyard by Marriott is the host hotel for this event. Less than a mile from Manor House, it has a special group rate of $109 (25% off) for any guests wanting to stay the night in Mason (valid through 1.23.23). Reserve here or call call 513-770-0071 and mention the Winter Blues Experience.
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Annual Mahindra Blues Festival Feb 11-12 in Mumbai
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(MUMBAI, INDIA) - The Mahindra Blues Festival is not just another music festival. It’s a cultural movement.
The 2023 lineup includes Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Ivan Singh, ad Arinjoy Sarkar (winner of a Mahindra Blues Band Hunt).
In the last 11 years of its existence, the Mahindra Blues Festival has put the blues genre on the global map and is one of the largest blues festivals in Asia. The Mahindra Blues community is the world’s largest online community, with over 2,00,000 plus followers. An iconic 70-year Bollywood Studio, Mehboob Studios, is the home of The Mahindra Blues Festival, the biggest blues festival in India, and is held annually in the second weekend of February.
Not just Indian audiences but folks from all over the world have been regulars at the Mahindra Blues Festival for the last decade. The festival vibe across the multiple music stages, courtyard, and garden is accompanied by world-class food courts and malts, which completes the beautiful ambience.
The festival vibe across the multiple music stages, courtyard, and garden is accompanied by world-class food courts and malts, which completes the beautiful ambience.This 2-day celebration is a feast for the mind, body, and soul with world-renowned musical legends setting the stage. Tickets are 3500 Rupee ($43 US) for one day and 5500 Rupee (approx. $68 US) for a weekend pass.
Organizers, the Mahindra Group, over the years, through its products and services, a deep sense of corporate responsibility and programs in cultural outreach, has enabled positive change in individuals and communities globally. Mahindra “Rise” is holding a mirror to our organization and articulating what they stand for. Cultural outreach is about connecting with the communities they serve through specially created programs in the space of Art and Culture. Cultural Outreach is also about sparking conversations across different cultures through the vantage of a large global federation of companies.
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Saskatoon Blues Society presents the 2023
Saskatoon Blues Festival Mar 3-4
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(SASKATOON, CANADA) – The Saskatoon Blues Society presents the Saskatoon Blues Festival Friday Mar 3rd and Saturday March 4th at The Bassment, 202 4th Ave N.
Friday March 3rd it’s Jerron ”Blind Boy” Paxton who has the ability to tap into traditional American music revealing a perceptiveness and focus that few others are able to achieve. A gifted multi-instrumentalist who specializes in traditional, pre-World War II music, he plays the fiddle, banjo, guitar, harmonica, and piano; and traditional blues revivalists GA-20, the dynamic, throwback blues trio who are disciples of the place where traditional blues, country and rock ‘n’ roll intersect. Doors 7:30pm, show 8:30pm.
Saturday March 4th it’s Marcus Trummer weaves southern soul, blues, and roots rock into a modern sound steeped in tradition that Trummer calls “rock and soul;” bluesman Billy Joe Green from the Moose Clan of the Kejick Ojibway Nation, has worked as a sideman and bandleader in Winnipeg, Vancouver, San Francisco and Edmonton for three decades; and Rita Chiarelli whose soaring 3-octave voice sets her apart from her peers, causing critics to gush... "a voice that can growl at her demons or soar with the angels, a gift for lyric, an ear for melody and the heart to combine them." Over the past decade Rita Chiarelli has won every major Canadian blues award. Doors 6:30, show 7:30pm
Tickets, sold separately for Friday and Saturday, and available at the door or online. Earlybird Tickets - $47.70 (Includes 6% PST). After Feb 10th, $58.30 (Includes 6% PST). Scroll to click the applicable ticket links on this page.
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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
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Oct. 28 ~ Nov. 4, 2023
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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 announced early Spring. Visit online reservations or call (816) 753-7979 to place deposit!
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Shaun Murphy "Turn Me On"
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Michael Rubin :: I’LL WORRY IF I WANNA
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 "I’ve just enjoyed listening to Michael Rubin’s new album. It was a fascinating listen…very creative and with humor, too. Every song is interesting with killer tones and phrasings!!! Michael sure knows his way around a harmonica and the backing band is also excellent. Any harmonica player would appreciate this entire album. I ain’t lyin’!” - Charlie Musselwhite
Having distinguished himself as a sideman for many years, Michael Rubin finally steps into the spotlight, not only as a harmonica master, but also as a singer-songwriter on his debut album, I’ll Worry If I Wanna, on Many Hats Records. The cartoon cover, as well as the title itself, assures the listener that the blues they’re about to hear will be laced with humor. Lots of it.
Co-produced by Josh Fulero and Rubin (many hats indeed!), the album features nine Rubin originals. The core backing band includes Mike Keller on guitar, Michael Archer on bass, and Mark Hays on drums, along with several memorable guest players. This impressive assemblage provides a crisp, economical yet powerful setting for Rubin’s superlative harmonica and quirky vocals. His voice is often reminiscent of David Bromberg’s with its talky, idiosyncratic phrasing and loose delivery, which oddly enough provides a remarkably effective counterpoint to the incredibly tight band. Rather than seem disjointed, to the contrary this coupling draws the listener in.
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Just In Case... plus Holidays & Birthdays
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 • Jan 22 Chinese New Year
Birthdays upcoming of note:
Jan 19-Henry Gray (1925-2020 pictured), 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); Jan 24-Aaron Neville (1941), Johnny B. Moore (1950), John Belushi (1949-1982), Beth Hart (1972), John Henry "Guitar Shorty" Fortescue (1923-1976); Jan 25-Sleepy John Estes (1899-1977), Etta James (1938-2012); Jan 26-Huey "Piano" Smith (1934); Jan 27-Andrew "Smokey" Hogg (1914-1960), Elmore James (1918-1963), Bobby "Blue" Bland (1930-2013); Jan 28-Drink Small (1933 pictured)
 Just in Case: January is, among other things, "National Eye Care Month." This brought to mind all the blind blues artists from the past. It was a tough life for a blind person, especiallyin the early days of poverty, blatant racism and disease. Many of them, unable to work the only jobs available to them that mainly consisted of manual labor, learned how to play an instrument and became corner blues artists as a means to try and support themselves. Some ended up being recorded. Names such as Blind Willie Johnson (pictured), Blind Willie McTell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind John Davis, Sonny Terry, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Teddy Darby, Blind Joe Reynolds, Sleepy John Estes, Blind Joe Taggart, Reverend Gary Davis, and Snooks Eaglin come to mind.
Some were born blind or became very soon after, while some were blinded by accidents (or sadly deliberate), some were blinded by diseases (venereal disease, smallpox, measles, glaucoma, etc.) that had no cure at the time, some were blinded by altercations (gunshot, rocks). Certainly, malnutrition may have played a part. It was a bleak existence for many, so the fact that they actually were recorded and/or signed to a label like Paramount Records is amazing, although that didn’t assure them consistent financial gain in the long run and many died in poverty. A few made it big and many influenced and still influence artists to this day.
A few other more contemporary blues-based, blind artists include the late Jeff Healey, and Ray Charles, the soulful Stevie Wonder, and The Blind Boys of Alabama (the majority of whom are or were vision impaired.)
 Oh, and January 21 is "Thank Your Mentor Day." We all have people that have come into our live in one way shape or form and have made a difference in our lives. Besides the obvious of family and close friends, or those few very special and unique friends, I could think of so, so many musicians who have moved me heled me, transformed me into a stronger more enlightened individual.
Musicians and the music.
Music is a healer and a mentor for real.
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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!
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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
Leeds Blues, Rhythm
& Rock Festival
Feb-26-2023
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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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