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Photo Moments with the 20th Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Crowned Detroit's Queen of The Blues by the Detroit Blues Society (DBS) in 2015 with proclamations from the City of Detroit, County of Wayne and the State of Michigan, it's singer, songwriter, recording artist Thornetta Davis.
The multi-award winning BMA Nominee, Jus' Blues Honoree, Blues Blast Award winner, 30x Detroit Blues Society winner, 2017 1st place winner of the International Songwriting Competition, 2018 prestigious French La Academie du Jazz Award for “Best Blues Album,” and so many more accolades too long to list. here
We were happy to catch the blues, soul, funk, rock of Thornetta on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise.
Photo: Kaati Gaffney
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The Mary Stokes Band :: LET ‘ER ROLL!
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 Fronted by internationally acclaimed blues vocalist Mary Stokes, she and her band have performed with B.B. King, Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Lowell Fulson, Johnny Copeland, Jeff Healey, Rory Gallagher, Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell, Pinetop Perkins, Georgie Fame, Louisiana Red, Joe Louis Walker, Lefty Dizz, John Campbell, U.P. Wilson, and Eddie Kirkland among others.
Mary Stokes Band have toured throughout Ireland, Europe, and the U.S.A, performing at Blues festivals and in iconic blues clubs around the world. This award-winning singer has captivated global audiences with a characteristically Irish approach of passion, honesty and integrity, which she has continually brought to her interpretation of contemporary blues music.
The Mary Stokes Band’s album Comin’ Home was awarded “Album of the Year 2021” by the international media organisation, Blues & Roots Radio, and the 2022 relaunched Clouds In My Heart, Live in Dublin, 1999 garnered extraordinary acclaim and global airplay, reaching audiences and blues lovers all around the world. The Mary Stokes Band sound on Let ‘Er Roll! remains energetic, powerful and passionate.
• Mary Stokes: Vocals • Sarah Michelle: Guitars, Backing Vocals
• Bree Harris: Guest/Dual Vocal • Brian Palm: Harmonica
• Zamo Riffman: bass • Jay Oglesby: drums • Dermot Stokes: Piano
• Pete Holidai: 2nd Guitar “Sinnerboy (Reprise),” lunar melody on ‘Blues On The Moon’, and Horn arrangements
• Recorded: Displace Studios, Dublin • Mix: Pete Holidai, Pilgrim Sound, Dublin
• Mastering: Joe Chester • Photos: Brian Palm • Design: Pat Pidgeon
Available exclusively on Bandcamp for download or to order a limited edition CD through The Mary Stokes Band Bandcamp site visit here.
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Juke Joint Festival 20th Celebration Thurs-Sun April 13-16
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 (CLARKSDALE, MS) - 20 years ago, Clarksdale, Mississippi's old downtown felt very quiet and empty. A monument to a storied past. One event helped change all that… the Juke Joint Festival. This April, the world will descend on a downtown filled with old friends and new businesses, small-town hospitality and the biggest Juke Joint Festival yet. Juke Joint Festival is Saturday, April 15th, with related events held Thursday through Sunday.
Clarksdale's massive 20th Juke Joint Festival celebration officially starts with a Thursday 5pm-8pm Kick-off inside the alternatively-renovated New Roxy theater (described as "quite possibly the coolest venue in the South") with free performances by Sean "Bad" Apple and Lucious Spiller Band.
Friday, following a day of intimate music performances and panel discussions downtown and a parade, the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area presents a free, special festival edition of the world-famous Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at the New Roxy from 6pm-7pm.
Starting 10am Saturday, April 15th, enjoy 80 acts on 17 music stages spread over 8 blocks, arts and crafts vendors, Southern street food, and more—including racing pigs, a petting zoo and monkeys riding dogs. The daytime music stages are all free.
Saturday's nighttime music venues will feature 30+ acts at 26 venues and require an official Juke Joint Festival wristband. Quantities are limited and all sales final. Buy online or at the official festival headquarters for merchandise sales and wristband information is at 243 Delta Avenue, downtown. Lineup subject to change.
Sunday keeps the celebration rolling with related events such as the Cat Head Mini Blues Fest, Bluesberry Backyard Blues Fest, Red's Post-JJF Blues Jam and more.
Official Juke Joint Festival lineups, schedules, pre-sale wristbands and general information here.
Explore what today's Clarksdale has to offer at Visit Clarksdale, Delta Blues Museum, and City of Clarksdale.
Find out more about the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area.
Note: Image © Juke Joint Festival. Do not reproduce.
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“Night Train” Soulsville Foundation’s Gala April 29
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(MEMPHIS, TN) - Fashioned to replace their beloved Staxtacular event, the inaugural “Night Train” on April 29 is now the Soulsville Foundation's largest fundraiser of the year. It’s a lavish party reminiscent of the days when the main means of travel was by rail, with Pullman Porters taking Black Americans from South to North and coast to coast and from one corner of the country to the next.
A celebration of African American music and culture, “Night Train” will feature the Stax Museum filled with live music, a silent auction, fantastic cuisine, cocktails, dancing, DJs, and more, all in their newly renovated lobby, gift shop, mid-century modern lounge, Studio A, Isaac Hayes' gold-trimmed Cadillac exhibit, and more.
“We are going to have as many Stax artists as possible at this gala,” said Soulsville President & CEO Pat Mitchell Worley.The gala event will be held at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 926 E. McLemore Ave, Memphis, Tennessee and begins at 7pm. Tickets are $200 per person.
More details as well as tickets can be found here.
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Inaugural Big Easy Cruise Coming Nov 4-11, 2023
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We’re excited for the first ever sailing of The Big Easy Cruise! Join in for 7 days and let the good times roll. Book your spot and get ready to soak up the music, the food, and the vibe on this New Orleans music festival at sea! Sailing November 4-11, 2023 from Lauderdale, FL to New Orleans, LA to Cozumel, Mexico.
Round-the-clock concerts & entertainment, interactive events with the artists, New Orleans themed special events, exciting ports of call, 7 nights of luxury on the highly rated Nieuw Amsterdam, ssail with other music fans like yourself.
The lineup Includes Little Feat, Tab Benoit, Irma Thomas, Samantha Fish, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Leo Nocentelli from The Meters, Anders Osborne, Mike Zito, Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Tuba Skinny, John Boutté, Johnny Sansone, Jimmy Hall, Cha Wa, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters, Honey Island Swamp Band, John “Papa” Gros, Jimmy Carpenter, Bender Brass Band, Chef Kevin Belton, Frenchy, Galactic and more. The cruise will stop in New Orleans for 24 hours for an exclusive performance by Galactic featuring Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph at the famed club Tipitina’s, along with rich cultural experiences throughout the city.
You will have the opportunity to meet and interact with the artists onboard at events including cooking demonstrations, artist-hosted wine tasting, panel discussions, artist Q&A sessions, and more!
Cabins are selling quickly! Book now, pay later. Financing options available. Blues Festival Guide fans can book with promo code BLUESGUIDE to save.
For further information and exclusive offers, visit the website and join the email list to receive updates on all things Big Easy Cruise including artist additions, special offers and more!
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Venus Williams helps preserve home of Blues icon Nina Simone
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 International tennis legend Venus Williams has stepped in to help preserve the childhood home of another Black icon, famous Blues singer and civil rights activist, Nina Simone.
Williams teamed up with artist Adam Pendleton for an in-person auction event at Pace Gallery New York on May 20, that will be supported by world-renowned auctioneers online. The event marks the largest preservation effort dedicated to an African-American historic site, Yahoo reported. Nina Simone grew up in Tryon, North Carolina.
“Each of the artists Adam and I have selected for the auction has a unique, powerful voice, and we’ve been moved by their generosity and enthusiasm for this important cause,” Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam winner, said.
As one of the greatest artists of her time, Nina Simone left a legacy spanning four decades by the time she passed away on April 21, 2003, according to a biography. Beginning with her 1959 classic hit, “I loves You Porgy,” to her 1979 Black empowerment song “Young, Gifted and Black,” Simone captured generations of people who were inspired to love their Black skin.
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, lead the Nina Simone Childhood Home preservation project.
“Nina Simone is one of the most important musical artists of the 20th century. I’m inspired to be able to protect her legacy by preserving her childhood home. Her music, her vision, cannot be forgotten,” Adam Pendleton said.
Pendleton and other artists purchased the Nina Simone childhood home in 2017 to restore and preserve it. The full exhibition will remain on display from May 12 through May 20.
Online bidding in the auction for Nina Simone opens to the public at 11:00 a.m. ET on May 12 until 3 p.m. ET on May 22.
By Deon Osborne/The Black Wall Street Times
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Cedric Burnside: The Guardian of Hill Country Blues
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 On Sunday nights in the nineties, locals from northern Mississippi’s hills and hollers, and sometimes a handful of adventurous tourists, gathered at Junior’s, an hour’s drive from Memphis in one of the South’s most unforgivingly rural landscapes. Inside, the revelers sipped moonshine from glass jars and danced as trancelike jams led by the now-legendary bluesmen Junior Kimbrough and R. L. Burnside stretched into the early morning hours.
Forty-four-year-old Cedric Burnside, a grandson of R. L.’s and now a Grammy-winning artist, grew up in this world. “By age ten, I was [playing] at the juke joint,” he says, “and I was about thirteen years old when I joined [R. L.’s] band full-time.”
While he’s known today for his own interpretations of the Hill Country blues style his grandfather helped create, at the time Cedric played drums behind R. L., providing the rhythmic foundation for excursions on regional standards like “Goin’ Down South,” “Shake ’Em On Down,” and “Poor Black Mattie.” But he also kept a close watch on what his “big daddy” was doing on guitar and how he communicated with his audience—lessons Cedric bookmarked for the music he began making after R. L.’s passing in 2005.
...continue reading at Garden and Gun by Jim Beaugez
Illustration by Joe Ciardiello
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Which Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise Hits Your Groove?
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- #39 Mexican Riviera: Book Now! 90% Sold!
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Thornetta Davis "I Believe"
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Boise Blues Society presents Terry Robb’s Blues Extravaganza Fri Mar 24
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 (CHINDEN, ID) - Terry Robb, the awarding-winning fingerstyle guitarist, singer, composer, arranger and record producer, will be presented by the Boise Blues Society on Mar 24 at the Sapphire Room at The Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden, Boise, Idaho.
Robb is associated with the American Primitive Guitar genre through his collaborations with Fahey, and is regarded as a virtuoso of acoustic blues guitar. This night he’ll be accompanied by musicians from the Billy Blues Band. General admission tickets $25, Preferred seating $30. Showtime is 7pm.
Join them for dinner and drinks! The Sapphire Room features a full food and bar menu with table-side service and is all-ages and family friendly. Every person that enters must have a ticket.
Tickets and information here.
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Just In Case... plus Holidays & Birthdays
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 • March is "Women's History Month"
• International Ideas Month
• National Music in Schools Month
Birthdays upcoming of note:
Mar 23-Stick McGhee (1918), Chaka Khan (1953), Iverson "Louisiana Red" Minter (1932-2012); Mar 24 Frank "Scrap Iron" Robinson Jr. (1951-2020); Mar 25-Aretha Franklin (1942-2018); Mar 26-Rufus Thomas (1917-2001), Curley Weaver aka "Slim Gordon" (1906-1962); Mar 27-Leroy Carr (1905-1935), Robert "Junior" Lockwood (1915-2006), Sarah Vaughan (1924), Herman "Little Junior" Parker (1932), Johnny Clyde Copeland (1937-1997); Mar 28-"Cripple" Clarence Lofton (1887-1957); Mar 29- Willie Clayton (1955), Sue Foley (1968), Camille Howard (1914-1993 pictured); Mar 30-John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson (1914-1948), Eric Clapton (1945); Mar 31-Big Maceo Merriweather (1905-1953), Lowell Fulson (1921-1999), Lizzie Miles (1895-1963)
 Just in Case: Mar 29 is "World Piano Day." So, let's give props to those bluesy artists that play piano (not necessarily keys and organ). The list is a mile long of those great artists that have come and gone but left their indeible marks but here's a list of a few of the more contemporary players (in no order):Marcia Ball, Mitch Woods, Leon Blue, Deanna Bogart, Jim Pugh, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, Victor Wainwright, Scottie Miller, Honey Piazza, Daryl Davis, Carl "Sonny" Leyland, Rickey Nye, Sue Palmer, Dona Oxford, Wendy DeWitt, Kelley Hunt, Ken Saydak, Corky Siegel, Taryn Donath, Bob Welsh, Lady Bianca, Ben Levin, Eden Brent, Billy C. Wirtz, Chase Garrett, Rob Rio, Dave Keyes, Steve Willis, Anderson "Sonnyboy" Edwards, Barry Cuda. Okay, don't be upset if I left off any of your faves, I know there's plenty more. Let us know who they are.
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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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Blues on Reid
Mar-25-2023
Port St. Joe, Florida, Florida, USA
Woodystock Blues & Brews Fest
Mar-25-2023
Lake Havasu State Park, Arizona, USA
Coeur d'Alene Blues Festival
Mar-31-2023 - Apr-02-2023
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA
Springing The Blues
April-1-2023 - April-2-2023
Jackson Beach, Florida USA
2023 Byron Bay Bluesfest
April-6-2023 - April-10-2023
Byron Bay, Australia
Nidaros Blues
Apr-13-2023
Trodheim, Norway
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
Temecula Blues Festival
April-15-2023
Temecula, Cailfornia, USA
Buffalo Blues & Roots Festival
Apr-22-2023
Buffalo , New York, USA
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Baton Rouge Blues Festival
April-22-2023 – April-23-2023
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Blues, Brews & Barbeque
May-06-2023
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Lincoln Blues, Rhythm
& Rock Festival
May-6-2023
Lincoln, United Kingdom
Gator by the Bay
May-11-2023 – May-14-2023
San Diego, California, USA
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
Central Virginia Blues Festival
Jun-10-2023
Afton, Virginia USA
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Why March is Women's History Month? Well, why not?!
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 What's cookin? Well, undoubtably a woman somewhere and not just in the kitchen! Yeah baby!
Go checkout the fabulous blues women in your community! I bet you'll find that there's much more than what meets the eye.
There's passion, sadness, life-experience, fire, revenge, humor. Sure, you can say that about many male artists... but we're not talking about them now are we! HA! Okay, just a little sass there, settle down.
But seriously, women bring a different angst as well as wry wit to the blues picture. You can't tell me that some of these women don't literally bring you to your knees. It's not always an easy road for a women in the biz either so there's also fortitude involved, too.
Celebrate the women of the world! And while you're at it, hug your mama, sister, daughter, gramma, aunt, wife, girlfriend, baby mama ...you get the picture!
Your grateful e-Editor aka "Queen of Steam,"
Michele Lundeen
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Michele is also a singer, songwriter, performer and bandleader based in the San Diego County, California area and nicknamed the "Queen of Steam" for her high energy and passionate style.
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