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Photo Moments with the 20th Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Here is artist Christopher Peterson, creator of several of the cool Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise commemorative posters.
As an artist in the music vein, he may be best known for having designed over 150 posters for San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, as well as other bands, venues and festivals. He's designed posters for Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Phish, Peter Frampton, Bonnie Raitt, and Van Morrison. The list goes on.
A New York native, the mulit-award winning artist currently resides in Asheville, North Carolina. You can click on the pics on his visual site to see some of his varied illustrations.
Photo: Michele Lundeen
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The Blues Foundation is official sponsor of the 20th Anniversary Blues Festival Guide!
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Debbie Bond's New Video Release "Road Song"
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 Alabama-based blues musicians Debbie Bond and “Radiator” Rick are excited to be releasing a brand-new video on Thursday April 6th, for "Road Song" from their latest album Blues Without Borders. The video also features their bumper sticker-plastered van, Big Blue! Please check it out here, like and subscribe!
They are thrilled to be heading down the blues hiway to play Clarksdale, Mississippi’s Juke Joint Festival later this month! Big Blue is all tuned up and ready to roll. Click here to check out all their upcoming dates in the US, France and UK.
 Debbie Bond and “Radiator” Rick have been paying their dues in the Alabama backwoods for decades including working with Johnny Shines, Eddie Kirkland, the late great Willie King and more. Debbie was influenced by juke joint blues as well as the famed soul blues sounds of Muscle Shoals. British born keyboard, harmonica player "Radiator" added a swampy New Orleans edge to her sound. Together they have released their fourth studio recording, "Blues Without Borders," to international acclaim.
Debbie is a blues activist and the founder of the KBA-winning Alabama Blues Project, with a mission to promote and preserve Alabama’s rich blues heritage.
Last year they were nominated for Independent Blues Awards for Best Contemporary Blues Album" and "Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist" in the U.S., and this year they were nominated for "Best International Blues Artist 2023" by the UK Blues Federation. Catch ‘em if you can!
More about the Album
Debbie Bond Website
Media and Booking Contact
Click here to watch video
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Fantastic Weekend on the shores of Tampa Bay April 14-16
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 (ST. PETERSBURG, FL) - The Tampa Bay Blues Festival returns to the waterfront at Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg, Florida April 14-16, 2023. That’s three days of incredible blues music on the shores of Tampa Bay, plus the official kickoff concert on April 13 at the Palladium Theater.
Join us for a fantastic weekend featuring Robert Cray, Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Ana Popovic, Larry McCray, Colin James on Friday. Saturday it’s Tower of Power, Tab Benoit, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Chris Cain, and Dawn Tyler Watson. Sunday it’s The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mr. Sipp, Vanessa Collier, Jimmy Carpenter, JT Lauritsen.
Gates Friday and Saturday open at approx. 12 noon. Gates on Sunday open at approx. 12:30pm.
The official Kickoff Concert happens Thursday April 13 at the historic Palladium Theater (253 Fifth Avenue North), St. Petersburg, Florida, featuring Tommy Castro & The Painkillers. Showtime is 8pm-9:30pm and doors open 7pm.
Enjoy sunshine, sea breezes, palm trees, full liquor bars, multiple tasty food vendors and the best music of the year! All in a large grassy park, a short walk from the vibrant downtown area.
Get your tickets now. Try the exceptional VIP Experience which includes front stage seating with custom sound mix, free beers, wines and beverages, a complimentary meal from our 3 VIP restaurants, air-conditioned restrooms, huge shade tents on the waterfront, champagne & mimosas on Sunday, free fire baked pizzas, hotel discounts (while they last) more! It’s the best VIP in the business! Order tickets and VIP now, for three great days of blues by the bay!
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April is Muddy Waters Month at Delta Blues Museum
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 CLARKSDALE, MS) - April is Muddy Waters Month at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
McKinley Morganfield a.k.a. Muddy Waters was born in Rolling Fork, MS, and moved to Coahoma County where he learned to play Delta blues from Son House and Robert Johnson. He made his first recordings for the Library of Congress in the early 1940’s. Soon after hearing the record, he moved to Chicago to pursue a career in music, taking his Mississippi blues roots and electrifying them to be heard throughout the city and the world.
You can hear those roots on Muddy Waters: Folk Singer, a 1964 album that features backing from Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy on songs such as “My Home is in the Delta” and which is credited with kicking off the blues revival of the Sixties. Available from the museum Gift Shop. Enjoy 10% off all "Muddy merch" with code Muddy2023 throughout the month of April!
Learn more about Muddy Waters by visiting the museum, or through our interactive Explore and Learn feature, a visual biography of his life and music.
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2023 Chicago Blues Festival coming June 8-11
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 (CHICAGO, IL) - the 2023 Chicago Blues Festival, will take place Thursday, June 8 through Sunday, June 11 at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois.
The largest, free Blues festival in the world returns to Chicago with four days of top tier talent performing in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Three stages set up across Millennium Park will welcome 45 performances and more than 250 artists celebrating the city’s renowned Blues legacy.
2023 Blues headliners include four-time GRAMMY® winners Los Lobos, Blind Boys of Alabama with Bobby Rush, Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials, Mud Morganfield, John Primer & The Real Deal Blues Band, Jimmy Burns Band, Sugaray Rayford, Jontavious Willis, Vasti Jackson, Eddie Cotton, Zac Harmon, Super Chikan, and many more. Find more information here.
Commissioned projects include the Centennial Tribute to Albert King featuring Donald Kinsey, Larry McCray, Rico McFarland, Carl Weathersby and Tony Llorens; a Delmark Records 70th Anniversary Celebration, and a “Women in Blues” tribute featuring Deitra Farr, Katherine Davis, Sugar Pie DeSanto and more.
Further enriching the immersive Blues experience, Praize Productions, Inc. presents a photography installation, “The Rhythm Within Our Blues” featuring life-size photographs depicting the history and authentic culture of Blues music told via the lens of professional photographers of color from Chicago's South Side.
According to DCASE, "The festival elevates its food options this year with a Blues-inspired smokehouse experience called “Wally’s BBQ Pit” in the North Promenade Tent of the Park with delicious BBQ fare and specialty drinks catered by Eleven North Hospitality. In between Blues sets, guests can stop to enjoy their BBQ, cornbread and drinks on picnic tables alongside whiskey barrels and smokers."
Thursday performances run 5:30-9pm. Friday-Sunday are at 12-9pm at the Promenade stages and begin at 2:15pm at The Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Concerts will also be livestreamed on YouTube.
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7-Day Voyage is one big Musical Family Reunion
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 Are you getting ready for an immersive week of concerts, artist-hosted activities, and incredible moments with your favorite performers and friends as you sail the beautiful Caribbean? Well, the 2024 Sandy Beaches Cruise be sailing January 13-20, aboard Holland American Line Nieuw Amsterdam from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to St. Maarten and San Juan.
This 7-day voyage will feature performances by Delbert McClinton, The Mavericks, Marcia Ball, The California Honeydrops, The Band Of Heathens, Paul Thorn, Blind Boys Of Alabama, Lee Roy Parnell, Jimmy Hall, Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Mike Zito, Carolyn Wonderland, Wayne Toups, Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps, Big Joe Maher, Red Young, Gary Nicholson, Seth James, Shelley King, Kimmie Rhodes, Yates Mckendree, and more to be added!
Booking for 2024 is open and cabins are selling fast Blues Festival Guide fans can use promo code BLUESGUIDE to save on cabin prices!
Book now and also join the Sandy Beaches Facebook community! There are flexible payment options available to help keep you on budget and spread the cost of your cabin over low monthly payments. You can book now and pay later, even past the date of your trip! More info here.
Note: 2024 guests are welcome to sail regardless of vaccination status.
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Featured Video of the Week
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"Road Song" Debbie Bond Band
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Gayle Harrod :: TEMPTATION
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 A cavalcade of blues women – Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe – ruled the early days of radio and the record business while barnstorming across the country as band leaders performing their own material and popular favorites. Molding herself in their image, Baltimore chanteuse Gayle Weaver Harrod fronted several bands for over a decade before bringing together some of the best musical talent in the Mid-Atlantic blues scene to form The Gayle Harrod Band.
In the summer of 2022, along with her co-writers and bandmates guitarist Stan Turk, and drummer Chuck Ferrell, Harrod recorded her debut album Temptation, at 38 North Studios, with producer, Buddy Speir, and engineer, Sean Russell. Guest performers include guitarists Jonathan Sloane, Sol Roots, and Bobby Thompson; bassist Christopher Brown; and Brian Simms on piano and organ. Producer Buddy Speir contributes guitar, slide, organ, and Wurlitzer. The all-star background vocals are courtesy of Mary Ann Redmond, Dusty Rose, and The Voices of Faith of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore Choir. Also featured is Rachelle Danto on harmonica and The Beltway Horns: Greg Boyer on trombone, Brad Clements on trumpet, and Brent Birckhead on tenor sax.
From rollicking, snappy dance hall beats opening the set, to a powerful call to arms, to bump and grind blues, then the classic tale of the struggle between angels and devils for the title track. Then there’s swinging with a second line flair and a lively gospel-infused two beat followed by a bittersweet acoustic, back porch Delta Blues, an anthem of self-determination with 60’s girl group vibe, a driving rocker, and a tender Americana ballad. She then takes us on a philosophical and musical journey before closing the album with a spacious ballad that shares heartfelt advice to a lost loved one.
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North Jersey Blues Society review of special presentation
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A review of a reading of "Slippin' Through The Cracks - The Blues Journey of Bobby Rush" featuring music and lyrics by Bobby Rush from the North Jersey Blues Society writer who was part of a group of industry folks, friends and family to be lucky to be invited to witness this presentation at Pearl Studios in Manhattan. "The story is amazing - the actors are incredible - the voices are astonishing - and the band, and those majestic voices, raised the roof on many occasions," shares the reviewer. "This was a remarkable experience," the reviewer continues, "the cast reading of the proposed musical based on the amazing life of blues entertainer, Bobby Rush."
This extraordinary new musical about the legendary bluesman, Bobby Rush, is currently in development. The play was first professionally workshopped in Jackson, Mississippi last Summer to ensure its authenticity.
Read the full review here.
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Just In Case... plus Holidays & Birthdays
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 • April: "International Guitar Month"
• April 9 Easter Sunday
• April 14-23 "National Dance Week"
Birthdays upcoming of note:
April 6 Big Walter Horton (1918 – 1981) Warren Haynes (1960); April 7 Billie Holiday (1915-1959), Bo Collins (1932); April 8-“Little Ed” Williams (1955); April 9 Mance Lipscomb (1895 – 1976); April 10 John Brim (1922–2003) Rosco Gordon (1928–2002) ), Shemekia Copeland (1979); April 11 Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson (1939); April 12 "Hound Dog" Taylor (1915-1975); April 14 Joseph "Mojo" Morganfield (1964-2020); April 15 Tommy Castro (1955), Bessie Smith (1894-1937); April 16 Sean Costello (1979-2008); April 18 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (1924-2005), Alexis Korner (1928–1984), Alastair Greene (1971); April 21-Clara Ward (1924-1973)
(*The bluesy bunny image is from a past logo of the Bendigo Blues & Roots Easter Blues Bender which is happening this weekend in Victoria, Australia)
 Just in Case: April 11 is "National 8-Track Tape Day." The eight track tape player was invented in 1965 by William Powell Lear (of the LearJet fame). In 1966 Lear sold Ford Motors on the idea of installing his magnetic-tape sound machine in their vehicles. Other automotive companies then followed suit. By 1967 the players were on the rise. By now, those in the know didn't have to own an album or just hear their favorites songs on the radio, they had a player at home or in their car. You could find pretty much every artist now on eight tracks from rock, pop, country, etc. and blues where could find everything from John Mayall to Wynonie Harris, B.B. King to Savoy Brown, Bobby Blue Bland to the Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat and so on.
Eight track players and tapes were the precursor to cassette players and tapes and by 1982 they were phased out of the market. I have to admit, I was compelled to save just one from that era and pack it away for posterity.
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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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2023 Byron Bay Bluesfest
April-6-2023 - April-10-2023
Byron Bay, Australia
Nidaros Blues
Apr-13-2023
Trodheim, Norway
Veszprém Blues Festival
Apr-13-2023 - Apr-16-2023
Veszprem, Hungary
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
Baton Rouge Blues Festival
April-22-2023 – April-23-2023
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Blues, Brews & Barbeque
May-06-2023
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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Lincoln Blues, Rhythm
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May-6-2023
Lincoln, United Kingdom
Gator by the Bay
May-11-2023 – May-14-2023
San Diego, California, USA
Simply Texas Blues Festival
May-20-2023
San Angelo, Texas 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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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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