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Photo Moments with the 21st Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Multi-award winning Bob Corritore (rt) had his big birthday bash at his popular Rhythm Room in Phoenix, Arizona last weekend.
Among the special guests was Vizztone recording artist Jimi "Primetime" Smith (lt) who teams up from time to time with Corritore.
Raised in Chicago (like Bob) in a musical family, Smith learned and found his style at very young age thanks to mentors Jimmy Reed, Hubert Sumlin and Eddie Taylor. At age 17-18 he was already performing with many of the Chicago greats. He relocated to Minnesota making a name for himself there as well. The award-winning artist has backed up such artists as Etta James, Albert King, Otis Rush, and Albert Collins.
Photo: © Marilyn Stringer
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16th Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival entices Oct 13-15
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 (NEW ORLEANS, LA) – The 16th annual Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival arrives October 13-15. The free, annual event happens in Lafayette Square Park, 602 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana and I bet you’ll be enticed by the smell a mile away! Yum!
Along with delicious food and unique visual art, two stages will feature 18 acts.
Fri Oct 13: The Lilli Lewis Project, and Tab Benoit
Sat Oct 14: Honey Island Swamp Band, John Mooney & Bluesiana, Johnny Sansone, Lurrie Bell, Ghalia Volt, Ernie Vincent, Selwyn Birchwood, and Samantha Fish.
Sun Oct 15: Johnny Mastro & the MBs, Lil Jimmy Reed, Trudy Lynn, Little Freddie King, D.K. Harrell, The Roadmasters with Special Guests, Cedric Burnside, and Shemekia Copeland.
If you can’t make it in person, Jazz & Heritage community radio station WWOZ New Orleans 90.7 FM will broadcast the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival live from Lafayette Square – over the air and in streaming video here.
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San Diego LRBC Pre-Party with Dennis Jones & D.K. Harrell
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 (SAN DIEGO, CA) – The 39th Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise (LRBC) Pre-Party will be held Friday, Oct 27th at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel, 1355 N Harbor Dr., in San Diego, California. The party is open to the public.
Produced in conjunction with Michael Kinsman of Hoodoo Productions, the party will feature Los Angeles-based, sizzling hot blues guitarist, singer, songwriter Dennis Jones, and Louisiana native, the 25-year-old blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and old-soul bluesman D.K. Harrell.
Showtime is 7pm and tickets are $20. This event is a fundraiser for the 501(c)(3) regional blues society, Blues Lovers United of San Diego.
The 39th Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise (LRBC) will set sail to the Mexican Riviera Saturday, Oct 28th for a weeklong blues-musical party. Check the link... maybe you'll find a last minute open cabin and be able to sail with us!
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"Blues, Roots & Hoots" includes premiere entertainers
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 (FISH CREEK, WI) – The “Blues, Roots & Hoots” series is held at the Door Community Auditorium (DCA), 3926 Hwy 42 in Fish Creek, Wisconsin.
Saturday, Oct 28th, DCA presents “Memphis & Door County Voices: Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Beyond.”
Premiere Memphis vocalists Susan Marshall and Reba Russell share the stage with Sturgeon Bay’s blues powerhouse Cathy Grier and Chicago-based actress, singer, writer, Lachrisa Grandberry to honor the songs and spirit of the legendary rock-gospel guitarist and singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Showtime is 7pm. Tickets $30 and $10 for students 18 & under.
Nov 4th, DCA presents Lizz Wright & Bobby Rush.
Georgia native and highly acclaimed vocalist Lizz Wright sanctifies first gained attention delivering Swing Era standards associated with Billie Holiday. She's continued as a singer and songwriter whose music eludes definition.
Two-time Grammy winning Blues Hall of Famer Bobby Rush is one of the preeminent bluesmen in the world. At 89 years old, he's one of the last living links to the music’s glorious past, and an inspiration for its future stars. Showtime is 7pm. Tickets $35- 58 and $15 for students 18 & under.
Blues is the root of all music; it’s the mother of all music. If you don’t like the blues, you probably don’t like your mama.” – Bobby Rush.
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Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival presents Bobby Rush and Eric Gales Nov 3
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 (PITTSBURGH, PA) - The Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival presents Bobby Rush and Eric Gales on November 3 at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, 980 Liberty Ave. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Doors open 7pm Showtime 8pm.
In addition to two Grammy wins (and six nominations), singer, songwriter, entertainer Bobby Rush is in the Blues Hall of Fame, has won 16 Blues Music Awards (among 56 nominations), and there’s currently a musical in development called Slippin’ Through The Cracks with sights on Broadway. “I joke and talk about sex in a way that people can understand," says Rush. "I’m all for lifting it up, because if it wasn’t for sex, none of us would be here..."
Guitarist, singer, songwriter Eric Gales is a blues firebrand. Over 30 years and 18 albums, his passion for the music and his boundless desire to keep it vital has never waned. As both an African-American left-handed guitarist of extraordinary ability and an expressive vocalist, it is natural for people to compare Eric to Hendrix. But Eric has developed a unique hybrid blues/rock sound that also draws upon influences as diverse as Albert King and Frank Gambale.
The Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival (HBHF) motto and mission is about hope, roots, and the connections that music makes across races, neighborhoods, and beliefs. The August Wilson African American Cultural Center celebrates that diversity and hope that you will join them, hoping for a more humane today, and a brighter tomorrow.
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Which Cruise Hits Your Groove?
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#39 Mexican Riviera: Very Limited # of Cabins Available!
#40 Western Caribbean: SOLD OUT - Join Waitlist!
#41 Southeastern Caribbean Prebooking Open Now!
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LRBC #39
MEXICAN RIVIERA
Sailing OCT 28~NOV 4, 2023
on Holland America’s ms Koningsdam from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan & Puerto Vallarta.
VERY LIMITED
NUMBER OF CABINS
AVAILABLE!
Call (816) 753-7979
 LRBC #40WESTERN CARIBBEAN
Sailing JAN. 28~FEB. 4, 2024
on Holland America’s ms Nieuw Statendam from Ft. Lauderdale to Grand Cayman, Roatán, Honduras & Costa Maya, Mexico.
LRBC #41
SOUTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN
Sailing Oct. 26~Nov. 2, 2024
on Holland America’s ms Eurodam from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Aruba & Curacao.
$500 per cabin (not per person) fully-refundable deposit holds your
space in line to book a cabin once bands are announced later this year.
PREBOOK is open! Visit HERE or call (816) 753-7979
LRBC ##42 EASTERN CARIBBEAN
Sailing Jan 26~Feb 2, 2025
on Holland America’s Rotterdam from
Ft. Lauderdale to Tortola (BVI),
St. Thomas (USVI) & Puerto Plata
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PREBOOK is open! $500 per cabin (not per person) fully-refundable deposit holds your space in line to book a cabin.
Call (816) 753-7979 or visit HERE.
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• Las Vegas Blues Society 1st Friday Jam
• Ouachita River Blues Society 3rd Thursday Juke Joint Jam
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 (LAS VEGAS, NV) - The Las Vegas Blues Society holds it’s monthly jam on the 1st Friday of the month at the Sand Dollar Lounge, 3355 Spring Mountain Rd., Las Vegas, Nevada.
Oct 6th's host band is LowDown, featuring some of the very best in Las Vegas blues musicians in a brand new band. Bring your axe and voice and jam with the pros.
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 (MONROE, LA) - Enoch's Irish Pub, 507 Louisville Ave., in Monroe, Louisiana, hosts the Ouachita River Blues Society Juke Joint Jam on October 19th. The jams are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month.
The Ouachita River Blues Society nonprofit group of area blues enthusiasts was formed in 2023. Their mission is to “honor blues heritage through promotion, education, and support of live music in the Northeast Louisiana Delta.”
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Little G Weevil :: IF I MAY
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 One of Eastern Europe’s favorite artists carrying the torch of traditional blues is Hungarian bluesman Little G Weevil. The singer, songwriter, guitarist made many a long pilgrimage to America to study and immerse himself in the artform at its source in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Memphis, where he worked as a dishwasher in a club on Beale Street just to be close to the action. Little G won the International Blues Challenge in 2013 as a solo act, tours internationally and has recorded eight albums.
His latest, If I May, is a collection of ten original compositions that run the gamut of blues, jazz, swing, and ragtime. His devotion to authenticity is matched with creative lyricism that presents timely topics and modern jargon over timeless musical forms. Joining Little G at Sounday Studio in Budapest, Hungary are drummer Tom Kiss, piano man Mr. Jambalaya, Csaba Pengo on upright bass, and K.C. Brown on harmonica, with producer, engineer Gabor Vastag adding backup vocals.
The set opens with a Chicago Blues rocker, then onto a reflection on current events featuring barrelhouse piano and a loose swinging New Orleans parade beat. Little G then seeks redemption on a rumbling blues, updates an old song vignette, then dives into a straight-ahead blues.
He gives a voice to those who would rise up against their oppressors with an evocative mixture of a Hill Country meets Mali and Delta trance aesthetics. A Basin Street rhumba bemoans the plight of African workers toiling for the white man’s treasure, and he lambastes modern education in the age of the internet on a tongue-in-cheek two-beat. The rebuke continues in a rolling slow blues expressing his fears for our world. Little G ends the set with a percolating blues that cooks up a convincing love potion.
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Kid Ramos and Laura Chavez!
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Just In Case... plus Holidays & Birthdays
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 • Oct is "International Drum Month"
“I was always a very commanding person on the stage — If it ain’t right, you better fix it. I was tough back in the young days. Get the hell off my stage! What the hell was that note? I did that for years but I learned to get along.”"
...Sugar Pie DeSanto
Birthdays: Oct 5-Roy Book Binder (1943), Rick Estrin (1949); Oct 6-Cheryl O'Grady Yearnshaw (great friend & BFG Sales Dir.), Diunna Greenleaf (1957); Oct 8-Andy “T” Talamantez; Oct 9 O.V. Wright (1939-1980); Oct 10-Cyril Neville (1948); Oct 12 Nappy Brown (1929-2008), James "Sugar Boy" Crawford Jr. (1934-2012), Sam Moore (1935), Barbara Blue; Oct 13 Dorothy Moore (1946); Oct 14 Jimmy Liggins (1924-1983), Son Thomas (1926-1993), Kenny Neal (1957); Oct 15 Victoria Spivey (1906-1976); Oct 16 Sugar Pie DeSanto (1935 pictured), Big Joe Williams (1903-1982); Oct 18 Chuck Berry (1926-2017), Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006)
 Just in case: "Kids Music Day" is the first Friday of October, which is October 6 this year... a day to inspire kids to assimilate music into their lives.
This brings to mind the various interactive Blues In The Schools programs held around the country. There are also global youth blues music camps (photo above was taken at the Blues Lovers United San Diego Summer Youth Blues Camp finale concert).
 I'm a huge fan of also repurposing items to use as musical instruments. An empty bucket becomes a drum, empty plastic jars with beans, rice, pebbles, etc. in them become a shaker, and so on. The biggest thing about music to me is it gets kids moving and creating and interacting, while building confidence and motor skills... i.e. rhythm.
Encourage kids to write a song. There's not much that's more gratifying then seeing the smile of a child that gets to participate at any level with music. Making, playing, or even listening to music has solid academic and social benefits, especially for kids. It uplifts the mood, alleviates stress, and promotes mindful concentration.
Yep, music is a natural healer!
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King Biscuit Blues FestivalOct-04-2023 - Oct-07-2023 Helena, Arkansas, USA
Front Porch Blues BashOct-05-2023 - Oct-07-2023 Helena, Arkansas, USA
Redwood Coast Music Festival
Oct-05-2023 - Oct-08-2023
Eureka, California
Chain O' Lakes Blues Festival
Oct-06-2023 - Oct-07-2023
Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA
Napa Blues, Brews & BBQ
Oct-07-2023
Napa, California, USA
Blues By the River
Oct-07-2023
Sacramento, California, USA
Forgotten Music Festival
Oct-07-2023 - Oct-08-2023
Port St. Joe, Florida, Florida, USA
Pinetop Homecoming
Celebration
Oct-08-2023
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Super Blues Sunday
Cat Head Mini Fest
Oct-8-2023
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Deep Blues Festival
Oct-12-2023 - Oct-15-2023
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
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Jimiway Blues Festival
Oct-13-2023 - Oct-14-2023
Ostrów, Poland
Garvin Gate Blues Festival
Oct-13-2023 - Oct-14-2023
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Reds & Greens
True Blues Fest
Oct-21-2023
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Hambone Festival
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Oct-29-2023
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
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Blues Heaven Festival
Nov-10-2023 - Nov-11-2023
Frederikshavn, Denmark
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