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Photo Moments with the 21st Annual BFG Magazine!
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 It was a treat to catch a photo with Kate and Nick Moss together. on the Oct 2023 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise (LRBC).
Chicago native, guitarist and vocalist, Alligator recording artist Nick Moss currently tours with his band that features New Jersey native, harmonica player and vocalist Dennis Gruenling, both multi-award winning artists.
Kate Moss is also an outstanding guitarist herself and is featured with the Chicago-based Smiley Tillmon Band.
Photo: Michele Lundeen
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The Blues Foundation is official sponsor of the 21st Annual Blues Festival Guide!
Correction: *Last week I couldn't believe that it was once again the 1st newsletter of a brand new year and I accidently said it was Vol 1/Issue 1. Well, silly me, it's actually Volume 19, so there's that. Hope the new year is treating you well so far. Onward and upward!
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2024 Women in Blues Showcase in Memphis Jan 18
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 (MEMPHIS, TN) - National Women in Blues and Endless Blues Records present the 2024 WiB Showcase, thanks in large part to the International Blues Challenge and The Blues Foundation.
This 12th edition of the WiB Showcase takes place at Alfred’s on Beale Street and B.B. King Blvd, January 18th from 11:30am-4pm and is free to the public, with donations suggested.
This event is a fundraiser for the Blues Foundation General Fund. The WiB mission is to level the field for female blues artists and musicians and they are excited to be showcasing female blues artists in Memphis.
The 2024 showcase MC and opening performer is the dynamic Gina Coleman and Misty Blues. Gina and her band Misty Blues have recorded over a dozen albums with tracks featuring artists including Charles Neville, Eric Gales, Joe Louis Walker, Justin Johnson, and Kat Riggins, and has been awarded 2021 CFAB Music Realm Entertainer of the Year.
The talented 2024 performing artists are Alex Richman, The Bustle - Sami Chong, Jennifer Swistun, and Jenny McPhail, Chantell with the Diego Mongue Band, Dawn Lepere (LeFever), Mandalyn & The Hunters, Kiersi Joli, PK Hanna, Sunny Bleau, The Gayle Harrod Band, Niecie, Sayed Sabrina.
Sponsored by: Endless Blues Records & Mick Kolassa, Terri Robbins, Nancy "Patron Queen" Gaylord, Mary Certain, Memphis Blues Society & Music On The Couch and Andrea Zucker Photography.
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Blues Festival Mascot Design Contest ends Jan 27
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 (WALLACE, ID) - Here’s your chance to leave your mark on the Historic Wallace Blues Festival.
They are getting ready to launch the new website this month and have tickets on sale, but… they need a Mascot!
They are looking for single character art only and no background art. Artwork must be an original creation and can be human, animal, vegetable, mineral, whatever you imagine!
This contest is open to anyone and everyone!
Submissions are due by Jan 27 and the winner will be announced Jan 31. Email your entry in JPEG or PNG format only.
The winner will receive a cash award, t-shirts, a 4-day BluesFest pass for two, and a prize basket of goodies.
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39th IBC Week kicks off in Memphis Jan 16
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 (MEMPHIS, TN) – Congratulations go out to all the bands representing at the 2024 IBC in Memphis, Tennessee. There will be 158 competing acts from 32 states and 12 countries playing on and around Beale Street.
Here's some IBC week highlights...
TUES JAN 16
• Official Opening | Rum Boogie Café 6pm
Additional showcases in multiple clubs on Beale Street
• International Night 6:30pm | Rum Boogie Café, Blues Hall, Blues City, Club 152, Wet Willies
WEDS JAN 17
• Pacific NW Showcase 11am-4pm | Club 152 (1st Flr)
• HART Health Fair Noon – 2:30 pm | Club 152 (2nd Flr)
• Blues Society Leader Roundtable 1pm | Hyatt Centric Beale Street
• Shake Off Your Jet Lag 2-4pm | Silky O’ Sullivan’s with Barbara Blue & friends
• IBC Quarterfinals – Round One 5pm | Beale Street Clubs
Jams after competition: International Jam - Blues City Café; Open Jams - Alfred’s and Club 152; Canadian Artist Jam - Rum Boogie Café
THURS JAN 18
• Film Screening “The Blues Society” 11:30am-1:30pm | Blues City Café
• National Women in Blues (WiB) Showcase 11:30am-4pm | Alfred’s
(Benefitting Generation Blues)
• HART Health Fair Noon – 2:30 pm | Club 152 Screenings
• Musician Workshop: Trademark, Copyright, Licensing 12:30-1:30pm | King’s Palace
• Master Classes for IBC Challengers 2pm-3:15 pm (various instruments, instructors, and locations)
• Hohner Harmonica Party 3-5pm | A. Schwab’s
• IBC Quarterfinals – Round Two 5pm | Beale Street Clubs
Jams after competition: Future of the Blues Youth Jam - Blues City Café; Open Jams - Alfred’s, Hall of Fame Jam - Rum Boogie Café; All-Star Jam - Club 152 hosted by John Del Toro Richardson
FRI JAN 19
• KBA Brunch 10:30 am | Hyatt Centric
• Youth Blues Instrument Workshops 11am-12pm (various instruments, instructors, and locations)
• Hohner Harmonica Party Noon-2pm | A. Schwab’s - includes Level 2 Workshop with Nic Clark
• Youth Blues Band Workshop 12:30-2pm | Club 152 presented by the Pinetop Perkins Foundation
• Youth Showcases 6pm | Beale Street Club
• IBC Semi-Finals 7:20pm | Beale Street Clubs
Jams after competition:
Club 152, Blues City Café, Alfred’s, Wet Willies, Rum Boogie Café
SAT JAN 20
• IBC Finals & Best Self-Produced CD Winner Noon | Orpheum Theatre
• IBC Silent Auction Noon-6:30pm | Orpheum Theatre Doors 11:30am
• Rockin’ Soul Blues Blowout after competition | Rum Boogie Café featuring Terrie Odabi and Annika Chambers-Deslauriers
Find more details and full schedule here...
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Magic City Blues Festival is on "hiatus"
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 (BILLINGS, MT) - After 22 years, the Magic City Blues Festival in Billings, Montana is taking, what founder Pam Goodridge is calling, a "hiatus."
Goodridge and her husband Tim first launched the festival in downtown Billings. During the last two years, the August two-day festival was held at MetraPark. There are many reasons they have decided not to do it this time around and the top one is, "we have no venue," Goodridge explained.
"The Yellowstone County Commissioners wrote me a letter and said that they didn't want Magic City Blues to be at MetraPark anymore," says Goodridge. "They said it was a conflict of interest since my husband, Tim, works there, despite approving the event in 2022 and 2023."
Every fall, after each festival comes to an end, she said they think very hard if they want to do it all again. "My family has enjoyed creating and producing events (over 1/2 dozen) in Billings over the years," says Goodridge. They thank and appreciate everyone for their support of the Magic City Blues Festival since it's inception and for all the fun had.
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The Blues Foundation’s 2024 Blues Hall of Fame Inductees
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 (MEMPHIS, TN) - The Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame honors those who have made the Blues timeless through performance, documentation, and recording.
The Blues Hall Of Fame Class of 2024 (44th class) Induction Ceremony will take place Wednesday, May 8th at The Canon Center For The Performing Arts, 255 N. Main St., in Memphis, Tennessee. A cocktail reception honoring the BHOF Inductees and Blues Music Awards nominees will begin at 5:30pm., with the formal inductions commencing at 6:30pm.
The Blues Hall of Fame will showcase several special items representing the 2024 Class of inductees. These artifacts will be on display for public viewing beginning the first week of May and will remain on view for visitor enjoyment over the next twelve months.
The BHOF Inductees include exceptional musicians, educators, innovators, entrepreneurs, and activists who have been determined to leave their mark on the world.
Performers: Jimmy Rushing, Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials, Lurrie Bell, O.V. Wright, Odetta, Scrapper Blackwell, Sugar Pie DeSanto
Individuals – Business, Production, Media, Academic:
William R. “Bill” Ferris, celebrated for his multifaceted contributions as an author, folklorist, professor, lecturer, and administrator.
Classic of Blues Literature: Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, by Angela Davis (Pantheon, 1998). Davis is a controversial activist, author, and professor widely known for her revolutionary politics, argues against some conventional views of women and their songs in the blues.
Classic of Blues Recording - Album:
Here's the Man!!! - Bobby Bland (Duke, 1962) Classics of Blues Recording – Single or Album Track: “Driving Wheel” – Junior Parker (Duke, 1961), “I Ain’t Got You” – Billy Boy Arnold (Vee-Jay, 1955), “Key to the Highway” – Jazz Gillum (Bluebird, 1940), “Okie Dokie Stomp” – Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown (Peacock, 1954), “Why Don’t You Do Right?” – Lil Green (Bluebird, 1941)
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45th anniversary of Delta Blues Museum
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 (CLARKSDALE, MS) - 2024 marks the 45th anniversary of Delta Blues Museum, Founded in January 1979, it is the world's first music museum dedicated entirely to the Blues.
To kick off the new year, the Museum Gift Shop is offering a special anthology, Delta Blues.
Produced exclusively for the Delta Blues Museum, this two-CD set of 48 tracks includes cuts by Muddy Waters, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Skip James, and Elmore James and other amazing Blues artists.
The two-CD set comes with a 40-page booklet of notes and photos. This is a limited edition. Order now — available only from the Delta Blues Museum Gift Shop.
More 45th anniversary items in the Delta Museum Gift Shop are coming soon.
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• Washington Blues Society Monthly Blues Bash
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 (SNOHOMISH, WA) - The Washington Blues Society monthly Blues Bash at CCR Restaurant & Lounge (215 Cypress Ave.) in Snohomish, Washington will feature the band Whitewing on Tuesday, January 23, from 7-9pm.
All are welcomed and there is no cover.
Please tip the band!
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THANK YOU, BROTHER BILL: A TRIBUTE TO BILL WITHERS
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 Thank You, Brother Bill: A Tribute to Bill Withers from soulful singer, guitarist, songwriter Kevin Burt and his band Big Medicine, is Burt’s second album for Gulf Coast Records. The album was recorded at The Sound Box Recording Studio, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and mixed and mastered at Dockside Studios in New Orleans.
"Kevin Burt has been a force for years and is finally getting the international recognition he so deeply deserves,” says Gulf Coast Records founder Mike Zito. “His voice is commanding and soulful and his songs are honest and from the heart. On this new album, Kevin resonates his soul with the music of Bill Withers. They have a connection deeper than their voices."
The band is Kevin Burt on guitar, harmonica, lead vocals, Scot Sutherland on bass, Ken Valdez on lead and rhythm guitar, and background vocals, and Eric Douglas on drums and percussion.
“Listening to Bill Withers tell a story or sing a song for me is one and the same,” adds Burt. “It instantly attaches itself to my soul. Mr. Withers told me in a roughly two-hour conversation we had many things that (pardon the pun) lean on today. One of those nuggets of insight was to ‘tell the stories that make me feel most vulnerable, that’s what people connect with.’ His story relates to my story. His songs relate to different points in time in my life like no other as an artist.”
"Thank You Brother Bill"
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Terrie Odabi feat. Tia Carroll - "Why Am I Treated so Bad"
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Just In Case... plus upcoming Holidays & Birthdays
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 • Martin Luther King Day Jan 15
• Australia Day Jan 26
"Hard times ain't nothing that music won't heal..."
Birthdays: Jan 11-Slim Harpo (1924-1970); Katie Webster (1936-1999), Michael "Hawkeye" Herman (1945); 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 pictured), Lester Davenport (1932-2009), Robert Wilkins (1896-1987); Jan 17-Paul Rishell (1950), Mick Taylor (1949), EG Kight (1966); Jan 19-Henry Gray (1925-2020), 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)
Just in case:
 • January 15 is "National Hat Day." If you don't regularly already, have some fun and wear and enjoy a hat of your choice and style. Do your thang!
• Jan 20th is "National DJ Day" to celebrate the work of disc jockeys everywhere. In the 1940s, Sonny Boy Williamson No. 2 (Rice Miller) brought the blues to audiences throughout the Delta via his live broadcasts from KFFA in Helena, Arkansas, and later from WROX in Clarksdale, WAZF in Yazoo City, and other stations. WDIA in Memphis had Maurice “Hot Rod” Hulbert, Riley ”B.B.” King (the "Beale Street Blues Boy"), Rufus Thomas and of course longtime DJ, Sonny Payne. Wolfman Jack was a West Coast favorite playing blues, rock n' roll and, rhythm & blues. Tip of the iceberg!
Soooo many memories with DJ's as a part our entire lives to this day, right?
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31st Martin Luther King Festival Jan-13-2024 - Jan-15-2024
Chester, South Carolina USA
International Blues Challenge
Jan-16-2024 - Jan-20-2024
Memphis, Tennessee USA
Cigar Box Guitar Festival
Jan-18-2024 - Jan-20-2024
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Go Mexico Tequila
Rock 'n Blues Explosions Fest
Jan-19-2024 - Jan-28-2024
Zihuatanejo & Ixtapa, Mexico
South Orange International
Blues Festival - Winter Edition
Jan-27-2024
South Orange , New Jersey, USA
Winter Blues Fest
Jan-27-2024
Lancaster, Ohio, USA
Winter Blues Fest
Feb-09-2024 - Feb-10-2024
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Cincinnati Winter Blues
Experience V
Feb-10-2024
Mason, Ohio, USA
Pigz in Z Hills BBQ & Blues Fest
Feb-10-2024
Zephyrhills, Florida, USA
Mahindra Blues Festival
Feb-10-2024 - Feb-11-2024
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Winterfolk Blues & Roots Festival
Feb-16-2024 - Feb-18-2024 Toronto, Canada
Poulsbo Blues & Jazz Festival
Feb-24-2024
Poulsbo, Washington, USA
Vero Beach Blues Festival
Feb-24-2024 - Feb-25-2024
Vero Beach, Florida, USA
St. Kilda Blues Festival
Mar-01-2024 - Mar-04-2024
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
24th Annual Blues Café
Mar-08-2024 - Mar-09-2024
Rothschild, Wisconsin, USA
Superstition Blues &
Brews Art Festival
Mar-09-2024
Apache Junction, Arizona, USA
Blues Bash at the Ranch
Mar-15-2024 - Mar-17-2024
Bradenton, Florida, USA
Woodystock Blues Festival
Mar-23-2024 - Mar-24-2024
Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA
Springing The Blues
Apr-05-2024 - Apr-07-2024 Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA
Tampa Bay Blues FestivalApr-12-2024 - Apr-14-2024 St Petersburg, Florida, USA
Milwaukee Blues FestivalApr-19-2024 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Buffalo Blues & Roots FestivalApr-20-2024 Buffalo, NY, New York, USA
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