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Photo Moments with the 21st Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Here's 24 year-old David Julia is a guitarist, singer-songwriter, and entertainer from Central Florida taken aboard the Oct 2023
Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise
(he's become a favorite on the LRBC in general!).
David started his professional career at only ten years old and just a few years later was playing the Blues across Florida. He's a talented and respected "old soul," and an inspiration to his peers, his humble but a force to be reckoned with. His CD, Inspired honoring those who blues masters that have inspired him, was produced when he was 18 by Mike Zito on Vizztone Records.
Photo: Michele Lundeen
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66th GRAMMY Awards Blues & Roots Nominees
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 (LOS ANGELES, CA) – The 66th GRAMMY Awards took place Feb 4, 2024 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California. The Premiere Ceremony featured Best Contemporary Blues Album Nominees Larkin Poe in the opening ceremonies. I really was looking forward to hearing them and for the world to experience these talented and unique siblings, but apparently the Grammy producers thought that a mashup of Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” with a big-ass band and what is normally a riveting A Cappella, powerful vocal act, Pop Vocal Album Nominee Pentatonix, plus Christian music Nominee Jordin Sparks, and percussionist Sheila E. And though the crowd seemed to approve enough (no, they didn’t go crazy), I personally didn’t feel like it did these talented artists or their genres much justice. On the other hand, Gospel Performance Nominee/Winner Kirk Franklin and his full on stage at the Premiere brought the house down with a powerful, uplifting performance. Joni Mitchell completely tugged our emotional heartstrings during the regular GRAMMY broadcast as did Tracy Chapman, and the Tina Turner tribute was a showstopper.
The Premiere ceremony honored the following GRAMMY Winners in the overall Blues-Roots type categories:
Best Traditional Blues Album: All My Love for You - Bobby Rush
Best Contemporary Blues Album: Blood Harmony - Larkin Poe
Best Roots Gospel Album: Echoes Of The South - Blind Boys Of Alabama
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Count Basie Orchestra Directed by Scotty Barnhart, Basie Swings the Blues
Best Album Notes: Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos -
Robert Gordon & Deanie Parker, album notes writers (Various Artists)
Best Historical Album: Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos - Robert Gordon & Deanie Parker, album notes writers (Various Artists)
Best Regional Roots Music Album (Tied):
New Beginnings - Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. & The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band
Live: Orpheum Theater Nola - Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
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11th Annual Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Festival Feb 10
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 (BATON ROUGE, LA) - The 11th Annual Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Festival will be held outdoors at North Boulevard Town Square Lawn Square Stage in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana on February 10.
The 11th Annual Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Festival is family friendly and free to the public. It features continuous live music of various genres, a Vendor’s Village and Food Court filled with festival food favorites for this annual celebration. Lawn seating, so bring your chairs.
This year’s lineup to date features blues, soul, R&B, reggae, gospel, jazz, pop/rock, spoken word and comedy. Performers include host Henry Turner, Jr. & Flavor, The Listening Room All-Stars including Kelton ‘Nspire Harper, Ervin “Maestro Foster, comedian Eddie “Cool” Deemer, the downhome blues of SmokeHouse and Mamie Porter, Robert “The Juice” Lenoir, John “The Boss Man” Hall's James Brown Tribute, the Phoenix Rouge Dance Troupe, Kevin White, Gemini Sunrise, Big Queen Tonya Ball Sylvas, the Zydeco band Double Trouble, King Solomon, Two Crows for Comfort, Princess Teha and more!
The documentary We’re Going Down to the Mardi Gras will also be screened at the River Center Library across the street from the festival stage at 2:30pm, 3:30pm and 5pm. It is history of the event, narrated by festival founder Henry Turner Jr.
VIP and Big Chief Packages are also available for purchase
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Buddy Guy to headline special Black History Month event at high school Feb 20
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 (EVERGREEN PARK, IL) - Chicago blues icon Buddy Guy is set to headline a special Black History Month event at Evergreen Park Community High School (EPCHS) on Tuesday, February 20. The evening will kick off at 6pm with a biographical documentary screening, followed by Evergreen Park Community High School students Nikolus Guy and Samatha Ricks interviewing Guy on stage at the EPCHS’s Marshall Batho Auditorium, 9901 S. Kedzie Ave., in Evergreen Park, Illinois.
Tickets for this event will be open to EPCHS students, staff and families first, and any extra tickets will be made available 24-48 hours before showtime. Doors to the event will open at 5:30pm.
The event, celebrating Buddy Guy's remarkable career and contribution to Black history, promises an engaging dialogue and an intimate experience with the blues legend.
The 87-year-old Mr. Guy has won eight Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honors. He was ranked 27th in Rolling Stone magazine’s 2023 list of the greatest guitarists of all time, and Eric Clapton once described him as “the best guitar player alive.”
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3rd Annual Charlie Baty Celebration Mar 28
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(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Harlow's and Swell Productions present 3rd Annual Charlie Baty Concert Fundraiser Thursday, March 28 featuring Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Texas guitar legend Anson Funderburgh, Alabama Mike, Marcel Smith, Kyle Rowland, and Quique Gomez.
Harlow’s is located at 2708 J St., Sacramento, California. Doors at 6pm and showtime 7pm. This is a fundraiser for The Sacramento Blues Society Little Charlie Baty Memorial Music Scholarship.
Sacramento’s own legendary Rick Estrin and the Nightcats travel the world, spreading the joy and power of their music. So in 2024, you only will get to see them maybe two times in Sacramento if you are lucky.
Larger-than-life blues star Rick Estrin has piloted the wildly fun and musically fearless Rick Estrin & The Nightcats for the last fifteen years, touring the world and proving night after night why they have a shelf full of awards. The limitless combined talents of blues harmonica virtuoso and sly, soulful singer Estrin, guitar mastermind Kid Andersen, keyboard wizard Lorenzo Farrell and endlessly creative drummer Derrick “D’Mar” Martin take Estrin’s inventive, original songs to new and unexpected places. On stage, the band’s ability to deliver an unpredictable, no-holds-barred show is unmatched.
This event is all ages. Tickets are $40 Advanced, $45 Day of Show or $75 Preferred Seating. All sales are final. No refunds.
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Where the history of the Blues lives on
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 (CLARKSDALE, MS) - This year, the annual observance of Black History Month coincides with the 45th anniversary of the Delta Blues Museum, Mississippi’s oldest music museum. Black History Month highlights the contributions of African-Americans to our collective culture.
The Museum’s Gift Shop offers resources of that history in the Delta region, such as Mississippi Delta Bluesman, a CD that features David “Honeyboy” Edwards. Edwards played throughout the Delta in the 1930s-40s with the likes of Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, and Big Joe Williamson. Mississippi Delta Bluesman features Edwards’ soulful singing and sharp guitar riffs on 13 tracks of classic Delta country blues. The CD comes with a 26-page booklet about his musical legacy with historic photos.
Two books capture the past in images: The Hidden History of the Mississippi Delta and Clarksdale and Coahoma County, while Lost Delta Found reveals how that history was documented in the 1940s by Fisk scholars. And the Gift Shop also offers souvenirs of the Crossroads, the junction of Highways 61/49 near Clarksdale that is credited as the hub of the Delta blues.
Your purchases help the museum preserve and present the legacy of the Delta Blues. These items are available in the Delta Blues Museum Gift Shop at 1 Blues Alley, Clarksdale, Mississippi or online.
You can also learn more in their Explore and Learn feature about the city’s New World District, an historic site of local Black culture.
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• Boise Blues Society Fat Tuesday Celebration Feb 13
• Reno Blues Society Mardi Gras Party Feb 17
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(BOISE, ID) - Tuesday, Feb 13, the Boise Blues Society's (BBS) Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Celebration will be held at The Sapphire Room at the Riverside Hotel, 2900 West Chinden Blvd., Boise, Idaho. Blue Roux and Trials & Tribulations perform and doors open at 6pm. Tix start at $20. Proceeds go to support the BBS “Blues in the Schools” program.
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(RENO, NV) - The Reno Blues Society presents their annual Mardi Gras & Silent Auction happening Saturday, February 17 at Boomtown Casino, 2100 Garson R., Reno, Nevada. Doors open at 7pm and showtime is 7:30-10:15pm.
Appearing will be Kyle Rowland and the Buddy Emmer Band.
Festive and colorful attire is encouraged to celebrate in style. There will be free beads at the door!
There will also be great silent auction items to bid on. Auction and event proceeds will benefit the RBS Music Grants Program for regional school children.
Tickets are $35 online or at the door. Find them here.
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Rick Vito :: CADILLAC MAN
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 On his latest album, Cadillac Man, guitarist and performer Rick Vito includes a song titled “You Can't Stop A Guitar (From Playing the Blues).” That could easily be the motto of Vito's long and successful musical career, and it's certainly the welcome theme of the Grammy-nominated guitarist's first album in five years due for release March 22.
Vito is probably best known for his role in the legendary supergroup Fleetwood Mac from 1987-1991, when he revived the rootsy blues feeling of the band’s early years. In 2008 he partnered with Mick Fleetwood to form the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band and was nominated for a 2010 Grammy in the Best Traditional Blues category as both artist and producer for the album Blue Again.
Vito’s unique slide and lead guitar work has enhanced hundreds of recordings and performances by such legendary artists as Bob Seger, Bonnie Raitt, John Mayall, Albert Collins, John Prine, and many more. Seger called his iconic slide guitar solo on the song “Like A Rock,” “the single most spectacular solo I’d ever heard.” That's the solo that got massive exposure as the guitar voice on a Chevrolet truck commercial that ran from 1991 to 2004.
"...a master of the instrument” John Mayall
Vito has been cranking out solo albums since 1992, and Cadillac Man is his first since 2019's Soulshaker. This release of a dozen tracks shows off his haunting slide technique, his songwriting skills with some fresh new material, a welcome dip back into his musical past and one magical cover.
"Love Crazy Baby"
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Tuba Skinny "Mardi Gras Mambo"
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Just In Case... plus upcoming Holidays & Birthdays
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 • February is Black History Month
• February is American Heart Month
• Feb 10 Chinese New Year
• Feb 13 Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday
• Feb 14 Valentine's Day
Birthdays: Feb 8-Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (1889-1970), Floyd Dixon (1929-2006), Eddie "Guitar" Burns (1928-2012); Feb 9-Johnny Heartsman (1937-1996); Feb 11-Josh White (1908-1969), Phillip Walker (1937-2010), Little Johnny Taylor (1943), Otis Clay (1942); Feb 12-Pink Anderson (1937-2010); Feb 13-Sugaray Rayford (1969); Feb 14-"Magic Sam" Maghett (1937-1969), Maceo Parker (1943); Feb 15-James "Kokomo" Arnold (1901-1968), Gary Clark Jr. (1984); Feb 16- Bill Doggett (1916), Super Chikan (1951), Andra Faye (1960); Feb 17-Lou Ann Barton (1954); Feb 18-Irma Thomas (1941); Feb 19-Sam Myers (1936-2006), William "Smokey" Robinson (1940), Robert “Bilbo” Walker (1937-2017); Feb 20-Jimmy "Papa" Yancey (1898-1951), Joanne Shaw Taylor (1985)
 Just in case: Feb 11 is "Get Out Your Guitar Day" According to some sources, the world's oldest surviving guitar is more than 400 years old. It was built in the late 16th century by a Portuguese man named Belchior Dias.
I'm sure you "guitarheads" have a wide variety of guitars. Give them some love!
Feb 13 is "World Radio Day." The radio is a medium that has sustained its usage over time. It's a platform for providing information, educating people, allowing expression across cultures, and of course, playing our favorite music. What will you have on the radio" this Fat Tuesday Feb 13?
 Feb 17 is "Random Act of Kindness Day" Go ahead... yep, we should do this every day! Compliment someone, pay it forward, let someone in line ahead of you, or even just share some news about your favorite music or artist. Keep those eyes smiling at the very least.
Treat people the way you'd like to be treated... ya know, the ol' Golden Rule. It can literally make someone's day... and yours, too!
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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
Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Festival
Feb-10-2024
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Winterfolk Blues & Roots Festival
Feb-16-2024 - Feb-18-2024
Toronto, Canada
Boquete Jazz and Blues Festival
Feb-16-2024 - Feb-18-2024
Boquete, Panama
Poulsbo Blues & Jazz Festival
Feb-24-2024
Poulsbo, Washington, USA
Vero Beach Blues Festival
Feb-24-2024 - Feb-25-2024
Vero Beach, Florida, USA
Clearwater Sea-Blues Festival
Feb-24-2024 - Feb-25-2024
Clearwater, 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
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Mar-09-2024
Apache Junction, Arizona, USA
Blues Bash at the Ranch
Mar-15-2024 - Mar-17-2024
Bradenton, Florida, USA
Venice Blues Festival
Mar-22-2024 - Mar-23-2024
Venice, Florida, USA
Loreto International Blues Festival
Mar-22-2024 - Mar-23-2024
Loreto, Mexico
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
Juke Joint Fest & Related EventsApr-11-2024 - Apr-14-2024 Clarksdale, Mississippi, 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
SoCal Blues & Jazz FestivalApr-20-2024 - Apr-21-2024 Murrieta, California USA
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