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 Here’s California native, award-winning Little Village recording artist Tia Carroll. Tia has quietly accumulated one of the most impressive entertainment resumes in the California Bay Area and has become one of the most sought-after female singers on the West Coast. She has headlined venues and festivals all over the world with her band as well as some very well-established host bands. She's shared stages with legends such as Ray Charles, Jimmy McCracklin, Syl Johnson, Sugar Pie DeSanto, B.B. King, Tommy Castro, Elvin Bishop, Igor Prado, Eric Gales and more.
Among her busy calendar, Tia will perform Oct 4th at the Redwood Coast Music Festival in Eureka, CA, before heading back to Spain for a week where she had toured during June-July. In the month of Nov she has an exciting tour of France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium.
Photo: Pinkie Rideau
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Last Chance for BluesCentric & BFG T-Shirt Giveaway!
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We're giving away a killer blues or rock n' roll t-shirt to 5 lucky winners! Choose from Lead Belly, Jimi Hendrix, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Aretha, Woodstock, Aerosmith and dozens more, and include on your entry form.
Enter here on the Blues Festival Guide web (US Residents only. And be assured, we absolutely do not sell our email lists).
Hurry and signup as winners will be picked on September 10 at 3pm (PST).
Find the wide variety of not only artists T's, but collections as well on BluesCentric.
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Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival to feature top artists plus free admission
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(NEW ORLEANS, LA) - The Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival returns to Lafayette Square Park (602 St. Charles Ave.) in New Orleans for its 17th edition on October 11-13. Admission is free and open to the public. Friday and Saturday times are 5:30pm-8:30pm and Sunday is 11am-8:30pm.
This award-winning event will feature two stages of music, a large selection of the best barbecue vendors in the region and a local arts market. The festival is a presentation of the nonprofit New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.
Performers include: Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials, Irma Thomas & the Professionals, Kenny Neal, Marcia Ball, Leyla McCalla, Sue Foley, Nikki Hill, James Cotton Tribute with Mark Hummel & Steve Freund, Chris Thomas King, Eric Lindell, Little Freddie King, James Rivers Movement, Joe Krown +1 featuring Papa Mali, Sierra Green & the Giants, Mitch Woods & his Rocket 88s, Billy Iuso, Les Getrex & Creole Cookin, Sunpie Barnes & the Louisiana Sunspots.
The oral history stage at Gallier Hall returns to the 2024 Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival. Artist interviews will be held indoors in this intimate setting Saturday, October 12 and Sunday, October 13 afternoons. Get to know the festival performers, up close and personal!
The Jazz & Heritage Foundation will auction off a customized guitar by Painted Axe autographed be all the festival’s performers. The auction will benefit the programs of the Jazz & Heritage Foundation including the music education initiatives in New Orleans.
VIP Experience Passes are available to those looking for a premium festival experience. For more event and foundation information, visit here. The official festival broadcast partner is WWOZ New Orleans 90.7 FM.
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Bons Temps et Bons Amis… Good times and Good Friends!
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Soak up the music, the food, and the good vibes on this New Orleans music festival at sea! The 2nd annual Big Easy Cruise sets sail January 5–12, 2025 from Ft. Lauderdale, FL with stops in Key West, Belize City, and Cozumel. There's round-the-clock concerts and entertainment; interactive events with artists; New Orleans themed special events; exciting ports of call; 7 nights of luxury on the highly rated Nieuw Amsterdam; sailing with like-minded music fans, and more!
2025 Lineup: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue - Keb' Mo' - St. Paul & The Broken Bones - The Allman Betts Band - Tab Benoit - Anders Osborne - Marcia Ball - The Soul Rebels - Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen - Sugaray Rayford - Johnny Sansone - Chambers DesLauriers Blind Boys of Alabama - Louisiana’s LeRoux - Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers - John Boutte - Erica Falls & Vintage Soul - John “Papa” Gros - Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns - Sierra Green & The Giants - Bender Brass Band ft. Sugaray Rayford, Johnny Sansone, Chambers DesLauriers - Bonerama - Tin Men - Washboard Chaz Blues Trio - Joe Krown - Minx Burlesque - Big Chief Monk Boudreaux - J'Wan Boudreaux - Chef Kevin Belton - Frenchy - Co-Host Cole Williams - Music Host Keith Spera!
StarVista LIVE’s Big Easy Cruise and Sandy Beaches Cruise have joined together in a partnership to benefit The Americana Music Association (AMA) through some on-board fundraising on their January 2025 voyages.
Tickets are going fast for the 2025 Big Easy Cruise and you can save on your cabin price with our promo code BLUESGUIDE. For more cruise information, visit here.
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Drive The Great River Road in September
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 The Mississippi River is the primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota, it flows south for over 2000 miles ending at the Gulf of Mexico.
The Great River Road is an historic, scenic drive that traces the river’s course through ten border states.
The Mississippi has created the richest farmland in the country, produced catastrophic floods and defined "The Land Where the Blues Began.”
Help the Delta Blues Museum celebrate September as “Drive the Great River Road Month" with one of their partners, the Mississippi River Parkway Commission.
The Delta Blues Museum is an official Great River Road Interpretive Center. Check out their Gift Shop for Mississippi Delta souvenirs, from CDs and books to posters and tees.
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• Suncoast Blues Society Blues Challenge Sept 15
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 (ST. PETERSBURG, FL) - The Suncoast Blues Society will be holding their Regional IBC Challenge on September 15th at Bayboro Brewery (2390 5th Ave So.) in St Petersburg, Florida. The competition between multiple regional bands and solo/duo artists will begin between 2-3pm. Tickets are $10 advance, $15 at the door. The winners will move on to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN held January 2025 where they will represent the Suncoast Blues Society.
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FREE Health Screenings for musicians at AMERICANAFEST
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 (NASHVILLE, TN) - The Blues Foundation has partnered with AMERICANAFEST and will offer free health screenings to musicians, Sept 19-20, through their wonderful HART Fund program. The screenings will take place at Embassy Suites By Hilton in downtown Nashville, the host hotel for the festival.
AMERICANAFEST actually runs Sept 17-21 across an astounding 60+ various Nashville venues.
Among some of the several dozens of artists appearing are:
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones with Jimmie Dale  Gilmore, Ruthie Foster, Paul Thorn, Shemekia Copeland, Vanessa Collier, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Sugaray Rayford, Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band, Jontavious Willis, and Danielle Nicole!
The festival includes seminars, panels and networking, plus intimate showcases each night.
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Gerald McClendon :: DOWN AT THE JUKE JOINT
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 Sweet soul music – It's that magical music whose classic sounds made history with legendary artists like Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Solomon Burke to name just a few. Those greats have disappeared, leaving only the echoes of their soulful essence. But there's one soul stirrer whose voice still caresses a lyric like a lover should – Chicago's Gerald McClendon. He's a shamefully unheralded classic R&B stylist with a voice so smooth and a feeling so deep that he's known as “The Soul Keeper." And best of all, he's got a new album to showcase his rich vocal stylings.
McClendon's latest, Down At The Juke Joint, on Delta Roots Records, overflows with throbbing old-school soul, with songs created by criminally talented songwriter, drummer, and producer Twist Turner, and brought to life by the soul keeper's passionate pipes. The dozen songs here offer a heartfelt selection of lover's laments and smooth ballads meant for late nights filled with languorous glances and slow dancing.
Down at the Juke Joint is a soulful journey of deeply rich vocals and luxurious musical arrangements, all elegantly wrapped around the many shades of love by the soul keeper – Gerald McClendon. Sweet soul music, indeed.
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Birthdays & Just In Case...
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Just In Case... plus upcoming Holidays & Birthdays
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 • Sept is National Bourbon Heritage Month
• Sept 21 - International Day of Peace
• Sept 25 - National One-Hit Wonder Day
"There's a cure for the summertime blues!...
Music and the outdoors"
Birthdays: Sept 6-Jimmy Reed (1925-1976); Sept 7-Little Milton Campbell (1934-2005), Latimore (1939); Sept 8-Harmonica Fats (1927-2000), Guitar Shorty (1939-2022), Derrick "D'Mar" Martin (pictured); Sept 9-Otis Redding (1941-1967), Inez Foxx (1942); Sept 10-Roy Brown (1925-1981), Johnny Rawls (1952); Sept 11-Barbeque Bob (1902-1931), John “Juke” Logan (1946-2013); Sept 12-Alger "Texas" Alexander (1900-1954), Gus Cannon (1883-1979); Sept 13-Charles Brown (1922-1999); Sept 15-Silas Hogan (1911-1994), Snooky Pryor (1921-2006); Sept 16-B.B. King aka Rily B. King (1925-2015), Little Willie Littlefield (1931-2013), Billy Boy Arnold (1935); Sept 17-Henry Butler (1948-2019); Sept 18-Vanessa Collier (1987)
 Just in Case: September 19 is "National Women Road Warrior Day." This brought to mind touring blues women. Now it may sound glamourous but touring has it's challenges and certainly for women as well. Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith (whom Ma took under her wing), started out with traveling minstrel shows.
"During the decade of the 1920s, it was the women singers that dominated the early blues recordings. Many or them came from the black vaudeville houses that provided employment for these artists. Another source of exposure for their talents was with the Theater Owner’s Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) where they would perform on stage in small towns and metropolitan cities throughout the country." writes MojoHand. "They traveled from state to state with the “Medicine Show” or the vaudeville circuit, spreading the blues to the public." They paved the road for the countless blues women road warriors touring today.
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Big Blues Bender
Sep-05-2024 - Sep-08-2024
Las Vegas, Nevada USA
Tim Hortons
Southside Shuffle
Blues and Jazz Festival
Sep-06-2024 - Sep-08-2024 Port Credit, Ontario, Canada
Red, White & Blues FestivalSep-06-2024 - Sep-07-2024 Fredonia, New York, USA
15th Niagara Falls
Blues Festival
Sep-13-2024 - Sep-14-2024 Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Léman Blues FestivalSep-13-2024 - Sep-14-2024 Annemasse, France
Telluride Blues Festival
Sep-13-2024 - Set-15-2024
Telluride, Colorado USA
Mitchell Creek
Rock N Blues FestivalSep-13-2024 - Sep-15-2024 Kandanga, Australia
21st Greenbelt
Blues FestivalSep-14-2024 Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Up the River Blues FestivalSep-14-2024 Ossining, New York, USA
Orkney Blues FestivalSep-20-2024 - Sep-22-2024 Stromness, United Kingdom
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13th Blue Ridge Blues and BBQ
Sep-21-2024 Blue Ridge, California USA
Black Prairie Blues FestSep-21-2024 West Point, Mississippi, USA
Crooked Eye Blues Fest
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Sep-21-2024
Springfield, Tennessee, USA
Kern River Blues N Rock Fest
Sep-26-2024 - Sep-29-2024
Kernville, California USA
Big Steam Blues & Roots
Music FestivalSep-27-2024 - Sep-28-2024 Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
Lancaster Roots and Blues FestivalSep-27-2024 - Sep-29-2024 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Blues on the MesaSep-28-2024 Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Chain O' Lakes Blues FestivalOct-04-2024 - Oct-05-2024 Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA
Reds & Greens True Blues FestOct-05-2024 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Forgotten Music FestivalOct-05-2024 - Oct-06-2024 Port St. Joe, Florida, USA
King Biscuit Blues FestivalOct-09-2024 - Oct-12-2024 Helena, Arkansas, USA
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