From the Bluestock Festival: It is with great sadness that we share with you that our beloved co-founder, Jeff Simon is terminally ill. While we are all totally consumed with this situation, we have decided that we cannot give Bluestock 2012 the attention it needs to be a great Blues festival, and we have decided [...]
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Festivals of 2011 Bring The Blues Community Together
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens was certainly not thinking about the blues in 2011 when he wrote those famous words but they certainly seem appropriate. In 2011, the blues world had more than its share of ups and downs. Legendary performers passed away, festivals were cancelled, [...]
First Annual Trance Jam Blues Fest November 25 – 27, 2011
Otis Taylor announces the first annual Trance Jam Blues Festival which will take place on November 25 – 27, 2011 in Boulder, Co. The event will feature a weekend of public workshops and jams for musicians and fans of all levels and ages who wish to join world-renowned guitarist Bob “Steady Rollin’” Margolin, Tony Trischka [...]
Afghanistan Blues Festival
Live Blues and Rock returned to Afghanistan after going missing for thirty six year. The festival began on Saturday, October 1, 2011, and young men and women cheered and leapt into the air to the sound of music. Music has been banned in this deeply conservative Muslim country under the austere Taliban regime. Even now music shops are attacked in [...]
Perfect Weather and Legit Blues at 26th King Biscuit
the great Bobby Rush – Michael McMinn, harmonica player with The Three Generations of McMinns Papa Don McMinn on stage at the 2011 King Biscuit Don is the only man who had raised his own band, brothers Rome and Doug McMinn, and Doug’s son Michael. Bubba Sullivan and the author. Bubba has worked hard [...]
King Biscuit – Day 3
The final day of The Biscuit explodes with more music and more people. It is evident some come just for Saturday’s lineup. Additionally, the Bit-O-Blues Stage is in full swing, as is a Gospel Stage, both set up in a small park at the other end of Cherry Street from the Main Stage (think about [...]
King Biscuit Kicks Off Wednesday in Helena
The late Ray Galloway, protagonist of the King Biscuit Blues Festival for decades (Memphis, Tennessee) The King Biscuit lineup is formidable as always with great entertainment on six stages. This year the Reba Russell band will be dedicating the day to our dear departed, sorely missed friend, Ray Galloway, who passed this year. The [...]
Free Blues Festival Oct 14-16
CRESCENT CITY BLUES & BBQ FESTIVAL The sixth annual Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival (www.crescentcitybl uesfest.com) takes place Oct. 14-16 at Lafayette Square Park in New Orleans. Admission is FREE. The outstanding lineup includes Shreveport guitar shredder Kenny Wayne Shepherd, legendary soul singer Bettye LaVette, R&B soul man Mel Waiters, Louisiana blues activist Tab Benoit, [...]
5th Annual Smoke on the River BBQ & Blues Fest!
(Memphis, Tennessee) The Illinois State Barbeque cooking contest and accompanying musical events took place this year at beautiful Kesler Park on the Quincy Riverfront. There during a full moon, the Reba Russell band performed and enjoyed perfect weather and lots of fine friends. As we arrived, B. J. Allen and Blue Voodoo were entertaining the [...]
Bluestock 2011 – Awash in Music, Merriment And Memories
Skies were blue and spirits were high on Friday afternoon as the first annual Bluestock festival kicked off with two time IBC winner Lionel Young and his band, but a sense of foreboding was palpable as attendees wondered what Sunday would bring as Irene left a wake of destruction in her path up the east [...]
Blast Furnace Blues Festival Sept 16-18
BLAST FURNACE BLUES FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY HIGHMARK BLUE SHIELD SET FOR SEPT. 16-18 IN BETHLEHEM, PA Charlie Musselwhite and Buckwheat Zydeco Highlight List of 30-plus Acts Performing at New Blues Festival at SteelStacks Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, Charlie Musselwhite and Grammy Award winner Buckwheat Zydeco will highlight the lineup of more than 30 international, national and local [...]
Pennsylvania Blues Festival – A Cure For The Pocono Blues
The first annual Pennsylvania Blues Festival took place on July 30th and 31st at Blue Mountain Ski Resort in Palmerton, PA. The festival is a new event from Pocono Blues Festival producer Michael Cloeren who created the Pocono Blues Festival in 1992. When the Pocono Blues Festival was unceremoniously dumped by Big Boulder after 19 [...]
SNOWY RANGE MUSIC FESTIVAL Sept. 2,3, and 4, 2011
SNOWY RANGE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011 We are happy to announce that the third annual festival will take place the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of September, 2011 and will feature bigger stages, additional Morningstar Turf, and thirty-nine shows. We have confirmed the king of funk, George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic for Sunday night, and they [...]
Labatt Blue Blues Festival in Edmonton
(Memphis, Tennessee) After a drive to Little Rock, Arkansas, to catch a plane to Edmonton, Alberta, the Reba Russell band arrived at the Chateau Louis in this beautiful city. When changing planes this day the weather in Houston airport was a hot 100 degrees F. In Edmonton it was beautiful and 68 degrees. The weather [...]
Amelia Island Blues Festival 1st Year-Sept. 16 & 17
NEW BLUES ON THE BLOCK: AMELIA ISLAND BLUES FESTIVAL IN IT’S 1ST YEAR The Amelia Island Blues Festival will steal your soul and give it back again. Special Grammy Award winning artist Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Conrad Oberg, Albert Castiglia, the Beech Street Blues Band, the Shuffle Junkies, The David Gerald Band, Blistur, Roger “Hurricane” [...]
