Blues News

Queen's Birthday weekend is again Blues Festival weekend in Rotorua. In keeping with the objectives of the Bay of Plenty Blues Club to "nurture and develop Blues among young and aspiring musicians", there will be two opportunities for young students to gain knowledge of the blues guitar during the festival weekend.

"If you guys came for the blues , you came to the right place!" announced Jeff "Papa J" Hudson at The Orange County Blues Society's one-year "Anniversary Party and Blues Jam" on May 19, at the Main Street Restaurant in Yorba Linda, California.

For Peter Tork , former member of The Monkees , writing songs is a lot like writing poetry.

Beginning Thursday, Sparky's Burgers, Barbeque & Espresso, 115 Franklin St., in Hatch, will kick off its National Blues Festival Month with a series of blues concerts.

Carolyn Fe with her agent, the late Montreal bluesman Barry Mell, at the last ever Maximum Blues Festival at Carleton sur Mer, Quebec in August.

MONTEREY, Calif.- A new festival is replacing the down and out Monterey Bay Blues Festival this summer at the Monterey County Fairgrounds to even include a reality TV star.

The TD Kitchener Blues Festival has invited an old friend of Waterloo Region's to launch this summer's celebration of the blues.

Now in its ninth year, Waterfront Blues , "Metro Toronto's only genuine blues festival," is bringing the best in Canadian and international blues to the Beach.

BONSALL This year's Wine, Brews and Blues Festival is almost here! On May 18, every Bonsall Rotarian will be extremely busy starting at 8 a.m. to set up the Wine, Brews and Blues event that will start at 5:30 p.m. at the Center for the Performing Arts in Escondido.

A free blues concert will be held Thursday evening at Penrose Square on Columbia Pike.

For people who appreciate the sound of Blues music, the spectacle of traditional dance, and the smell and flavor of homecooked food, downtown Riverside will be the place to be Saturday.

The Monday night blues series at Time Out Pub, 275 Main St., will continue Memorial Day Monday, May 27, from 7 to 10 p.m. with the Bryan Lee Band.

Blues guitarist and recording artist Joe Bonamassa will headline a concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.

Thousands are anticipated to turn out for the Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues Foundation's Jazz and Blues Summer Series Festivals.

The 2013 music festival season is in full strength. Here is the musical line up for the 2013 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival at Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, Maryland.

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Queen's Birthday weekend and Blues once again go hand in hand in downtown Rotorua for the annual 'Rotorua Blues Festival'. Presented by the Bay of Plenty Blues Club, the six day programme includes the popular Blues Cruise , youth guitar seminar and workshop, and Saturday 'Streat Party'. A great selection of blues bands will be located in various ... (more)

Thousands of blues music fans gathered downtown for a day long block party on South Oakes Street Saturday.

Big night in Memphis for Curtis Salgado on Thursday. Portland's soul man won big at the 34th annual Blues Music Awards , taking three trophies including B.B. King Entertainer of the Year for his 2012 record "Soul Shot." "It's a really heavy thing," Salgado said Friday morning.

This was his first taste of the blues and listening to it he became hooked on the sound that would shape a career that went from playing San Francisco Bay Area clubs in the 1960s to the fabled group Canned Heat in the '80s, to touring the states, Europe and others locales around the world with his own band.