Blues News

COMING artist Jarrod Shaw has already been lucky enough to play on the Bendigo Blues Tram once before.

Those looking for a dose of the blues can get their fix at the Kalamazoo Blues Festival, which kicks off its 21st annual event today at Arcadia Creek Festival Place.

This Friday, Encore Performing Arts Music in the Park features the return of Southside Denny & the Snyders, blues artists extraordinaire.

The Speakeasy and Chowder House, 2 Park Drive, are doing anything but ease into blues festival weekend, with live music inside and out, upstairs and down through Sunday, July 13. The Old Blues Katz featuring Rockland native D.W. Gill start things off Thursday, July 10, with live music on the patio from 6 to 9 p.m. From 9:30 to 11:30 p.m., Midcoast ... (more)

In its fifth year, the Oxford Blues Festival has built a reputation for offering a full slate of live performers.

I mean, look at what you have to choose from, Bangor! You can start off easy on Friday, with a double bill at Tantrum with rockers Losing September at 7 p.m., and then local hip hop with Green Tank starting at 10 p.m.; there's also a free screening of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in Pickering Square at sundown, a dance party with DJ A Strange ... (more)

'We want Dereham to be like the Nashville of Norfolk' - The stage is set for the 2014 Dereham Blues Festival The stage is set for a musical celebration which organisers hope will establish Dereham at the heart of the blues scene, just like the "Nashville of Norfolk".

Celebrating both St. Louis' blues legacy and the refreshed cobblestone streets of Laclede's Landing, the Big Muddy Blues Festival is expanding its variety of blues music for 2014, with influential artist Guitar Shorty and blues-rocker Samantha Fish headlining this year's event.

Rochester Main Street volunteers will host their third annual Rochester Blues Festival on Saturday, July 19 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the North Main Street/Cocheco Riverwalk area in downtown Rochester.

The 18th annual Black Potatoe Music Festival promises music "from New Jersey to New Orleans to Nashville," with 42 acts playing rock, jazz, blues and folk on two stages through Sunday at The Red Mill Museum, 56 Main St, Clinton, N.J. This year's headliner is Rumble and Twang, an all-star roots-rockabilly-rock 'n' roll band featuring "Conan" show ... (more)

Well it's coming up soon! The Great Southern Blues Festival is back at Narooma and Neil Mumme says it has its mojo back!! TICKETS DRAWN: Russell Morris was also popular at the 2013 homecoming for the Blues Festival and ended up helping Neil Mumme and Narooma Lions Club vice president Bruce Frost draw out the winning ticket for the signed guitar ... (more)

"It seems like I just packed this up," Paul Benjamin said to himself a few weeks ago when he brought the first North Atlantic Blues Festival set-up trailer to Harbor Park.

"There's a theory that there are 35 blues bands in Madison, and 28 blues musicians!" said guitarist Jim Schwall by way of explaining how and why he and so many other Madcity blues players end up playing regularly or sporadically in so many local blues bands.

Trackside Station will welcome back award-winning vocalist and saxophonist Pat Pepin this weekend for the 21st North Atlantic Blues Festival with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings beginning at 9 p.m. The shows are ages 21 plus and there is no cover charge either night.

A series of intriguing music events -- from traditional Russian folk and classical to contemporary jazz to loads of blues -- will give people plenty to hear this weekend.

Briggs Farm Blues Festival featuring Eric Gales: July 11-12, Briggs Farm . $20-75.

The 12th Annual Grassroots Blues Festival kicks off Friday night at six o'clock at Elliott Field, located west of Duck Hill on Highway 404.

If you've got it in your head that the blues is just one, simple genre of music, usually done by a guy with a guitar singing about his little red rooster, then please meet Marcia Ball.

The Hayward Russell City Blues Festival returns to downtown Hayward this weekend, offering up two days of talented blues artists for local fans.

Since he began playing harmonica in Muddy Water's band at the age of 16, singer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Oscher has remained a king on the blues scene.