John Hammond News

John P. Hammond waited only about 40 years or so. That's when the veteran blues singer and guitar player finally decided to write some songs.

Midnight Flyer is a weekly, two hour program featuring a wide variety of blues, interviews, biographies and stories about the blues.

Bonnie Raitt's first musical love wasn't the blues. "I fell in love with folk music from going to summer camp.

Mike Yates, the proprietor of Mike's Barn, has been making his space available to local musicians on Sunday nights every summer and fall for 14 years.

Cafe Eleven, a venue in St. Augustine Beach, announces a full fall season of shows.

WHAT: Blues Concert and Barbecue Picnic WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. picnic and 8 p.m. concert Saturday WHERE: Appel Farm Arts and Music Center, 457 Shirley Road, Elmer DETAILS: Features picnic by Bassett's Original Memphis barbecue with hickory-smoked down-home chicken, ribs, pulled pork and all the fixins' plus campfire, weather permitting, and ...

American singer, songwriter, and bandleader who became the archetypal rock performer of the 1970s and '80s. Springsteen grew up in Freehold, a mill town where his father worked as a labourer.

Author Vicki Myron was in Maine to speak on behalf of the Literacy Volunteers of Maine.

Featuring Magic Slim and The Teardrops, John Hammond, Roomful of Blues, Cedric Burnside, Mark Hummel, Chubby Carrier, Sista Monica Parker and others When: Friday to Sunday Tickets: Weekend passes and Saturday single tickets are sold out.

Featuring Magic Slim and The Teardrops, John Hammond, Roomful of Blues, Cedric Burnside, Mark Hummel, Chubby Carrier, Sista Monica Parker and others When: Friday to Sunday Tickets: Weekend passes and Saturday single tickets are sold out.

Stebs Amusement, 2215 College St., always hosted bands that rocked the Hill from 1975 through 2000.

July 19, 2009, 7:30 AM / The skies of Western New York were not at their friendliest Saturday night.

Into the blues? Then the Erie Canal Harbor Central Wharf is the place to head this weekend as Buffalo Place Rocks the Harbor.

Muddy waters - not the famed blues musician but rather the natural phenomenon born of stormy weather - flooded the shut-off fountain in Clinton Square at the New York State Blues Fest on Saturday, July 11.

John Hammond performs with Marty Ballou on bass, on the main stage at the New York State Blues Festival Sunday night.

Our crack weather-forecasting team promises a "partly cloudy" day, so honor Ra and Bacchus tonight at the First Annual Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival.

The Howland Cultural Center in Beacon is inaugurating two new concert series this summer that will feature a Grammy winning bluesman and a legendary jazz pianist, among many others.

It's fitting that Cleveland-area singer/songwriter Tom Evanchuck began his set last Friday night at the Mez with a song about a train station.

Blues master John Hammond will strut his stuff at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 6 at the Earlville Opera House , located on East Main Street in Earlville.

Blues guitarist and singer John Hammond is a serious student of the genre, making him a perfect fit for Sunday's Hot Blues for the Homeless: A Tribute to Son House, at Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St.