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A re you still looking for holiday gifts or stocking stuffers? "Gift Tix" for upcoming events at Journal Square's Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre are available.

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This loving tribute to the music of the legendary 1930s group The Mississippi Sheiks brings their iconic rural blues to life.

While his gravelly baritone and omnipresent fedora, dark glasses and Groucho Marx moustache made him one of the more distinct and recognizable characters in popular music, little is known about the neo-vaudeville crooner Leon Redbone.

John Hammond performs as part of the "American Troubadours, Vol. 1" show at Chico State University's Laxson Auditorium on Nov.

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.