Kenny Wayne Shepherd News

Thousands are expected to converge on downtown Lansing this evening for the opening shows of this year's Common Ground Music Festival.

Final day, Comerica Cityfest Huey Lewis & the News with Kenny Wayne Shepherd at Adado Riverfront Park Stone Temple Pilots at Adado Riverfront Park Najee at Chene Park Amphitheatre 'Big Brother' season premiere, 8 p.m. CBS Brad Paisley at DTE Energy Music Theatre "Bruno" in theaters Aretha Franklin at the Fox Theatre 'Entourage' season ...

Kenny Wayne Shepherd chuckled at Michigan's notion of a heat wave. 'That's when it starts to get fun,' he said.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Kenny Wayne Shepherd, 32; Marv Albert, 68; Chick Corea, 68; Jim Nabors, 79 Happy Birthday: You have a lot to contend with and every move you make will be important to your future.

Organizers for the annual Dutch Mason Blues Festival in Truro, N.S., have announced this year's lineup of performers.

SOURCE: conqueroo LONG BEACH, CA - Bobby Womack, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Mavis Staples and the Funky Meters will be among the performers at the 30th annual Long Beach Blues Festival, set to take place Saturday and Sunday, September 5 & 6 at Rainbow Lagoon Park, adjacent to the Long Beach Marina, in downtown Long Beach.

The 30th annual blues event, which earns money for the publicly-supported jazz-and-blues station KJAZZ, takes place Sept.

Each week The Advocate asks a different "quiz taker" for his or her current favorites in pop culture.

That loud buzz you're hearing? That's the bluesophile grapevine ramping up the volume, getting the word out that this weekend's 17th Annual Santa Cruz Blues Festival at Aptos Village Park is going to be another humdinger.

Songs such as "Deja VooDoo" and "Born With a Broken Heart" garnered lots of radio airplay - unusual for a blues act - making Shepherd a household name.

The who's who of the 17th annual Santa Cruz Blues Festival in reverse order of stage appearance: Saturday's line-up B.B. King -- The greatest living blues man? It's a fun barstool argument, but just about in any bar in the world, the great B.B. King will likely win the day.

Even though the San Francisco Blues Festival is taking the year off, the annual Santa Cruz Blues Festival returns this weekend with a stellar lineup that includes headliners B.B. King , Joe Cocker and Keb' Mo' . "There are so many factors to put into the formula to make this work," said Bill Welch , founder and producer of the 17-year-old festival.

The Whiting is proud to announce its incredible 2009-10 season line-up! Get ready for a season of excitement as The Whiting presents a variety of performances from Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Hairspray, Avenue Q and Cirque Dreams Illumination to Tracy Lawrence, Sinbad and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

It's a big deal for children to get to play on a live stage. But it's an ever bigger deal when they get to play with a bona fide star in the form of blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

The South's largest student arts festival is back this weekend with enough entertainment for all ages, including a performance by Shreveport's own Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

Local musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd had his first live performance at Artbreak in 1991 when he was just 14 years old.

In 1991, blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd performed his first solo concert. It was at the ARTBREAK festival.

The Atlanta-based quartet Black Lips bring their 200 Million Thousand tour to town tonight.

At its opening week celebration the venue solidified its status as a world premier music venue with performances by James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, and of course, Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his group exploded on the scene in the mid-'90s and garnered huge amounts of radio airplay on commercial radio, which historically has not been a solid home for blues and blues-rock music, with the exception of Stevie Ray Vaughan in the mid-'80s. Shepherd was born June 12, 1977, in Shreveport, LA.