The Blues Band News

Every year, over the last weekend in January, in that post-Christmas malaise - a remarkable music festival takes place at Butlins, Skegness in Lincolnshire.

By Caroline Gough A BAND hailed as the best purveyors of the Blues in the UK today are live on stage tomorrow night.

BRAD WHEELER Published on Monday, Nov. 09, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Monday, Nov.

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Another round of hard rock and blues awaits those who attend the 22nd Annual Nam Jam benefit concert Saturday.

Sean Weaver Trio, Blues Band & More, Saturday, November 7, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Some of you may remember when Sean played with Morning and Jim Nichols in 2007.

THE Blues Band are marking their 30th anniversary with a tour that stops off at the Futurist on Satur-day. The band was formed in Britain in 1979 by Paul Jones, who was the lead vocalist and harmonica player with Manfred Mann in the 1960s, and vocalist / slide guitarist Dave Kelly, who had played with the John Dummer Blues Band, Howlin' Wolf and ...

THE BT Blues Club returns on Saturday, November 7 after a complete revamp with a new layout offering more space and a total redecoration.

He told me, 'On my quest for positive American stories it didn't take long to realize the Homemade Jamz Blues Band fit right in.

Downchild Blues Band is among the best of the white blues bands, whose music inspired the Blues Brothers, whose star Dan Aykroyd founded the House of Blues, which was poked by The Onion newspaper in a headline that read: "House of Blues Actually House of Whites." Let us marvel at the great cycle of life.

Spooky happenings can be expected Saturday, Oct. 31, when Portland Ballet presents its "Halloween Spooktacular," an afternoon of terpsichorean treats performed by members of the company.

Comic actor Dan Aykroyd, who is guesting with Downchild on several eastern Canadian dates of this tour, became one of the group's biggest fans.

On the Net: www.ashevillecommunityband.org Blues meets jazz The Gina Sicilia and Dave Gross Blues Band play at 7 tonight at Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place on Pack Square, presented by the WNC Jazz Society.

NOVEMBER sees a variety of acts and productions take to the Playhouse Theatre stage in Weston.

Four award-winning and pedigreed bands will perform in "Blues Ala Carte," a new Great Northern Blues Society musical event set for Saturday.

The Blues Band have a very interesting technique to their gigs, there are no set lists and they don't even stay in the same hotel sometimes.

Rock a n Roll pioneer Chuck Berry will be performing at the Newport Centre on Tuesday 1 December 2009.

Cooler weather will finally be here after a sticky summer, and the joys of Thanksgiving and Christmas won't be far away.

Jeff Chaz ; Woody Andrews ; Jim Wattlington . In Exile KINDRED SPIRITS: Rock it if you like dudes who should be kings, e.g. B.B. King, Albert King and Freddy King.

We can't quite vouch for Backstreet being St. Louis' best venue for jazz and blues, but it's certainly the best place west of Jefferson.