The Blues Band News Archives

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.

IT'S not often you get to dance the blues in a 400 year old wine cellar. But the Kirris Riviere Blues Band certainly popped a few corks in the Merchants on Saturday night in what for me was the highlight of the first ever Lancaster Music Festival.

Ron "Big E" Eldridge will emcee the 11th Annual Blues and Jazz festival set for Saturday in downtown Salisbury.

If the recent snap from hot sunny summer to one frosty fall is dampening your spirits, the band who inspired the Blues Brothers has a melancholy tune or two for you.

The Black Crowes jam at the House of Blues. James Hall & the Futura Bold rocks the Circle Bar.

COLUMBUS, Miss. - When it means friends, good food and dancing the night away to the music of Jesse Robinson and the 500 Pounds of Blues Band, Bill "Howl-N-Madd" Perry and the Black Prairie Blues Band, who wouldn't want to have a bout of the blues? Throw in drawings for a new Takamine acoustic guitar autographed by artists including Colin Linden ...

Donnie Walsh, a man often referred to as a oethe father of Canadian blues,a is coming to rock the Golden Civic Center, on Thursday, October 22 as a highlight feature of the Live Kicks series put on by Kicking Horse Culture .

The Little Ivory Blues Band performed in the Youth Showcase last January at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tenn.

The West Virginia Blues Society hosts its third annual Appalachian Blues Competition beginning at noon Saturday at Christopher's Banquet Center in Fairmont.