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Knology Sea-Blues Festival
Saturday-Sunday,
February 18th-19th
2012
Clearwater, Florida, USA
Coachman Park - 727-562-4700 - www.clearwaterseablues.com
Headliners: Buddy Guy, Janiva Magness, Curtis Salgado
International Golf & Blues Experience
Sunday-Saturday,
April 15th-21st
2012
Biloxi, Florida, USA
IP Casino and Various Venues - 855-515-7061 - www.golfandblues.net
Headliners: Chuck Jackson 
Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise
JANUARY 22-29, 2012 CARIBBEAN
Ft. Lauderdale to Caribbean, Holland America ms Nieuw Amsterdam
Now Pre-Booking - SOLD OUT
Photos and music
from LRBC #17 Pacific
October 23-30, 2011
San Diego, CA to Cabo San Lucas, La Paz & Loreto!
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Too much fun! Please join us in 2012!
OCTOBER 27- NOVEMBER 3, 2012 Southeastern Caribbean
San Juan, Puerto Rico to Barbados, St. Lucia, Martinique,
Dominica & returning to San Juan
888-BLUESIN or 816-753-7979 Intl www.BluesCruise.com
As the basis for American music, the rhythms and musical progressions of blues music has had a public following since the early 20th century. As time progressed, the sounds of blues music have been altered, expanded, and often renamed. The basis of rock 'n roll, hip hop, rap, heavy metal, and jazz all have a genesis in blues music. To ensure the continued survival of an audience for blues music and expand the financial opportunities for blues and it's life blood festivals The Blues Festival Guide is committed to the process of outreach and a search for methods to present blues to a wider public.
Blues Music... Sometimes sad, lonely and mournful, but in other cases fully energized and bursting with electric-guitar-fueled vigor, blues is one of the most powerful, influential and popular musical styles to have risen during the last few centuries.
The song structure is simple - much of classic blues is based around a three-chord, 12-bar progression that leaves room for boundless improvisation - and it serves as a foundation for much of today's popular music.
Today it's still being picked on the front porches of tar-paper shacks, but it's just as frequently fired up loud and proud in front of a barroom (or for that matter stadium) crowd. In either case though, it remains a music that reflects hardship, trouble and strife, but also perseverance and strength of character - to know the blues is to be in touch with your true spirit and soul.
Notableartists include: B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Etta James, Buddy Guy, Delbert McClinton, Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon
Several years ago on Christmas Eve I visited a full-security juvenile detention center for teen boys in my hometown to give them a special Christmas gift - harmonicas and Blues lessons through my nonprofit organization, Harmonikids. In my own adolescence, the facility's very name, "Ferris", was used to invoke fear as a deterrent to getting in trouble. Often I was told I would "end up in Ferris" if I didn't "clean up my act". This was about the same time I discovered solace in playing the Blues on a harmonica, which may have actually saved me from going there.
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Online Voting and Ticket Sales Open December 13
Awards to be held in Memphis on May 10th 2012
Memphis, TN (December 13, 2011) – The Blues Foundation is pleased to announce the nominations for their annual Blues Music Awards, which the international organization will present at the Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis, TN, on May 10, 2012.
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2012 marks Michael "Hawkeye" Herman's 34th year of "Blues in the Schools" programs. He began this effort long before most blues support organizations and festivals even existed. Since that time he has helped to initiate educational programs for many blues societies and has single-handedly introduced blues music workshops to major festivals including the San Francisco Folk Festival, The Northwest Folklife Festival (Seattle), the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, the Sonoma County Folk Festival (CA), the Tumbleweed Music Festival (WA), the Rogue Valley Blues Festival (OR), Blues sur Seine Festival (France), the River Music Camp (CA), and most recently at the International Blues Festival (in Cali, Colombia). Read More...
Keeping the Blues Alive (KBA) Awards
Each year, The Blues Foundation presents the Keeping the Blues Alive (KBA) Awards to individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to the Blues world.
Jimmy Thackery - Take My Blues-2011
Jimmy Thackery will be one of the amazing performers on the upcoming Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise October 23- 30, 2011. Read More...
SHANE DWIGHT
Shane was born on the East Side of San Jose and raised on a horse ranch in Morgan Hill, California. Moving to Nashville three years ago to further pursue his musical career proved to be an easy transition. Read More...
Over the last decade, David Maxwell has received over a half dozen WC Handy and Grammy nominations and a Grammy Award for recorded work, as well as Handy nominations for instrumental performance. He has played with many of the greats including tours with Bonnie Raitt, James Cotton, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy and many more.
Check out this You Tube where David plays and talks about the blues.
Check out David Maxwell in the 2011 Blues Festival Guide magazine online on page 90.
THE PINETOP PERKINS FOUNDATION IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE 2011 YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Pinetop Perkins Foundation is pleased to announce the names of nine youth scholarship recipients from for the 2011 Master Class Workshops in Piano and Guitar. five different states Read More...
