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Hold our 13th Annual Print Magazine in your hands
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 Get your own copy of the 2015 Blues Festival Guide (and back-issues, too). Have the magazine delivered right to your mailbox! Click the image at left to find out how. Our magazine is jam-packed with feature stories, art and photography by top Blues aficionados plus our huge festival section with plenty of details to help you get your blues groove on and plan your festival itinerary.
Bobby Rush calls our magazine: "The road map to the blues?"
Thanks for digging what we do!
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Send your pics with the new 2015 BFG Magazine
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 Here's Waukesha BluesFest's Friday Aug 7th headliner, Rick Derringer with festival promoter Bob Mittnacht holding this year’s edition of the Blues Festival Guide.
Photo courtesy: Robert Mittnacht
*NOTE! Snap photos of you and your friends or an artist with the 2015 Guide! *EMAIL your photo plus caption & credit. *Want your own hard copy? You can order via our website. Find the digital version here. Our 2015 edition is sponsored by the Festival, Jackson, MS.Jackson Rhythm & Blues  ...
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John Mayall:: FIND A WAY TO CARE
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 Produced by John Mayall (who also did the graphic design and artwork for the album) and Forty Below’s Eric Corne, Find a Way to Care was recorded at the House of Blues Studio in Encino, California. In addition to Mayall (vocals, piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, clavinet, guitar and harmonica), featured on the sessions are Rocky Athas (lead and rhythm guitar), Greg Rzab (bass) and Jay Davenport (drums), who collectively are now into their seventh year as John’s band. The group is also augmented by a horn section on several tracks.
About the new album, Eric Corne says, “I really wanted to feature John's keyboard playing on this record. Find more details about this release
 "Long Summer Days"
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Jimmy Burns :: IT AIN’T RIGHT
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 A walk in the Delta with sanctified swagger, It Ain't Right is a joyous culmination and testimonial to Jimmy's vocal talent and musical gifts. Relevant and inspiring, these songs are loaded with a great sense of collective purpose. Other musicians may cover a tune, but his clear and soulful message and individual approach make any song directly his own, and Jimmy Burns our musical treasure. Burns returned to Delmark studio for this much anticipated new recording, his best since ‘96s modern, yet timeless classic, Leaving Here Walking.
Jimmy is absolutely one of the best vocalist’s out there, and he also plays some extremely tasty, melodic and distinctive guitar and harmonica. The song repertoire is strong and diverse with two new originals from guitarist Billy Flynn and covers both popular and obscure with Jimmy making them all sound uniquely like his own. Find more details about this release
"Hard Hearted Woman"
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The Mighty Mississippi Music Festival, October 2-4, 2015, Warfield Point Park, Greenville, MS
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 GREENVILLE, MS - Chris Stapleton, Nashville’s favorite singer songwriter, will headline the Mighty Mississippi Music Festival on Oct. 2-4 in Greenville, Mississippi. Stapleton’s career spans 15 years, as he’s written songs for country music stars from Luke Bryan to George Strait. Five of the songs he’s penned have become No. 1 hits. His debut solo album, Traveler debuted at No. 2 on Billboard‘s Country Albums Chart. He’s also been nominated for three Grammy Awards and won the International Bluegrass Music Association Emerging Artist of the Year award as a member of The SteelDrivers.
Stapleton joins a heady mix of musicians set to perform at the festival named the No. 1 New Festival in America by American Blues Scene.
More details about the Mighty Mississippi Festival
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New Blues Festival II Labor Day Weekend 2 Days-2 Stages-30+ Bands
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 LONG BEACH, CA - The place to be for Blues lovers this Labor Day Weekend is the New Blues Festival II, taking place over 2 days, Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6, in El Dorado Regional Park (7550 E. Spring St.), Long Beach, CA with 2 stages and over 30 acts. Gates open at 9 am and music starts at 10 a.m. each day. Tickets are $25 and available now via the website, at six Lucille's Smokehouse BBQ locations, including Long Beach, Long Beach Towne Center, and the Cerritos Mall (Lucille's is the festival's Title Sponsor this year), and also at the gate both days. Amenities include a huge vendor village, food court; beer garden; and all-new VIP Lounge.
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4th Annual Baja Blues Fest supplies Warm Breezes and Hot Blues
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 ROSARITO, BAJA, MX - I was lucky enough to be asked to represent the Blues Festival Guide at the Baja Blues Fest at the Rosarito Beach Hotel in Rosarito, Baja, Mexico. This festival is hosted by the Baja Blues Fest Organization and Jackie Alameda (President and Secretary), Joan Swartzlander (Director of Activities), Tom Stewart (Talent Coordinator) and all of their amazing volunteers, know how to put on an event. From the moment we arrived I could tell they knew what they were doing. Everyone was so happy and helpful, from the ladies handing out the Press Passes, the peeps checking in the musicians and all of the employees of the Rosarito Beach Hotel, including the guards out front (who helped us find a taxi). Read entire Baja Blues Fest recap
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LRBC #25 Oct 24-31,2015 Big Easy / Fantasy Fort Lauderdale to Key West (Fantasy Fest Finale), New Orleans & Cozumel.
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- KBA Nominations Deadline September 30
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MEMPHIS, TN -The Blues Foundation presents the Keeping the Blues Alive (KBA) Awards to individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to the Blues world.
The KBAs are awarded strictly on the basis of merit by a select panel of Blues professionals. The KBA may be awarded for the recipient’s work in the past year but most often reflects a lifetime of work. In other words, we don’t view the recipient as the winner of a ‘best of the year’ category. Consistent with this philosophy, the committee generally refrains from awarding the KBA to an individual or organization more than once. Rather, the committee is looking for new deserving recipients.
More details of nomination process
Read more about what's going on at The Blues Foundation
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AUG 29-30 Radio Show: BLUES ROOTS OF ROCK
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The great Willie Dixon once said: “The Blues is the Roots, the rest is the Fruits.” Join Elwood in the BluesMobile for a sample of some of those fruits. Some old school blues that went into the ears of musicians and came out rock and roll. Songs by Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Jack White, the North Mississippi Allstars. And more.
The Blues roots of rock. Next time, in the Bluesmobile.
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Barbara Morrison, Bernie Pearl, Mike Barry : ROCK ME BABY
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There's a dozen or more Blues Festivals going on EVERY weekend!
~ Birthdays of note this week:
Aug 29 Dinah Washington (1924); Aug 30 Luther "Snake Boy"
Johnson (1934); Joanna Connor (1962); Sept 3 Memphis Slim
(1915), Freddy King (1934); Sept 4-Meade "Lux" Lewis (1905);
Sept 5 Sunnyland Slim (1907); Sept 6 Jimmy Reed (1925);
Sept 7 Little Milton Campbell (1934), Latimore (1939)
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Not all upcoming blues festivals are listed here at certain times of the year due to space constraints. Unless highlighted, festivals are no longer inked due to increasing spam
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NOTE: Highlighted/Linked Fests here
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Edmonton Blues Festival
Bean Blossom Blues Festival
Aug-27-2015 - Aug-29-2015
Bean Blossom, Indiana, USA
Urban Blues Festival
Aug-29-2015
Los Angeles, California, USA
Kansas City 5th Annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival
Aug-30-2015
North Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Rentiesville Dusk Til Dawn
Blues Fest
Sep-04-2015 - Sep-06-2015
Rentiesville, Oklahoma, USA
Snowy Range Music Festival
Sep-04-2015 - Sep-06-2015
Laramie, Wyoming, USA
Big Muddy Blues Festival
Sep-05-2015 - Sep-06-2015
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Lehrter Bluesfestival
Sep-05-2015
Lehrte, Niedersachsen, Germany
Big Blues Bender
Sep-10-2015 - Sep-13-2015
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Blues at the Beach, 22nd Annual
Sep-11-2015 - Sep-12-2015
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Russian River Jazz and Blues Festival
Sep-12-2015 - Sep-13-2015
Guerneville, California, USA
The Real Blues Festival
of Orange County 6
Sep-13-2015
Santa Ana, California, USA
Copenhagen Blues Festival
Sep-23-2015 - Sep-27-2015
Copenhagen, Denmark
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 RBA Publishing Inc is based in Reno, Nevada USA. We are woman owned and operated.
We produce the annual Blues Festival Guide magazine (publishing our 12th annual in 2014), affiliated with the top-ranking website, and this weekly blues newsletter: The Blues Festival E-Guide, with approximately 30,000 weekly subscribers.
We look forward to your suggestions, critiques and questions. Reach our E-Guide editor, Michele Lundeen via EMAIL or here.
Contact our home office to find out how to advertise in this e-weekly newsletter. Call 775-337-8344.
Information both editorial and advertising in the Blues Festival E-Guide is believed to be correct but not guaranteed. Double check info carefully before you attend any event or send money for anything. We do not write the news... we just report it.
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