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Photo Moments with the 21st Annual BFG Magazine!
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 It was fun to run into blues fan Julie Richardson at the 2023 Gator By The Bay Festival in San Diego, California. Julie's based in Vancouver, Washington but travels around the globe to many destinations (Hawaii yearly it seems), various music festivals and blues cruises. And of course you can usually find her at the Portland Waterfront Festival. She does love to travel.
Julie's got it going on. She's a retired Air Traffic controller and is also a pilot and Airframe mechanic specializing in fabric work. She lives on a private grass runway and flies a 1941 Stearman bi-plane!
Photo: Michele Lundeen
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21st Annual Blues Festival Guide magazine
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30th Chenango Blues Festival Aug 18-19 held in beautiful central New York
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 (NORWICH, NY) - The 2023 Chenango Blues Festival is a family-friendly event held August 18th and 19th at the Chenango County Fairgrounds, 168 East Main St., in Norwich located in beautiful central New York.
The Aug 18th Friday night show is free to the public! Parking opens at 4:30pm and festival gates opens at 5pm. From 5:30-10:15 i order of appearance: Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience, John Primer, and Curtis Salgado. Friday night only coolers are allowed but no glass please.
On Saturday Aug 19, parking gates open at 10am and festival gates open at 11am. Saturday’s Band Schedule 11:30am-9pm in order of appearance: Gabe Stillman, Jimmy Carpenter Band, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, and Charlie Musselwhite
On the Tent Stage Saturday from 1:45am-10:15pm in order of appearance: Guy Davis, Melody Angel, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, and Honey Island Swamp Band.
In addition to award-winning blues acts the festival also features arts and crafts vendors, food vendors, beer and wine booth, and camping. See website for tickets, camping deals, artist bios and more.
Plus, on Thursday August 17, as part of the NBT Bank Summer Concert Series, a free show will feature Mr. Sipp at 7pm in East Park, Norwich, NY. Opening for this show is the Brian Golden Band at 7pm-7:40pm. RV campers may camp overnight in the Grand Union Plaza.
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Waukesha Rotary BluesFest to feature Maria Muldaur and Southern Avenue
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(DELAFIELD, WI) - The Waukesha Rotary BluesFest, presented by the Waukesha Rotary Club, will be held at Naga-Waukee Park in Delafield, Wisconsin.
The two-day festival runs Friday, Aug. 11 through Saturday, Aug. 12, and will feature an assortment of food and beverage vendors. The line-up of 12 blues performances will include headliners Maria Muldaur and Southern Avenue.
The festival opens at 12:30pm each day with music going from 1-10 p.m.
Discount advance tickets are available through Thursday, Aug. 10 for $25 for 1-day and $40 for 2-days. Day of show tickets are $30 for 1-day, and $55 for both days.
Proceeds from the festival will go towards the Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund, which aims to help fund community projects. More details at the website.
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Historic Madison, Indiana's 21st Ribberfest BBQ & Blues
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 (MADISON, IN) - The 21st Annual Madison Ribberfest BBQ & Blues will be held August 18-19. The event is considered the party of the year in historic Madison, Indiana at the Bicentennial Park and Madison's Riverfront. National, regional, and local blues music, BBQ competitions, family friendly, “good to the bone” rib eating contest and more!
Craig Toyota Blues Bash Lineup
Fri Aug 18: Tower of Power • Victor Wainwright & The Train • Mississippi Heat
Sat Aug 19: North Mississippi Allstars • Blood Brothers ~ Albert Castiglia & Mike Zito • Joanna Connor • Bleu Phonque • The Travlin Mojos • Gary Applegate and Joe Rock
Wristbands are on sale online and at the visitor’s center. Advance Wristbands purchased July 2-Aug 17 are $50. Online and Gate Wristbands purchased Aug 18-19 are $60 each day. Children 12 and under are no charge with adult. Visit the website for more festival info.
21st Annual Madison Ribberfest BBQ & Blues is presented by Koehler.
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From Hand to Hand... Passing Down the Blues
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(CLARKSDALE, MS) - Delta Blues Museum has added a special event to kick off its 2023 Sunflower Festival activities. On Thursday Aug 10 the Museum will host “From Hand to Hand: Passing Down the Blues." This educational panel will feature three graduates of the Delta Blues Museum Arts & Education Program — Jaxx Nassar, Anthony "Big A" Sherrod and Lee Williams. The graduates learned from Mr. Johnnie Billington, founder of the Museum's after-school program, and were members of "The Deep Cuts." The band was fronted by late local bluesman Josh "Razorblade" Stewart. Arts & Education Program graduate Travis Calvin, a current instructor at the Delta Music Institute at Delta State University, will moderate.
The in-person panel be held in the Museum classroom, 1 Blues Alley, at 6pm. This event is free and open to the public and will also be livestreamed on the Museum's Facebook page. This event is made possible by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additionally, a small exhibit of photographer Panny Mayfield's images of the panelists as students will be on display.
For over 30 years, the Museum's award-winning Arts & Education program has taught students to play music that keeps the history of the Delta blues alive. The program has been recognized nationally as a top youth program and has been elevated in recent news because of the high-profile success of one of its graduates, Grammy-winning blues musician Christone "Kingfish" Ingram.
For more information, contact Delta Blues Museum at 662-627-6820 or visit the website. To livestream the event, visit the Museum’s Facebook page.
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"Blues Music Is My First Love": Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Reveals Five Life-Changing Riffs
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 The Fender signature artist and Grammy-winning bluesman talks vital influences from Albert King and B.B. King to Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Hazel.
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram learned his first guitar licks in an after-school program at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the home of the crossroads that many music fans consider hallowed ground.
Ingram may be known for keeping the traditions of his hometown Delta blues alive, but that’s only h
As it happens, influences ranging from psychedelic funk to gospel and hip-hop have their own chapters in it as well.
Here are the five riffs that shaped his guitar playing...
Read full interview by Jim Beaugez to find the artists, styles, and songs
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Why Nina Simone Was Always Ahead of Her Time
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 Nina Simone was always ahead of her time. And in the mid-1960s she found a fellow musical innovator and ideal feminist collaborator in the jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln, whom she teamed up with to write the song “Blues for Mama.” When Simone performed it at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966, she introduced it as “a gutbucket blues.”
“It will appeal to a certain type of woman,” she said, “who has had this kind of experience.”
That experience was domestic violence, a trauma that the titular Mama endured and that others blamed her for causing. “They say you’re mean and evil/Don’t know what to do,” Simone sang. “And that’s the reason that he’s gone/And left you black-and-blue.”
I’ve been intrigued by “Blues for Mama” since I first heard it on Simone’s 1967 album “Nina Simone Sings the Blues.” And now, thanks to Verve Records’ recent issue of the previously unreleased recording of her Newport performance — packaged as the album “You’ve Got to Learn” — we have an even earlier version of the song out in the world.
..Read full article by Salamishah Tillet
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• Linn County Blues Society co-hosts 2nd Bourbon & Blues
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 (CEDAR RAPIDS, IA) - Cedar Ridge and the Linn County Blues Society have collaborated and will host the second annual Bourbon and Blues Festival. The event will be held August 19th at the McGrath Amphitheater, 475 1st St. SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The 2023 event will feature live music by award-winning blues artists Shemekia Copeland, Sugaray Rayford, and Mr. Sipp. Gates open at 4pm and showtime is 5pm-10:30pm. Tickets purchased in advance are $35 or $40 at the gate.
Patrons are encouraged to bring their own chair or blanket as the amphitheater only provides a limited number of chairs. Here's the festival link.
Cedar Ridge first created Bourbon and Blues in 2010 and hosted the event at its winery and distillery to celebrate its first bourbon whiskey.
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Franck L. Goldwasser :: WHO NEEDS THIS MESS!!??
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 French born guitarist Franck L. Goldwasser, aka “Paris Slim,” became enamored with American blues music as a teenager. He worked to hone his craft before being discovered by renowned harmonica player Sugar Blue and California bluesman Sonny Rhodes, who brought him to the West Coast. In the 1980’s Goldwasser worked with a who’s who of the Bay Area’s most prestigious residents.
His new album’s title track, "Who Needs This Mess!!??," features musical cohorts Charlie Musselwhite, Sugaray Rayford and Kirk Fletcher. Like his storied career, the fifteen-track collection features a star-studded cast of friends, on a journey that flows over the musical landscape that grew out of the blues and his love for the guitar.
Kirk Fletcher guests on the comically swing-meets-surf guitar instrumental titled “Disküm Baåb Uleh Shun.” There’s a juke joint stomper “Had A Dream Last Night,” the blues ramble “Paris Woman,” and the instrumental “Sobby Doggy Boogy,” that showcases Goldwasser’s lap steel skills on this island spiced groover. Sugaray Rayford steps to the mic for “Who Needs That Mess!!??,” delivering life lessons. Alastair Greene and Goldwasser collaborated on “Monkey Junk,” a psychedelic trance blues with mysterious jungle rhythms to accompany spoken word poetry. “If I Could Holler” is a raggedy two beat. “Ðumb & Dangerous” dishes up a full jug band remake of “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” with Goldwasser on dobro supported by percolating folk instruments.
The epic track, “Sweet Cream,” is a mash up of Fat Possum funk and Birmingham Blitz boogie, like John Bonham sitting with T-Model Ford. Goldwasser pulls off fine finger picking on the Chet Atkins’ inspired solo guitar number, “Raggmazazz.”
The bonus live track “Bleedin’ Heart,” from a 2014 appearance at the Portland waterfront festival, captures him with a full band working the 12-bar blues with the showstopping flare of seasoned pros.
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Robert Randolph and the Family Band "Find A Way"
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Just In Case... plus Holidays & Birthdays
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 "I think the blues will always be around. People need it" ...Johnny Winter
Birthdays upcoming:
Aug 3- Mercy Dee Walton (1915–1962), Matthew Skoller (1962); Aug 4-Louis Armstrong (1901-1971); Aug 6- Willie Lee Brown (1900–1952), Corey Stevens (1954); Aug 7-Magic Slim Morris Holt (1937–2013), Annika Chambers-DesLauriers (1992); Aug 8-Joe Tex (1933-1982), Jimmy Witherspoon (1920–1997 pictured), Robert Randolph (1977), Lady Bianca (1953); Aug 9-Trudy Lynn (1947); Aug 10-Ronnie Spector (1945), Grego Anderson (1968), Leo Fender (1908-1991), Mighty Mike Schermer (1966); Aug 11-"Crying" Sam Collins (1887-1949), Aug 12-Percy Mayfield (1920-1984), Roy Gaines (1934-2021), Albert Castiglia (1969); Aug 13-Jimmy McCracklin (1921-2012); Aug 14-Larry Graham (1946), Son Seals (1942-2004)
 Just in case: August 8 is "International Cat Day" — a day to celebrate one of man’s most common, ancient, and celebrated pets. Independent, adventurous, cool. I think we can take a step further and think of all the "cool cats" or references that have crossed our path in the blues. "Black Cat Bone" (Albert Collins and more) comes to mind ... Ana Popovic's "Daddy Was A Preacher (Mama Was An Alley Cat), "Mean Black Cat Blues by Charley Patton, "Stray Cat Blues" ... and more
While sliding around that YouTube rabbit hole I rediscovered "It Should've Been Me," an old song my band used to do by Commander Cody (originally recorded by Ray Charles with Jesse Stone in 1954) with a line that went like this...
"Down on the corner, was a real sharp cat... had a $300 suit, $100 hat. Standing on the curb, by a Dynaflow, voice from inside said 'come on daddy let's go!'"
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Calgary International
Blues Festival
Jul-31-2023 - Aug-06-2023
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Jus' Blues Music Awards & Conference
Aug-02-2023 - Aug-05-2023
Tunica, Mississippi, USA
Blues on the ChippewaAug-03-2023 - Aug-05-2023 Durand, Wisconsin, USA
Notodden Blues Festival
Aug-03-2023 - Aug-06-2023
Notodden, Norway
Magic City Blues
Aug-04-2023 - Aug-05-2023
Billings, Montana, USA
Lebanon Blues Festival
Aug-04-2023 - Aug-05-2023
Lebanon, Ohio, USA
In The Market for Blues
Aug-04-2023 - Aug-05-2023
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
TD Kitchener Blues FestivalAug-10-2023 - Aug-13-2023 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Sunflower River Blues
& Gospel FestivalAug-10-2023 - Aug-13-2023 Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Riverfront Blues FestivalAug-11-2023 - Aug-12-2023 Libby, Montana, USA
Waukesha Rotary BluesFestAug-11-2023 - Aug-12-2023 Delafield, Wisconsin, USA
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Playing With Fire
Aug-11-2023 - Aug-12-2023
Omaha , Nebraska, USA
Bayfront Blues Festival
Aug-11-2023 - Aug-13-2023
Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Big Bull Falls Blues Fest
Aug-18-2023 - Aug-19-2023
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
Chenango Blues Festival
Aug-18-2023 - Aug-19-2023
Norwich, New York, USA
Madison Ribberfest
BBQ & Blues
Aug-18-2023 - Aug-19-2023
Madison, Indiana, USA
White Mountain
Boogie & Blues Festival
Aug-18-2023 - Aug-23-2023
Thornton, New Hampshire, USA
Chenango Blues Festival
Aug-18-2023 - Aug-19-2023
Norwich, New York, USA
Rentiesville Dusk til Dawn
Blues Festival
Sep-01-2023 - Sep-03-2023
Rentiesville, Oklahoma, USA
Tim Hortons Southside Shuffle
Blues and Jazz Festival
Sep-08-2023 - Sep-10-2023
Port Credit, Ontario, Canada
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