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Photo Moments with the 21st Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Taken aboard the Jan 2024 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, here's award-winning guitarist, soulful singer, songwriter, Albert Cummings. His style has been compared to the likes of Albert and Freddie King, and SRV, but these were just ingredients for his own expressive, impressive blues-rock gumbo.
Cummings arrived strong on the scene, possibly thanks to an early chance encounter with Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton (Double Trouble) who produced his first solo album in 2003. He's continued to grow over a course of endless tours and ten previous and charting albums. His newest album, Strong, features 12 tracks that include 6 originals and was produced by Grammy Award winning Tom Hambridge.
Photo: Yvonne "Pinkie" Rideau
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Superstition Blues, Brews & Arts Festival March 9
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(APACHE JUNCTION, AZ) - Blues Brews and all the arts and crafts you can use! AM Events & Entertainment present the Superstition Blues, Brews & Arts Festival is coming March 9 from 11am-5pm to Flat Iron Community Park, 100 N Apache Trail, Apache Junction, Arizona.
The festival will feature top notch blues bands, craft brews, tasty eats from a mother lode of food trucks, and arts and craft vendors. Appearing live will be Hurricane Ruth with JC & The Juke Rockers, The Sugar Thieves, The Cactus Devils, True Flavor Blues, and Leon J.
Presale tickets are $20 and $25 at the gate. Parking is free and you can bring camping chairs and or a blanket. 1 unopened bottle of water is allowed (no glass or metal containers). Not allowed are alcohol, outside food, coolers, umbrellas, and pets.
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Sean Chambers Red Hot Blues Festival Mar 1-3
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(SARASOTA, FL ) - Join us for the Sean Chambers Red Hot Blues Festival March 1-3 at the Big Top Brewing Company, 975 Cattlemen Rd., Sarasota, Florida. Get ready to groove to the electrifying blues tunes and to raise funds and awareness for Parkinson's disease.
Friday Mar 1st at 7pm get ready for Sean Chambers & The Savoy Brown Rhythm Section.
Saturday Mar 2nd starting at noon it’s Trey Wanvig, Doug Deming & The Jewel Tones, RJ Howson with special guest Les Dudek.
Sunday Mar 3rd starting at 2pm welcome JP Soars, followed by a perfect ending to the weekend of great music with the Damon Fowler Group.
General admission is no charge and "reserved seating" for all 3 days is $30.
Find tickets here.
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3rd Annual Loreto Blues Festival in Baja
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 (LORETO, BAJA, MX) - Wristbands are on sale for the 3rd Annual Loreto Blues Festival in Loreto, Baja, Mexico. The two-day festival will happen March 22-23 and feature seven bands including regional favorites plus one from Dallas, Texas and two from the Los Angeles area.
Friday night starts with local talent Pescado Brothers, then The Beaners, Tabaco, Headliners, Delgado Brothers from Los Angeles’ area. Saturday night, Hurricane & the Storm Chasers, Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps from Los Angeles, and Shawn Pittman from Dallas, Texas.
Wild Loreto will be having a Shuttle Service available on both days of the event from 4 to 5:30 to Loreto and returning from 9 to 10:30 every 1/2 hour. Pick up locations will be in front of Ocotillo Restaurant and Pedro's Places.
Don't miss this fabulous event! Get your tickets now as they expect another sellout crowd.
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Florida's Venice Blues Festival returns
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 (VENICE, FL) – After a 5-year hiatus, the Venice Blues Festival will return March 22-23, and at a new venue, the Venice Airport Festival Grounds in Venice, Florida.
Nick Sperry, who played Venice Blues Festival in 2016 and had been involved with the event since, will organize this year's event along with festival co-founder and fellow musician Steve Arvey.
The two-day fest will feature, two stages, live music from both national and local touring acts, food trucks, a beer garden, and lots of craft vendors. The event supports “Coffee Talk Venice,” a homelessness prevention organization founded in 2015.
Friday Mar 22nd 4pm-10pm Mainstage: Steve Arvey and Biscuit Miller Band kicks off at 4pm, then Out of the Blue, followed by Steeln' Peaches at 8pm.
Saturday Mar 23 11am-10pm Mainstage: Robert "Lefty Preacher" Sampson kicks off, then JP Soars & the Red Hots, Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars, Mathias Lattin, Leilani Kilgore, and Average White Band closing it out.
Saturday Acoustic Stage: St. David, Zack Pomerleau, Nick Williams, TJ Hitt & Geoff Ramsey, Stumpy Joe & Devin Williams, Kit Jones, and more TBD
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Maple Blues Awards honors finest in Canadian Blues
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 (TORONTO, CANADA) - Hosted by Quisha Wint, the 27th annual Maple Blues Awards, presented by the Toronto Blues Society, were held at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto.
The prestigious event that honors the finest in Canadian blues, included performances by nominees the Blackburn Brothers, Brandon Isaak, Andersen, Angelina Hunter, and Crystal Shawanda, all backed by the new Maple Blues Awards house band, The Maples.
Here are the 2024 Maple Blues Awards Winners:
Entertainer of the Year: Matt Andersen
Electric Act of the Year: Colin James
Acoustic Act of the Year: Suzie Vinnick
Male Vocalist of the Year: Matt Andersen
Female Vocalist of the Year: Miss Emily
New Artist /Group of the Year: Little Magic Sam
Songwriter of the Year: Matt Andersen
B.B. King International Artist of the Year: Tedeschi Trucks
Recording/Producer of the Year: Matt Andersen
Indigenous Artist/Group of the Year: Crystal Shawanda
Blues With a Feeling Award (Lifetime Achievement Award): Sue Foley
Blues Booster of the Year: Brant Zwicker
Guitarist of the Year: Garrett Mason
Harmonica Player of the Year: Guy Belanger
Piano/Keyboard Player of the Year: Jesse O’Brien
Horn Player of the Year: Alison Young
Drummer of the Year: Jim Casson
Bassist of the Year: Gary Kendall
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Here's singer, songwriter, entertainer, longtime BFG friend and former staff member, the effervescent Yvonne "Pinkie" Rideau with a brief recap and video of her Jan 2024 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise #40 experience...
"To say that I had the time of my life would be a grave understatement. I cried every single day. Just being able to have live blues available for a whole week was exhausting by the third day. I recorded a video to Tim (the husband) saying, "I can't believe I have four more days of this!" I was graced and blessed to be on stage with Tommy Castro, Albert Cummings, Mitch Woods, Eden Brent, Mr. Sipp, Mathias Lattin, David Julia, Chuk Barber, Eric Gales (on drums for a moment) and almost got to share the stage with Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (sigh)!
The staff was so friendly it was almost creepy. They all knew my name by the first day because of my shirt! I was all over that ship!
I joked that I walked to Honduras! Here it is two weeks later and I'm just now feeling better. (At no point in time do I remember being involved in an MMA match. Yup, that sore.) The salty sea air jacked up my hair and my throat. Deanna Bogart said I had "Boat Throat" from not being used to the salty sea air. Nonetheless, I was on stage 11 times!
I told everyone that I was gonna sing! I even wrote a song, "A Virgin on the Blues Cruise," now released on YouTube and 164 music platforms!
Side note: I wrote a pamphlet guide! I devised a system. It works! The biggest complaint was not getting to see all of the artists. I figured it out!
"How to See Everyone, Eat, Sleep & Survive the Blues Cruise" by Pinkie Rideau."
Click on the image to see the video Pinkie created featuring some fun pics and the song she wrote onboard and performed at the Crow's Nest Jam. BTW, that's former Blues Festival e-Guide editor Gordon Bulcock on lead guitar...
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• L.A. Blues Society Open Jam Mar 3rd
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(POMONA, CA) - The Los Angeles Blues Society (LABS) is hosting an Open Jam Sunday, March 3rd from 3-7pm at the Old Stump Brewing Company (2896 Metropolitan Pl.) in Pomona, California. Host band is Cassius King & The Downtown Rollers. Backline provided. Bring your axe and bring your amp if you like, and vocalists bring your own mic.
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JJ Grey & Mofro :: OLUSTEE
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 Olustee, the highly anticipated new album on Alligator Records from gifted singer, songwriter JJ Grey, will be released Friday, February 23.
JJ Grey, with his crack band Mofro, create an irresistible blend of fire-breathing R&B, swampy blues, aching soul and funky, Dixie-fried rock. All songs were written and arranged by JJ Grey, except for “Seminole Wind” which was written by John David Anderson.
With this, his first release in nine years and his first-ever self-produced record, JJ has created a breathtaking collection of deeply moving, masterfully written, funkified rock and front porch Southern soul music.
Olustee is an aggressively groove-driven record, fueled by JJ’s gritty vocals and biting guitar, all testifying with a preacher’s foot-pounding fervor.
"Wonderland"
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Ronnie Earl featuring Diane Blue "A Change Is Gonna Come"
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Just In Case... plus upcoming Holidays & Birthdays
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 • February is Black History Month
• February is American Heart Month
Birthdays: Feb 23-Johnny Winter (1944-2014); Feb 24-Willie Kent (1936-2006); George Thorogood (1950); Feb 25-Ida Cox (1896 or 1898-1967); Feb 26-Antoine "Fats" Domino (1928-2017), Bob "Bear" Hite (1943-1981); Feb 27 Goran Petco (BFG webmaster & magazine designer); Mar 1-Zac Harmon (1957); Mar 2 Alvin “Youngblood” Hart (1963), Rory Gallagher (1948-1995); Mar 3-John Primer (1945 pictured); Mar 4-Bobby Womack (1944-2014); Mar 5 J.B. Lenoir (1929-1967), Peg Leg Howell (1888-1966), Tommy Tucker (1933-1982); Mar 6 Walter "Furry" Lewis (1893-1981), Walter Trout (1951); Mar 9 Georgia White (1903-1980), Lloyd Price (1933); Mar 10 Dave Alexander aka Omar Shariff (1938), Ronnie Earl (1953)
 Just in case: "World Bartender Day" is celebrated on February 24. One of the (other) oldest professions known to man — the first bartending job was probably held in the 1400s but said to have emerged several thousand years ago in various locations such as Rome, Greece, and Asia.
Bartenders are indispensable to the hospitality industry. We can't imagine a pub, bar, or nightclub without a bartender, right? They keep patrons well supplied with beverages, whether alcoholic or other, and they can keep the party going, not just enable you to drown your sorrows. They can be creative and also be great sounding boards, or gurus of sage advice.
And you know there have been plenty of Blues songs written or referring to bars and drinkin'. "Hey Bartender" (Floyd Dixon), "You're So High (I Ain't Drunk)" (Albert Collins), "Sittin' Here Drinkin'" (Muddy Waters), "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (John Lee Hooker), "Beer Bottle Boogie" (Koko Taylor), "Bad, Bad Whiskey" (Amos Milburn)...
Yep, I could go on but you can dive in and discover a bunch more if you like. It goes without saying that blues music has a long and no doubt storied history with bars and their bartenders.
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Poulsbo Blues & Jazz Festival
Feb-23-2024 - Feb-24-2024
Poulsbo, Washington, USA
Vero Beach Blues Festival
Feb-24-2024 - Feb-25-2024
Vero Beach, Florida, USA
Clearwater Sea-Blues Festival
Feb-24-2024 - Feb-25-2024
Clearwater, Florida, USA
St. Kilda Blues Festival
Mar-01-2024 - Mar-04-2024
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-off
Mar-08-2024 - Mar-09-2024
Foley, Alabama USA
24th Annual Blues Café
Mar-08-2024 - Mar-09-2024
Rothschild, Wisconsin, USA
Walla Walla Guitar Festival
Mar-08-2024 - Mar-10-2024
Walla Walla, Washington, USA
Macon Blues and Brews Bash
Mar-09-2024
Macon, Florida, USA
Superstition Blues &
Brews Art Festival
Mar-09-2024
Apache Junction, Arizona, USA
8th Pasco Blues Festival
Mar-09-2024
Land 'O Lakes, Florida, USA
31st River City Blues Festival
Mar-15-2024 – Mar-16-2024
Marietta, Ohio, USA
Blues Bash at the Ranch
Mar-15-2024 - Mar-17-2024
Bradenton, Florida, USA
Venice Blues Festival
Mar-22-2024 - Mar-23-2024
Venice, Florida, USA
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Loreto International Blues Festival
Mar-22-2024 - Mar-23-2024
Loreto, Mexico
Blues on Reid
Mar-23-2024
Port St. Joe, Florida, USA
Woodystock Blues Festival
Mar-23-2024 - Mar-24-2024
Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA
Byron Bay Bluesfest
Mar-28-2024 – Apr-1-2024
Byron Bay, Australia
Springing The Blues
Apr-05-2024 - Apr-07-2024 Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA
Juke Joint Fest & Related EventsApr-11-2024 - Apr-14-2024 Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Coeur d'Alene Blues FestivalApr-12-2024 - Apr-14-2024 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA
Tampa Bay Blues FestivalApr-12-2024 - Apr-14-2024 St Petersburg, Florida, USA
Cat Head Mini Blues FestApr-14-2024 Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Milwaukee Blues FestivalApr-19-2024 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Buffalo Blues & Roots FestivalApr-20-2024 Buffalo, NY, New York, USA
SoCal Blues & Jazz FestivalApr-20-2024 - Apr-21-2024 Murrieta, California USA
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