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DENNIS JONES : : PLEASURE & PAIN

 

“Pleasure & Pain, is one rollickingly good time…” Greg Prato, Allmusic

 

“Dennis Jones has a forceful yet emotionally resonant vocal delivery, and his guitar playing is elegant virtuosity, in that masterful mode of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.” George Fish, Bloomington Alternative

 



“From the opening horn blasts of the first cut “Brand New Day,” Jones revels in a passionate and fresh approach to the blues that carries through this entire CD. He brandishes his guitar with flair and his vocals are creative and self-assured.” Michael Kinsman, BLUSD



                        


Dennis Jones’ third release, Pleasure & Pain contains 11 blazingly intense original numbers. “Brand New Day” does not just swing the shuffle; it kicks it all over the lot as Jones exhorts “Dance the blues away!” “Don’t Worry About Me” adds an element of contemporary vocal harmony, reminiscent of the Sopranos theme song, to the booty-bumping minor funk. He engages in some winking braggadocio by singing “no beg, no way” in “I’m Good” over the hardest pounding shuffle rhythm highlighted by his string punishing picking. Jones changes tack in “Kill the Pain” with a slow, raunchy boogie exposing the futility of cocaine abuse and featuring low down country blues licks elevated to inflammatory levels. “Blue Over You” finds him playing infectious, funky lead/rhythm guitar, with a nod to the Voodoo Child, in a hook-laden number that has hit radio potential. “Sunday Morning Rain” takes yet a different turn as a pop rock ballad that would not be out of place in Nashville as Jones croons his melancholy tale of romantic woe. The driving minor key rocker “Home Tonight” displays an urgency that permeates the entire album.
 

“Try Not to Lie” rocks the blues like a certain trio from Texas as Jones addresses a common theme with the ironic “If you try not to lie, I will try to do the same.” “I Want It Yesterday” is a nasty slice of ominous, heavy riff rock while “Him or Me” channels Jimi in an impressive display of trio rock that rumbles and roars with fury. Closing the astounding set is the charging and lusty musical locomotive called “Hot Sauce” that fittingly has Jones quoting “Third Rock from the Sun” within the dynamic “call and response” framework.
 

It is risky to make predictions, but if anyone has a legitimate shot at filling the blues guitar hero void it is Dennis Jones. He has the head, heart and hands to do it. 

Dave Rubin, 2005 KBA award winner in journalism 

www.dennisjonescentral.com and www.myspace.com/dennisjonesband


MISSY ANDERSON : :
Missy Andersen is one of San Diego’s newest entertainers. With a hard hitting band featuring some of the area’s best musicians backing her, Missy mixes traditional soul and blues with the band’s funky rhythms. Whether the crowd is big or small, Missy gives a soul-stirring performance with passionate, powerful vocals and an infectious stage presence that can’t be denied.


After fronting San Diego-based band, Tell Mama, Missy felt it was time to strike out on her own. Her self-titled debut album, Missy Andersen, released on Main Squeeze Records, is an organic mix of soul and blues from another era with a healthy dose of today. She displays her talents on 8 tunes, including two originals - ‘New Feet’ (track 2) and ‘Stand Up and Dance’ (track 8). Missy Andersen (vocals) is joined by her husband and bandleader Heine Andersen (guitar), Asmus Jensen (drums), Jeppe Juul (organ) and Søren Bøjgaard (bass). Additional musicians include Nathan James playing Dobro slide guitar on track 8.
When you come to a Missy Andersen show, you’ll want to bring your dancing shoes. Blues and soul are always provided.


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ANA POPOVIC : : BLIND FOR LOVE
After tirelessly touring the U.S. and Europe for the past two years Ana Popovic now returns with her follow up effort "Blind For Love," produced by Mark Dearnley (AC/DC, Tom Petty, Paul McCartney) and Ana Popovic. Here Ana offers up a little something for everyone including blues, rock, jazz, funk and gospel, and is joined by members of her regular touring band - Ronald Jonker (bass) and Andrew "Blaze" Thomas (drums), plus special guests Tony Braunagel (drums) and Mike Finnigan (Hammond B-3) from the Phantom Blues Band. On “Blind For Love” Ana demonstrates once again that she possesses the vision to forge ahead with her own uniquely distinctive style and continues to evolve as a deeply personal and gifted songwriter.

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BLUZAPALOOZA IS GOING TO SOUTH KOREA & JAPAN
Beginning on September 1st, this historic 14 day tour will take one of Detroit's greatest Blues bands overseas to perform at 6 U.S. military bases in South Korea including the annual Bluesfest at Osan Air Force Base and then on to Japan for 3 U.S. Military base concerts that will include FujiFest at Camp Fuji.

"The Rusty Wright Band is one of the most entertaining Blues bands in the country today and we are thrilled that they will be bringing the Blues to our troops serving in South Korea and Japan, " stated Steve Simon, BLUZAPALOOZA's founder and co-producer.

"BLUZAPALOOZA has become one of the most sought after entertainment events by our young men and woman in uniform serving overseas," stated John Hahn, co-producer of BLUZAPALOOZA.

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THE 2ND ANNUAL KLAMATH BLUES FESTIVAL
Saturday, August 29th 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM (Gates open at 10)

A family friendly event in Veterans Park, downtown, Klamath Falls, OR
General: Only $20.00, Any Blues Society member $15.00, Kids under 12 Free, Pets welcome on leash. “Kid Fest” area, 30 + vendors, and local Microbrews on hand

The designated charity this year is the Klamath Humane Society and the Klamath Blues Society College Scholarship Fund.
 
Featuring Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings, (USA Today & Rolling Stones proclaimed Roy a slide guitar god) plus, The JC Smith Band, (2006 Bay Area Blues Society West Coast Blues Band of the Year Award.) CC James (Cee is one of the most 'real and raw' performers out there and has been endlessly compared to Janis Joplin) Soul’d Out, (our very own professional R&B, soul, and blues band from Klamath Falls) and Karen Lovely (Karen is not to be missed, she will open the show with a lot of energy, passion, and fun)

For more info or advanced tickets go to www.klamathblues.org

Or call
Phyllis Faries
KBS President
(541) 331-3939


 
SITA STILL SINGS THE BLUES
Berlinale alum “Sita Sings the Blues” from animator Nina Paley is finally getting a DVD release. Paley’s allies at Question Copyright, explain the issue, “After pouring three years of her life into making the film, and having great success with audiences at festival screenings, she now can’t distribute it, because of music licensing issues: the film uses songs recorded in the late 1920’s by singer Annette Hanshaw, and although the recordings are out of copyright, the compositions themselves are still restricted. That means if you want to make a film using these songs from the 1920s, you have to pay money — a lot of money (around $50,000.00).”

The article continues, “The music in ‘Sita Sings The Blues’ is integral to the film: entire animation sequences were done around particular songs. As Nina says in the interview [embedded on the Question Copyright page], incorporating those particular recordings was part of her inspiration. To tell her — as many people did — to simply use different music would have been like telling her not to do the film at all. And that’s part of her point: artists ‘internalize the permission culture,’ which in turn affects the kinds of art they make.”

After seeing the film at festivals, many critics began to rave about it and became incredibly disappointed when it looked like the majority of the filmgoing public would not see the film. Roger Ebert says this of his first time seeing the film, “I put on the DVD and start watching. I am enchanted. I am swept away. I am smiling from one end of the film to the other. It is astonishingly original. It brings together four entirely separate elements and combines them into a great whimsical chord. You might think my attention would flag while watching An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. Quite the opposite. It quickens.” On the Spout blog, Karina Longworth raves about the film, describing it as one of the Best Undistributed Films of 2008. She says, “The 82 minute feature cross cuts between the story of the director’s own divorce, and a loose retelling of the ancient Indian myth Ramayana; we’re led back and forth between the two milieu by three silhouetted figures who colloquially comment on the events in Indian-inflected English. There are also musical numbers, set mainly to songs by 1920s jazz siren Annette Hanshaw, which drop psychedelic Bollywood versions of the Ramayana characters into Busby Berkeley configurations. It’s an infectiously personal work, and all the more admirable as a sterling example of animation meant resolutely for adults.”

Through an intense study of copyright laws, Paley has realized the opportunity to allow other people to sell her work with her endorsement, and she can receive donations from these distributors. Tonight in New York, Paley will join distributor Film Karavan at Interieurs for a release party, which will feature much of her artwork. The film can be viewed for free online. To see the online options, visit the film website’s wiki.


 
EVOLUTION SERIES TELLS STORY OF MUSIC GENRES, LATIN TO FOLK
By Kathy Lauer-Williams | OF THE MORNING CALL
Lehigh Valley

Popular music is a continuously evolving enterprise with quite a story to tell. Musikfest is doing just that in a new interactive educational program called the Evolution Music Series.The series of five one-hour programs, which starts today at Moravian College's Peter Hall, explores the genres of rock, blues, jazz and more.

Learn how the distinctive sound of Latin music migrated to the Americas from Spain and how changes in the physical construction of the piano influenced the compositions of Bach and Beethoven. The series builds on the success of last year's ''Art of Musik'' series, which featured workshops by several festival performers.

The series gets off to a fiery start today with a program on the history of Latin music by Latin Fiesta, an ens emble that incorporates costumes, dancing, percussion in their music, which ranges from hot salsa and rhumba to Latin classical.

Maria del Pico Taylor, artistic director of the troupe, says the program will explore the historic perspective of Latin music as well as the characteristics that give the music its distinctive sound. She will be joined by four drummers, violinist Raymond Taylor and flamenco dancer Liliana Ruiz Davis for the program.

She says the audience will learn how to shake maracas in the trademark rhythm chicka chicka chick chick chick and learn the steps for the traditional flamenco dance. Also on the program is a discussion about how castanets are used differently in the left and right hands. ''They are called male and female, because the female held in the right hand, does all the talking,'' she says.
Easton-area jazz pianist and composer David Leonhardt w ill talk about the history of jazz on Sunday.

Leonhardt who has taught jazz for more than 25 years, has presented workshops to students from elementary school to college. His workshops include performance/demonstrations that teach about the concepts, instruments, and styles of jazz and involve audience participation.

Concert pianist Barry Hannigan, w ho has performed at Carnegie Hall and throughout the world, says he didn't have a workshop program, but planning for the Evolution series gave him the chance to look at the piano in a new way. A teacher as well as a performer, Hannigan says his program on Thursday will feature a lecture and demonstration that looks at the history of the piano and how changes in the instrument changed what music was possible.

He says the piano began to come into its own just as Bach was ''handing the musical baton off to his kids.'' Also, he notes, some of Beethoven's most well-known compositions were influenced by the composer's new piano. Hannigan will cover later composers for the piano, including Chopin, Liszt and Brahms, through 20th-century composer George Crum.

Blues guitarist Brad Litwin w ill talk about the evolution of the blues next Saturday. Litwin always has been interested in the preservation of early roots blues and jazz. He became fascinated with the seminal blues performers of the 1920s and 1930s early in his career and studied their recordings. which he now recreates. He will explore how roots music formed the basis of American popular music, including blues, and how African American rhythms from the 1880s, including call and response, folk songs, and later, ragtime and vaudeville, influenced the genre.

Dave Fry, folk musician and founder of the Godfrey Daniels listening club in south Bethlehem, will present his award-winning RockRoots program Aug. 9. The program, which traces the history of rock music, was developed in 1990. The following year, RockRoots was aired on PBS nationally and was named best children's programming for 1991. The program is presented in schools each year through Young Audiences of Eastern PA and Young Audiences of New Jersey.

Fry will play acoustic and electric guitar and mandolin. Joining him will be Kevin Soffera on drums, Nick Franclik on bass and Donnie Mayer on electric guitar. The four-piece band will give a fun look at the history of rock, from African rhythms, delta blues, swing, rhythm and blues and country through Elvis Presley, Motown, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, disco and world beat.

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WE'LL NEVER LOSE THE BLUES

By BARRY MAZOR/WSJ

Memphis, Tenn.
Despite ample evidence of talent, vitality and originality in blues music today, rumors have persisted that the genre is on life support. Taj Mahal is not surprised.

“There was a point where everybody was saying that the blues was dead, so everybody believed it,” the veteran musical innovator and blues-and-roots authority told me in Memphis. (It was just before the 30th annual Blues Music Awards in May; he’d been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame the night before, along with New Orleans soul queen Irma Thomas.) But, he added, “that only meant it wasn’t going to do as much for the larger music industry. So let’s define what we’re talking about. You can’t tell me that hearts aren’t still going to be stepped on, that folks are not going to get their nose out of joint ’cause things don’t go right. That never changes.”

Jay Sieleman, executive director of the Memphis-based Blues Foundation, dedicated to both educating the public and aiding the genre’s performers, agrees that the blues has lasting power. He says the genre is sturdy enough to evolve unpredictably through another century in part because of its steady international fan base. “Blues fans are very loyal,” he noted when we spoke, “and the music is very personal; there’s not much separation between the musicians and the fans.” Legends such as Bobby “Blue” Bland, B.B. King, Pinetop Perkins, Honeyboy Edwards and Koko Taylor, in what proved to be her last performance, mingled easily with fans throughout the award and Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.

The real news out of Memphis, however, is the abundance of risk-taking 21st-century blues on display both at the awards show and in Beale Street venues during the days that followed—often from performers with impressive and honored discs to match the live excitement.
 
Otis Taylor


Otis Taylor

“Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs”

(Telarc)

Mr. Taylor has been an avid advocate for the revival of African-American banjo styles, and he was awarded this year for his banjo playing. When he took his current, lively band to the stage at the ceremony, however, he had an electric guitar in hand and let loose with a wall of music from this astounding, layered new CD—a blues-based meditation on love, childhood and race comparable in scope and ambition to Marvin Gaye’s opus “What’s Going On.”

The Soul of John Black

“Black John”

(Eclecto Groove)

This is an utterly contemporary and infectious blend of blues, funk and catchy pop from an involving, surprise-a-minute band fronted by exciting guitar-slinging vocalist John Bigham (a.k.a. “John Black”), a veteran of Miles Davis’s band, and rubber-faced, loose-limbed bass player Shawn Davis. The numbers are informed by what Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy and Magic Sam contributed to music—and funk and hip-hop and even country influences show up, too. Their song “Betty Jean” won’t leave your head, and it’s far from the disc’s only earworm track.

Janiva Magness

”What Love Will Do”

(Alligator)

Having won this year’s prime “B.B. King Entertainer of the Year” award (she also picked up “Contemporary Blues Female Artist”), Ms. Magness—a blues-circuit veteran and quite young grandmother from a hardscrabble background—stepped up to a new level of recognition and did so on the strength of this recording. The songs are mainly hard-hitting, sassy reconstructions, backed by a small-horn band, of songs from the soul and blues bags of Bill Withers, Al Green, Tina Turner and the like.

Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm

“2 Man Wrecking Crew”

(Delta Groove)

Winner of the 2009 “Best New Artist Debut” blues award, this duo joins the aggressive, modern attack of the singing, drumming grandson of the late Mississippi hill country blues legend R.L. Burnside with the alternately chugging and nuanced guitar and vocals of Missouri’s Lightnin’ (Steve) Malcolm, a red-haired young guitarist and vocalist who’d jammed with and been tutored by the elder Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and others of the same school. The result, including these 30-somethings’ touching but funky tribute song “R.L. Burnside,” is a pounding, updated take on hills-style ­danceability.

The Mannish Boys

”Lowdown Feelin’”

(Delta Groove)

This big Los Angeles-based band is often called a Chicago blues supergroup, and while it didn’t win awards this year, it was nominated for more of them than any other act. “Supergroup” doesn’t really describe how their often electrifying shows or CDs like this latest one actually work, however. Highly skilled, admirably loose blues veterans officially in the group and a succession of guests step up to take vocal or instrumental leads.The result is an infectious revival of both ’40s jump and ’50s to ’60s Chess-like styles from a band that lives inside the music.

Eden Brent

“Mississippi Number One”

(Yellow Dog)

For her contemporary, soul-influenced, downright-sexy turns on after-hours piano blues, Ms. Brent took home the award for Best Acoustic Artist and, for this CD, Best Acoustic Album. She emerged as a force to reckon with as an apprentice of Boogaloo Ames, and is often called “Little Boogaloo” herself. She sings Gershwin and Peggy Lee tunes, as well as her own Delta-born songs—aggressive, sultry, hot and cool.


 
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JAM NIGHT OF THE WEEK
From the Baton Rouge Blues Society

Phil Brady's Bar & Grill
Thursday Night Blues Jams
4848 Government Street
Baton Rouge, LA  70806
Phone # 225.927.3786
 
Visit Phil Brady's Bar & Grill:  www.philbradys.org
 
Teddy's Juke Joint
Sunday Night Blues Jam
17001 Old Scenic Hwy
Zachary, LA  70791
Phone # 225.658.8029
 
Visit Teddy's Juke Joint www.teddysjukejoint.com
Teddy's has the best blues in Louisiana.
 

MARIA MULDAUR RETURNS TO HER JUG BAND ROOTS FOR NEW CD ON STONY PLAIN RECORDS, DUE FOR RELEASE ON OCTOBER 6

Maria Muldaur, “America’s First Lady of Roots Music,” is coming full circle and returning to her beginnings with a new jug band album, Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy, which is set for release on October 6 by Stony Plain Records, distributed in the U.S. by ADA. The new CD will be followed by a six-week tour throughout the U.S. and Canada.

The new album is a reunion between the Grammy-nominated singer and some of the alumni of the legendary Even Dozen Jug Band, the first group Muldaur recorded with, including John Sebastian and David Grisman. Sebastian soon became famous as leader of the Lovin’ Spoonful and the writer of numerous hits including “Do You Believe in Magic?,” “Summer in the City,” “Daydream,” “Nashville Cats”, and the theme for the hit TV series, “Welcome Back Kotter.” David Grisman, known as a pioneer of “new bluegrass” (as well as his own fusion of jazz, bluegrass and gypsy music called “Dawg Music”), went on to record more than 50 albums since his Even Dozen Jug Band days, with artists as varied as Jerry Garcia and Stéphane Grappelli.

To complete this reunion of former jug band mates, Muldaur will include on the new CD the title track of her 2005 Grammy-nominated album, Sweet Lovin’ Ol’ Soul, which features the last recording of the late Fritz Richmond, the incomparable jug player in the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. The track also includes another long-time friend, Taj Mahal.

Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy also features the illustrious ultimate hipster, Dan Hicks, who continues to record and tour internationally with his band The Hot Licks. Joining these jug band veterans are Muldaur’s newest discovery, a young jug band called the Crow Quill Night Owls.



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SIERRA BLUES SOCIETY
The Sierra Blues Society is stepping forward with the new owners of Outlaws BarBQ & Steakhouse to rekindle an annual tradition of the Sonora Blues Festival with a Post-Fest Pro Jam at the venue. We’ll be starting up the music at about 9:30 PM and getting the place warmed up for all the blues fans with a hot band on the rise in the Central California Blues scene, Pinkie Rideau & Blind Resistance.
 
This is gonna be a night to remember the old tradition and honor the new with this great Pro Jam at Outlaws BarBQ & Steakhouse, 275 S.Washington Street, Sonora, CA on Saturday August 8th. Again, we’ll kick-off the event at about 9:30 PM, so come and show your support for the blues and wind down the great day of Blues!.

 Admission is a meager $5/person for ANY Card-Carrying Blues Society Member and $7/person for General Public! For further information call Outlaws
BarBQ & Steakhouse at 209/532-1227 or checkout the website for
The Sierra Blues Society at www.sierrabluessociety.org .




 

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COLIN LINDEN:FROM THE WATER






COLIN LINDEN GOT HIS START IN MUSIC WHEN HIS MOTHER TOOK HIM TO SEE HOWLIN' WOLF.  HE WAS JUST ELEVEN YEARS OLD.  SINCE THEN HE HAS BEEN A PRODUCER, A SIDEMAN, SONGWRITER, SINGER, AND - OH YES - GUITAR PLAYER.  A GIANT IN THE CANADIAN BLUES SCENE, COLIN LINDEN'S NEW CD IS FROM THE WATER.
 
COLIN LINDEN AND HIS LATEST CD, FROM THE WATER…NEXT TIME ON THE HOUSE OF BLUES RADIO HOUR. 


  
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Big Bend Blues Bash
Thursday-Saturday,
July 30 - August 1, 2009
Pomeroy, Ohio, U.S.
http://www.pomeroyblues.org
1-877-MEIGS-CO
The 22nd. International Notodden Blues Festival 2009
Thursday-Sunday,
July 30 - August 2, 2009
Notodden, Telemark, Norway
http://www.bluesfest.no
+47 350 27650
Fargo Blues Festival 14th Annual
Friday-Saturday,
July 31-August 1, 2009
Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
//fargobluesfest.homestead.com
866-55-BLUES
Prairie Dog Blues Festival
Friday-Saturday,
July 31-August 1, 2009

Prairie du Chien, WI, U.S.
www.prairiedogblues.com
888-567-1567
Mammoth Fest of Beers & Bluesapalooza

Friday-Sunday,
July 31-August 2, 2009

Mammoth Lakes, California, U.S.
www.mammothbluesbrewsfest.com
888-992-7397
Mount Baker R&B Festival
Friday-Sunday,
July 31-August 2, 2009

Bellingham, Washington, U.S.
www.bakerblues.com
360-383-0850
Back Yard Blues Bash 3rd Annual!
Friday-Sunday,
July 31-August 2, 2009

Goldendale, Washington, U.S.
Website
509-773-4434
7th Annual Groovin' in The Grove Summer Concerts 9 WK Saturday Series

Saturday,
August 1, 2009

This Week: Ron Thompson and The Resisters
Lodi, California, U.S.
www.jessiesgrovewinery.com
209-368-0880
Pickerington Jazz & Blues Ribfest
Saturday,
August 1, 2009

Pickerington, Ohio, U.S.
www.pickeringtonvillage.com
614-837-6701
Barnful of Blues
Saturday,
August 1, 2009

New Boston, NH, U.S.
www.newbostonblues.org
603-325-8659
Seattle Bayou Festival
Saturday,
August 1, 2009

Seattle, Washington, U.S.
www.SeattleBayouFest.com
206-542-6644
Davison's "I Chews The Blues" Fest

Saturday,
August 1, 2009

Davison, Michigan, U.S.
www.ichewstheblues.com
810-252-3768

Onset Blues Festival
Saturday,
August 1, 2009

Wareham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Website
508-295-7072
Molinara Crossroads
Saturday-Sunday,
August 1-2, 2009

Molinara, Benevento, Italy
www.molinaracrossroads.it
00393495879026
Blues on the Chippewa
Saturday-Sunday,
August 1-2, 2009

Durand, Wisconsin, U.S.
www.bluesonthechippewa.org
715-672-4491
Sky High Blues Festival
Saturday-Sunday,
August 1-2, 2009

Rock Creek, British Columbia, Canada
http://skyhighblues.org
250-446-2553
Calgary International Blues Festival
Monday-Sunday,
August 3-9, 2009

Calgary, Alberta, Canada
www.calgarybluesfest.com
403-668-7144
Blue Wing Blues Festival
Wednesday-Saturday,
August 5-8, 2009
Upper Lake, California, U.S.
www.bluewingsaloon.com
707-275-2244
Kitchner Blues Festival
Thursday -Sunday,
August 6-9, 2009

Kitchner, Ontario, Canada
Website
519-571-2555
Magic City Blues Festival
Friday-Saturday,
August 7-8, 2009

Billings, MT , U.S.
www.magiccityblues.com
406-670-2329
Waukesha BluesFest
Friday-Saturday,
August 7-8, 2009

Delafield, Wisconsin, U.S.
www.waukeshabluesfest.com
800-366-1961
2009 Cincy Blues Fest
Friday-Saturday,
August 7-8, 2009
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
www.cincyblues.org
513-289-5394
North Star Blues & BBQ
Friday-Saturday,
August 7-8, 2009

Windsor, Wisconsin, U.S.
www.northstarbluesandbbq.com
608-846-2922
JerryFest "09"

Friday-Saturday,
August 7-8, 2009

Kempton, PA , U.S.
www.jerryfest.com
610-496-7541

Smiths Creek Blues Festival
Friday-Saturday,
August 7-8, 2009

Smiths Creek, Michigan, U.S.
http://smithscreekbluesfestival.org
248-497-1800
Back To School Blues Festival
Friday-Saturday,
August 7-8, 2009

Amarillo, Texas, U.S.
www.bluesboywillie.net
806-433-8275
Mendocino Acoustic Blues Workshop
Friday-Saturday,
August 7-8, 2009
Mendocino, California, U.S.
www.mendocinoguitars.com
707-895-3738
Riverfront Blues Festival
Friday-Sunday, August 7-9, 2009
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
www.riverfrontbluesfest.com
302-576-2137
Heritage Music BluesFest

Friday-Sunday,
August 7-9, 2009

Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S.
www.heritagemusicfest.com
304-232-8705
RBA Publishing Inc is based in Reno, NV with a satellite office in Beverly Hills, Florida. We produce the annual Blues Festival Guide magazine (now in its 7th year), the top-ranking website: www.BluesFestivalGuide.com, and this weekly blues newsletter: The Blues Festival E-Guide with approximately 20,000 weekly subscribers. We look forward to your suggestions, critiques, questions, etc.

Reach the E-Guide editor, Gordon Bulcock, gordon@bluesfestivalguide.com

or contact our home office at 775-337-8626, eguide@bluesfestivalguide.com

 
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Information - both editorial and advertising - in the Blues Festival E-Guide - is believed to be correct but not guaranteed - so check it carefully before you attend any event or send money for anything. We do not write the news... just report it.
 
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