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The Blues Festival in Eslöv
31/10-1/11 line up is
done. Read all about the festival: the artists, exhibitions,
tickets, hotels, the venue...
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Karen Carroll
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Jimi Hendrix' guitar was sold for $497,557 at a music memorabilia
auction in London. It was a Fender Stratocaster which Hendrix
had set on fire at a London concert in March 1967. The buyer
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Burning hot guitar |
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September 13, 2008 is the date for the grand opening
of the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in B.B.’s
hometown Indianola, Mississippi...
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The vision
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The
Crossroads Hotel and Entertainment Complex will be a reasonably priced world class resort
offering guests the very best in southern charm and hospitality.
Theme rooms such as The Muddy Waters, The Bessie Smith or the
Robert Johnson room will be available and some of the rooms will
be equipped with a Retro Wurlitzer Style Jukebox.
The Entertainment Complex will
offer world class venues to showcase the blues influenced music
of every stripe, from Blues Festivals, Rock Concerts, Late Night
Jazz to Gospel Music on Sunday. Local and International Artists
will be featured. Mississippi Delta Blues, Inc., CEO, Carol Marble,
www.mississippideltabluesinfo.com, will be handling the booking
aspect of the entertainment through its sister company Blues
Mamas Booking Agency Inc., www.bluesmamasbooking.com, owned by
Peggy Brown and Carol Marble.
The Crossroads Hotel and Entertainment
Complex Group, (C.H.E.C.G.) believes in a philosophy of cooperative
tourism and community involvement. To this end, the C.H.E.C.G.
hopes to work with local and statewide public and private organizations.
Plans are to work also with museums, educators, music historians
and others interested in the roots of America’s music.
International
Songwriting Competition is
now accepting entries. Deadline October 15:th. Over $150,000
in cash and prizes...
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Copenhagen Blues Festival September 24-28 includes a mix of
international and Scandinavian artists...
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Sad
losses:
Little Arthur Duncan 2/5/1934-8/20/2008: It is with great
sadness that we report yet another passing in this terrible week
of losses to our blues community. Chicago harmonica ace Little
Arthur Duncan passed away Wednesday morning, August 20, 2008
at Kindred Hospital in Northlake, IL. He was 74. He had been
incapacitated for months with little hope of recovery.
Phil Guy 4/28/1940-8/20/2008: This news form
Steve Hecht of Piedmont Talent and Buddy Guy's Legends: Guitarist/vocalist
Phil Guy, the younger brother of the legendary Buddy Guy, passed
away 8/20 at St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields, IL, after
a battle with kidney and liver cancer. He was 68.
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Billy Morrison, Pinetop
Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, and Sugar Blue appear and perform in Spike Lee´s "The
Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll" Lee is executive producing
a new indie film called and Variety reports that Kevin Zegers
(the cutie student) and Jason Ritter (The Education of Charlie
Banks) will star. Written by Scott Rosenbaum, who is also directing,
the film focuses on "a rock star (Zegers) who retreats to
his Long Island hometown after his sophomore album flops."
Oh, the woes of stardom. So, in this story, we'll also see the
likes of Peter Fonda, Taryn Manning, Lauren Holly, Aimee Teegarden,
and James Ransone plus, appearances by music names like Billy
Morrison, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, and Sugar Blue...
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Sugar Blue
performing in Eslöv 2006 |
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The oldest ongoing blues
festival in the world
is the San Francisco Blues Festival, going strong since 1973!
Between September 26-28 they will celebrate their 36:th annual
festival with names like Johnny Winter, Buckwheat Zydeco, Denise
LaSalle, David Honeyboy Edwards to name a few...
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The
Initiative Musik gGmbH is
a funding agency set up by the German federal government to promote
the music industry in Germany. It is supported by the German
Collecting Society for Performance Rights (GVL) and the German
Music Council. Financial support is provided by the GVL and the
German Music Authors’ Society (GEMA/GEMA Foundation). More
than €1 million in support grants will be given out each
year to artists and music companies. The core field of support
is geared toward contemporary music, particularly Rock, Pop,
and Jazz...
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Great Atlantic
Blues & Beyond Festival,
Sept. 19 to 21, Alderney Landing, Dartmouth. Music, arts and
cultural festival featuring blues, R&B, soul with the John
Campbelljohn Band, Shakura S’Aida, Roy Rogers and the Delta
Rhythm Kings, Big Bill Morganfield, Paul Derringer Band, Coco
Montoya, Bettye Lavette, Johnny Winter, Nappy Brown and His Orchestra,
Dawn Tyler-Watson Project, Duke Robillard Band, Phantom Blues
Band, Charlie Musselwhite, Edgar Winter Band, Doc MacLean and
Michael Pickett, Samuel James, Dawn Tyler-Watson and Paul Deslaurier,
John Hammond, Chelsea Nisbett, Deep River Boys with Dr. Henry
Bishop, Hallelujah Praise Choir, John Campbelljohn, Samuel James.
Weekend pass, including tax and service charge is $111.
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Rockmandu and Blues Room,
Nepal have launched
a new blog for musicians, promoters, record labels, festival
organizers and music fans all around the world. The aim is to
have a discussion about anything related to music...
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The
story of Son Seals
now on DVD. When guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Frank "Son"
Seals unleashed his debut album on Alligator Records in 1973,
his feral guitar work, scorching vocals, and innovative songwriting
immediately marked his as one of the major Blues voices of his
generation. Son was an original, writing most of his own material
and playing his guitar with a fierce, raw intensity matched only
by his ferocious vocals...
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James
Brown was poisoned
by thieves intent on digging up the fortune he'd possibly buried
on his South Carolina estate, according to a stunning new expose.
Former business associates and backing singers insist the Godfather
Of Soul's remains should be exhumed for toxicology tests after
hearing rumors he was poisoned before his death on Christmas
Day 2006.
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Artist Eva Acking used to live with the blues legend
Champion Jack Dupree who passed away 1992. Eva lives in Sweden
and expose paintings made by Dupree himself and her own photos
of the legend...
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Champion Jack Dupree
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Honeydripper is the name of a movie written and
directed by John Sayles starring Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton,
Charles Dutton, Vondie Curtis Hall, Keb Mo, Mary Steenburgen,
and introducing Gary Clark, Jr. It’s 1950. Dusty roads and
the cotton is high in Harmony, Alabama. Things aren’t going
well for Tyrone Purvis juke joint Honeydripper. It´s a
place more like a social club for old bluesmen than a going concern...
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Make somebody happy! (or why not your self!) Buy the live
cd from Ralph & the big bang group! Burning hot 48 minutes
live blues. Click on the loudspeaker and listen to a sample...
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Visit Chicago and join
the tour "History of Chicago Blues". It´s the
City of Chicago that offers you to take a tour narrated by Buddy
Guy to get the full story of the blues scene...
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