Toni Ann Mamary -Totowa, New Jersey
Toni Ann Mamary has been Hubert Sumlin’s manager for 12 years. In that time, Hubert has been inducted into the Blues Foundation’s Hall of Fame, won numerous Blues Music Awards, seen his album, About Them [...]
Rodgers Redding – Macon, Georgia
As one musician has said, “If Rodgers Redding doesn’t represent you, you don’t work. If he does represent you, you work all the time.” For more than three decades, Rodgers Redding has been the number [...]
Dan Treanor – Arvada, Colorado
Dan Treanor was first approached in 1994 by the Colorado Blues Society to start up it’s Blues in the Schools program. His first program that April reached about 30 children. Since that inauspicious beginning, Treanor [...]
Soul Bag – Clichy, France
Elvin Bishop says, “Soul Bag is the best thing to happen to France since Django Reinhardt.” Founded by Jacques Périn in 1968, Soul Bag is the oldest blues magazine in France. Since its founding, over [...]
Scott Barretta – Oxford, Mississippi
Few writers have given more to blues journalism than Scott Barretta. His years of tireless writing, researching, and preserving this American art form have impacted enthusiasts around the world. For three years, 1996 to 1999, [...]
Blues Society of Western New York – Buffalo, New York
Founded in 1992, the Blues Society of Western New York’s mission is to preserve Blues music through educational endeavors and promotional events. The Society began with a drive that drew around 100 members. Subsequent drives [...]
Harvey Stauffer, WVPE-FM – Elkhart, Indiana
Harvey Stauffer and his Blues Revue show is one of the longest running public radio blues programs in the country. Stauffer’s three-hour show, which began 28 years ago, runs on Saturday and Sunday afternoon to [...]
Rawa Blues Festival – Katowice, Poland
In 1981, when the Soviet Union still held countries in its iron grip of repression, the Rawa Blues Festival was born in the town of Katowice, Poland. That first festival gathered about 20 blues bands [...]
Mike Lecuyer – Saint Michel de Montaigne, France
Mike Lecuyer is one of the most important names in French blues. Though he began his love of the blues as a musician, it was his internet creation of La Chaine du Blues (the chain [...]
Paul Jones – London, England
Paul Jones is perhaps most recognizable as the vocalist and harmonica player in Manfred Mann, one of the most popular bands of the British Invasion. In 1979 he founded The Blues Band, which helped kick-start [...]