The New York State Rhythm & Blues Festival, held each summer in Syracuse, celebrates its twelfth season in 2003. The longest-running downtown festival in Syracuse history, it has an economic impact of well over $1 [...]
Andre has been a Sunday morning fixture in Des Moines on KGGO for many years. Since he began his Sunday morning Roadhouse in 1996, expanded to four hours in 2000, Andre has given his listeners [...]
Europas Blues Senter, Notodden, Norway The Senter, founded in 1998, documents, preserves and makes available public and historical material related to the blues. Until the Senter is built, the Senter is currently located in the [...]
CBS Early Morning News - Hosted by Russ Mitchell and Gretchen Carlson, this Saturday morning program of news and features made its debut as the CBS News Saturday Morning in September 1997. Blues artists get [...]
Chuck Winans had been a Blues fan for over 20 years prior to picking up a camera. In fact, until seven years ago, he didnt own a camera of any kind. In just six years, [...]
Founded in 1894 by part-time shoe clerk and musician Orville Gibson of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Gibson Guitar and Mandolin Company became and remains a world leader in the manufacturing of many different types of guitars. [...]
Founded in 1986 by a handful of music enthusiasts, the Cascade Blues Association has grown into one of the largest and most viable Blues societies in the country. Recognized as 'the Ambassador of the Blues' [...]
Indiana's oldest continually-operated bar (it began life in 1850 as the Tremont House and is on the National Register of Historic Places), the Slippery Noodle is home of the Blues in Indiana with live local, [...]
Located on Beale St. in downtown Memphis, Memphis Music is the largest Blues retailer in the city. Memphis Music carries music from over 8,000 artists with emphasis on any artist who has recorded the Blues. [...]