Albertina Wassenhove has been running her family’s business, the Midway Tavern in Mishawaka, Indiana, continuously since 1990. Her parents purchased the club in 1924, and Wassenhove grew up with the club as part of her [...]

Rueben Williams founded the Thunderbird Management Group more than 20 years ago. Its primary mission is to develop artists and create long-lasting careers in the music industry for those artists. From the successful 20-plus-year career [...]

Incorporated as a nonprofit in 1986, the Baltimore Blues Society has been a model of consistency, annually producing six to ten shows featuring national touring blues artists along with local and regional bands. It regularly [...]

Blues & Soul Records was founded in 1994 as a quarterly extra issue of Black Music Revue and as an outlet to cover non-mainstream black music such as blues, deep soul, and gospel. Since its birth, over 130 [...]

Kathy Bolmer, a Blues Foundation charter member, has had a massive impact on The Blues Foundation’s outreach programs to aid musicians in need. She has been a tireless activist, directly helping musicians with medical care [...]

Briggs Farm Blues Festival, located in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, on a 250-year-old working farm that encompasses hundreds of acres, was a dream come true for Richard and Alison Briggs and the Briggs family. The festival, which [...]

Kyle Deibler is the epitome of unselfish volunteerism that turns into hands-on activism. He began volunteering for The Blues Foundation during the IBC in 2003 and quickly became the stage manager at one of the [...]

What do the critically acclaimed records of Wee Willie Walker, John Boyd, Finis Tasby, Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, Little Charlie, Frank Bey, Anthony Paule, Aki Kumar, Rockin’ Johnny Burgin, Jackie Payne, John Németh, Terry [...]

Highway 99 Blues Club is the longest-running, most successful blues club in Washington state. Over its 12-year run, the club has presented live music five nights a week, featuring national touring artists and established regional [...]

Since Jay Miller began writing his Music Scene column in the Patriot Ledger daily newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1996, he has written about more blues artists than any other journalist in the Boston area. Jay has [...]