The BluesBaltica promoters of Bluesfest Eutin certainly know how to run a festival. Founded in 1990 by Helge Nickel, who continues to run the festival, it is a free, four-day, world-class blues festival in the [...]
Veteran music journalist B.J. Huchtemann has been covering the blues in the Omaha-Lincoln area for over 20 years. She is a senior contributing writer for The Reader, and her blues coverage has been a feature [...]
Alan Govenar is an award-winning writer, folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and is president of Documentary Arts, a nonprofit organization he founded in 1985 to present new perspectives on historical issues [...]
Darwin's Burgers is not big and it is not glitzy. It's a little old house bursting with good food and fantastic blues music. Founded in 1995, it was the home of the blues in Atlanta. [...]
Erik Lindahl was born in 1952 and lives in Sweden's second-largest city, Gothenburg. He is a photographer and has focused on blues musicians and their environments since the early 1970s. Erik has documented the blues [...]
For the past 14-plus years, Greg Slim Lively Johnson has been president of the Cascade Blues Association, one of the oldest (founded in 1986) and largest affiliated blues societies. He's also the principal writer and [...]
In 1983, while still in high school, Eric Suher began working in various roles for the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet, launching a promoting career that has spanned four decades. In 1995 Suher purchased the [...]
Asociacin Musical Blues Hondarribia Hondarribia, Spain In 2005, Carlos Malles created the Asociacin Musical Blues Hondarribia in Hondarribia, Spain, as a way to promote the blues in the Basque region of the country. A year [...]
Ben Sandmel is a New Orleans-based journalist, blues researcher/folklorist, and drummer. He has written for publications including Living Blues, Downbeat, The Atlantic and Rolling Stone. Sandmel's book Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans [...]
Charlie Frazier Burlington,Vermont Mr. Charlie Frazier started his radio career 37 years ago at the University of Vermonts WRUV. Thirty years ago, he was invited onboard for the formation of WIZN, a new 50,000-watt commercial [...]