Norway's Gøran Stensrud is proof of just how much one dedicated individual can affect the blues culture of a nation. It started in 1996, when he and a couple of friends created the Hunndalen Blues [...]

The Royal Mail Hotel, established in the 1840s as a classic Australian pub, and owner Andrew Café have a wonderful history of providing live blues every week for the past 26 years. The hotel has [...]

Since Vicente Zumel discovered the blues 40 years ago, he has made it his life’s calling. He began as a performer in the early 1970s, establishing one of Spain’s first blues bands, the Ancora Blues [...]

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 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 [...]

What began in 2004 with five friends who loved the Blues has grown today into one of Europe’s major Blues promoters. In 2007, it organized the first Italian Blues Conference which brought together dozens of [...]

Starting with Jukka Wallenius' idea of publishing a blues magazine, the Finnish Blues Society has been the blues force in Finland since 1968. Within a few weeks it published the first issue of Blues News, [...]

Jean Guillermo has created an amazing multi-city festival in which Blues artists perform in various towns throughout the region of Mantes Le Jolie in France for 17 days. The festival includes 140 Blues events at [...]

Since its beginning in 1995, the aim of the Lucerne Blues Festival has been to promote and support the Blues culture in Europe. It has certainly met its objective inasmuch as it is now recognized [...]