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 [...]
With his partner Jamie Isaacson, Benjamin has been putting on the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland, Maine, for the past eight years. While many other festivals experienced a slump this year due to the [...]
Since 1994, Peter has been the Talent Coordinator for Portland Oregon’s Waterfront Blues Festival. The festival is the largest Blues festival in the Pacific Northwest. Last year, 75 national and regional acts performing on three [...]
In 1985, a group of like-minded Blues lovers got together to try and organize a Blues festival to honor the musical heritage of Helena, Arkansas. They felt that Helena's musical history was all but unknown [...]
Started in 1973 to showcase the history of San Francisco and Oakland Blues, the San Francisco Blues Festival is the longest running Blues festival in the United States. Under founding producer Tom Mazzolini, the festival [...]
As band leader for Freddie King and Johnny Copeland, Teo Leyasmeyer knows what a musician looks for as a promoter. As a projects coordinator of tributes to Howlin' Wolf and Willie Dixon, Teo also knows [...]