Since 1988, the Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival has attracted top national and regional blues acts. As the longest-running, most successful blues event in Washington state, the Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival has had a [...]
T-Bone Walker in a gorgeous white suit in 1972; Eddie Taylor squeezing guitar strings in 1976; Otis Rush in sunglasses in 1980; Eddy Clearwater in a full headdress in 2013: These are just four of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Founded in 1979, the Sacramento Blues Society promotes and preserves the blues through a number of ongoing activities. In addition to a variety of concerts and blues jams, the society also devotes major efforts to [...]
Gary Wagners Nothin but the Blues radio show has been the heart of the blues in Southern California since 1992. His show runs every Saturday and Sunday afternoon on KKJZ. In 2012, the station dropped [...]
Guido van Rijn is a Dutch blues and gospel historian. His major historical work is a set of six books that examine the way blues and gospel artists experienced eleven 20th-century American presidents and their [...]