Gary and Gillian Atkinson own the independent roots music label Document Records. Based in the United Kingdom, it is known for specializing in the issue and reissue of early recordings of American blues, gospel, spirituals, [...]
Jonas Bernholm, hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, has been instrumental in sharing blues music. An 84-day, 10-city field trip in 1968, focusing on bluesy Southern deep soul music, was life-changing for him. In Memphis — the [...]
Bluesfest Byron Bay, held annually since 1990 in Byron Bay, Australia, features a large selection of blues and roots musicians from around the world, and is considered one of the world’s leading contemporary music festivals. [...]
What happens when your 5-year-old daughter, who was enamored of classical music, suddenly puts down the violin she has played for a year and exclaims, “Momma, don't you know I was born to the blues?” [...]
Produced by Chesapeake Bay Events, a nonprofit organization founded in 1998, the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival is held at Sandy Point State Park in Maryland each year. The festival features a strong lineup year in [...]
Since the mid-20th century, professional blues activists in nearly every European nation have been committed to championing blues music along with the artists who create it. Festivals, tour organizers, agents, specialized magazines, radio DJs, labels, [...]
Music journalist Lucky Clark has been a champion of the blues in central and eastern Maine for 49 years. Although he has never written for a big-city newspaper or a major national publication, for nearly [...]
An academic and teacher, Dr. Timothy J. Fik is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida, where for the past 17 years he has been giving seminars and [...]
Since March 1980, when he was a teenager, Brian Kelm has been spinning the blues on KRCL in Salt Lake City, Utah — currently from 8 to 10:30 Monday nights on his show Red, White [...]
The Poor House Bistro, located in San Jose, California, opened in 2005 as a blues club and a New Orleans-style restaurant. Jay Meduri, owner and booker, hosts live blues at the PHB with both local [...]