NEWS ARCHIVE
2023 Blues Music Awards Winners
44th Annual Blues Music Awards in Memphis Top Winners Include: John Németh, Buddy Guy & Albert Castiglia Tommy Castro Wins B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Tom Hambridge Wins 'Song of [...]
2023 Blues Music Awards Week Events Schedule
The 2023 Blues Music Awards schedule of events is now available!
IBC 2024 Winners Announced
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE’S TOP SELECTIONS FOR 2024! BAND DIVISION Winner: Piper and The Hard Times 2nd Place Band: The Stephen Hull Experience 3rd Place Band: Mandalyn & The [...]
IBC 2022 Winners Announced
French Band The Wacky Jugs Win the IBCs Band Division Phoenix Artist Eric Ramsey Triumphs in the Solo/Duo Division THE WACKY JUGS ©Roger Stephenson MEMPHIS, Tenn. — One act [...]
2022 Blues Music Awards Winners
BLUES MUSIC AWARDS 2022 WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT FIRST IN-PERSON BMA EVENT SINCE 2019 Tommy Castro is the big winner with three awards with multiple honors going to Sue Foley & Christone “Kingfish” Ingram [...]
2022 Blues Hall of Fame Inductees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2022 LUCILLE BOGAN, LITTLE WILLIE JOHN, JOHNNIE TAYLOR, OTIS BLACKWELL, AND MARY KATHERINE ALDIN WILL BE CELEBRATED AS NEW BLUES HALL OF FAMERS ON MAY [...]
The Blues Foundation Announces the 43rd BMA Nominees
Click here to purchase BMA and BHOF tickets CLICK HERE TO BOOK HOTEL ROOM KEB’ MO’, TOMMY CASTRO, TOM HAMBRIDGE, CHRIS CAIN, SUGARAY RAYFORD, ERIC GALES, ARE AMONG [...]
Important Update: Blues Hall of Fame Museum
Dear Blues Foundation Members,Passion. Devotion. Welcoming. Embracing. This is what I feel as I get to know everyone here. As the newcomer to the family, I thank you for the [...]
IBC 2022: NEW DATES
The Blues Foundation is excited to announce the new dates for the International Blues Challenge: May 6 – 9, 2022 It will be a full week of blues this May in Memphis [...]
2022 KBA Award Recipients
Get to know the 2022 KBA Award Recipients Big Blues Bender’s HART Party The Big Blues Bender is a 4-day music festival held annually in Las Vegas, NV. Each year the opening night [...]
NEWS: The Blues Foundation names Blues Hall of Fame 2020 inductees: Bettye LaVette, Syl Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Eddie Boyd, George Smith, Billy Branch, Ralph Peer, and more!
This post was originally published on December 19, 2020. The 2020 Class of Inductees will be formally inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in conjunction with the 2022 honorees at the upcoming ceremony [...]
The Blues Foundation announces its 2020 Keeping the Blue Alive Award recipients
THE BLUES FOUNDATION LAUNCHES 40TH YEAR BY SALUTING ITS KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE HONOREES DURING INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE WEEK, JANUARY 28 - FEBRUARY 1, 2020. The broad diversity found in this year’s nine “Keeping the Blues [...]
BREAKING: Blues Music Awards 2019 Winners Announced
SHEMEKIA COPELAND, MIKE WELCH, AND MICHAEL LEDBETTER SCORED BIG AT THE BLUES FOUNDATION’S 40TH ANNUAL BLUES MUSIC AWARDS First-time winners Ben Harper and Sugaray Rayford joined veteran BMA honorees Buddy Guy and Marcia Ball [...]
NEWS: Blues Music Awards Week schedule announced, kicking off May 8th in Memphis. BMA Awards Ceremony, Blues Hall of Fame Induction gala and more!
BLUES MUSIC’S PAST AND PRESENT GREATS WILL BE CELEBRATED DURING BLUES MUSIC AWARDS WEEK, KICKING OFF MAY 8 IN MEMPHIS The BMA Awards Ceremony and Blues Hall of Fame Induction Gala highlight the Blues [...]
THE QUEEN OF SOUL, THE COUNT, AND THE UNCROWNED QUEEN OF THE BLUES ARE AMONG THE MUSIC ROYALTY BEING WELCOMED INTO THE BLUES HALL OF FAME ON MAY 8
Pee Wee Crayton, Moe Asch, and Booker T. & the MG’s join Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, and Ida Cox in The Blues Foundation’s 40th Blues Hall of Fame induction class, which also honors historic [...]
The Blues Foundation’s 35th International Blues Challenge winners announced; more than 200 artists competed in Memphis Jan. 22-26.
THE BLUES FOUNDATION CROWNS MS. HY-C & FRESH START AS BEST BAND AND JON SHAIN AS BEST SOLO/DUO ACT AT THE 35th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE More than 200 acts performed in Memphis [...]
40TH BLUES MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
40TH BLUES MUSIC AWARDS ANNOUNCED BUDDY GUY, BILLY F GIBBONS, BOBBY RUSH, CANDI STATON, AND BEN HARPER ARE AMONG THE DISTINGUISHED, DIVERSE GROUP OF NOMINEES TO BE CELEBRATED AT THE 40th ANNUAL BLUES [...]