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This Summer the New Blues Festival in Southern California is staging a series of regional head-to-head competitions, the 6-String Showdown, across the Southland to crown SoCal’s all-around best blues guitar player. Four regional winners will represent Orange County, Long Beach, Arcadia and the San Fernando Valley in the Semi-Finals... -
Acclaimed guitarist-vocalist Mike Zito embarks on his Spring-Summer “First Class Life’ Tour, which kicks off with a Record Release Concert at the Atomic Cowboy Pavilion in St. Louis this Friday, May 11 and runs through September (complete itinerary at https://www.mikezito.com/shows). There may not be a more honest bluesman than... -
“Unfinished Business” (Blue Door Records) is the new album by Victoria Ginty (Release Date: Friday, May 4) and captures the vocalist’s unique, soulful blues style. Recorded at GCR Audio Studios in Buffalo, the eleven tracks (eight originals) on Unfinished Business also fuse R&B, Soul, and Americana, sure to please... -
If it’s Summertime in Colorado, that can only mean one thing for blues lovers in the know: The 16th Annual Blues from The Top Festival is right around the corner! Taking place Saturday and Sunday, June 23 and 24 this year, Blues From The Top (or BFTT as it’s... -
The Billy Blues Band kick off their Spring 2018 Tour with a performance at Destination 112 in Nampa, Idaho on Friday, April 27. Formed in February of 2017 in the Boise area, this refined group of talented musicians features vocalists Michele Eastland and Becky Blake, who control the stage... -
Multiple award-winning boogie-woogie blues pianist-vocalist Victor Wainwright (a/k/a ‘Piana From Savannah’) kicks off his 2018 U.S./Canada Spring/Summer Tour in support of just-released album Victor Wainwright & the Train (Ruf Records), with a Record Release Party at The Bank & Blues, 701 Main St., two big nights, Thursday, March... -
Michael John Baswoski, or Michael John for short, has been a leading light on the Southern California blues music scene for several decades – first, fronting his own band, Michael John and the Bottom Line; then, for the last thirteen years, along with his wife Cathy Basowski, presenting the... -
Kathryn Grimm is a musician in perpetual motion. The Portland, OR-based blues lady fronts not one, but two working groups, on vocals and guitar: Kathryn Grimm and the Blues Tools; and Hippie Love Slave. Grimm returned to her previous residence, Los Angeles, playing bass in Billy D and the... -
The burgeoning SoCal Inland Empire finally has it’s very own Blues Festival, the 1st Annual Temecula Blues Festival on Saturday, April 21, from 12 Noon until 10 pm and featuring a solid lineup of multiple BMA nominee vocalist Tad Robinson, Shari Puorto Band, Stoney B. Blues Band and many...
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