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Hold our 13th Annual Print Magazine in your hands
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 Get your own copy of the 2015 Blues Festival Guide (and back-issues, too). Have the magazine delivered right to your mailbox! Click the image at left to find out how easy it is to be able to hold your own copy in your hands and flip through the pages at your leisure.
Our magazine is jam-packed with feature stories, art and photography by top Blues aficionados plus our huge festival section with plenty of details to help you get your blues groove on and plan your festival itinerary.
Bobby Rush calls our magazine: "The road map to the blues?"
Thanks for digging what we do!
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Send your pics with the new 2015 BFG Magazine
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 Matt Isbell of Ghost Town Blues shows off his BFG!
Photo courtesy: Cheryl O'Grady Yearnshaw
*NOTE! Snap photos of you and your friends or an artist with the 2015 Guide! *EMAIL your photo plus caption & credit.
*Want your own hard copy? You can order via our website. Find the digital version here. Our 2015 edition is sponsored by the Jackson Rhythm & Blues  Festival, Jackson, MS.
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Lisa Mills :: I'M CHANGING
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 I'm Changing, was produced by Mobile, Alabama-based, Mississippi native, blues, roots and gospel singer, guitarist Lisa Mills along with bassist Ian Jennings. Mills exemplifies the deeply embedded Southern musical influences that come together in unpredictable ways on I'm Changing with this follow-up to her internationally praised 2010 release Tempered in Fire. From bluesy, to breathy to edgy, reviews call her one of the best singer/songwriters on the scene today.
Recorded primarily at Back Door Studios in Mobile, the album showcases Mills and an impressive cast of musicians including Rick Hirsch and drummer T.K Lively of Wet Willie fame, as well as guitarist Corky Hughes (Bo Diddley, Black Oak Arkansas) and drummer John Milham. Bassist Ian Jennings has a host of world-class recording credentials including work on albums with Jeff Beck, Van Morrison and Tom Jones. Find more details about this release
 "Better Than This/Don't Need You Anymore"
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J.C. Smith :: LOVE MECHANIC
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 Love Mechanic, the latest CD release from the award winning JC Smith Band, includes West Coast Swing, Chicago Blues, Back Alley, Country, and Funk Based Blues. A blend of original music and artfully rearranged covers, Love Mechanic captures the live performance excitement of the JC Smith band which is noted for its onstage charisma. Love Mechanic has it all and will take listeners on a musical journey guaranteed to satisfy.
Winner of the 2012 Metro Newspapers Best Of Silicon Valley "Best Original/local Band" and the 2006 Bay Area Blues Society West Coast Blues Band of the Year awards, Smith has had the privilege to share the stage with notable artist such as... Find more details about this release
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Jackson Rhythm and Blues Festival, August 14-15… It’s Boomin!
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 JACKSON, MS – The Jackson Rhythm and Blues Festival is set for its third (3rd) year and It’s Boomin! The event will be held August 14-15, 2015 at the MS Ag Museum and it will offer a stellar music mix and line up guaranteeing a good Jackson, Mississippi time with over 30 Artists on 5 stages, including 4 indoor-venues, a boost from last year. These venues are transformed into Juke Joint replicas to give you that down home blues feeling….It’s Boomin!
Are you a first timer? Well let me warn you, the aroma of deep-fried, fresh Mississippi farm-raised Catfish, succulent ribs, tender pulled pork, and beef brisket will escort you through the gate. Concerned about that August sun? Step into one of those 4 indoor air-conditioned Juke Joint replicas, grab a chair and hold on! There’s live music in each one!
More details about the Jackson Rhythm & Blues Festival
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Big Blues Bender is Back! September 10-13 ★ Four Days and Nights of Amazing Music with Accommodations
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 LAS VEGAS, NV – Get ready for the most totally immersive blues experience you can have on dry land. The Big Blues Bender returns to Las Vegas for its second year! This is a bucket-list event for any blues fan, featuring the most talented and sought after Blues artists touring today. A top festival experience with all the comforts of a fabulous hotel and in the pulsing heart of America’s wildest city. This year’s event will take place at the recently renovated Plaza Hotel at the top of the world famous “Fremont Street Experience” in Downtown Las Vegas. There are some outstanding packages still available but quantities are limited so book your Bender trip now. More details about Big Blues Bender
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22nd Annual Blues at the Beach Festival Sept. 11-12
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 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA - 22nd Annual Blues at the Beach festival will be held Sept. 11-12, 2015, at 17th Street Park, Oceanfront in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Headliners include Royal Southern Brotherhood. Tickets are $5 per day or $8 for a weekend pass. Friday music goes from 7pm-10:30pm and on Saturday from 1pm -10:45pm.
The Natchel' Blues Network (NBN) helps produce the festival with the help of sponsors and supporters. NBN have been promoting the blues in southeastern Virginia as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization since 1984 and were the recipients of The Blues Foundation's Keeping The Blues Alive (KBA) award for Blues Organization of the Year in 1998. More details about Blues At The Beach
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2015 - 22nd Annual Living Blues Awards
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 Living Blues is a bi-monthly magazine focused on blues music, and America's oldest blues periodical. The magazine stresses the position of blues as a living African American tradition. The annual Living Blues Awards have been presented since 1993 in multiple categories.
The 2015 - 22nd Annual Living Blues Awards Critics Poll Winners are:
- Blues Artist of the Year (Male): B.B. King
- Blues Artist of the Year (Female): Diunna Greenleaf
- Best Live Performer: Bobby Rush
- Most Outstanding Blues Singer: Buddy Patterson
- Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica): James Cotton
- Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar): Joe Louis Walker
- Most Outstanding Musician (Bass): Bob Stroger
- DVD of The Year: Various Artists Legendary Country Blues Guitarists (Vestapol)
See complete list of winners here
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1st Annual Ojai Blues Festival Aug 15
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 OJAI, CA - The 1st Annual Ojai Blues Festival will b held at the Ojai Art Center, 113 S. Montgomery St., on Saturday, August 15. Showtime is 4pm. The Ojai Blues Festival is a continuation of the long-standing Bowlful of Blues Festival that ran for over two decades and was one of the region's premiere blues events. The great music lineup includes the Alastair Greene Band, Deb Ryder, Shawn Jones, and Crooked Eye Tommy.
Blues and rock have met at many different crossroads. From Cream and Johnny Winter to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Gov’t Mule these blues rock recipes are often boiled down to a simple trio. Such is the melting pot of influences and presentation of the Alastair Greene Band. More about the Ojai Blues Festival
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The Real Blues Festival of Orange County 6
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 SANTA ANA, CA - The Orange County Blues Society is proud to present, for the sixth year in a row, The Real Blues Festival of Orange County. Malone's Concert Venue, 604 E Dyer Rd, Santa Ana, CA 92705, (714) 979-6000 will once again be hosting the event.
The date this year is Sunday, September 13 from noon until 8 PM. Tickets are $20 at the door, $15 on the Orange County Blues Society website and $10 for any card carrying Blues Society member.
This Blues and nothing but the Blues event will have five bands on the Malone's stage. The Godfather of Orange County Blues, Papa J and the Chairman of the Board of the Orange County Blues players, Richard Hassebrock will be bringing their brand of back porch blues. Find more artist details here
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Pre-Book now for LRBC #27
SHORT Waitlist for LRBC #25 + Join Waitist for #26
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More then a cruise! More Than You Can Imagine!
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2016 IBC Lodging Information–Reserve Now!
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MEMPHIS,TN - Click here to find the list of downtown Memphis hotels with which the Blues Foundation has negotiated room rates. Tell them you want the International Blues Challenge, IBC or Blues Foundation block. Some hotels have minimum and Saturday stay requirements and a non-refundable deposit. Listed prices do not include sales and visitor taxes which are currently an additional 15.95%. Some have breakfast and other amenities that may be included in the price. Rates apply until stated deadline or until rooms are sold out. Rates may or may not be available after deadline.
Read more about what's going on at The Blues Foundation
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AUG 8-9 Radio Show: FANTASTIC NEGRITO
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We have a phenomenal new talent for you this week. He calls himself Fantastic Negrito. He started out sounding like Prince, then had a horrible car accident, recovery, became a family man and farmer, then launched into a new life as a street performer. Rediscovered as a dynamic highly original performer. He is taking off! And the BluesMobile has got him.
The downs and ups and ups and ups of Fantastic Negrito. Next time in the Bluesmobile.
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Magic Slim & The Teardrops in Concert
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There's a dozen or more Blues Festivals going on EVERY weekend!
~ Birthdays of note this week:
Aug 6 Willie Lee Brown (1900); Aug 7 Magic Slim aka Morris Holt (1937); Aug 8 Joe Tex (1933), Jimmy Witherspoon (1920); Aug 10 Ronnie Spector (1945), Leo Fender (1908); Aug 12 Percy Mayfield (1920), Roy Gaines (1934)
Aug 13 Jimmy McCracklin (1921), Son Seals (1942); Aug 16 Eddie Kirkland (1928), Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson (1915); Aug 17-Luther Allison (1939)
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Bayfront Blues Festival
Aug-07-2015 - Aug-09-2015
Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Sunflower River Blues
and Gospel Festival
Aug-07-2015 - Aug-09-2015
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Cincy Blues Fest
Aug-07-2015 - Aug-08-2015
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Bayfront Blues Festival
Aug-07-2015 - Aug-09-2015
Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival
Aug-07-2015 - Aug-09-2015
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
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Fargo Blues Festival
Aug-14-2015 - Aug-15-2015
Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Hidden River Blues Festival
Aug-15-2015, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania, USA
Baja Blues Fest
Aug-21-2015 - Aug-23-2015
Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico
Edmonton Blues Festival
Aug-21-2015 - Aug-23-2015, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Taos Blues Fest
Aug-22-2015
Taos, New Mexico, USA
Kansas City 5th Annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival
Aug-30-2015
North Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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 RBA Publishing Inc is based in Reno, Nevada USA. We are woman owned and operated.
We produce the annual Blues Festival Guide magazine (publishing our 12th annual in 2014), affiliated with the top-ranking website, and this weekly blues newsletter: The Blues Festival E-Guide, with approximately 30,000 weekly subscribers.
We look forward to your suggestions, critiques and questions. Reach our E-Guide editor, Michele Lundeen via EMAIL or here.
Contact our home office to find out how to advertise in this e-weekly newsletter. Call 775-337-8344.
Information both editorial and advertising in the Blues Festival E-Guide is believed to be correct but not guaranteed. Double check info carefully before you attend any event or send money for anything. We do not write the news... we just report it.
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