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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. 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.
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Send your pics with the 2015 BFG Magazine
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 BFG sales manager Cheryl O'Grady Yearnshaw
caught up with Eddie Turner during the Blues Hall of Fame opening May 8 in Memphis, TN.
Photo courtesy: Kaati
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*Want your own hard copy? You can order via our website. Find the digital version here. Our 2015 edition is sponsored by the Festival, Jackson, MS.Jackson Rhythm & Blues  ...
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Samantha Fish :: WILD HEART
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 Ruf Records recording artist singer-guitarist Samantha Fish is raising eyebrows with her third studio release, Wild Heart, produced by Luther Dickinson (The North Mississippi Allstars/Black Crowes). With Samantha on guitars and Luther on various stringed instruments, they rounded out the lineup with Grammy Award-winning Brady Blade (Emmylou Harris/Bob Dylan) on drums. Special guests include Lightnin Malcolm (guitar), Sharde Thomas (drums) and Memphis session singers Shontelle Norman-Beatty and Risse Norman. The result is a stunning representation of Americana roots music.
Wild Heart was recorded in three different studios, as they trekked the backroads from Louisiana to Mississippi in the fall of 2014. Starting at Brady Blade’s Shreveport, Louisiana studio, they laid the basic rhythm tracks and vocals. Find more details about this release
 "Highway's Holding Me Now"
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The Betty Fox Band :: SLOW BURN
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 With an extensive background in gospel and a lifelong passion for soul music, Betty Fox has come a long way from her southern roots to headlining festivals and captivating thousands with her raw swagger and unwavering talent. Now the 2015 representative of the Suncoast Blues Society, an International Blues Challenge Finalist, and 2 time winner of Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay, she is truly proving herself a force to be reckoned with. After honing her craft for 20 years, her first album, Too Far Gone, put her on the international map as a songwriter and vocalist and had the critics from American Blues Scene Magazine to Blues Revue Magazine singing her praises!
Find more details about this release
"Think About It"
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Elvin Bishop is on a roll with more awards, inductions and milestones this year than most artists earn in a lifetime
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Elvin Bishop was just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on April 18, 2015 as a founding member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. This was the second Hall of Fame induction for Elvin in just a matter of months. On November 1, 2014, Elvin was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame as well, along with JJ Cale and Lowell Fulson.
Elvin's classic megahit, "Fooled Around and Fell In Love" was featured in the 2014 worldwide blockbuster movie (grossing over $600 million worldwide) and the soundtrack for Guardians of the Galaxy which reached #1 on the Billboard Pop charts while also earning a Grammy nomination.
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California Beer Festival "Brews & Blues" - Coming To Ventura, California, Sunday, September 20
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 VENTURA, CA - The final and premiere California Beer Festival of 2015 expands to three big days - Friday, September 18, Saturday, September 19, and Sunday, September 20,at Mission Park, 185 E. Santa Clara St., in Ventura. Headlining this year’s Blues & Brews Festival on Sunday, September 20: Southern California’s own, wildly popular guitarist vocalist, Walter Trout, now fully recovered from last year's liver transplant, back on tour, and set to release a new album, Battle Scars, in October. Also performing: Mingo Fishtrap, from Austin, Texas, whose jam-tastic music deftly blends blues with soul, R&B, and funk; the legendary Booker T Jones, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band, Booker T. & The M.G.'s
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The Mighty Mississippi Music Festival, October 2-4, 2015, Warfield Point Park, Greenville, MS
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 GREENVILLE, MS - Chris Stapleton, Nashville’s favorite singer songwriter, will headline the Mighty Mississippi Music Festival on Oct. 2-4 in Greenville, Mississippi.
Stapleton’s career spans 15 years, as he’s written songs for country music stars from Luke Bryan to George Strait. Five of the songs he’s penned have become No. 1 hits. His debut solo album, Traveler debuted at No. 2 on Billboard‘s Country Albums Chart. He’s also been nominated for three Grammy Awards and won the International Bluegrass Music Association Emerging Artist of the Year award as a member of The SteelDrivers.
Stapleton joins a heady mix of musicians set to perform at the festival named the No. 1 New Festival in American by American Blues Scene.
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Front Porch Jubilee Celebrates Musical Heritage Sept 19
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 HERNANDO, MS - The Second Annual Front Porch Jubilee and Arts Festival is slated to kick off with a New Orleans-style Mardi Gras Parade at the historic Banks House on Saturday, Sept. 19, followed by scorching hot gospel and cool blues all afternoon and into the night at the Clifton Cotton Gin, adjacent to the old DeSoto County Jail on South Street.
The parade, which begins at 1 p.m., will wind its way to the Clifton Cotton Gin in historic West End where Beale Street-bound blues honed their guitar licks and singing styles before taking the hill country blues form of music to the rest of the world. More details about the Front Porch Jubilee
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Navy Pier: Sweet home for Chicago blues?
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 CHICAGO, IL - Want to find the blues? Take a drive through Chicago's North Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side. Look for the vacant two-flat at 4339 S. Lake Park Ave., the one with boarded windows and a tattered awning over the front stoop. That's where Muddy Waters lived for about 20 years, until the mid-1970s. Chicago historian Tim Samuelson calls it "Chicago's 'real House of Blues.'"
Head up to 2120 S. Michigan Avenue, once the home of Chess Records (now the Willie Dixon Blues Heaven Foundation). If you poke around near the Museum Campus, you'll find the obscure marker celebrating Chicago's place on the Blues Trail, the path that brought so many musicians here from the Mississippi Delta during the Great Migration.
Read article about the proposed museum site
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Blues Challenges: Connecticut - Great Lakes - Spa City Blues
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 Connecticut Blues Solo Duo Challenge starts Sept 13
BERLIN, CT - The Connecticut Blues Society Solo Duo Challenge at The Pine Loft, Sunday September 13. The Solo Duo Challenge Prelims are scheduled for three Sundays, September 13, 20, 27 and the Finals are on Oct. 18. The first act goes on at 5 pm. Each act will perform a 25-minute set.
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 Great Lakes Blues Society's "Road To Memphis" Guitar Raffle Fundraiser
LONDON, ON, CANADA - You can pickup tickets during each of the "Road To Memphis" events for a chance to win a signed blues guitar. Tickets will be sold during the competition dates in September, with the Final Draw date to be announced. The Great Lakes Blues Society's 6th annual “Road to Memphis” competitions will be held at Eastside Bar and Grill (750 Hamilton Rd., London Ontario), at 3 pm. Sunday, September 13 Solo/Duo acts will compete. September 20 Band acts will compete. Champion's Day, Sunday, September 27, will feature the top three of each category.
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 Spa City Blues Society's Local Competition starts Oct 25
HOT SPRINGS, AR - Spa City Blues Society's IBC Local Competition will be held at The Big Chill (910 Higdon Ferry Rd) on October 25.
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- KBA Nominations Deadline September 30
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SEPT 12-13 Radio Show: B.B. KING
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B.B. King would have been ninety on September 25th. The BluesMobile celebrates his long life, packed full of great music - both on his own, and with the many talented friends who lined up to play with him. Plus some exclusive interviews with B.B. himself.
A birthday salute to BB King. Next time in the Bluesmobile.
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Zac Harmon :: LONG LIVE THE BLUES
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Remembering those we lost on Sept 11, 2001. Peace and blessings...
~ Birthdays of note this week:
Sept 11 Barbeque Bob (1902); Sept 13 Charles Brown (1922); Sept 15 Silas Hogan (1911), Snooky Pryor (1921); Sept 16-B.B. King (1925), Little Willie Littlefield (1931), BIlly Boy Arnold (1935); Sept 23 Roy Buchanan (1939), Ray Charles (1930),
Fenton Robinson (1935), Tiny Bradshaw (1907); Mighty Joe Young (1927); Sept 24 Tarheel Slim (924), Chick Willis (1934), Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893)
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Big Blues Bender
Sep-10-2015 - Sep-13-2015
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Paramount Blues Festival
Sep-11-2015 - Sep-12-2015
Grafton, Wisconsin, USA
Blues at the Beach, 22nd Annual
Sep-11-2015 - Sep-12-2015
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Russian River Jazz and Blues Festival
Sep-12-2015 - Sep-13-2015
Guerneville, California, USA
The Real Blues Festival
of Orange County 6
Sep-13-2015
Santa Ana, California, USA
California Beer Festival,
Blues and BBQ
Sep-19-2015 - Sep-20-2015
Ventura, California, USA
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Hot Springs Blues
and BBQ Festival
Sep-19-2015 - Sep-20-2015
Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
Copenhagen Blues Festival
Sep-23-2015 - Sep-27-2015
Copenhagen, Denmark
Bogalusa Blues & Heritage Festival
Sep-25-2015 - Sep-26-2015
Bogalusa, Louisiana, USA
The Bay Area Blues Festival
Sep-26-2015 - Sep-27-2015
Martinez, CA, California, USA
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San Diego, California, USA
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Mighty Mississippi Music Festival
Oct-02-2015 - Oct-04-2015
Greenville, Mississippi, USA
King Biscuit Blues Festival
Oct-07-2015 - Oct-10-2015
Helena, Arkansas, USA
Daytona Blues Festival
Oct-09-2015 - Oct-11-2015
Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
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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.
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