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Promoters! Post Your 2016 Festival Dates
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Share your pose with the 13th Annual BFG Magazine
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 Here's Jim & Rebecca Mann at the 2015 Baja Blues Fest in Rosarito Beach, Baja, Mexico
Photo: Heather Penrod-Rudd
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Now In Its Fourth Year, Tedeschi Trucks Band Headlines The 2016 Sunshine Music Festival
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 FLORIDA – When it’s January in Florida that means it’s time for the annual Sunshine Music Festival to bring some of the most electrifying musical performers to the state. Once again headlined by the preeminent blues-rock leader Tedeschi Trucks Band, the 2016 Sunshine Music Festival features a great line-up of exciting acts on two live music stages along with a wider array of refreshing craft beers and delectable menus from a wider variety of food vendors. The Festival will kick off Saturday, January 16, 2016, 11:30am, at Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg in the Tampa Bay Area and then Sunday, January 17, 2016, 11:30am at Mizner Park Amphitheater, Boca Raton in South Florida. ...Click here for list of Sunshine Music Festival artists and more details
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Charlie Musselwhite and North Mississippi Allstars at Uptown Theatre Napa, Friday, Feb 19th
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 NAPA, CA - Charlie Musselwhite and the North Mississippi Allstars will appear at the Uptown Theatre in Napa, California on Friday, February 19th at 8pm.
With an induction into the Blues Music Hall of Fame, 35 Blues Music Awards and 11 Grammy nominations including a win in 2014, American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader Charlie Musselwhite has truly earned legendary status as one of blues music¹s most important artists.
North Mississippi Allstars formed in 1996; the product of a special time for modern Mississippi country blues. Brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson soaked up the music of their father, Memphis legend Jim Dickinson, and absorbed the North Mississippi legacy while playing and shaking it down in the juke joints with their blues ancestors and pioneering their own brand of blues-infused rock and roll. ... Click here to find links to more about these artists, venue and show
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The Blues Festival Guide is a proud Sponsor of the International Blues Challenge
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The 32nd (2016) International Blues Challenge will be held January 26-30, 2016 in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee in the Beale Street Historic District. See more here.
Plus we are also part of the Prize Package for the First and Second Place Band and Duo/Solo acts. Cool, huh?
Yep, the top bands will receive advertising in the Blues Festival Guide magazine and/or on our website at www.BluesFestivalGuide.com.
See you on Beale Street!
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2016 Blind Raccoon Showcase in Memphis, TN Jan 27-29
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 MEMPHIS, TN - Blind Raccoon is delighted to announce the line-up for their showcases happening during the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN. On January 27, 28 and 29, from noon to 5pm, 12 acts from Arizona, Canada, Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri (St. Louis & Kansas City), Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin will grace the stage. Seven of these acts are participating in the 2016 IBC.
The showcases will be held at the Purple Haze Nightclub, 140 Lt George W Lee Ave, Memphis, Tennessee. $5 donation request at door. Net proceeds from the showcases will benefit The Blues Foundation’s HART Fund, which provides assistance to blues musicians and their families in times of great financial need due to medical emergencies.
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Ironing Board Sam :: SUPER SPIRIT
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 “Legendary” (Billboard) soul man Ironing Board Sam—long lost for a time—has completed a comeback to the music world. Big Legal Mess Records released his label debut Super Spirit on October 2nd. He performed at the Newport Folk Festival and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2015 and Lincoln Center Out-Of-Door in 2014. The artist behind a series of in-demand 45s from that era, Sam was also a regular on 1960s soul TV program Night Train. eMusic has called him “a true maverick.”
Ironing Board Sam has been playing music for more than half a century, whipping up a large catalog of soul songs and blues tunes along the way. He's earned a reputation as a singer, songwriter and acclaimed keyboardist ... Find more details about this release
 "Hold On"
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Little Boys Blue :: BAD LOVE
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 Twenty years and many gigs ago, JD Taylor and Steve Patterson started the Jackson Tennessee band, Little Boys Blue. Enlisting an array of veteran players, who toured with Nashville country and Sun Records Rockabilly artists, they mixed all their influences from Tennessee and Mississippi Delta Blues styles with flavors of Rockabilly, Rock and Country to create the Little Boys Blue sound.
Jimmy Exum, owner of Jaxon Records in Jackson Tennessee, decided to take a trip out to a live show after hearing about the group’s dynamic live blues show. Within a couple weeks LBB was signed to Jaxon Records and in the studio, recording. The meeting of the minds resulted in the band’s third album, Bad Love. ...Find more about this release
"Bad Love"
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- Western New York IBC Winners Holding Fundraisers
- River City Blues Society of Peoria IBC Winners
- Oklahoma IBC Regional Winners
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 OLEAN, NY - Diggin’ Roots Band, featuring five musicians from the greater Olean area, won the Western New York Blues Society’s Memphis Bound Competition in Buffalo in September to earn the trip.
The band features Gerry Loiacano of Allegany on guitar, Johnny Mac of Olean on harmonica, Whitney Riley of Cuba on lead vocals and trumpet, Toby Lindberg of Allegany on bass, and Marty Smith of Black Creek on drums.
On Jan. 10, Diggin’ Roots Band will play a show with several other area acts at DHU Strand Theater in North Tonawanda, NY from 2pm-6 pm. A $15 donation at the door will support the band’s efforts to get to Memphis. On Jan. 17 they will perform another fundraiser at the Allegany American Legion Post 892 (4350 Route 417) ... Click here to read more details
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 PEORIA, IL -The Lizzi Neal Band from Rockford, Illinois is heading to Memphis to the International Blues Challenge (IBC) to represent the River City Blues Society of Peoria. The band will perform January 22 at Goodfellas in Pekin, IL (1414 N. 8th Street) from 7pm-10pm in a kickoff party before the IBC and will be presented with a plaque and check containing the grant money for its trip. Admission is $5 RCBS members or $7 general public.
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  OKLAHOMA CITY & TULSA. OM - Christine Jude & the Gentlemen Callers will represent the Oklahoma Blues Society and Darell Christopher & the Ingredients, a gospel, soul and R&B laced blues band, will represent the Blues Society of Tulsa in the band category. Josh Yarbrough will represent the Tulsa Blues Society in the solo/duo category.
For the first time this year, the Tulsa and Oklahoma Blues Societies will also send Youth Showcase bands with members under 21: Whirlwind Band from the Oklahoma Blues Society and Dylan Whitney Band from the Tulsa Blues Society. The youth bands are not judged, but get to perform in many of the same venues as the adult competitors.
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"Music on The Couch" IBC News
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Music on the Couch IBC Updates
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 MEMPHIS, TN - Hi, I'm Vinny Marini, of Music On The Couch. Check out the listings on my 2016 IBC Page there and find the final roster of 2016 Challengers coming in from around the world.
Monday, January 11 on Music On The Couch is IBC Preview Show #2. I will be speaking with Michele Seidman and Terri Robbins from The National Women In Blues, and then 2015 IBC Band winner Eddie Cotton Jr. joins me. I’ll also speak with Dr. Janice Johnston who will tell us about the health Fair that she organizes during IBC week and finally, Greg "Slim Lively" Johnson from The Cascade Blues Association comes by. Greg is an integral part of the IBC and we will get to peek behind the curtain of this huge undertaking.
IBC is only 3 weeks away… So, you are a fan in town for the Challenge and you want to do more in Memphis? Is there anything to do? HA! But of course… I have links to sites so you can discover more...
...Click to find the links and where IBC bands can contact Vinny now!
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Legendary R&B Cruise News
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Oct 2016 LRBC #27 Cabins on Sale - Prebook for Jan 2017
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 Cabins on sale for LRBC #27
Southeastern Caribbean
The LRBC #27 returns to San Juan, Puerto Rico and sails Oct. 29-Nov. 5, 2016 to the exotic islands of Barbados, Dominica, Grenada and Guadeloupe on the Celebrity Summit.
 Prebook: LRBC #28 January 22-29, 2017 Eastern Caribbean Ft. Lauderdale to St. Maarten, St. John USVI and Dominican Republic
NOTE: If you need help, please email or visit
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Visit reservations.bluescruise.com
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LEGENDARY RHYTHM & BLUES CRUISE
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More then a cruise! More Than You Can Imagine!
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- “Cast of Blues”
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MEMPHIS,TN - Happy holidays from the Blues Hall of Fame, a program of The Blues Foundation If you are in the Memphis area over the holidays, please come and see our museum. Open seven days a week, we are across the street from the National Civil Rights Museum and surrounded by yummy locally-owned restaurants and cool shops. Come and make a day of it on South Main in downtown Memphis! ... Click here to read all about what's happening
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Ruf Records Blues Caravan 2016: Blue Sisters
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JAN 9-10, 2016 Radio Show: Monkey Junk
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Over the years that great power trio, MonkeyJunk, has grown to be more than merely an excellent blues band out of Canada. Their repertoire and ambition has expanded to include rock and roll, funk, and soul music. They have forged their own sound. So it is always a treat to get new music from Monkey Junk.
Monkey Junk. Next time in the Bluesmobile.
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For a list of stations where you can find BluesMobile Radio Click Here
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~ Birthdays of note through the next week:
Jan 8 Elvis Presley (1935), Tampa Red (1904), Bill Graham (1931 promoter at legendary Fillmore); 9-Barbara Carr (1941), Jimmy Page (1944); 10-Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater (1935), Sam Chatmon (1897), Jerry Wexler (1914 founder of Atlantic Records); 11-Slim Harpo (1924). Katie Webster (1936), Michael "Hawkeye" Herman (1945); 12-Mississippi Fred McDowell (1904), Long John Baldry (1941); 14-Allen Toussaint (1938), Clarence Carter (1936); 15-Earl Hooker (1929), Martin Luther King, Jr (1929), Queen Ida (1929)
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Olde English District Blues Fest
Jan-14-2016 - Jan-18-2016
Chester, Virginia USA
Sunshine Music Festival
Jan-16-2016 - Jan 17, 2016
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise #26, Eastern Caribbean
Jan-17-2016 - Jan-24-2016
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Blues on the Beach, Huatulco
Jan-21-2016
Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico
Ferndale Blues & Music Festival
Jan-29-2016 - Feb-06-2016
Ferndale, Michigan, USA
Winter Blues Fest 2016
Feb-12-2016 - Feb-13-2016
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Destination Blues
Feb-19-2016 - Feb-21-2016
Berwick, Bloomsburg, and Danville, Pennsylvania, USA
Clearwater Sea Blues Festival
Feb-20-2016 - Feb-21-2016
Clearwater, Florida, USA
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Calgary Midwinter Bluesfest
Feb-22-2016 - Feb-27-2016
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Boquete Jazz and Blues Festival
Feb-25-2016 - Feb-28-2016
Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama
Lancaster Roots & Blues
Music Festival
Feb-26-2016 - Feb-28-2016
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Bonita Blues Festival
Mar-11-2016 - Mar-12-2016
Bonita Springs, Florida, USA
Blast Furnace Blues
Mar-11-2016 - Mar-13-2016
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Byron Bay Bluesfest
Mar-24-2016 - Mar-28-2016
Byron Bay, Australia
Walla Walla Guitar Festival
Apr-07-2016 - Apr-10-2016
Walla Walla, Washington, USA
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest
Apr-22-2016 - May-01-2016
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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