The News Review:
- The New Zealand International Jazz & Blues Festival
- Blues SchoolHouse program shows genre’s influence on culture
- Blues women
- Sticky Carpet – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Free military concert to be held in Boise Sunday
- Shepherd brings the blues
The New Zealand International Jazz & Blues Festival
nzherald.co.nz – Apr 13, 2007
The new name reflects our commitment to staging the largest jazz and blues music event in NZ and enables us to expand our programme and offer a wider and more eclectic programme to jazz and blues fans alike. The 2007 Festival programme has a fantastic line up of international performers and some of the some of the best musicians we have in this country. With 9 days of music featuring jazz blues classics to a contemporary take on standards in both ticketed and free events this is going to be a festival to remember. Headlining the 2007 Festival will be none other than Bonnie Raitt?a blues great in any circles?Watch out for our weekend of free outdoor jazz in the Lichfield Lanes ? great new venues alive with the sounds of jazz & blues boogie woogie and big band sounds. Check for details on the website www. comBonnie RaittFriday 13 April ? Town Hall AuditoriumMore than just a best-selling artist respected guitarist expressive singer and accomplished songwriter Bonnie Raitt is an institution in American music.
Blues SchoolHouse program shows genre’s influence on culture
Las Vegas Review-Journal – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Apr 13, 2007
It’s been defined as a combination of African roots music field hollers ballads church music and rhythmic dance tunes called jump-ups. But it’s also been marginalized to the point where many young people today don’t know what it is. So the International House of Blues Foundation set out to change that with a series of programs called the Blues SchoolHouse featuring the seven-piece Blues SchoolHouse band made up of local musicians Junior Brantley on keyboards; Brian ‘Shea on trombone and vocals; Marque Munday and Teddy Davis Jr. vocalists and narrators; Al Ek on guitar; Lee Sanpai on drums; and Darryl Williams music director.
Blues women
Lahontan Valley News – Apr 13, 2007
The 11 tracks showcase the diversity of her approaches to the blues genre from high-energy blues to R&B funk and soul all of which she delivers with a smoky sultry voice whose sexual intensity cannot be denied. There’s the Chi-Town shuffle of Willie Dixon’s "Working n Me Baby" the sax-driven "I Can’t Stop Crying" and the earnest plea of Nina Simone’s title track. A real stand-out is her cover of Delbert McClinton’s "You Were Never Mine. " n a cut like this and on most all the ballads the slight catch in her voice ups the ante on both vocal phrasing and double entendres.
Sticky Carpet – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Apr 13, 2007
With only one road to the old quarantine station punters wereresigned to delays and besides waiting half an hour to leavewasn’t nearly as tire-some as Sticky’s traditional trekhome from the Easter Bluesfest: a 24-hour drive from Byron Bay. It was fascinating reading the history of the heritage-listedsite and exploring Point Nepean National Park which had neverhosted so many people in its 155 years. After experimenting with the ill-fated Melbourne InternationalBlues and Music Festival Definitive Events wisely bought into theestablished East Coast Blues and Roots Festival touring aselection of those acts around the country. Sticky would have preferred it if they also broughtfrom Byron Bay first-time visitors Rodriguez the Roots and JossStone instead of the serial visi-tors Taj Mahal Ben Harperzomatli and Tony Joe White. But they played great sets which wereaugmented by the authentic roots sounds of Terrance Simien and theZydeco Experience the Hacienda Brothers and Sierra Leone’s RefugeeAll Stars. It is understandable that they would bring out reliable crowdpullers to get the festival off the ground but fingers are crossedthat a Lucinda Williams or Al Green will soon play at Victoria’smost picturesque festival. The Best of V FestA lack of venues prohibited promoter Michael Coppel from stagingthe full V Festival in Melbourne so we got it over two nights atthe Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
Free military concert to be held in Boise Sunday
KTVB – Apr 13, 2007
Six hours of blue-grass gospel and blues music will start at 2 o’clock on Sunday afternoon. The concert is called "peration Thank You. " "I think it’s just going to be a great community celebration and hopefully the next time we do one it will be to welcome everyone home" said Paul Peterson concert organizer. Eleven local bands are scheduled to perform.
Shepherd brings the blues
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Apr 13, 2007
Wednesday night the 29-year-old guitarist from Shreveport La. brought the music the legends and the lessons he learned to the Pabst Theater. Shepherd’s name topped the bill but in reverence to the featured guests his own music served only as a warm-up for more than three hours of blues. Shepherd and his four-piece band opened with a swampy “Somehow Somewhere Someway. ” Besides the four subsequent tunes and an encore that included a blistering cover of “Voodoo Child” they played the role of backing band for the rest of the program with film clips introducing the guests. After discussing the importance of appreciating the musicians who were instrumental in early blues creation Shepherd and fellow Shreveport guitarist Buddy Flett grabbed acoustic guitars for “Honky Tonk” a song they performed in the film just outside of their hometown at Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter’s grave. Willie “Big Eyes” Smith – a Chicago bluesman and former member of Muddy Waters’ band – took the stage next.