The News Review:
- Live on the Levee nce Again Snubs Jazz and Blues
- Grand County Blues Society to host school assemblies Tuesday
- 3-day blues marathon celebrating 20th year
- NW Arkansas today
- Santa Cruz Blues Festival: Capacity crowd soaks in the blues
Live on the Levee nce Again Snubs Jazz and Blues
All About Jazz
Louis and Live on the Levee series has been announced by presenting organization. Louis and once again our town’s indigenous musical forms of jazz and blues have been snubbed. To be fair the organizers did make some small progress this year in diversifying the lineup. Booking seminal alt-rockers Sonic Youth who will appear on July 17 demonstrates a certain degree of risk-taking mostly unseen in recent years. (Mind you what’s considered “risky” in St. Louis might be rather mundane elsewhere.
Grand County Blues Society to host school assemblies Tuesday
Sky Hi Daily News
It’s an educational enrichment program designed to bring one of our country’s first music forms to the kids either in classroom settings after school programs or community events. In this program professional blues musicians are invited into schools to conduct classes on the history of the blues famous blues musicians different styles of blues and how to write sing and perform the blues. field hollers work songs etc. to its current popularity. Through song lecture and discussion students learn the history of the Blues while hearing instrumental examples played on guitar harmonicas or other instruments.
3-day blues marathon celebrating 20th year
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
“No the blues is NT depressing” the Diddley Squat bio reads. “Diddley Squat welcomes you to the world of jumpin’ and swingin’ blues geared towards lifting you and healing your soul like blues music was intended from the beginning. “FridayThe soulful blues healing continues Aug. 28 with Bluesberry Jam Band who take the stage at 11 p. Their “music is built upon the delta blues-style with a mixture of some of the ’60s and ’70s for the diehard baby boomers” the Bluesberry bio states.
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NW Arkansas today
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Soars and the Red Hots and a special afternoon acoustic set by David “Honeyboy” Edwards on Saturday. Grammy nominee and nine-time Blues Music Award nominee Hubert Sumlin will headline the event. Concerts will be held at The Auditorium and the 1905 Basin Park Hotel’s Barefoot Ballroom. Free music will be performed at Basin Spring Park. More information is available at www. eurekaspringsblues.
Santa Cruz Blues Festival: Capacity crowd soaks in the blues
San Jose Mercury News
The 83-year-old American music legend worked his way to the stage slowly Saturday and was welcomed with a roar of applause at the 17th annual Santa Cruz Blues Festival. Brass bass and drums set the tone for the old school blues that make King well the king. He only had one question for the crowd once he sat down at the front of the stage: “Are you ready to shake your boogie-oogie-loo?” The crowd answered with a deafening response. “He is an American music icon” said Bill Welch festival director. “To say you saw this man who has been around for the duration of this genre is incredible.