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Music City Hosting Blues Fest Next week
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Louis Blues star – Marquis Knox. The free concert also presents Gregg Wright and Guitar Shorty. Guitar Shorty performed with T-Bone Walker in his youth and is a recipient of multiple honors from the Blues Music Awards. David “Honeyboy” Edwards Jimmie Vaughan and Gary Nicholson who will perform as “Whitey Johnson” for the festival all will take the stage. The lineup is rounded out by a group of regional blues bands that includes a number of International Blues Competition bands: The Bluebirds Betty Lewis and the Executives Bobbie liver & Jam City Revue TuTu Jones and Joe Jonas Band Bernie Pearl 19th Street Red and Kayla Reeves. The festival will also feature a “Guitar Hero” competition scheduled for 3 p.
Dance Review | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York Times
Saturday night in a rowdy barrelhouse in “Blues Suite” based on people Ailey observed during his childhood in Texas becomes Sunday morning at church in “Revelations. ” The evocative triangle formation of dancers seen near the end of “Blues Suite” returns with a starker emphasis in the moving opening scene of “Revelations. ” “Blues Suite” opens a window into a world of pleasure tinged with despair; here the Ailey dancers take characterization just as seriously as steps. With music performed by Kenny Brawner and the Brawner Brothers — the group appeared onstage with the dancers — the work was instilled with a special vibrancy as it progressed from “Backwater Blues” a teasing duet for Glenn Allen Sims and Renee Robinson who fought a fierce battle of sexual tension to “Sham” which featured Matthew Rushing and Yusha-Maria Sorzano (especially hilarious) as a pair of misguided lovers. The program’s middle chunk a compilation of “Anniversary Highlights” showcased a seamless array of excerpts from “Phases” (1980) “Landscape (1981) “For ‘Bird’ — With Love” (1984) “Caverna Magica” (1986) and “pus McShann” (1988).
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Queen of the Blues
Seattle Times
Mix in another famous name Chess Records. Taylor died this week at age 80 from complications after surgery. Her career spanned decades and her music will last well forever. This spring she won her 29th Blues Music Award. In ceremonies in Memphis she was honored as the Traditional Female Blues Artist of the Year at the Blue Foundation’s 2009 Blues Music Awards. Sample her music at the.
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