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- June Means Summer Music Festivals for All Tastes
The Pulpit Meets The Blues n New CD
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Pastor evangelist author singer songwriter and guitarist “The Rev” preaches in churches every Sunday but on Saturday nights you’ll find him sharing his amazing testimony and blistering guitar licks onstage in blues clubs and at music festivals prisons and even biker rallies. Bratcher’s brand of the blues has been embraced by the Christian market and the mainstream blues industry alike allowing him to play at both Christian music festivals such as Creation East Creation West Coast and Rock the Light and at blues festivals such as Simply the Blues Festival and Boxcar Full of Blues. He has appeared at venues along with Christian artists including Mercy Me Newsboys and Third Day and with blues greats including Grammy winner and NARAS Lifetime Achievement Award winner David “Honeyboy” Edwards Blues Music Award winners Zac Harmon and tis Taylor and Livin’ Blues Gold Award winner Hubert Sumlin one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. According to Blues Review Magazine Bratcher’s upcoming release The Electric Rev “.
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Voice of America
” A heart attack in 2003 resulted in a 28-day coma. Koko returned to performing in early 2004. Her final performance was on May 7 2009 at the 30th annual Blues Music Awards. She received the Traditional Blues Female Vocalist of the Year honor. During her long career Koko won 29 Blues Music Awards more than any other artist.
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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.
Free live music alert summer edition: The Revivalists Deanna Bogart
Examiner.com
She begins “11th Hour” as a young girl searching for her sound (“Sweet Pea”) then ends it as a grown woman who lets love slip away (“Eleventh Hour Blues”). And with all of the little journeys she embarks in between Bogart directs the listener through a swirling mix of blues and jazz. See how bandleader – and Maryland native – Bogart blends her newest songs with the rest of her 21-year-old repertoire at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden. Part of the Jazz in the Garden series.
June Means Summer Music Festivals for All Tastes
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com or call (800) 755-0076. For connoisseurs of blues music the W. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival June 13-20 will serenade the senses at Henderson’s Audubon Mill Park. Commemorating the legendary blues musician and composer the weeklong events lead up to the Thursday Friday and Saturday night concerts. ther festivities include a barbecue competition and a themed picnic in the park contest.