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2008 Blues Music Award Winners Announced
The 2008 Blues Music Awards were announced in the Mississippi Delta on Thursday, May 8. The winners selected by the vote of the Blues Foundation's members are.
1. DVD - Kenny Wayne Shepherd – 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads
2. Traditional Blues Male Artist - Hubert Sumlin
3. Traditional Blues Female Artist - Koko Taylor
4. Acoustic Artist - Bobby Rush
5. Acoustic Album Bobby Rush - Raw
6. Pinetop Perkins Piano Player - Honey Piazza
7. Instrume...
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2008 Blues Music Award Poster Now Available
The Blues Foundation is proud to announce that its 2008 Blues Music Award poster is now available in the Blues Store. The poster is created by 2008 Keeping the Blues alive recipient Jen Taylor of Vividpix and is based on a painting by Memphis artist John Robinette, who specializes in scenes that evoke the Mississippi Delta. The major change to the original is the addition of The Blues Foundation logo to the top of the shack. The price for this magnificent work is a mere $50 in the Blues Store...
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2008 Blues Hall of Fame Induction Coming May 7
The following esteemed individuals and recordings have been selected for induction into the Blues Hall of Fame by The Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame committee; chaired by Jim O'Neal, founding editor of Living Blues, and David Sanjek, recently of the BMI Archives. The induction ceremony will be conducted in association with The Blues Foundation's Charter Member Dinner on Wednesday, May 7, at the Tunica RiverPark in Tunica, Mississippi, the night before the 2008 Blues Music Awards.
The 2008 in...
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Renew Membership Before Expiration
It is a great help to us and helps cut expenses if members looked at their membership card and renew online or sent a check before the month of expiration. That will save The Blues Foundation the cost of printing and mailing renewal notices.
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2007 Blues Music Award DVD Now Available
For the first time ever, you can get a DVD of the 2007 Blues Music Awards. Well not all seven hours, but one-hour of highlights, including acceptance speeches by the winners and multiple performances by the nominees. Among the performances, a one-of-a-kind peformances by Tab Benoit with Lousiana LeRoux and Janiva Magness on frottoir (rubboard) and the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Revue, with nominees Tommy Castro, Deanna Bogart and Ronnie Baker Brooks, with their buddy Magic Dick. Get a copy in...
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2007 ISC Blues Winners
INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION
(ISC) ANNOUCES 2007 BLUES WINNERS
April 15, 2008 - The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is pleased to announce its 2007 winners, including the winners in the Blues category. The Blues winners includeJack de Keyzer (Toronto, ON, Canada) for his song "That's The Only Time" (First Place)
Robin Rogers and Tony Rogers(Charlotte, NC, USA) for their song "Color-Blind Angel". Robin Rogers is a member of The Blues Foundation.(Sec...
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2008 Eureka Springs Blues Weekend- May 29 through June 1, 20
The “Queen of the Blues,” Koko Taylor, and Native American blues band Indigenous will headline shows at THE Auditorium May 29 and 30, respectively, as part of the 2008 Eureka Springs Blues Weekend. The complete weekend lineup, including 70 shows at 15 venues in 4 days, was announced today by city Special Events Coordinator, Janet Alexander, and event producer, Charles “Rags” Ragsdell.
“Earlier this year, Eureka was proud to host the King of the Blues, B.B.
King,” commented Ragsdell. “And now...
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IBC's Shakura S'Aida to Join Ruf Records 2008 Blues Caravan
Toronto's Shakura S'Aida, who won second place at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, returned home with a new number one fan - Thomas Ruf, the founder and president of the German blues label, Ruf Records.
Ruf was one of the judges at the Memphis event, and "blown away" by her performance, he invited her to take part in eight Blues Caravan 2008 dates across Europe later this month and in early May. S'Aida is replacing Candye Kane, an American singer who has been sidelined by illness...
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Website Advertising
Put an ad on The Blues Foundation website and reach up to 20,000 blues consumers each month. Rates start at only $50.00 per month for a side banner ad. The Blues Foundation offers 3 locations for ads on our website:
1. Welcome Page Top Banner - this appears at the top of the welcome page, which is the 1st page most visitors to our site see. The content is usually a photograph. Ads are in a random order rotation so that a different ad appears each time the page is accessed or refreshed. Only 5...
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Blues & The Spirit Symposium
Dominican University is presenting this spring the first-ever national academic symposium on the blues and gospel music. The Blues & The Spirit Symposium will bring together nationally renowned scholars and experts on African American music and culture, and nationally and locally revered blues and gospel performers to discuss the shared history of these two genres and their impact on contemporary music. One of the panelists who will be involved in the symposium is Fernando Jones who just recentl...
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New Film About Chess Records to Include Beyonce as Etta
Beyonce is to star as blues legend Etta James in a new film about the 50s record label Chess. The "Irreplaceable" singer will star as legendary blues singer Etta James in Darnell Martin's "Cadillac Records," according to The Hollywood Reporter. She will also serve as one of the movie's executive producers.
Beyonce will also record four songs for the film’s soundtrack, donating a portion of her royalties to the Survivor Foundation, a charity for recovering addicts.
Oscar winner Adrien Brod...
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Art Tipaldi's Homework Assignment: A Book, Movie & Wine
Now that Blues fans have returned home from crusin' the Caribbean on the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise or crusin' Beale Street during last week's International Blues Challenge, recently retired teacher Art Tipaldi (and Keeping the Blues Alive Committee Chairman) has two at home assignments for every fan. This year, the Foundation honored Kenny Wayne Shepherd's film, 10 Days Out and Arthur Flowers' book, Another Good Lovin' Blues, with Keeping the Blu...
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25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival
Chicago is setting the stage for the 25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival, a lakefront tradition in beautiful Grant Park, June 5-8, 2008, with opening night headliners that honor the city’s first blues festival.
Just as in 1984, opening night pays tribute to Muddy Waters featuring headliners Johnny Winter and James Cotton, performing Thursday, June 5 at the Petrillo Music Shell.
Winter hasn’t performed at the event since the very first Chicago Blues Festival, creating a much anticipated ...
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Buddy Guy Gives Tour of Chicago Music History
Exploring the “Home of the Blues,” the Chicago Blues Audio Tour narrated by Chicago-local Buddy Guy has found an astonishing audience in just six months. The podcast has been downloaded more than 97,000 times and is currently averaging over 1,000 downloads per day. The free, 50-minute tour combines an interactive map, tour stop directions, archival photos, video, music clips, and interviews – a true multimedia experience unlike anything else available.
Listeners are able to follow the tour ...
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Guitar Pick Necklaces are Here
Village Square, the folks behind the harmonica necklaces you have seen for years at your favorite Blues festivals around the country are now offering black guitar pick necklaces featuring The Blues Foundation's logo. (When you order in bulk, you can further customize them with your own name or logo). The pick rests on an adjustable size knotted cord with assorted bead colors. The best prices are when ordered in bulk for your own fundraising purposes. Part of the proceeds will go to The Blues F...
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