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Homemade Jamz on TV Once Again
If you missed 2009 Blues Music Award nominees Homemade Jamz Blues Band on BET in June, you can catch them once again in July on national radio and television. They were interviewed by Tavis Smiley while they were in Los Angeles. The radio program will air sometime in mid-July, but the TV interview will air on Tuesday July 7. Check your local listings.
For more information, click here.
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Blues Music Education Needs Your Vote
BONTAJ COLLECTIVE ACTION FUND
In conjunction with ticketing agencies like Ticketmaster, Live Nation Ticketing and Musictoday, and some venues and promoters, the concertgoers and artists are all coming together to raise money for charity with every ticket sold on The BonTaj Roulet Tour. With 25 cents taken directly from the ticket price, matched by 25 cents from Bonnie and Taj, and with Ticketmaster. Live Nation Ticketing and Musictoday stepping up to the plate to match the contributions, w...
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2009 Jus' Blues Music Awards Week
The 2009 Jus` Blues Music Awards Week is a unique entertainment event that attracts Blues & Soul music artists, industry professionals and fans from across the globe. It is credited with being one of the most important Award Shows in Blues & Soul music for African-American performers. Jus` Blues Music Awards Week consists of seven major events August 5th through August 8th on Beale Street as well as special events held in downtown Memphis.
"Night of the Living Legends" August 5th - 7PM
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2nd European Blues Conference Date Set
The dates for the 2nd European Blues Conference which is set for July 29-August 1, 2009 in Notodden, Norway. The conference will be staged under the auspices of The Blues Foundation, the international organization based in Memphis, Tennessee. The host of the second conference is the Notodden Blues Festival and the conference will be held in conjunction with its world-renown festival. Accordingly, in addition to the Conference's great networking and educational opportunities, each attendee wil...
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Former Blues Foundation Intern Crowned Miss Maryland
The winners of the Miss Maryland 2009 competition were announced Saturday night. Brooke Poklemba, Miss University City, took home the big honor. She is a Rhodes College (Memphis) graduate and a former intern at The Blues Foundation. She can be seen on the 2008 Blues Music Awards DVD where she was one of young women who presented the awards to the winners.
She beat out 19 other contestants in a talent, evening gown, and swimsuit competition.
She will compete in the Miss America Contest l...
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Delmark Records' Bob Koester Featured in New York Times
Check out the great article in the New York Times about Delmark Records' Bob Koester here.
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The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC ) and The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs are pleased to collaborate for a fifth year on The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad. JALC is now accepting band applications for the 2009-2010 program. American music groups from throughout the United States specializing in jazz, urban/hip hop and other American roots music including bluegrass, blues, Cajun, country, gospel and zydeco are invited to apply for the opportunity to travel...
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Board Nomination Period Now Open
The Blues Foundation is now soliciting nominations for persons to be considered by the Board Development Committee for inclusion on the ballot for The Blues Foundation's Board of Directors. All vacancies this year are in Board-elected positions (as opposed to member constituencies).
The Board Development Committee is especially interested in receiving nominations from individuals who are in a position to lead and assist The Blues Foundation with a $2-3 million capital campaign to establish ...
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National Blues Festival Coming to Southern Vermont
Founder and producer of the Pocono Blues Festival, Michael Cloeren announces the Vermont Blues Festival will be held the weekend of August 21, 22, and 23, 2009 at Mount Snow Ski Area, West Dover, Vermont featuring 13 national recording artists including Mavis Staples, Elvin Bishop, Magic Slim & the Teardrops, Shemekia
Copeland, Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys, Guy Davis, Johnny Rawls, Lil' Dave Thompson, Wallace Coleman, Mississippi Heat, Studebaker John, an...
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Downtowner Magazine Photo Contest
Calling all photographers of Blues Foundation events. Downtowner magazine is now taking submissions for its 8th annual Photo Contest. The 2009 theme is Memphis at Play. You all have some of the best photos that capture the fun side of Memphis with your shots at the International Blues Challenge and the Blues Music Awards. Deadline is July 20 and full contest rules are at www.MemphisDowntowner.com.
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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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Membership Drive Update
The Blues Foundation continues to increase its membership, but ever so slowly. We have more than doubled our membership in recent years and now have the most members ever, but the total worldwide membership still hovers around 3000!!! That is not good.
We continue to gain new members but too many folks join and then fail to renew. We continually remind these folks but we currently have 2500 expired members in our database. Just think if we at 5000 or 5500.
We know for many folks "...
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Blues Report from Cali, Colombia
Executive Director Jay Sieleman and his wife Priscilla Hernandez were recent guests of the Tercer Blues Festival International in Cali, Colombia. The goal was to introduce The Blues Foundation to Latin America and make some new friends. Jay was a presenter at a panel on The Blues Foundation, the international blues scene and blues as tourism. Check out the photos here.
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2008 Blues Music Award DVD on Sale in The Blues Store
Two hours of the 2008 Blues Music Awards, divided into two segments. The first feaures the presentation of the awards and performances by these winners: The Holmes Brothers; Deanna Bogart; Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy; Muddy Waters alumni (Margolin, Smith, Jones) w/ Johnny Dyer & Kenny Wayne Shepherd; Bobby Rush;
Tommy Castro; and Watermelon Slim & the Workers. In addition, accepting awards but not performing Sam Lay, Koko Taylor, Hubert Sumlin, Tab Benoit and Bettye LaVette.
The second s...
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Blues Foundation Updates Logos
The Blues Foundation has updated its logos. Well, Jen Taylor of Vividpix and Design has updated our logos. Check them out here. Please update your website, newsletter, etc.
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