Blues

• The Iceman Special at Jazzfest

  27-04-2019 11:15 via American Blues Scene
  If you are in New Orleans for Jazzfest you already know about the major amounts of talent available to see over these 11 days. I checked out the Wednesday at the Square Concert Series at Lafayette Square Park, and wasn’t disappointed. Neither were the thousands of people that witnessed a great jam by The Iceman Special.
  The Iceman Special, formed in the Crescent City, call themselves a swamp funk band. They’re a four-piece combo of organized chaos, made up of two brothers, Will (voca
  
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• The 12th Big Blues Bender returns to the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, on September 9-12, 2027

  29-10-2026 21:10 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  The 12th Big Blues Bender returns to the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, on September 9-12, 2027.
  Get ready for a musical vacation of a lifetime! 5 stages, 4 days & nights of round the clock world class blues music, all within a four-star Las Vegas resort!
  Say goodbye to port-a-potties, say no more to roasting in an open field all day. At the Bender, your private oasis awaits! Dip back to your room for a power nap or a bathroom break. Enjoy a fine dinner in the steakhouse or play a f
  
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• New Delmark Blues & Soul from ELECTRIC SOUL COMPANY

  21-10-2026 23:28 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  Led by singers/songwriters/guitar wizards Breezy Rodio and Will Jacobs, “Electric Soul Company” evokes in name the late great American TV show, “Soul Train”– a dance party going full blast with an abundance of hair, colorful outfits, and limbs flailing to the infectious soul R&B, and funk hits of the day. Spin up Electric Soul Company and you will find there is definitely a party going on – yeah, THAT kind of party!Breezy and Will bring to this project a deep affection for, and m
  
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• Slam Allen, Mud Morganfield, Alexis P Suter Band Headline Busker Incognito Blues & Boogie Weekend on November 19- 22, 2026 in Reading, PA

  13-10-2026 02:43 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  Reading, PA – Greater Reading Radio Station WXAC, 91.3 FM, Partners With Busker Incognito Blues & Boogie Weekend set for November 19-22 features Slam Allen, Mud Morganfield, Alexis P Suter Band, Greg Piccilo, John Németh, Katie Henry, Beverly (Hardin) Conklin, Benny Turner, Busker Incognito & the SHOW.PARTNERSHIPA new partnership between Albright University students, Centro Hispano, (the owners and management of bi-lingual WXAC, 91.3 FM radio station), and the Busker Incogni
  
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• New From Mitch Woods—A NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS—Out Now on MoMojo Records

  08-10-2026 02:02 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  New From Mitch Woods—A NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS—Out Now on MoMojo RecordsMITCH WOODS – A NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANSLIVE AND SOLO AT SNUG HARBORNow Available!
   
  This rare solo album was recorded live at Snug Harbor in New Orleans during the Jazz & Heritage Festival.
   
  Playing for some of the most receptive music fans gathered for New Orleans’ most celebrated annual event,
  Mitch lit up the night….one man, one piano, one voice.
    
  Even if you couldn&rsqu
  
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• Blues-Rock Powerhouse Tommy Castro and the Painkillers with the Legendary Horns October 22 at The Freight in Berkeley

  07-10-2026 21:46 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  Tommy Castro and The Pain Killers will be performing at The Freight in Berkeley, CA on Thursday, October 22.Multiple award – winning guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader Tommy Castro is a California-based blues and rock powerhouse. For over four decades, he’s captivated audiences with his soul-drenched vocals, searing guitar work, and high-energy live shows. As frontman of the telepathically tight and wildly raucous Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, he’s released 17 albums tha
  
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• Busker Incognito’s Blues & Boogie Weekend November 19-22 in Reading PA presented by the Berks County Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

  01-10-2026 00:06 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  Following up on the impressive success of the monthly Busker Incognito Blues & Boogie Music Jam Nights series in Cheers Bistro at the DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton, Reading, PA, and taking over where the now-discontinued Reading BluesFest left off, the Berks County Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announcing that it will be stepping in to rescue the former blues festival in Reading by presenting a new, re-imagined and re-energized blues and boogie music festival weekend in Berks County starting
  
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• Busker Incognito’s Blues & Boogie Weekend November 19-22 in Reading PA presented by the Berks County Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

  01-10-2026 00:06 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  Following up on the impressive success of the monthly Busker Incognito Blues & Boogie Music Jam Nights series in Cheers Bistro at the DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton, Reading, PA, and taking over where the now-discontinued Reading BluesFest left off, the Berks County Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announcing that it will be stepping in to rescue the former blues festival in Reading by presenting a new, re-imagined and re-energized blues and boogie music festival weekend in Berks County starting
  
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• Memphis~New Single “Uncle Jeff” from the “Prince of Blues” SINGA B 

  27-09-2026 05:20 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  New Single “Uncle Jeff” from the “Prince of Blues” SINGA B 
   
  Singa B “The Prince of Blues,” a Memphis-based blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer.
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• Jovin Webb’s New Album “Son of a Sinner” Out now!

  22-09-2026 04:19 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  From Blind Pig Records…Jovin Webb’s New Album SON OF A SINNER by JOVIN WEBB has been released.Two years after his breakthrough debut DRIFTER established him as one of the most authentic new voices in modern blues, Jovin Webb returns with SON OF A SINNER, a raw and powerful follow-up on Blind Pig Records.LISTEN HEREProduced once again by multi-GRAMMY® winner Tom Hambridge and recorded in Nashville, the 11-track collection finds the Baton Rouge native digging deeper into his South
  
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• A Weekend of World-Class Blues on the St. Petersburg Waterfront TAMPA BAY BLUES FESTIVAL April 9-11, 2027

  14-09-2026 03:10 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  A Weekend of World-Class Blues on the St. Petersburg Waterfront TAMPA BAY BLUES FESTIVAL April 9-11, 2027
  INTERNATIONAL BLUES HEADLINERS
  JJ Grey & Mofro ~ Trombone Shorty ~ Tab Benoit ~Los Lonely Boys ~ Blood Brothers ~ Shemekia Copeland~ Ruthie Foster ~ St Paul & The Broken Bones ~Eric Gales ~ Mr.Sipp ~ more!(ST. PETERSBURG, FL) – The Tampa Bay Blues Festival, one of America’s premier blues music events, returns to the beautiful waterfront of Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg, Fl
  
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• THE 2027 BIG EASY CRUISE is 95% Sold! – Reserve your cabin today with special Blues Festival Guide code

  14-09-2026 02:58 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  THE 2027 BIG EASY CRUISE is 95% Sold! – Reserve your cabin today with special Blues Festival Guide code
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  If you’re lookin’ for those amped up Jazz Fest vibes BEFORE next April, check out The Big Easy Cruise in January 2027 – 7 days of live music, Caribbean desti
  
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• From Muddy Waters to Soldier Field: Brant Buckley’s “We Love Da Bears” Video Celebrates Chicago

  13-09-2026 17:36 via American Blues Scene
  
  When Brant Buckley wrote “We Love Da Bears,” he had Chicago Bears fans in mind. When he made the music video, he wanted to make the frame bigger. The Chicago blues musician and American Blues Scene contributor’s game day anthem is now approaching 18,000 views, just as the Bears prepare to take the field for the start of a new season. The video gives the song another dimension, pairing Buckley’s blues-driven rallying cry with a montage of the Chicago places and images that
  
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• In Tune With Maya de Vitry – The Former Stray Birds Member Talks About Gardening and Fifth Solo Album, ‘All My Faith’

  11-09-2026 21:10 via American Blues Scene
  
  Maya de Vitry was at home in Nashville, TN, when we spoke via Zoom. She was enjoying the cool indoor air. “I work part-time in some gardens – as a gardener – so I was out all morning. It’s very, very hot here, so I’m relieved to be back home in the air conditioning.”For the record, the temperature was well over 90 degrees with a fair amount of humidity to go with it. Maya’s job as a gardener and her career as a singer, songwriter, musician, and prod
  
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• Eric Johanson’s ‘The Open Bayou’ Paves Its Own Road Between Blues and Rock

  09-09-2026 01:34 via American Blues Scene
  
  Eric Johanson has lamented in recent social media posts about a common and continuous refrain from promoters and music industry gatekeepers: He is too rock for the blues and too blues for rock.
  It’s an all too familiar but frustrating critique, particularly considering that rock doesn’t just borrow from the blues — it was born from it. The lines between the two have never been clean, because they were never meant to be. They bleed into each other naturally, instinctively, the w
  
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• He Chose the Blues. Now He’s Trying to Save It – Sean “Bad” Apple 

  07-09-2026 18:51 via American Blues Scene
  
  Sean “Bad” Apple recalled how the crowd reacted to Jimmy “Duck” Holmes performance at Bad Apple Blues Club seven years ago.“My place was packed. Not only was every seat taken, but every inch of floor space. People were sitting on the floor,” Apple said. “And he was going into this groove, and it felt like the whole building was just moving from side to side. He had them wrapped around his fingers, man. They were all locked in. It was beautiful. It’
  
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• Discovering the Muddy Waters Exhibit in Westmont: 60+ Rare Artifacts and Memorabilia

  03-09-2026 20:09 via American Blues Scene
  
  Larry McIntyre created the Muddy Waters Exhibit in Westmont, Illinois and gives tours. I highly recommend checking out the humble room located inside the Westmont Center. It contains over 60 unique Muddy Waters artifacts, most donated by his third wife Marva Jean Brooks. Waters relocated to Westmont from Chicago’s South Side in 1973 and died in his Westmont home April 30th, 1983.
  Upon entering, you will see Muddy’s suit jackets on hangers and artist drawn photos in the style of Andy
  
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• Exclusive Premiere: Jad Tariq Brings Vintage Sophistication to ‘Precious Company’

  03-09-2026 18:17 via American Blues Scene
  
  Memphis guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Jad Tariq will release his sophomore album, Precious Company, on September 18 via MoMojo Records. Ahead of the album’s arrival, we’re premiering its title track today. “Precious Company” moves with an unhurried elegance, its warm vocal, graceful phrasing, and understated instrumental arrangement allowing atmosphere to take center stage.
  He tells us:I’ve always been a sucker for these slow swing tunes.  This song
  
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• ROMANIA – OPEN AIR BLUES FESTIVAL: WHERE THE BLUES KNOWS NO BORDERS

  03-09-2026 01:44 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  ROMANIA – OPEN AIR BLUES FESTIVAL: WHERE THE BLUES KNOWS NO BORDERS by Beth RudolphOPEN AIR BLUES FESTIVAL: WHERE THE BLUES KNOWS NO BORDERSIn the heart of Romania, the Open Air Blues Festival brought together legendary voices, rising stars and extraordinary musicians for a celebration of the blues that felt as much like a journey as a concert.There are festivals built around a lineup.
  And then there are festivals built around a feeling. The Open Air Blues Festival in Romania belongs
  
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• Salina, Kansas – October 15-18, 2026 VINYL SUMMIT & BLUES FESTIVAL Big Mud Morganfield, Jimmy D. Lane, Taj Mahal, Jimmie Vaughan and more!

  31-08-2026 07:01 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  Salina, Kansas – October 15-18, 2026 VINYL SUMMIT & BLUES FESTIVAL Big Mud Morganfield, Jimmy D. Lane, 
  Taj Mahal, Jimmie Vaughan and more!
   
  A Vinyl Lover’s Paradise Comes To Salina, Kansas
  In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Acoustic Sounds invites music enthusiasts, industry professionals, audiophiles and collectors to Salina, Kansas for a historic multi-day event – a rare opportunity to explore the world of analog sound as never before.
  
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• In Tune With Eric Bazilian – The Founding Member Of The Hooters Hopes For “Better Times” In His New Video

  27-08-2026 17:35 via American Blues Scene
  
  There are times when we can’t agree to disagree but few people today would disagree that there is discontent regardless of which side of the political spectrum you find yourself on.  Few likely would disagree we could be doing better.Times like these can be inspiring for a singer/songwriter. They lend themselves to calls of outrage and pleas for times to improve. Was that the genesis of Eric Bazilian’s single “Better Times”? As Eric tells it, “I had come to a p
  
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• ‘It’s a Feel, Man’: Moses Crouch on the Soul of Hill Country Blues

  26-08-2026 20:41 via American Blues Scene
  
  When Moses Crouch plays Hill Country blues, he lets go of the fear of death, ignorance, and darkness, becoming completely transported into a trance state, “a place of existence, consciousness, and bliss.” Crouch, the Memphis native who explores Black folk traditions, Georgia Blues, and Memphis jug music in addition to his Hill Country roots, said the trance state is similar to the feeling he gets when he meditates, “only better.” For Crouch, North Mississippi Hill Co
  
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• Dolly Parton, Country Music’s Beloved Songwriter, Dies Aged 80

  25-08-2026 23:34 via American Blues Scene
  
  Dolly Parton, the singer and songwriter whose songbook became part of the American musical canon, has died at 80. Her death was announced by her nephew Bryan Seaver in a video shared through her social media accounts. Seaver, who served as Parton’s head of security for more than two decades, said she had asked him years ago to make the announcement when the time came.
  “Dolly has lived in the light,” Seaver said, describing her as a beloved aunt, sister, grandmother and great-gr
  
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• Warren Haynes Takes His Songs to the Symphony

  20-08-2026 01:59 via American Blues Scene
  
  Warren Haynes, the GRAMMY Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, guitar legend, producer, and Gov’t Mule frontman, is releasing a new album, Dreams & Songs: A Symphonic Journey. Co-produced by Don Was and Haynes, Dreams & Songs was recorded in 2019 at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Haynes’ hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, when Haynes debuted his one-of-a-kind Dreams & Songs symphonic show alongside the 64-piece Asheville Symphony Orchestra and his lineup of seasoned ro
  
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• Language of the Blues: Graveyard Dirt and the Spirit of Hoodoo

  15-08-2026 01:00 via American Blues Scene
  
  Among the Bakongo people of Central Africa, earth from a grave was believed to contain the spirit of the person buried in it. It is a powerful ingredient in magic, therefore, if one knows how to activate the spirit’s energy and harness it. The Bakongo brought this belief to the American colonies when they arrived as slaves, starting in the 1730s, and it survived to become part of hoodoo lore.By 1730, the Atlantic slave trade was reaching beyond the Senegambia region into Central. Large num
  
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• Artists I’m Following – Maya de Vitry, Glen Hansard, and Ken Pomeroy

  14-08-2026 02:01 via American Blues Scene
  
  Maya de Vitry is a Nashville singer/songwriter who is a little bit country, folk, indie rock, and Americana. She released her fifth and latest album, All My Faith, on July 24, 2026. Not surprisingly, she displays all those influences mentioned above. Themes of love and acceptance – particularly self-acceptance resonate throughout the album. Maya says, “I’d like my music to feel like you are invited into a lush living forest or into a remote river canyon where suddenly you
  
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• Cam Kimbrough wants to keep Hill Country blues alive — and make it a household name

  14-08-2026 00:54 via American Blues Scene
  
  Cam Kimbrough laments that Hill Country blues is not what it once was — not like it was when he says God taught him to play the drums. “I just sat down and started playing,” he recalls. Back then, wild house parties were a regular weekend ritual, corn liquor flowed and hypnotic music permeated the air — bodies moving through sweat, smoke and soul. The music was pure and tangible, its primal rhythms offering respite to people who had spent the week working hard in the fiel
  
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• Review/Gallery: Larkin Poe Answers the Call at the Arcada Theatre

  12-08-2026 03:58 via American Blues Scene
  
  As the owner of the Arcada and DesPlaines Theatre and organizer of popular Chicago-area festivals including Hillside Summer Nights, Addison’s Rock and Wheels and the long-running Taylor Street Festival, local impresario Ron Onesti seems to live by P.T Barnum’s adage to “give the People What they Want.”This certainly was the case with the recent booking of Larkin Poe, who played Onesti’s Arcada Theatre in St. Charles for the very first time on Friday, June 26th. 
  
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• Review/Gallery: Larkin Poe Answers the Call at the Arcada Theater

  12-08-2026 03:58 via American Blues Scene
  
  As the owner of the Arcada and DesPlaines Theater and organizer of popular Chicago-area festivals including Hillside Summer Nights, Addison’s Rock and Wheels and the long-running Taylor Street Festival, local impresario Ron Onesti seems to live by P.T Barnum’s adage to “give the People What they Want.”This certainly was the case with the recent booking of Larkin Poe, who played Onesti’s Arcada Theater in St. Charles for the very first time on Friday, June 26th. 
  
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• NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF CRESCENT CITY BLUES & BBQ FESTIVAL

  11-08-2026 22:44 via Blues Festival Guide Magazine and Online Directory of Blues Festivals
  
  NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF CRESCENT CITY BLUES & BBQ FESTIVAL
  Annual extravaganza returns October 9-11 with performances by Samantha Fish, Booker T. Jones, Little Freddie King, and many more!
  NEW ORLEANS, LA – The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation returns with the highly anticipated 20th anniversary celebration of the CRESCENT CITY BLUES & BBQ FESTIVAL. It will be held in New Orleans’ Lafayette Square Park (602 St. Charles Ave.)
  
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