If these guys aren't one of the best blues/R&B/soul Show bands on the circuit today I don't know who is? Johnny ALWAYS delivers a fun, entertaining Show. We wish him all the best at the Juno Awards on March 27th - they are nominated for Blues Album Of The Year for "It's A Long Road". This is his second Juno nomination - they had one for their last CD as well "A Lesson I've Learned" in 2008.
Brian Blain CD Release Party - New Folk Blues - January 2, 2011 at Highway 61, Bayview Avenue,Toronto.
Brian Blain's got a new CD and he's on tour throughout Southern Ontario to promote its release.
Brian's been active on the Canadian music scene for more than 40 years. From electric jazz-blues bands, to alone-and-acoustic to duets or trios. He's done it all.
Video by Ken Bowman
Audio by Tim Greencorn, Little Chicago Sound Company, Smiths Falls, Ontario www.littlechicagosound.com
Produced by Choose The Blues Productions, Kenmore, Ontario www.choosetheblues.ca
Curley
Bridges 77th Birthday Party -Electro-Fi's
14 Anniversary
Silver Dollar Room, January 15, 2011
While
we claim him as our own, Curley Bridges was born in a small town outside of
Raleigh, North Carolina. His mother was a church organistand his father was a musician and farmer and
a friend of Fats Waller so he couldn't escape the country blues influence that
was prevalent in the southern black rural life. His early influences were Joe
Turner and Louis Jordan but when he was drafted into the army he was exposed to
the boogie-woogie piano of guys like Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Piano Red.
Only then did he decide to make music his life.
SHAKURA S’AIDA: TWO FOREIGN TOURS,
20 NEW SONGS, AND FOUR FEBRUARY NIGHTS
OF PUBLIC REHEARSALS AT A SMALL TORONTO VENUE
Toronto blues and jazz singer Shakura S’Aida leaves in early March
for her first Australian appearances, and then heads off for 13 shows in
Europe.
Recently chosen Canada’s best female blues singer at the
Maple Blues Awards, she also has some 20 new songs. So she and her band,
featuring co-writer and guitarist Donna Grantis and piano and B3 player
Lance Anderson, will play a series of four Monday night public
rehearsals at Joe Mama’s, a small King Street bar and restaurant.
The Great Lakes Blues Society (GLBS), in
cooperation with numerous community supporters, is pleased to present another
chapter in our "Blues In The Schools"
(BITS) series of learning through the arts programming. Blues is the foundation
for all of the popular music styles we listen to today. The focus of BITS is to
educate our youth on the importance of this uniquely North American art form
known as the blues.
An emerging blues band from the United Kingdom will get a big break at this year's Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival, thanks to an innovative new partnership between the Festival, NB Tourism and Parks, and Fredericton Tourism.
The provincial government is hosting a battle of the bands contest in the United Kingdom to find a blues band worthy of the Harvest stage. The winning band will receive a trip to Fredericton in September, where they will perform at the festival.
Do you have a vehicle? Do you want to volunteer with the Toronto Blues Society? The TBS is currently looking for a volunteer to distribute newsletters to clubs in the Toronto areaonce per month.
Another Canadian wins the blues category in theInternational Songwriting Competition! John McAneney and Jesse O'Brien for The Johnny Max Band for their song "Daddy's Little Girl".
The Ottawa Blues Society Blues Heart Award is presented annually to an
individual or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to
fostering appreciation and awareness of blues music.
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