Blues Music News--3.28.12

Blues For Bugs: A Few Friends Remember the Dallas Guitar Hero Dallas Observer Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter ... See all stories on this topic »

Chicago Summer 2012: Major Events Calendar from Blues Fest and Lollapalooza to ... ChicagoNow (blog) Grammy® winner Mavis Staples headlines the 29th annual Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park, June 8-10. Celebrating the genre's rich past and its promising future, the FREE festival is three days of the finest blues music in the world. See all stories on this topic » ChicagoNow (blog)

Is The Music In Your Hands? Patch.com My Hands Sing the Blues is about Romare Bearden, a collage artist born in Charlotte, NC, in 1911. Bearden captured his childhood memories in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and the love of blues and ... See all stories on this topic »

Night Lights: T. Tex visit promises lots of fun San Antonio Express By Jim Beal Jr. It's time to go to musical extremes and move from a storied purveyor of Texas punk and country/punk/rock to a tribute to the memory of a Texas blues and blues/rock guitar ace, with a stop in between for some video game-inspired music ... See all stories on this topic »

19th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival Tickets on Sale Now PR Web (press release) One of the most scenic and intimate music festivals in the country, Telluride Blues & Brews is a three-day celebration of music and microbrews held in the world-famous resort town of Telluride, Colorado, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. See all stories on this topic »

Album review: Grit, blues lyrics define Hubbard's latest San Antonio Express By Jim Beal Jr. Evolution isn't the right word to apply to Ray Wylie Hubbard's musical path. Neither is de-evolution. Hubbard made folk music with Three Faces West and "Outlaw Country" with the Cowboy Twinkies. The man who brought the world "Up Against ... See all stories on this topic »

This Day in Black History: March 28, 1958 BET By Britt Middleton Blues composer and musician WC Handy died of bronchial pneumonia in New York City at the age of 84. Handy is regarded by many as "The Father of the Blues" and one of the most influential names in American popular music history. See all stories on this topic » BET

Seattles music scene snubbed, Portland gloats Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) The good folks at livability.com just released its list of towns with great music scenes, and Seattle was snubbed. Dissed. Left out in the cold. The list purposefully excluded the music hubs of Los Angeles, Nashville and New York, saying it's time to ... See all stories on this topic » Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Blogs

Harlem Qt. Family Concert: Beethoven & Blues - The Boston Musical ... By Lee Eiseman Harlem Qt. Family Concert: Beethoven & Blues. by Lee Eiseman. Family activities for spring could include a productive trip to Concord, home of the Transcendentalists and Revolutionary War history. A jazz-inspired program, including music ... The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Listen: Heavy Blanket - Dr. Martin's Blues - Music News at ... Heavy Blanket is a new heavy blues rock project from J Mascis. Entirely instrumental the Dinosaur heavy blanket,listen, ... Read the full story at Undertheradar.co.nz. Undertheradar.co.nz News