Atlanta Blues Festival News

 
Summer's Pop and Jazz Festivals Load Their Lineups
New York Times
Illinois CHICAGO BLUES FESTIVAL June 8-10. The proud city of blues spares no talent for its free and enormous annual gala. This year the festival welcomes the incandescent riffs and searing words of Texas Johnny Brown, Eddie Shaw & the Wolf Gang, ...

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Pop Ferguson blues festival IV
Examiner.com
He has performed at some of the nation's top music festivals - Chicago Blues Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, King Biscuit Blues Festival, Smithsonian-Folklife Festival, Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, Lincoln Center and Central Park ...


 
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Blues fest preview at Time Out
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Rockland — The Monday Night Blues series continues May 14 with Albert Castiglia beginning 7 pm at the Time Out Pub, 275 Main St. Admission will be $10, which means an intimate show with one of this year's North Atlantic Blues Festival performers.


 
Memorial Day weekend events
Creative Loafing Atlanta
35th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival The Office of Cultural Affairs celebrates the 35th annual Atlanta Jazz Festival this Memorial Day weekend in Historic Park. The festival will feature music on three stages with performances by jazz legends and young ...

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Bobby Rush Will Kick Off The 1st Peach State Blues Festival In Madison, GA.
Jazz-Quad
King Communication Group and Main Street Madison Georgia will kick off the summer with the first Peach State Blues Festival in Madison, Georgia, on Saturday, June 2, 2012, from noon to 10:00 pm. The celebrated, legendary Blues singer Bobby Rush will be ...


 
Arkansas musician "Iron Man" Burks dies at 54
Fox News
He and his father built Camden's Bradley Ferry Country Club, a 300-seat juke joint that hosted blues and R&B performers. He released three albums with Chicago-based Alligator Records and headlined blues festivals worldwide. Burks was well known at the ...

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Creative Loafing Atlanta
Spoleto kicks off this weekend, celebrating Philip Glass' 75th
Creative Loafing Atlanta
Included on the roster are jazz concerts, blues cruises, children's theater, choral music, stand-up comedy, dance and cabaret. Spoleto is one of the world's great arts festivals, and it's just a few hours by car from Atlanta, making it a great ...

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