Chicago Blues Reunion News

 
Steve Smith: Van Halen cancels - again. Ozzy and Black Sabbath's first reunion ...
Pasadena Star-News
The final scheduled concert will be in at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Aug. 3. The recording of the band's first album with Osbourne and a full reunion tour has been hampered by guitarist Tony Iommi's ongoing cancer treatments.

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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Concerts for the week of 5/25
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The punks are kicking things off this year with a Friday night lineup that includes Needles (members of Limp Wrist and Los Crudos), Paddy Costello's Chicago mates the Arrivals, In Defence, Manipulation and more. Saturday's hipsters will be treated to ...

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Washington City Paper (blog)
ToDo ToDay: Chicago Electric Blues
Washington City Paper (blog)
The local Stacy Brooks Band is not breaking any new ground with its Chicago-style electric blues, but thanks to Brooks' booming vocals, her group displays a timeless vitality. Brooks, a DC native who moved to Germany with her Army-stationed father and ...

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Wanna hear some funky Dixieland?
New Times SLO
The band marched on until 1982, when they disbanded until a 1987 reunion, and they've been together ever since. Their current single, “A Brighter Day,” is climbing the Adult Contemporary Chart, and they played the Grand Ole Opry not long ago to film a ...


 
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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Highland Jazz and Blues Festival Announces 2012 Date
Houston Chronicle
"Expect dancing, beer, cuisine from Louisiana and elsewhere, jewelry and visual art and the vibe of a regional reunion," said volunteer festival organizer Robert Trudeau. Headlining acts at the Highland Jazz and Blues Festival have included well-known ...

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Jennifer Herrema hits restart button with new/old Black Bananas
Chicago Tribune
Half of the legendary scuzz-blues outfit Royal Trux, Herrema was famously stylish, vastly influential and vaguely terrifying. After Royal Trux disbanded in 2001, Herrema founded the only slightly more experimental RTX. After eight years, the group has ...

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