Author: Barry Kerzner
The International Blues Challenge – Quarterfinals Round 2 begin at 4:30 pm
There will be a Health Fair and Screenings event from noon through 2:30 pm. The IBC Quarterfinals – Round 1 begin at 4:30 pm.
The International Blues Challenge (IBC) officially opens at the Clayborn Temple, a key site in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s where Dr. Martin Luther King spoke.
Enjoy wonderful blues music by many of the great Women in Blues performers and some of our finest blues brothers, while partaking of Alfred’s tasty lunch menu.
The shows will feature 2016 Grammy nominee Vasti Jackson, St. Louis blues prodigy, Marquise Knox, and American bluesman and educator, Fernando Jones.
“One of the most moving things for me doing this work was to unpack the therapeutic effect of this music, and how it helps us find peace…”
It’s also the time when musicians representing blues societies from around the world come to compete in the International Blues Challenge.
“Duane never once, I never recall him, not one time, trying to tell anybody what to play.”
‘Midnight Highway’ is out tomorrow on the Provogue/Mascot Label in the United States…
“Nobody is out there, picking up where the Allman Brothers left off. I decided that I would do that.”