Browsing: Blues Charity

(SPRINGFIELD, MO) – Organizers of the 2nd Annual Stomp the Blues out of Homelessness Festival announced the exciting lineup and date for the second incantation of a budding festival.

Trampled Under Foot, the incredibly powerful, IBC-winning band was performing a show in Raytown, Missouri, below Kansas City, Missouri, when their trailer was stolen mid-show.

Doctor Dan Ivankovich is, to put it mildly, not your average doctor. A surgeon by day and an accomplished bluesman by night, Dr. Dan attends to Chicago’s poorest and neglected citizens.

Stax Records created a mecca of Soul Music in Memphis that acted as an anthem for an entire generation. Now, nearly 50 years later, Stax is again manufacturing great music through a world-renown school.

It was grossly overdue – but the legendary delta bluesman Willie Brown, a friend of Robert Johnson who mentions him personally in “Crossroad Blues”, finally gets a headstone for his grave.

The recent auction of more than 70 of Eric Clapton’s prized guitars has raised $2.15m for his charity! American Blues Scene recently reported on the auction, which was expected to raise around $400,000.

Tomorrow, Eric Clapton will be auctioning off over 70 guitars and dozens of amplifiers from his personal collection to aide his charity, the Crossroads Centre.

The blues community at large often care deeply about their fellow men and women. Janiva Magness is among those ranks, headlining a benefit to aide an ailing teenager in need with a very life-threatening condition.