While many think of blues as an American form, it has now become so internationalized that it is a TWO-WAY street. Take Aki Kumar, for example. Born in Bombay, he is now the harp player with up-and-coming blues band Tip of the Top, located in the San Francisco Bay area. Tip of the Top is [...]
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GUEST COLUMNIST: Niña Terol-Zialcita is a well-known writer in the Philippines, with particular interests in social causes and cultural affairs. She originally shared her experience at the 5th Miri International Jazz Festival last May on her provocative blog The Art of Changemaking. Because her sentiments are so in line with the perspective of the Blues [...]
BANDUNG, 29 August — Bandung, Indonesia, is a hotbed of blues harmonica, perhaps like no other place in Asia. Currently touring in the area is Chicago-born Rob Bluebird Ruggeri. Today, Ruggeri announced on the Bandung Blues Society Facebook Page that he will be offering blues harp lessons. Anyone wishing to follow up on this should [...]
MANILA — On Thursday, 26 August, the band scheduled to perform at Ten02 Bar in Quezon City had to cancel out. Rannie Raymundo and his band JABLUNK volunteered to step in, announcing a rare open mic for blues players. With such last minute notice, via Facebook, no one knew if anyone would show up. Well, [...]
Image via Wikipedia BANGKOK — Robert “One-Man” Johnson is a teacher by trade and a one-man blues band at night. As a teacher, he’s held posts in various countries in Asia, including Japan and China. Last year he held a teaching position in Bangkok — and now he has just returned there for his second [...]
MANILA — The Hobbit House is probably the oldest live music bar in Manila. It was the dream project of ex-Peace Corpsman and American citizen Jim Turner, who decided to remain in the country after his tour of duty. The place was created to provide employment to Manila’s “small people,” as Jim calls them, or [...]
MANILA – Rickie Cui has long been known in the Philippines as one of the most passionate blues players around. So passionate, in fact, that he opened a bar in the upscale community of Alabang in the mid-1990′s with a 100-percent blues policy. During its four-year run, the bar featured Manila-based blues bands on weekends, [...]
Thomas “Tomcat” Colvin is the founder and editor-in-chief of BLUES ASIA NETWORK. He is an American expat, residing in Manila since 1986. He has been very active in the Philippine blues scene for two decades. He brings to the network his skills as a communications expert. * * * * * * * * * [...]
The Blues Asia Network is a volunteer effort to track the significant, but largely unknown world of the blues in Asia and the Pacific. At the core of the effort is the BLUS ASIA BLOG. As you can see by glancing around our Front Page, our focus is broad-ranging and covers many countries. In order [...]
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