Warrego Wines in Marburg [Queensland], Australia, will host the first-ever GrapeStomp Festival on March 5., which will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Now how can you stomp grapes without having some blues in the air? The festival will feature several local blues and roots bands, including Children of the Blues and Bluescorp. There [...]
Sugar Pie DeSanto, daughter of a Filipino father and an American black mother, has earned the distinction o receiving the Rhythm & Blues 2008 Pioneer Award in the US [click the link to see the video]. Sugar Pie is not well-known in the Philippines, having never visited there as an adult. Sugar Pie first established [...]
Japanese-born, Chicago-based blues guitarist Shun Kikuta performs at the Riverside Cafe in Taipei on Saturday, February 26, from 9:30-11:30. The Asian Wall Street Journal labels Shun as “the shogun of the blues,” while the Chicago Daily Herald calls him “the world ambassador of the blues.” Shun is an amazing musician with an amazing life story. [...]
British expat harmonica player John Walden has just teamed up with Cebuano guitarist/singer Alvin Tabag to form a new blues duo. The duo already has a regular Friday night gig at Drifter’s Bar in the Gaisano Country Mall in Cebu, starting at 7:30 p.m. The duo has a booking at least through April. Alvin started [...]
In our ongoing effort to build a comprehensive BLUES DIRECTORY for Asia and the Pacific, we are uncovering information of vital interest to musicians and bands across the region, as well as their fans. We are encountering so many MySpace musician sites that have more or less been abandoned, with no updates for over a [...]
Some months back we posted an article about India-born Aki Kumar, who moved to the San Francisco bay area of the US and has become one of the most formidable blues harp players on the west coast. His band Tip of the Top, as we announced then, won over many other bands to represent the [...]
Filipino-American musician Carlos Zailcita will be enjoying his first major “musical homecoming” over the next two weeks as a featured performer at the Philippine International Jazz Festival. Carlos is certainly the most successful and proficient Filipino harmonica player in memory. He’s equally adept at diatonic and chromatic, blues and jazz. He moved with his family [...]
Sister Morphin, an Indonesian blues/jazz trio that takes its name from a Rolling Stones song, launches its new album Nocturnal Flight by Lustair on Monday night, 14 February, at King’s Cafe in Seturan Jogja. The band, based in Yogyakarta, was formed in 2000, but really took shape in 2007 when it found its current style [...]
One of the musical highlights on the US west coast is the annual event staged in January by the National Association of Music Merchandisers, better known as NAMM. Scoring a ticket is difficult, requiring “connections,” adding to the luster of the event. Asian music manufacturers are always well represented. And this year, Korea-based blues and [...]
UK-based blues rocker Joe Bonamassa is undertaking a tour of Europe, North America and Asia to promote his new album, Black Rock. He will be visiting Japan, Hong Kong and Australia in May. Black Rock is his tenth solo recording. Recorded at Black Rock Studios in Santorini, Greece, it was produced by Kevin Shirley, whose [...]
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