Blues harp player and band leader Kelvin Ng shares with us the news that the Esplanade on Singapore’s waterfront will stage a weekend of blues and blues-related live music, showcasing the diverse range of talent in Singapore, all in one place! And for free! Bridging The Blues – Esplanade Waterfront (Free) Part of SPH Gift [...]
On March 26, Saxophone Pub pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix, featuring bands Chai Blues and Auction. Chai is a regular performer at Saxophone, one of the best guitarmen in Thailand. Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Print for later Tell a friend
Music and the internet come together each year in Austin, Texas, for the important South by SouthWest Conference. This year’s conference has just concluded — and one of the featured panels discussed music and video blogging, an emerging major trend on the internet. As a follow up to yesterday’s post featuring Tek Castro’s video blog [...]
Joric “Delta Slim” Maglanque has been a durable mainstay in the Philippine blues scene for many years now. Not only does he front several bands, he is also a foremost teacher/mentor, conducting blues workshops from time to time and organizing blues nights at various venues. Last Friday, 11 March, he put on one of his [...]
Gugun Blues Shelter won the Battle of the Bands competition a couple days ago, held at Jakarta’s Hard Rock Cafe. The band has a solid reputation in Indonesia as one of the best bands in the country — and this victory solidifies that reputation. Gugun Blues Shelter was one of the headliners at the Jakarta [...]
The “Chicago Blues” sound, that has so influenced western popular music, often featured the amplified harmonica. Marion Walter Jacobs, otherwise known as “Little Walter,” and also “Big Walter,” Walter Horton, together with many others, helped to take “The Blues” out of the Mississippi Delta, and into Chicago “Juke Joints,” the bars and clubs in what [...]
While there seemed to be a slump in the blues scene in Thailand during and following the street protests of last year, it is clear that the blues is definitely back, big time. In the past week, I’ve uncovered so much information about what’s going on, not only in Bangkok but elsewhere around the country, [...]
Eric is making the most of his trip to the region, performing in 16 other cities around Australia. The tour begins on 1 April, with an appearance at the Entertainment Center in Darwin. His final concert in Australia will be on May 13 at the Sound Lounge on the Gold Coast. For the full schedule, [...]
B. B. King is heading back for another appearance at the annual Byron Bay Blues Festival, which is probably the biggest and most significant blues festival in Asia and the Pacific. The festival is traditionally held over the Easter Weekend. King has scheduled three preliminary events in Australia and two in New Zealand following the [...]
Last August, among over 2000 harmonica players who showed up for the Asia-Pacific Harmonica Competition in Singapore, only a small handful were diatonic players, and fewer still musicians who played blues. If Zhin Wong has anything to do about it, that will change. Zhin, as we announced earlier, is starting to post instructional videos to [...]
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