Underground Radio in Manila has just launched a cutting-edge internet radio-TV station, available world-wide via streaming audio and video media. Blues Asia Network is proud to be part of this venture. THE BACKGROUND Underground Radio 105.9 FM has been one of two Philippine radio stations that support alternative music, including a strong dose of blues. [...]
As everyone knows by now, more and more people are turning to the internet for their radio and music programming, via their desktop computer or netbook — and now via iPod, iPad and smartphone. I, for example, have not listened to an actual radio for many years now. I’ve long been a fan of [...]
Lots of interesting news about blues around Asia was posted on our Facebook Page over the past two weeks. As a service to our email newsletter subscribers, here’s a summary. These posts are available, of course, at our Facebook Page [ have you "liked" it yet? ], as well as in the sidebar of our [...]
“Grandma Mary” Ho, now in her mid-70′s, is rocking the blues scene in Singapore. Taking up the guitar at age 60, Mary soon turned to B.B. King and Carlos Santana for inspiration. By age 70, Grandma Mary had produced her first CD titled Grandma Mary’s Latin Rock, began making appearances on local TV and uploaded [...]
The Philippines is well-known for exporting its musicians world-wide. Just go into any hotel bar lounge in the Middle East, and you are likely to find a Filipino band. The same goes for cruise ships and hotel lounges around Asia. But no one else has a history like Filipino bluesman Bong Sotto. Bong started life [...]
Blues Asia Network aims to be the indispensable information source for musicians, fans and venue owners in Asia and the Pacific who view blues as the foundation of most modern music. This week we are adding another element that we think our readership will especially like: direct one-on-one video interviews. Our first interview will be [...]
Blues Asia Network has just received this communication from Rap Scallions Cafe Bar in Shenzhen, which is scheduled to open two weeks from now. Certainly there will be some blues musicians in Hong Kong and elsewhere in SE Asia that may wish to follow up. My name is Darragh and I am opening a cafe [...]
Stunning Port Denarau, Fiji, will be the host of world class jazz, blues and soul music over 4 days in May during the Fiji 2011 International Jazz and Blues Festival. This event follows hot on the heels of the amazing Samoa 2010 International Jazz and Blues Festival in November 2010. Over 100 musicians from around [...]
Back in mid-March, internationally-known harmonica expert Brendan Power, a New Zealander based in England, presented a couple of harmonica workshops in Bandung, Indonesia, and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. And also, wherever Brendan goes, there’s sure to be some night-time jamming. Workshop content was different in the two locations. Bandung is a hotbed of blues, and [...]
Our correspondent in Bangkok, Ron McMillan, passes on some exciting information about a remarkable Sunday night in Bangkok this weekend. Bangkok has a blues triple-header treat coming up on Sunday (May 8th). At Adhere Bar in Banglumpoo district (not far from Khao San Rd) there is a Robert Johnson Centenial event played by Andy Martin [...]
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