First, we would like to announce that our online streaming radio-TV program BLUES ASIA NETWORK is now a reality! We are still in our early trial period, sorting out various technical issues, which I’m guessing will take another month or two to sort through. You can check us out every Sunday night, 8-10 p.m., Manila [...]
American Rhythm & Blues singer-composer Dana Shellmire and her band return to Shanghai’s House of Blues and Jazz this coming Tuesday and Wednesday nights, June 28-29, to perform some old-time blues favorites and present a couple of her new tunes. Show starts at 9:30 p.m. Dana Shellmire (formerly of “Mike Null & The Soulcasters”) will [...]
Ron McMillan, our blues informant in Bangkok, has passed on information about a truly international blues project .Blues mandolin maestro Bert Deivert ( www.deivert.com ) is well along on making his new blues CD project become a reality. It has a very strong Asian element, with a lot of the material having been recorded in [...]
Indonesia is bursting out with blues. The Indonesian Blues Association [INA], formed by a group of musicians who discovered the blues back in the 1970’s during their college days in Bandung, has become very influential in the country’s music scene. INA stages the annual, elaborate and carefully planned Jakarta International Blues Festival and is principally [...]
The past two weeks have been extremely busy for Blues Asia Network. Our blues network is really beginning to work, as envisioned. We were able to pick up news that two American professional blues artists would be in Manila at the same time — this week actually. We’ve managed to co-produce a special performance at [...]
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