TOKYO IS A BLUES JAM PARADISE. You can probably go jamming every single night of the month if you want to. Over the last decade, bars hosting blues jams have mushroomed, perhaps because they have found it a good way to attract more customers in this bad economy. Some of the more popular spots in [...]
[Editor: Aussie bluesman Nick Brown, aka Duke Hazzard, has shared the details behind recent and very high-quality videos of his band Dukesy and the Hazzards he has posted on YouTube. THANKS for sharing.] We have written before about the essential importance of high-quality video for bands serious about promoting themselves and their music. YouTube video [...]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is republished with permission from the January-February issue of ZEST AIR MAGAZINE. Thanks for Victor and Stephen Jeffery, publishers of the magazine, and to Dennis Gargantiel for writing the best overview article about blues in the Philippines that I ever read. By: Dennis V. Gargantiel Bebop – dead. Swing – [...]
Mercy Street Blues Band is a rough and tumble collection of competent blues musicians who play rough and tumble blues whenever they gets together. Mercy Street Blues Band is described as a tight, high energy blues band usually no more than four-piece band, once fronted by Californian Blues legend Greg Carroll – who played with [...]
Glenn Patrik is no stranger to playing the blues in Bangkok. Matter of fact, he has headlined the Bangkok Blues Festival two years in a row. Glenn has also brought his particular brand of the blues and style to Tokyo Joe’s and several other venues in Bangkok through numerous appearances with locally based Soi [...]
FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, musicians from Asia and the Pacific have been participating in the prestigious International Blues Challenge [IBC], sponsored by the Blues Foundation and held each year during the first week of February on historic Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. The 24th IBC is coming up 31 January through 4 February 2012. [...]
The Artist line-up for the 2012 Australian Blues Music Festival has been announced with over 30 artists and bands to feature at the event in Goulburn, NSW next February. The Australian Blues Music Festival is four days of Blues & Roots Music held annually in the Southern-NSW city of Goulburn. In 2012 the festival runs [...]
SPOTLIGHT on JAPAN, plus a glimpse into the Himalayan Blues Festival. Again, we feature some video shot only within the past few weeks. And we’ve made yet more new friends. I particularly enjoyed online communication with “Weeping Harp” Senoh of Japan, who has been a major figure in the Japanese blues scene for over 40 [...]
IN OUR FIRST EIGHT MINUTES, we discuss blues news from Bangkok, Jakarta, India, Singapore and the Philippines. Blues is thriving. We put the spotlight on AUSTRALIA in this segment, particularly featuring videos contributed by Matt “Harpdog” Dunn, our newest content partner. And in our YOUTH SPOTLIGHT, we watch a 12-year-old Aussie boy bang out the [...]
YouTube videos of live band gigs flood the internet. But are they good advertising for bands? Mostly, the poor quality does not show off a band in a good light. BLUES ASIA TV addresses this problem in Episode 4.2. Dom Turner of Australia’s Backsliders plans a drop-in appearance at Crazy Elephant in Singapore. Brendan Power, [...]
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