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. [...]
This blog is now a bit over one year old. We’ve covered a lot of ground and established a wide-spread network of blues musicians and fans across Asia, the Pacific and beyond. It’s time now to move forward with our long-range plan. If you are a regular reader, you probably know that we have been [...]
Blues Asia Network has been given the ultimate compliment by Indonesia’s revered guitarist and musician Andrietidie: he asked us if he could feature our Facebook Page feed on the sidebar of his excellent website at www.Gitargila.com. Of course, we were delighted with that arrangement. It is our first step toward syndication among blues-oriented music sites [...]
BLUES FESTIVALS IN ASIA The annual Japan Blues Festival and the Queensland Blues Festival take place this weekend. The first China Blues Festival takes place in Beijing next week. Filipino Bong Sotto, a long-time resident of Melbourne, Australia, is mounting a Blues Night featuring Filipino blues artists in Australia — the event takes place on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Blues Asia Network Facebook Page passed on 22 blues alerts since our last email newsletter of 21 April. Already 492 people “like” the page, bringing the alerts onto their Facebook Wall — and through the viral effects of Facebook, our notices appeared over 28,000 times on various FB walls. The word about blues in [...]
Our Blues Asia Network Facebook Page has been very busy the past two weeks, with many brief announcements. A few days ago, we added our Facebook Page stream to our website sidebar so that visitors can catch breaking news there. With this post, we hope to bring the most important news into our email newsletter, [...]
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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