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The former Festival Site at CSULB campus (2003) John Lee Hooker performing at the Long Beach Blues Festival, California, August 31, 1997 The Festival was set up in 1980 by jazz radio station KLON (later renamed to KKJZ) in Long Beach, California under the direction of Bernie Pearl, [1] who was the host of a blues program "Nothing But The Blues" on KLON at the time.
Each year there are also mini tournaments held in Toronto, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C./Maryland and San Francisco leading up to the annual NACIVT. The men's 9-man portion of the NACIVT is the subject of a documentary called 9-Man [1] that was completed in 2014 and had its world premiere at IFFBoston on April 27, 2014.
[12] [13] The Southern California Blues Society was a non-profit organization. The organization had the aim of preserving, promoting and keeping American Blues music and its culture alive. [14] In the past the proceeds of the festival went to the Willie Dixon Scholarship Fund, Blues in the Schools and also free concerts promoting blues music. [15]
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.Its densely populated coastal region includes Greater Los Angeles (the second-most populous urban agglomeration in the United States) [4] [5] and San Diego County (the second-most populous county in California).
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California City is a city located in northern Antelope Valley in Kern County, California, United States. It is 100 miles (160 km) north of the city of Los Angeles , and the population was 14,973 at the 2020 census .
Bally Sports SoCal is available on cable providers throughout Southern California, the Las Vegas Valley and Hawaii; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV. The network holds the regional broadcast rights to the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association and West Coast Conference men's and women's basketball.
The Southern California Championships were founded in March 1887 and first staged on asphalt courts at the Casa Blanca Club, Riverside, California. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In August 1887 a second tournament was organized that was won by William Henry Young after which the event would be played in the last week of August. [ 6 ]