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Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km). It is a significant location in the city's history, as well as in the history of blues music.
Rum Boogie Café is a night club on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. It is one of the main venues for the International Blues Challenge and is the favored performance location of singer James Govan. [1] [2] It was named "Blues Club of the Year" by the Blues Foundation in 2007. [3] [4]
The Memphis blues is a style of blues music created from the 1910s to the 1930s by musicians in the Memphis area, such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis and Memphis Minnie. The style was popular in vaudeville and medicine shows and was associated with Beale Street , the main entertainment area in Memphis.
A trumpet player and composer, W.C. Handy — who titled his 1941 autobiography "Father of the Blues" — was born in Florence, Alabama, but became famous after relocating to Memphis in 1909 and ...
Govan performed at Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1989 to 2014, performing vocals and percussion. Starting in 1994, he performed regularly with the Boogies Blues Band at the Rum Boogie Café, Beale Street. In that time, they were named the Best House Band on Beale Street three times by the Beale Street Merchants Association, and they ...
More than 158 acts from 32 states and 12 countries will take part in the 2024 International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
In the days before the first Memphis Country Blues Society festival in July 1966, some 400 members of the KKK marched at Overton Park, even burning a cross at the parking lot. That didn’t stop ...
The title refers to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, an entertainment district for the city's African-American population in the early part of the 20th century. [1] Accounts of Handy's inspiration vary: one is that he observed a pianist playing in a cafe on that street; [ 2 ] another credits a barber commenting on closing early because no ...