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In 1991, the Early Wright Blues Heritage Award was established to honor Early Wright, "The Soul Man" of WROX radio who was Mississippi's first black radio disc jockey. [9] In 1992, promoters Melville Tillis and Julius Guy held the Issaquena Gospel Festival. In 1993, the two festivals were merged into the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel festival.
Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a wide variety of styles and subgenres, such as country blues, Delta and Piedmont, Chicago, West Coast blues. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially ...
The Mississippi Valley Blues Society, headquartered in Davenport, is an organization promoting the knowledge and appreciation of blues music in the Quad Cities area. In addition to school programs and other activities, the organization sponsors an annual Mississippi Valley Blues Festival held each July; it is considered one of the major blues ...
Music, parties and an annual vineyard event are among the things to do this weekend in central Illinois. Blues fest, grape stomp and more: Here are 5 things to do near Peoria this weekend Skip to ...
The Augustana Choir, founded at Rock Island's Augustana College in 1934, is one of the nation's leading collegiate choruses. Major outdoor summer music festivals include the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, and River Roots Live.
He is booked to perform at a number of blues festivals in the summer of 2014, including The North Atlantic Blues Festival, Cincinnati Blues Festival, The PA Blues Festival, Flood City Music Festival, The Heritage Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Blues at the Beach Festival and the Mighty Mississippi Blues Festival.
Downtown Las Vegas Event Center 11,000 March 15, 2014 [18] Laughlin Event Center Laughlin: 9,000 [19] 2015 Amphitheater at Craig Ranch: North Las Vegas: 6,800 June 24, 2006 The Venetian Theatre: Paradise [a] 1,815 March 2, 1999 House of Blues: 2,000 March 17, 2007 Pearl Concert Theater: 2,400 March 8, 2014 [20] Brooklyn Bowl: 3,000 March 25, 2003
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