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[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]
In approximately 2005 Blues entertainer Roy Gaines performed at the annual Jazz Festival and along with Deborah Dixon of the Southern California Blues Society they were interviewed and photographed in the hotel by the Los Angeles Times. It had been refurbished and was being occupied by then.
The Bohemian Club's mascot is an owl, here cast in masonry, and perched over the main club entrance at 20601 Bohemian Ave, Monte Rio, CA 95462. The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note.
West Coast blues is a type of blues music influenced by jazz and jump blues, with strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues players who relocated to California in the 1940s. [1] West Coast blues also features smooth, honey-toned vocals, frequently crossing into rhythm and blues territory.
Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921 – March 7, 1999) [1] was an American blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. He also recorded for contractual reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom.
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.
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 ...
California Electric blues [341] Dexter Allen: 1970 Mississippi Electric blues* [342] Marcia Ball: 1949 Texas Electric blues [343] Chico Banks: 1962 2008 Illinois Chicago blues [344] L.V. Banks: 1932 2011 Missouri Chicago blues [345] Barrelhouse Chuck: 1958 2016 Ohio Chicago blues [346] Tab Benoit: 1967 California Electric blues [140] Terry ...