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The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA)...formed in 1921."
Theatre Owners Booking Association, or T.O.B.A., was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s. The theaters mostly had white owners, though about a third of them had Black owners, [1] including the recently restored Morton Theater in Athens, Georgia, originally operated by "Pinky" Monroe Morton, and Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia owned and operated by Charles ...
Vaudeville blues [12] Black Ace: 1905 1972 Texas Country blues [13] Scrapper Blackwell: 1903 1962 North Carolina Urban blues [14] Blind Blake: 1896 1934 Florida Piedmont blues [15] Lucille Bogan: 1897 1948 Mississippi Classic female blues [16] Ted Bogan: 1909 1990 South Carolina Country blues [17] Son Bonds: 1909 1947 Tennessee Country blues ...
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Feb. 6—HUGHESVILLE — The 34th Annual Billtown Blues Festival officially begins Friday, June 21 at 6:00 p.m. The music continues starting noon on Saturday, June 22, offering world class blues ...
At the same time, there was a growing tendency among white artists from the field of old-time music to take up African-American influences such as blues or jazz. The young Bob Wills developed western swing under these influences, while others concentrated more on the blues element and thus shaped a style that is now known as white country blues ...
performance group that has been "extraordinarily influential" in Croatian American music, and has had a "crucial role in the formation of many 'junior tamburitza' societies" [20] Tamburitza Association of America: Tamburitza Extravaganza: Center for World Music: American Society for Eastern Arts (ASEA) Founded by Robert E. Brown, Sam and Louise ...
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (born January 19, 1999) is an American blues guitarist and singer from Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, who became a well-known performer as a teenager. His debut album, Kingfish, was released in May 2019. [3] In addition to his own albums, musicians he has recorded with include Eric Gales, Buddy Guy and Keb Mo.