The Many Shades Of

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03/08/2024

What is "The Blues"?
Blues is an African-American music that traverses a wide range of emotions and musical styles. “Feeling blue” is expressed in songs whose verses lament injustice or express longing for a better life and lost loves, jobs, and money. But Blues is also a raucous dance music that celebrates pleasure and success. Central to the idea of Blues performance is the concept that, by performing or listening to The Blues, one is able to overcome sadness and lose The Blues.
https://internationalbluesmusicday.weebly.com/blues-history.html

03/08/2024

"A day for the international community to unite in celebration of The Blues, including its many icons, legends, & pioneers and to help elevate & support the vast pool of modern-day Blues Artists & Practitioners around the world"
- Johnny Childs, Director IBMD
https://internationalbluesmusicday.weebly.com/

03/08/2024

To celebrate, promote, and preserve the rich legacy, tradition, and future of the great American Art form and international language known as Blues Music.
https://www.facebook.com/internationalbluesmusicday

26/05/2024

Lady Bianca Health Recovery & Home Repair Fund
By Beethovan Oden, Organizer
Hi Again, Community,
The first home repairs have been completed and we really can't thank you all enough. As we prepare to enter the next phase of our house recovery efforts, we look forward to moving closer and closer to welcoming Lady Bianca back home so that she can make a full recovery from the comfort of her home. And the quicker she can settle back into her home, the faster she can return to the stage! Her ongoing progress and your generosity is proof positive of God's grace and favor working in the life of our family. We pray for all of you and hope that you are blessed.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lady-bianca?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0dvXcpmZf38ofppQKP58yc6xEH6Ccbod0ed6RELWoY6FetiLaIdanAUZo_aem_AWCgDVKU3hIezdK7A2CgE27brTdal8CTR_kXSjKy0wGZN86lXa_YfmHwYzq6xV-JmzSmQbYoMX5_wseW2sasdqXH

26/05/2024

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26/05/2024

The West Coast Blues Society is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the perpetuation of Blues, Jazz, and Gospel as an indigenous Art form.
https://www.westcoastbluessociety.org/

26/05/2024

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American Blues Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter, and Record Producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking that influenced many later Blues Electric Guitar Players. AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important Electric Guitarist of the last half of the 20th Century".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King

26/05/2024

Biscuits and Blues is committed to providing Blues fans of all ages with a comfortable, intimate, and exciting venue to enjoy fantastic live Blues music in tandem with outstanding Southern cuisine. Now, twenty-four years later, we are one of the top Blues clubs in the nation. We offer San Francisco’s best in national and regional Blues acts while showcasing award-winning Southern cuisine.
https://biscuitsandblues.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2yFOFgx4VCF6BWBCUMXdc2U6JOBBd84WY8G1XkdrL1ez69w61_MhCwQpg_aem_AWA014trRzJXbe2aKgBcGisDYqNwX4Y0-PES99BNDLa59y1FLyv94CWg_cQSEIHv1goUkHqAIRNC-nj3G88UTWcr

26/05/2024

John Lee Ho**er (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American Blues Singer, Songwriter, and Guitarist. The son of a Sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta Blues that he developed in Detroit. Ho**er often incorporated other elements, including Talking Blues and early North Mississippi Hill Country Blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm Boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived Boogie-Woogie. Ho**er was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of 100 greatest Guitarists, and has been cited as one of the greatest male Blues Vocalists of all time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Ho**er

26/05/2024

Award-winning California native Tia Carroll has quietly accumulated one of the most impressive entertainment resumes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tia has become one of the most sought-after female Singers on the West Coast, having headlined venues and festivals all over the world. With her powerful voice and fantastic delivery, she has shared stages with legends Ray Charles, Jimmy McCracklin, Sly Johnson, Sugar Pie DeSanto, B.B King, Tommy Castro, Elvin Bishop, Igor Prado, and Eric Gales.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zakiya-hooker-john-lee-hooker-tribute-dinner-show-with-opener-tia-carroll-tickets-876423565477?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2IazN_4sTmnsxQgxdXMaX0EubxHtqYVmukengqU2WrnYpKlIuZhRsRcgQ_aem_AWAxbER4L2y0FYOFmFZMKFjyT3YJNFy31FF26sOo3WBtZ9qt791prl76ChxVscYdSAbk4Dw1zpn4olZfAbgd8Fa3

26/05/2024

Zakiya Ho**er was born into The Blues. You could even say she had a front-row seat to the best the genre had to offer, right in her living room - her Dad was the renowned Blues giant, John Lee Ho**er. She was privileged to see and hear some of the greats that shaped the history of The Blues as we know it. Zakiya has pursued life, and music, on her terms. Her music paints a broad swath in the styles it covers. A strong and versatile Vocalist, with a Jazzy, Blues sound. Her newest release 'A Bluesman's Journey' honoring her Father is charting at #3 on the Soul Blues Charts.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zakiya-hooker-john-lee-hooker-tribute-dinner-show-with-opener-tia-carroll-tickets-876423565477?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2IazN_4sTmnsxQgxdXMaX0EubxHtqYVmukengqU2WrnYpKlIuZhRsRcgQ_aem_AWAxbER4L2y0FYOFmFZMKFjyT3YJNFy31FF26sOo3WBtZ9qt791prl76ChxVscYdSAbk4Dw1zpn4olZfAbgd8Fa3

26/05/2024

Presented by the Golden Gate Blues Society, featuring legends Nat Bolden and Fillmore Slim.

26/05/2024

🎉 Five years ago, our beloved Biscuits and Blues had to shut down, but guess what? We're coming back stronger than ever! Get ready for our great return as we embark on an exciting new journey.
https://www.facebook.com/BiscuitsAndBlues

26/05/2024

Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was an American Blues Singer and influential early-Blues Recording Artist. Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of Southern Blues, influencing a generation of Blues Singers. Rainey was known for her powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a "moaning" style of singing. Her qualities are present and most evident in her early recordings "Bo-Weevil Blues" and "Moonshine Blues".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey

26/05/2024

William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was an American Composer and Musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. He was one of the most influential Songwriters in the United States. One of many Musicians who played the distinctively American Blues music, Handy did not create The Blues genre but was one of the first to publish music in The Blues form, thereby taking The Blues from a regional music style (Delta Blues) with a limited audience to a new level of popularity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Handy

15/04/2024

Dear Community,
This comes on behalf of our Mother, Lady Bianca, who has recently suffered a sudden medical emergency. While we are relieved to say that she is going one step at a time on her road to recovery, she is presently unable to work and has been forced to cancel many of her performances. For the uninitiated and loyal fans alike, the legendary Lady Bianca is a Gospel and R&B Vocalist/Pianist, Artist, Producer, and celebrated fixture of the Bay Area Blues scene, widely known as the “Queen of the Blues and Gospel”. --Sons, Oshmin and Beethovan
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lady-bianca?utm_campaign=p_cp%20fundraiser-sidebar&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&fbclid=IwAR2xWQWM2_EuVxJyIlnSMl6VlrWvtV7BJnEo41xBH0c-bipaZY7xU_t8LGs_aem_AVsM5Wm1f-5de2SBlvI9hlEcZ_vsyY8QBUoNpcyhLOjkWazz9ag7wxT_8gMKalq9XsoZOKBS233XNA-vm7Uw1MHU

Dear Community, This comes on behalf of our mother, Lady Bianca, who ha… Beethovan Oden needs your support for Lady Bianca Health Recovery & Home Repair Fund

10/12/2023

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938148/a-blues-show-inside-a-legendary-san-francisco-recording-studio?fbclid=IwAR0c-Y4MF9xxXT1XryEO7d5Umi11J9wOCDWCfaIqV38B9VYW3SJCmssnzLY

The Tenderloin Museum presents Oakland’s Lady Bianca on Nov. 30 at Hyde Street Studios — which is rarely open to the public.

10/08/2022

"I met Willie on many occasions — the first of which is when I cold-called him out of the Chicago phone book and asked him to come to my high school radio station." Cary Baker

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Sugar Pie DeSanto (born Peylia Marsema Balinton,[1] October 16, 1935)[2] is an American R&B singer and dancer, whose career in music flourished in the 1950s and 1960s.

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