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BWW Review: Spring Gulch Folk Festival Celebrates 31st Season!
BWW Exclusive: Reading Blues Festival Kicks Off Fall Tradition
BWW Interview: Jeff Russo and the Music of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
BWW Interview: Che'Nelle Unveils Calm Before the Storm EP
BWW Interview: Sharon Lewis Carries On With the Blues
BWW Interview: Dave Goddess Group Releases 'Last of the West Side Cowboys'March 5, 2018
'I try to take people to a place that they really can't get to by themselves.'
BWW Interview: Samantha Fish Forges Her Own Path With 'Belle of the West'February 9, 2018
'I think the more (women) just keep picking up instruments, and keep writing, and making our presence known, and not backing down, I think more and more people will be inspired to pick up instruments and continue on with that.'
BWW Interview: The Benjamin Vo Blues Band, Pennsylvania's Unsigned SecretJanuary 24, 2018
'I think the most important element I like to keep in the music is the blues feeling, regardless of different chord or what we do with the notes, it's just the blues feeling has to be there.
13th Annual Lehigh River Blues Jam hits Allentown, Saturday, Jan. 27thJanuary 22, 2018
The 13th Annual Lehigh River Blues Jam celebrates the music, and will raise funds for Mike Mettalia, a sufferer of ALS.
BWW Interview: Che'Nelle Unveils Calm Before the Storm EPDecember 19, 2017
'My aim is to get them to start getting used to the different sounds that I'm bringing to Japan and rest of Asia. The way I see it, somebody's gotta start doing it, and why not me?
BWW Interview: Jeff Russo and the Music of STAR TREK: DISCOVERYDecember 13, 2017
'The original idea for the show has this common thread in the universe that everybody is connected--how do you experience that with music?'
BWW Exclusive: Reading Blues Festival Kicks Off Fall TraditionOctober 15, 2017
'To understand where you're going, you gotta know where you've been.' -- Slam Allen
BWW Interview: Dave Koz Celebrate 20 Years of Christmas Tours with New CDOctober 5, 2017
'...there was something about the saxophone that really connected with me. It became my sort of best friend and trusted ally, still to this day, it's right there for me all the time.'
Michele D'amour and the Love Dealers Arise from Lost Nights at the Leopard LoungeAugust 23, 2017
'I don't see any other genre that does not progress. Jazz progresses, hip-hop progresses, rock progresses, why shouldn't blues as well...?'
BWW Interview: Sharon Lewis Carries On With the BluesJuly 2, 2017
'You know who you sound like?' I say, 'No, but you're gonna tell me.' She says, 'Yeah, you're like Janis Joplin and Tina Turner all rolled in to one!
BWW Interview: Guy Davis Forges Path Through Music, Theater & BeyondJune 5, 2017
'I think entertaining is what I do, that is what my spirit is called to do, and the blues is kind of like my salvation. It was a form of music that I felt like it was in me. It is in me to communicate.'
BWW Review: Spring Gulch Folk Festival Celebrates 31st Season!May 24, 2017
'Smoke from campfires, incense, tobacco and fried foods, along with farm-filtered air set us up for a series of performers that brought voices, songs and what someone once referred to as 'high profile' musicianship.'
BWW Interview: Gigi Rich Breaks Out with Same Kind of CrazyApril 28, 2017
'I can go a lot of different directions from here...at the end of the day it's my life.
VanGo! Hits the Road with ARTECH ExhibitFebruary 27, 2017
'When you get new technology and it falls into creative hands, something entirely new happens."
Lily Virginia Presents 'Play Me Twice' at World Cafe, PhiladelphiaNovember 28, 2016
Songs that are bluish purple with silver gold shimmers.
BWW Review: Ruthie Foster Comes to the Abbey BarOctober 20, 2016
Expect a "hallelujah time," she told me, for those who'd never seen her, and she would be right...
BWW Review: Joan Baez & Mary Chapin Carpenter Shine at the Academy of MusicOctober 11, 2016
An October Sunday evening found a friend plus two newfound ones in the first balcony of Philadelphia's Academy of Music for a celebration of not only Joan Baez's 75 years of life, but also the music, and an enduring symbol that bridges generations...'
The Pennsylvania Blues Festival Marks its 25th Anniversary in Style!September 23, 2016
The blues will always be alive, the blues doesn't need our help.' -- Bill Wax, host of 'Roots and Fruits,' WPFW Radio, Washington, DC
BWW Interview: Joanna Connor Returns with 'Six String Stories'September 10, 2016
'It was pretty hardcore, you sink or swim; I went into the deep end of the pool, but I was determined and I was just thrilled to be jamming with these guys. Meeting Otis Rush; playing with Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Junior Wells. I can't believe I'm actually doing all this! I was 22, 23 years old.'
Pennsylvania Blues Festival Celebrates 25 Years in the Poconos, 9/16-18September 10, 2016
'I just tell people to keep an open mind and it's a great environment and it's definitely something for everybody in all ages.'
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