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How Philly blues guitarist Randy Bowland taught Hollywood breakout star, Miles Caton, to play the slide guitar for the film ...
Unity Hall and the Mohawk Valley Blues Society invite the public to enjoy an afternoon of acoustic Delta Blues from 2-5 p.m.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s new work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Brooklyn Academy of Music moves between church ...
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo traded metal for blues-rock in a nod to the Allman Brothers Band in Atlanta.
Many musicians play guitars, but some have a special connection to their prized axe. So special, in fact, the guitars have names and are treated like family.
As the film began, we were dazzled by the costume and cultural drama of the Mississippi Delta in the Jim Crow era ... But the main musical backdrop is the Blues. It wouldn’t be fair to give ...
“Blues is the entry point to the movie for me ... “With this here ritual,” narrates Delta Slim, an elder bluesman who mentors Sammie, “We heal our people, and we be free.” ...
Like rock? Current country? Americana? Blues? "Weird Al" Yankovic? There's something for everybody in Greater Boston concerts ...
BARNEVELD — Unity Hall and the Mohawk Valley Blues Society (MVBS) will host an afternoon of acoustic Delta Blues from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, June 8, in Unity Hall’s Landecker Theater. ‘From The ...
Later in 1963, Long organized a festival, bringing in folk singers Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger and blues musicians. In the early 1970s, Ralph Rinzler, director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife ...
The story of a folk art form with roots in Africa and emergence in the Mississippi Delta, which became the essence of ...