Portraits Of The Portland Jazz Festival

The Art Bar in Antoinette Hatfield Hall Hosts Portraits Of The Portland Jazz Festival

Coinciding with the 2019 Portland Jazz Festival, Portraits Of The Portland Jazz Festival, portrait paintings and drawings by Portland artist Diane Russell, will be on display February 1–28 at the Art Bar in Antoinette Hatfield Hall. The solo…
Dexter Allen - Live From Ground Zero Blues Club

Dexter Allen

Live From Ground Zero Blues Club At The Crossroads, Clarksdale, Ms Pass the Pick Productions Mississippi native Dexter Allen’s new album Live From the Ground Zero Blues Club is a suburb live recording that highlights Allen’s combustable…
Arrogant Bastards

Arrogant Bastards – Blues, Funk and Rock -n- Roll

The Arrogant Bastards, a Muddy award finalist for best new band, is a five-man outfit playing straight ahead blues-infused rock, or is it rock-imbued blues, or maybe just funky blues-rock — really it doesn’t matter much though, since this…
Bitten By The Blues

Bitten By The Blues – The Alligator Records Story

The history of Chicago-based Alligator Records is not just the story of the most successful blues label of all time, it is also the story of modern blues itself. Alligator was the brainchild of Bruce Iglauer — the person whom Alligator revolves…
The Soul Of Africa - Bassekou Kouyate

The Soul Of Africa – Habib Koité & Bassekou Kouyate to Play Revolution Hall

Two of Africa’s most famed musicians, Habib Koité and Bassekou Kouyate, are touring together to showcase how the roots of American music and the blues derive from the sounds of Mali and West Africa. Malian guitarist Habib Koité is one of…
Robert Cray To Play the Elsinore Theater

Robert Cray Band To Play Salem’s Elsinore Theater

Robert Cray has been bridging the lines between blues, soul, and R&B for four decades, and over that time has accumulated five Grammy wins, a Blues Hall of Fame induction, an Americana Lifetime achievement award, while embarking on countless…
Celebration of Joni Mitchell

The Blue Diamond Schedules Celebration of Joni Mitchell

Join guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Kathryn Grimm for her, Celebration of Joni Mitchell, as she recreates the music of Joni Mitchell. Hailed as one of the greatest performers of the past fifty years, Mitchell has created an amazing legacy…
Kim Field and The Perfect Gentlemen

Kim Field & The Perfect Gentlemen Schedule Debut Performance for Blue Diamond

It isn’t every day that a new band takes the stage for the first time and gets noticed right off the bat, but it also isn’t every day that a band like Kim Field and The Perfect Gentlemen comes around. The band is a new, Portland-based all-star,…
Blackberry Smoke

Blackberry Smoke Headed to Revolution Hall

Pigeonholing Blackberry Smoke has never been easy. Since emerging from Atlanta in the early ‘00s, the quintet — vocalist/lead guitarist Charlie Starr, guitarist/vocalist Paul Jackson, bassist/vocalist Richard Turner, drummer Brit Turner…
Doug MacLeod

Who Is Blues Volume 1 – Doug MacLeod

The first volume of the Who Is Blues series presented by blues writer and biographer Vincent Abbate takes on the life of story-telling troubadour Doug MacLeod. Written in a compact fashion and easily read within a sitting or two, there is still…