Ramblings On My Mind-March 2021

Ramblings on My Mind – October 2017

Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association President We are certainly going through some trying times around this country the past month with devastating hurricanes ravaging Texas, Florida, and surrounding areas, and the West Coast going up in…
What’s on Tap for October’s General Membership Meeting

What’s on Tap for October’s General Membership Meeting …

Catfish Lou’s, 2460 NW 24th Avenue, Portland Wednesday, October 4, 7:00 pm Members Always Free – Non-Members $5.00 (Members please show your current cards at the door) Opening Acoustic Set – Julie Amici Second Electric Set – Thunder…
Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival
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Blue Vancouver: Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival

By Jeff LeVine Every year for the last 20 years, Bravo! Northwest has hosted the Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival as a benefit to support its concert ensembles and concert series. True to the vision of the organizers, this is a world class cultural…
Rae Gordon Band

Rae Gordon Band

Better Than I Was Self Produced With the band’s success at the International Blues Challenge, where Rae Gordon & The Backseat Drivers captured third place overall, the focus of the moment was to come back home and put together a new recording…
2021 Best Self-Produced CD Competition
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Last Chance to Submit Discs for Best Self-Produced CD Competition

If you’re planning on submitting your original, self-produced CD release for consideration to represent the Cascade Blues Association in The Blues Foundation’s Best Self-Produced CD Competition, you must have your copy delivered to us no…
Ramblings On My Mind-March 2021

Ramblings On My Mind – September 2017

Greg Johnson / CBA President Goodbye Melody Ballroom and thank you. Well, we knew that the day was probably going to come eventually, and it did for us in late July, just a couple weeks prior to our August meeting. We met with the manager of…
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats

Rick Estrin & The Nightcats

Groovin’ In Greaseland Alligator Records Anybody who has listened to Rick Estrin over the past few decades already knows that this man is perhaps the most witty songwriter in the blues. He has a gifted craft for spinning words that are humorous…
Chicago Slickers

Chicago Slickers – Various Artists

Chicago Slickers Nighthawk Records 102 “Once I had a woman, who treat me nice and kind. But these Chicago slickers make my baby change her mind.” — Guitar Pete Franklin The charm of many blues anthologies lies in the fact that not only…
George Thorogood

Spirit Mountain Presents George Thorogood and The Destroyers Rock Party Tour

Legendary rock band George Thorogood And The Destroyers has stormed the rock & roll charts for more than 40 years, and now the group is putting their talents to work by helping The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) find cures and ensure…
Norman Sylvester - A Phenomenal Concert

The Uptown Dance Party: BB King & Boogie Cat Birthday Celebration

Join us for an evening of up-tempo, funky grooves with your dancing shoes while we celebrate the birthday of “The Boogie Cat” Norman Sylvester who shares the date with the late, great BB King, on Saturday, September 16. If you ever have…