"I think that as time goes on, it's harder and harder to survive playing live music (not just Blues) – People used to go out to dance to live music, and now people bring a DJ and recorded music for that, there are fewer and fewer venues and lower pay for performing musicians."

The Blues…

“This land is your land, this land is my land…This land was made for you and me” (Woody Guthrie)

BLUES IN GREECE FOR PEACE

Blues Hall of Fame, Athens…

"Hooker said, Blues is a Healer. It is a universal language. It is our life blood."

New Blues Revolution: US Soundtrack

New Blues Revolution is the brain child of singer Bill Grisolia from Spain…

"Music is always a sharing process. It’s a celebration!!! That’s why world music is so popular these days."

Budda Power Blues: Don't Stop The Boogie

Budda Power Blues are a Portuguese Power…

"Blues music has largely lost most of its traditional cultural roots that provided solace and inspiration and instilled tension and release, hope, joy and sadness in generation after generation. Their struggles and history are intertwined within the blues music."

Dusty Scott: The Blues of…

"It doesn’t matter your race, religion, nationality or socio-economic position when it comes to good music. We are all part of humanity and music is that universal language."



Barbara B. Newman:…

"I learned that the blues are a good vehicle to bring out passion and emotion from within."

Mike Pinera: Ride Rock n' Blues Ride

Mike Pinera was born in September 29, 1948 and started professionally in…

"The fans and the musicians of the blues are all such nice and friendly people that when you go to a blues event it’s like being among your brothers and sisters."

Steve Kolbus: Clarksdale Blues Revue…

"The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding." -- Willie Dixon

35th Blues Music Award Winners

The 35th…

"The blues makes you balance your life better as it offers you a soothing feeling of confronting life’s hardships."

Blues Cargo: Blame It All On The Blues

Blues Cargo is an electric Greek…

"It’s only when I play the blues, with the right musicians of course, that I find my real self."

Blues Revenge: Keep The Groove Alive

Playing blues for more than 20 years in Greece and managing to stay…

"Blues was revolutionary because it introduced something new, a language that combined the tragedies and the triumphs in one and that was developed by black slave descendants and offered to the world."

Josep Pedro: Blues Vibe With No Limits…

Keeping The Blues Alive Award 2014 

Blues Foundation announces 2014 Keeping The Blues Alive Award recipients! Congratulations to those individuals and organizations who will be recognized by the Blues Foundation for significant contributions to blues music. The KBA class of 2014:…

"Playing blues is like moving to another, better world in which I am free from troubles."

Blues Point: Right Blues, Right Point

Blues Point is an acoustic combination of blues,…

"The blues means a lot. It’s much more than music. It’s a philosophy a way of life, a way to handle challenges in life."

The Blues Overdrive: Danish Blues Roads 

The Blues Overdrive is regarded…

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"The jazz and blues culture speaks to the world through the American experience that created it. Our gift to the world. America’s on going poem to the universe."

Alexis Rhone Fancher: Poetic Rhythms…

"Music was all that was important before I began writing. Was what I did...and that was okay. This was years between beats and hippys...we were just college kids getting high and listening to jazz and blues and hillbilly stuff."

Jim McCrary:…

"The blues world sometime it’s a little too busy and sometimes there is a little misunderstanding about what is the blues and what isn’t the blues, so it’s no easy for young artist to find a place in it." 

Fabrizio Poggi: Dum Spiro Ludere Blues…

On Thursday, May 9, 2013 The Blues Foundation announced the winners of the 2013 Blues Music Awards at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee! 

The Blues Music Awards are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists, and close…