CHICAGO (AP) -- Blues harmonica player Carey Bell, who performed with both Muddy Waters' and Willie Dixon's bands, has died of heart failure. He was 70. Bell died Sunday at Kindred Hospital, according ...

The Center for the Arts is pleased to present Mark Hummel’s Harmonica Blowout in the Marisa Funk Theater on February 14, 2024. Mark Hummel’s Harmonica Blowout celebrates 31 years of touring in 2024.

The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. “I was 8, maybe 9 ...

The Santa Barbara Blues Society (SBBS) will present Mitch Kashmar in his first appearance for the SBBS in his hometown in six years, Saturday, May 31. The event is at Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E ...

BLUES harmonica player Mark Hummel is set to perform at Witham Public Hall. The Grammy-nominated musician, hailed as one of the premier blues harmonica players of his generation, will take to the ...

It's widely accepted that the blues are cool. Likewise, it's equally understood that jazz is cool. Which would make the merger of something like swing music and Chicago blues extremely cool. Center ...

KXCI (91.3-FM) has some classic blues in store for this year’s House Rockin’ Blues Review at El Casino Ballroom on Friday. Lester, 81, was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012 for his ...

As a young man, Jerry Portnoy certainly didn’t expect or plan to have a career as a blues harmonica player. He’d already been on a roulette wheel of life paths: failed college student, ...

SANTA CRUZ — Some strong winds will be blowing in Santa Cruz on Sunday. That won’t just be in the stormy weather the area is expected to receive but on the stage at Moe’s Alley where several ...

When the Mohawk Valley Blues Society brought legendary Hammond B3 player Bruce Katz in for one of their events, he made the following statement, apparently contrasting it to similar organizations: “I ...

During those early days of the pandemic when clubs, bars and concert venues shuttered and musicians pivoted to virtual performances on YouTube or Zoom from their living rooms, Tom Walbank checked a ...