Category Archives: Blues
Question by birdmadgirl: music festivals in UK, from now – early next year?
so, i’m disappointed i’m going to the uk on the opposite end of the year to the glastonbury… but, are there any other festivals i can catch while i’m there? i’m arriving next week and will stay until feb/march. mostly i mean a typical camping rock festival, but i’m into all sorts of stuff, so suggestions for dance music, or blues, or whatever, or day festivals, anything would be appreciated 
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Answer by pacman
go to this website its got the listings for festivals in the UK. www.efestivals.co.uk, i wouldn’t go to Glastonbury its 2 muddy next time u come to the UK go to the isle of wight festival best in the country by far
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Moody Blues Clock
Image by DML East Branch
Today’s Music Series craft was album cover clocks. Several teens showed up and made their own clock, using old donated record album covers.
Starlite Music Theatre
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You can view another photographer’s take on the place here.
You can learn more about the history of the Starlite Music Theatre from this Times Union article.
FULL LESSON, TAB, JAM TRACKS: su.pr There used to be a blues club on the upper East side of Manhattan called “Manny’s Carwash,” which the New Yorker magazine routinely dismissed as “an adman’s idea of a nightclub.” And there was a kind of manufactured vibe to the place, as a friend of mine once theorized over a round of tall and frosty ones: “It’s like some guy woke up one day and said, ‘Yeah, I know, I’ll start a club! In Manhattan! That’s it! And we’ll have, you know, those neon Bud signs in the window! Yeah! And a brick wall behind the bar! And, live bands, that play – what’s that funky music they always have bands playing in the movies? Blues! That’s it! We’ll get some of those funky blues bands to come play!” To be fair, they did have their share of good bands, although it seemed at times that their audience was cut from the same cloth as the club’s hypothetical, brick-addled owner. I found myself standing one night behind a particularly inebriated dude who kept bellowing for the band to play “Stormy Monday,” then turning to his girlfriend to grandly explain, “It’s an Allman Brothers song.” Which would have been ok, because the Allmans did do a pretty damn definitive version of the song on the pretty damn definitive At Fillmore East. Would have been ok, except that *on* the Fillmore East record Duane Allman *introduces* the song by saying “Actually, it’s an old T-Bone Walker song.” So – I mean, come on. The thing is, though, that if you go dig up the original T-Bone …
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Bela Fleck and The Flecktones with special guest Casey Driessen on the fiddle playing “Big Country” at the Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Music Festival at The Congress Theater on 12/12/09
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Rhythm
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Blue King Brown
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Blue King Brown Biography
The two founding and songwriting members of the band, Carlo Santone and Natalie Pa’apa’a, commenced playing and songwriting on guitar, jamming with residents and itinerants alike in their original base of Byron Bay. They originally performed as a percussion duo and also with a band called Skin, which became the beginnings of Blue King Brown.
This beats driven collaboration formed many connections within the Australian roots scene and they were invited to sit in as percussionists with The John Butler Trio at many of their shows, along with many other guest performances with a number of local and international touring artists over the years.
After moving to Melbourne in 2004 to concentrate on the new collective of Blue King Brown, they recruited Salvador Persico for the band’s percussionist, adding a Latin influence to the Blue King Brown sound. Sam Cope is the bands keyboardist and Peter Wilkins plays the drum kit. Hailey Cramer, Ngaiire and Jess Harlen were added as backing vocalists.
Success came quickly for the newly formed Blue King Brown. Their debut single, "Water", released on their debut self-titled EP, was quickly added to high rotation on Triple J, as well as earning them an AIR Chart award in 2006.
Blue King Brown backed up their first EP release with a debut album entitled ‘Stand Up, independently released in October 2006 through their own label, Roots Level Records and in Japan through Village Again/Sideout. The album was nominated for the 2006 J Award[1]and their song "Come and Check Your Head" was #100 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2006[2], as voted by the listening public.
•Natalie Pa’apa’a – vocals, guitar
•Carlo Santone – bass
•Salvador Persico – percussion
•Pete Wilkins – drums
•Sam Cope – keyboards
•Emily G – trombone
•Nadee – backing vocals
•Jess Harlen – backing vocals
•Linden Pomare – flute, tamborine, electric harp
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•Blue King Brown (EP, Roots Level Records, 12 September 2005)
•Stand Up (LP, Roots Level Records, 14 October 2006)
•"Moment of Truth"
•"Water"
•"Come Check Your Head (download single, Roots Level Records)
•"Stand Up" (Roots Level Records, 3 March 2007
