The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe as an annual event for several years beginning in 1962. It introduced audiences...
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The Newport Folk Festival is an annual American folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the Newport...
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Blues festivals are music festivals which focus on blues music. Blues is a genre and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the...
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American folk music that had in earlier times contributed to the development of country and western, blues, jazz, and rock and roll music. The folk revival...
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success of the American Folk Blues Festival tours, organised by German promoters Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau. The rise of electric blues, and its eventual...
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The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event held in June, that features three days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and...
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Son House (redirect from Delta Blues And Spirituals)
audiences in coffeehouses, at folk festivals and on concert tours during the American folk music revival, billed as a "folk blues" singer. He recorded several...
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Sonny Boy Williamson II (category American blues harmonica players)
with the American Folk Blues Festival and recorded with English rock musicians, including the Yardbirds and Animals. "Help Me" became a blues standard...
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The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a folk music festival held annually at Old Pool Farm in Upper Salford, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. The...
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supporting tour through Europe, the second American Folk Blues Festival, began one month after the recording of Folk Singer. The first gig out of seventeen...
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Matt "Guitar" Murphy (redirect from Matt Murphy (blues guitarist))
Murphy's playing. He gave a memorable performance in 1963 on the American Folk Blues Festival tour of Europe with his "Matt's Guitar Boogie". In the 1970s...
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is a large variety of music at the festival, including bluegrass, Celtic, blues, roots, indie folk, Americana, folk rock, French Canadian, contemporary...
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Mississippi Fred McDowell (category American blues guitarists)
1971 album Sticky Fingers. In 1965, he toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival, together with Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy...
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the inaugural festival. There was no festival in 2020. United States portal Blues portal List of blues festivals List of folk festivals Russell, Tony...
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jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music.[not verified in body] The music is considered American either because it is native...
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Little Red Rooster (category Blues songs)
Dixon and Howlin' Wolf toured the UK with the American Folk Blues Festival and helped popularize Chicago blues with local rock musicians overseas. The Rolling...
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– Comedy festival – Esala Perahera festival – Film festival – Fire festival (Beltane) – Fire festival (the Japanese festival) – Folk festival – celebrates...
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time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music. The music is considered American either because it is native to the United...
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Portland Sisters Folk Festival, Sisters Big Dubbs Festival, Artemas Blast Furnace Blues Festival, Bethlehem Briggs Farm Blues Festival, Briggsville, Luzerne...
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November WARM Festival, June American Folk Blues Festival Baščaršija Nights, July Five Days of Zagreb in Sarajevo, June Ilidža Folk Music Festival, July Ilidža...
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John Lee Hooker (redirect from John Lee Hooker Sings the Blues)
gained greater exposure when he toured Europe in the annual American Folk Blues Festival. His "Dimples" became a successful single on the UK Singles Charts...
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T-Bone Walker (category American blues singer-songwriters)
had slowed down, in spite of an energetic performance at the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962 with the pianist Memphis Slim and the prolific writer...
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The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival and dance festival held at Dodds Farm in Hillsdale, New York.[citation...
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rhythm and blues was reflected in the growing numbers of Afro-American artists visiting the country. From 1962 the American Folk Blues Festival, organised...
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Chris Smither (category American blues singers)
November 11, 1944) is an American folk/blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His music draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, and modern poets...
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Folk festivals are an important part of American community life. For the American people, popular folk festivals are important events composed of complex...
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Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. They come from different eras and include...
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local news programme People and Places. 21 October – The first American Folk Blues Festival European tour plays its only UK date at the Free Trade Hall,...
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Muddy Waters (category American blues guitarists)
organized as the American Folk Blues Festival, during which he also performed more acoustic-oriented numbers. In 1967, he re-recorded several blues standards...
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Rau organized the first annual American Folk Blues Festival in 1962. They arranged for several well-known American blues artists to perform in concert...
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