as the W. C. Handy Award until the name change in 2006. W. C. Handy Music Festival is held annually in Florence, Alabama. Another W.C. Handy Music Festival...

The W. C. Handy Theatre was a movie theater at 2355 Park Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. The venue was built for the African-American community during segregation...

The Blues Music Awards, formerly known as the W. C. Handy Awards (or "The Handys"), are awards presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization...

 11–14. Kubik 1999, p. 96. Palmer (1981: 46). Handy, Father (1941), p. 99. Schuller 1968, 66, 145n. W. C. Handy, Father of the Blues: An Autobiography, edited...

Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy is a 1954 studio release by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, described by Allmusic as "Louis Armstrong's finest record...

W. C. Handy Music Festival is held annually in Florence, Alabama, sponsored by the Music Preservation Society, Inc., in honor of Florence native W. C...

1985. Vaughan has won 6 Grammy Awards, 10 Austin Music Awards, and 5 W. C. Handy Awards, being nominated for "Best Contemporary Blues Male Artist," as...

The W. C. Handy Jazz All-Stars (also known as the W. C. Handy Festival All-Stars) is a group of jazz musicians who play annually at the W. C. Handy Music...

The W. C. Handy Jazz Camp is sponsored jointly by the W. C. Handy Music Festival and the University of North Alabama (UNA), and is held annually in Florence...

Blues" (or "St. Louis Blues") is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It was one of the...

Billy Smythe, Scott Middleton, and Art Gillham. Another was published by W.C. Handy as "Hesitating Blues". Because the tune is traditional, many artists have...

Blues" is a song described by its composer, W. C. Handy, as a "southern rag". It was self-published by Handy in September 1912 and has been recorded by...

recommended a trumpet player in Clarksdale, Mississippi named W. C. Handy. Mayor Thornton contacted Handy, and Memphis became the home of the musician who created...

St. Louis Blues is a 1958 American film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy. It stars jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway...

comedian Handy Awards, named after W. C. Handy, which were renamed the Blues Music Awards in 2006. Handy Smurf, a character from The Smurfs Handy (Happy...

Lee Lewis, Muddy Waters, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Robert Johnson, W. C. Handy, Bobby Whitlock, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones...

(1914), composed by W. C. Handy in 1912 and recorded by the Victor Military Band in 1914, the first known commercial recording of Handy's first commercially...

Mississippi a few years before." Some sources attribute the modern score to W. C. Handy, who later modified it into a song known as "Atlanta Blues". He published...

was passed down through oral tradition. It was first written down by W. C. Handy, an African American composer and band leader. Its popularity led to...

larger than Florence, South Carolina. Annual tourism events include the W. C. Handy Music Festival in the summer and the Renaissance Faire in the fall. Landmarks...

"Beale Street Blues" is a song by American composer and lyricist W.C. Handy. It was named after Beale Street, a center of African-American music in Memphis...

the Blues". W. C. Handy was born in Florence and is generally regarded as the "Father of the Blues". Every year since 1982, the W. C. Handy Music Festival...

Daniel Richard Gottlieb (born April 18, 1953) is an American drummer. He was a founding member of the Pat Metheny Group and was co-founder of Elements...

others, and had a career as a solo artist. He was nominated for the W. C. Handy Award for Best New Blues Artist in 1997. Weathersby was born in Jackson...

retrieved 2009-06-15, c. easy rider (U.S. slang): (a) a sexually satisfying lover (see also quot. 1926); (b) a guitar. 1912–13 W. C. HANDY Memphis Blues, Mr...

albums for Alligator, Rooster Blues and Wolf Records and won his first W. C. Handy Award. In 1980 he recorded a cover version of "Mustang Sally". In 1983...

Newton's white supporters stating "Honkies for Huey". "Father of the Blues" W. C. Handy wrote of "Negroes and hunkies" in his autobiography. In the 2012 rap...

James Mundell Lowe (April 21, 1922 – December 2, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist who worked often in radio, television, and film, and as a session...

in Oxford Square, Los Angeles. In 1916, Still worked in Memphis for W.C. Handy's band. He then joined the United States Navy to serve in World War I in...

Johnny O'Neal (born October 10, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American neo-bop jazz pianist and vocalist. His playing ranges from the technically virtuosic...