• The Long Beach Blues Festival, in Long Beach, California, United States, was established fully in 1980, and was one of the largest blues festivals and...
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    JazzReggae Festival @ UCLA, Los Angeles Long Beach Blues Festival, Long Beach Mendocino Music Festival, Mendocino Ohana Music Festival, Doheny State Beach, Dana...
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    personality and host of the radio show Nothin’ But The Blues on radio station KKJZ 88.1 in Long Beach, California. The show is broadcast every Saturday from...
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    Long Beach also hosts the Grand Prix of Long Beach, an IndyCar race and the Long Beach Pride Festival and Parade. California State University, Long Beach...
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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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    City, and Long Beach. On June 21, 2001, Hooker died in his sleep at home in Los Altos. Among his many awards, Hooker was inducted into the Blues Hall of...
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  • "Cross Road Blues" (commonly known as "Crossroads") is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He performed it solo with his vocal...
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    Fillmore, Epic and Capricorn labels. Bishop appeared at the 1984 Long Beach Blues Festival. In 1988, he signed with Alligator Records and released Big Fun...
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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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    Folk Blues (Chess, 1947-64 [1966]) List of Chicago blues musicians List of guitarists by genre Long Beach Blues Festival San Francisco Blues Festival Haring...
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    of Blues and Buddy Guy's Legends, the San Francisco Blues Festival in 2005, Fire on the Mountain Blues Festival in 2005, 2006, and 2007, and the Long Beach...
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    Kenny Neal (category Blues musicians from New Orleans)
    "Best Traditional Blues Album" List of blues musicians Long Beach Blues Festival San Francisco Blues Festival Bill Dahl (1957-10-14). "Kenny Neal | Biography...
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  • " List of folk musicians Long Beach Blues Festival San Francisco Blues Festival Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa...
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    Keb' Mo' (redirect from BluesAmericana)
    influenced by Johnson. Keb' was the runner-up for Best New Blues Artist at The Long Beach Blues Festival, where he was spotted by Steve LaVere, who owns the...
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  • Walker to release Lone Star Shootout. Hunter appeared at the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1996 and 2000. His last album was Looking for a Party (2009)...
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    Long Beach Blues Festival, along with Jeff Healey, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, the Staple Singers and Robert Cray's band, among others, in Long Beach,...
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    Homesick James (category Blues musicians from Tennessee)
    Homesick James (Big Bear) 1977: Goin' Back Home (32 Jazz) 1979: Chicago Blues Festival Vol. 1 (Black and Blue) 1980: Homesick James & Snooky Pryor: Sad and...
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    The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival, also sometimes known as Red Bank Riverfest, was a music festival that took place the first weekend in June each year...
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  • and Magic Mountain Music Festival. Star performers included the Doors, the Sons of Champlin, Moby Grape, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane...
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    Katie Webster (category American blues singers)
    released in 1989. She performed at both the San Francisco Blues Festival and Long Beach Blues Festival. No Foolin'! was released in 1991. Webster suffered a...
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    Popa Chubby (category American blues guitarists)
    Year award and as a result was chosen as the opening act at the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1992. Horowitz played more than 200 club dates a year through...
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    Billy Branch (category Harmonica blues musicians)
    major festivals around the world, including the Montreux Blues Festival, the North Sea Blues Festival, the Cognac Blues Festivals and Long Beach Blues Festival...
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    Carey Bell (category Chicago blues musicians)
    was an American blues musician who played harmonica in the Chicago blues style. Bell played harmonica and bass guitar for other blues musicians from the...
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    Pinetop Perkins (category American blues guitarists)
    1977) Blues Hall of Fame List of blues musicians List of boogie woogie musicians List of Chicago blues musicians Chicago Blues Festival Long Beach Blues Festival...
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    Ronnie Earl (category American blues guitarists)
    1982) 2001 Blues Guitar with Soul 2008 Hope Radio Sessions List of blues musicians San Francisco Blues Festival Long Beach Blues Festival Huey, Steve...
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    Chuck Berry (category American blues guitarists)
    performing with Johnnie Johnson's trio, starting a long-time collaboration with the pianist. The band played blues and ballads as well as country. Berry wrote...
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    Marcia Ball (category Louisiana blues musicians)
    Blues Festival – 1984 Austin Aqua Fest – 1986 Long Beach Blues Festival – 1996 Rhythm And Roots Festival (Charlestown, Rhode Island) – 2000, 2001, 2003...
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    Ike Turner (category American blues guitarists)
    Annual Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival. Turner credited Joe Louis Walker with encouraging him to return to his roots in blues music. Turner played...
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    Anson Funderburgh (category American blues guitarists)
    As well as the studio recordings, in 1990 the band played the Long Beach Blues Festival. The same year, they appeared on show number 109 of the NBC television...
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    Rory Block (category American blues singers)
    Belgium Rhythm 'n' Blues Festival - 1989 Long Beach Blues Festival - 1993 San Francisco Blues Festival - 1999 Notodden Blues Festival - 2006 Kemptville...
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