LIL EASY BACKYARD PARTY
Lil Easy Backyard Party Sunday September 18, 2016
WEE WILLIE WALKER WINS!
2016 Living Blues Awards Wee Willie Walker wins Comeback of the Year and Best Blues / Southern Soul Album Awards! Critics’ Poll Blues Artist of the Year (Male) Buddy Guy Blues Artist of the Year (Female) Shemekia Copeland Most Outstanding Blues Singer Otis Clay Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar) Lurrie Bell Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica) Sugar [...]
AKI KUMAR PRI THE WORLD INTERVIEW
I wanted to be bigger than Bill Gates — but I fell in love with the blues Credit: Ola Carlvik This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview. DOWNLOAD HERE Aki Kumar moved to Silicon Valley at the age of 18. His goal, like many others, was to be a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: THE WONDER OF WANDERING
Aireene Espiritu Jim Pugh, the veteran keyboard player who toured the world with Etta James and Robert Cray and now roams the Central Valley and Bay Area byways looking for unknown musicians to savor and record, first heard the Filipino American singer Aireene Espiritu a few years ago at the Folk Alliance conclave [...]
VIDEO: MARIACHI MESTIZO AT CAPITOL STUDIOS, HOLLYWOOD, CA
Check out a video of Mariachi Mestizo recording at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA. En las noches de sábado, todo lo que necesitamos es el traje de charro para sentir cuan arraigadas están en nuestras venas los guacos de mi padre y las tonadas de mi abuela. El guitarrón y el arpa, la [...]
LVF/FREIGHT AND SALVAGE 6/19 1:00-3:00
2016 Release Artists in a benefit concert for Little Village Foundation at Freight & Salvage.
VIDEO: JOHN BLUES BOYD INTERVIEW
Check out this interview with John Blues Boyd!
VIDEO: AIREENE ESPIRITU “DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE”
Check out this video of Aireene Espiritu performing Down By The Riverside.