The Juke Joint 05.26.2012
Sully | May 26, 2012 | Comments 13
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The 2nd Annual Blue Star Blues Festival
08.04.12
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The Blue Star Connection mission is to provide access and ownership of musical instruments for children and young adults with cancer and other serious life challenges. To date we have reached hundreds of kids and donated musical gear to sixteen Children’s Hospitals therapy programs as well as several other community programs. Please help us continue this mission.
The 2nd Annual Blue Star Blues Festival (coming up on Aug 4th, 2012 at beautiful Clement Park in Littleton, Colorado) has been chosen as a filming location for a new fall series called Randy Scott: Chasing the Dream.
MAV-TV will be on-location in Littleton, capturing Randy’s performance and some revelry surrounding the festival. Randy won the Guitar Center “King of the Blues” title in 2010. On December 8, 2011, Scott was signed by Steve Vai‘s label, Favored Nations. He is also been named “Best Upcoming Blues Artist 2012″ on Ameriblues.com.
The new series will air in the fall of 2012 on MavTV. Randy will be appearing with some of the biggest names in Blues and Rock during the series.
Please click here to read more about the amazing difference the folks involved are accomplishing.
Please click here and read about the very cool TV show that is filming at the festival!
Enjoy the videos below of the artists appearing at this years event:
Tomara Conrad & Trampled Under Foot
Please click here to read more about the amazing difference the folks involved are accomplishing.
Please click here and read about the very cool TV show that is filming at the festival!
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Gotta love Curtis!
With a couple of exceptions, pretty uninspiring performances and sub-par videos. I also cannot believe that not a single African-American headliner, vocalist and/or musician, was available to be booked for this affair. Can you enlighten me about this discrepancy?
Hi Pete, we didn’t book the festival but we support it. It is a worthwhile cause for years now and a real grassroots effort. You can contact the festival/foundation folks right here:
http://bluestarconnection.org/contact
you can email me at cattbox@grandblues.org and I can explain it simply. The kindness that Blues Revue showed our cause with all the work they put into this piece is beyond the call of duty. Sorry you miss the point of what we are all doing.
Curtis is the MAN !
Pete;
Maybe if your just puked you would feel better……
You are on the wrong website to be whining…..
I am French Canadian did you notice there was not a single Canuuk in the headliners?
Go rain on someone who cares
And Im a huge Shawn Kellerman fan.. and have done shows with him. I book shows all the time and over the past ten years and never once booked because of color or gender. Its ridiculous to think thats the right thing to do.
If one does not know the history of the blues,where the songs came from and what the words mean or what it feels like to live them..one cannot truly understand the blues. I don’t down any one for trying to keep the genre alive but Pete Sheridan said the words that so many don’t have the guts or the knowledge to speak.
Perhaps you should all look at the lineups from John Catts events of the past. You will see the likes of Zac Harmon, Ronnie Baker Brooks, and Delores Scott.
Anyone who thinks these shows are booked with prejudice in mind, neither know John, nor the blues community.
Besides the fact that you obviously miss the whole point!
Thanks Mark, its not the first time that someone sees color instead of truth. I hope that I quit before I ever ask an artist to play because they are a certain color. lr78
It doesn’t take “guts” to be a critic of what others do for the genre. It does take guts to deal with cancer as a family and as a child. Blue Star is trying to make a difference in that experience. Are there any “blues songs” about children with cancer? The “blues” was done by white and black Americans. To say anyone owns this music is ludicrous and short sighted. If it weren’t for people of all colors the blues would have died a long time ago. Just look at the audience and you can see who is taking the blues to the next generation. If you book music because of color then you are a racist, plain and simple.
Queenie, here at Blue Star Connection we have stayed with the blues because we have so many great friends in the genre, it would be a little easier perhaps if we branched out. I would hope blues fans would welcome a festival trying to make it with blues artist and help us along. We do feature young people and we don’t ask them to play blues, we ask them to help us and to play whats in their hearts.
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed…
BB KING
’nuff said – if BB King don’t mind…