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William Bell Nominated by the NEA
We are very excited and honored to announce that William Bell, our 2015 Honorary Lifetime Membership Recipient, has been selected as a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts...
Happy Birthday to WRFG!
Happy Birthday WRFG!WRFG 89.3FM: A Community Resource Marks 47 Years On Air! For almost five decades, WRFG has proudly been "listener-sponsored and supported" because the...
The Blues Foundation Statement
“This moment of grief can also be a moment of purpose.”– Brittany Packnett Cunningham The Blues is an African American art form, originally created as an artistic expression and...
2020 Independent Blues Awards
The 2020 Independent Blues Awards nominations are now in and ready for you to vote on. We do things a bit different than other awards in that we give you the opportunity to...
GABBAfest 2020 Postponed
The year 2020 has sure been a strange one, wouldn’t we all agree? Who would’ve thought that the world would be threatened by a pandemic which has affected so many lives, and our...
COVID-19 Blues Musician Relief
"Your support of the COVID-19 Blues Musician Emergency Relief Fund will help us provide direct support to blues musicians whose livelihoods have been impacted by the...
Blues Hall of Fame 2020 Inductees
The following have been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame for 2020: BETTYE LAVETTE, SYL JOHNSON, VICTORIA SPIVEY, EDDIE BOYD,GEORGE “HARMONICA” SMITH, BILLY...
The 2020 Blues Music Awards
Hope you all were able to watch the livestream of the 2020 Blues Music Awards. It was an excellent production and went off without a hitch, you should be able to still view it on...
Cathead offers Hand Sanitizer
At Cathead, we've made a lot of changes over the past month; we've been humbled by the opportunity to support our first responders, essential businesses, restaurant colleagues,...
Jontavious Willis Interview
By Mark Thompson Over the last four decades, there have been numerous alarms sounded in the blues community expressing grave concerns about the lack of young artists playing the...
Healing Properties of the Blues
A new book by Sandra Jean Foster (aka Sana Blues)The timeless nature of the exercises in this workbook allows them to be used endlessly for self-improvement, for practice with...
Rock n Blues Camp News
UPDATED MAY 20:We are very sorry to announce that the 2020 summer sessions have been cancelled. There were just too many rules set out for our age group to afford our campers the...
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