20-22 March 2026 – The Blues Timing – Florence (Italy)
1-3 May 2026 – Bagel & Blues – Montreal (Canada)
7-13 July 2026 – Good Time Blues Fest – Guglionesi (Italy)
9-11 October 2026 – Juke Joint Festival – Porto (Portugal)
3-6 December – Blues Fever – Vienna (Austria)
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Alan Lomax: the man who recorded the world… not always with the best practices.
CW: Race, racism and black culture representation. All the blues was born and developed following the slavery of black communities, and it was only almost three centuries later that it became possible to hear the voice of this human mass, uprooted from their land, frustrated in the most elementary expectations of life, desperate in an…
Great Depression, City Blues & St. Louis
The Great Depression of the 30s was devastating for America. It incorporated all the elements of a material, spiritual and moral disaster, impacting on the lives of millions of people. In only a few month , starting from 1929, the whole country had to face the biggest social disaggregation in its history, going from a…
CHICAGO AND THE CHESS RECORDS
In April 2018 I went to Chicago for the first time. I went there with my bag full of dreams and ready to experience the blues in one of the places where it had lived, developed… I wanted to breathe the blues. So in this post today I want to share a tiny bit of…
BLUES POETRY: STERLING A. BROWN AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Despite its humble origins and its often formulaic and repetitive nature, the blues has represented one of the most flourishing resources and one of the most important deposits for African American culture. Poets and writers have turned to it in search of powerful tools and symbols, shapes and figures suitable to describe a peculiar and…
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