New Blues Festival

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So We Are Silent Disco
East Ocean Boulevard

Held at spectacular Shoreline Aquatic Park on the ocean in Long Beach, California! Labor Day weekend 2023, Sat Sept 2 - Monday Sept 4….with fireworks!

New Blues Festival offers new blues music and celebrates the traditional art form annually. Blues is a strong tradition in Long Beach…Southern California’s home of the Blues! What is the NEW BLUES?! New blues is a name given to blues music by artists such as The White Stripes, John Mayer Trio, Seasick Steve, NuBlues, Stephen Dale Petit, and The Black Keys, who are ushering the blues into the 21st

07/09/2024

Corrected time from 4-5:15 pm

07/04/2024

Proud. Joyous. Resolute 🇺🇸

07/04/2024

Bobby Rush Festival Veteran and three time Grammy Awards winner is our host tonight - here he is w Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center founder and Dean Bernie Pearl receiving the Legend of the Long Beach Blues Award!

06/30/2024

TODAY TODAY TODAY 12-7 FREE

06/25/2024

Bringing Sugaray Rayford back to Long Beach for the Bubba Jackson celebration of life concert on Sunday - Free - brought to you byKJAZZ 88.1 FM, the Long Beach Blues Society, “The Shell”, and backed by the Bill Grisolia Band‼️

06/24/2024

THIS Sunday

06/20/2024

Here’s the final blues concert flyer: what an honor to back this blues lineup - these are really very talented - world class musicians - backing this cavalcade of blues stars in Bubba’s honor! Viva the Shell - viva KJAZZ! Viva Dig Lewis, Albert Trepagnier Jr. & Lester Lands & the Bill Grisolia Band!

06/19/2024

Happy Juneteenth! Viva the Long Beach Blues Society and Blues for Vets!

06/18/2024

Stephanie Levine of KJAZZ 88.1 FM, Sylvie Barnett, Associate Producer, Hans Hellsund and Steve Pruitt of FORPBS (Friends of Recreation Park Band Shell) at a production meeting for the Concert celebrating the life of Bubba Jackson on Sunday, June 30 12-8. Long Beach Blues Society and New Blues Festival sponsoring ‼️

06/18/2024

SAVE the date: Sat July 27
Full Band!!

06/12/2024

NEXT Wednesday Juneteenth
Blues for Vets by Long Beach Blues Society
CLC is the Nursing Home on campus at the VA
Bill Grisolia Band

06/02/2024

THIS Friday
Bill Grisolia Band w Kirk Vickers

05/22/2024

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
Bill Grisolia Band w Lester Lands, Albert Trepagnier Jr. & Dig Lewis
Yaamava' Resort & Casino 11:30-3:30 Blues Brunch, Baby😎

04/27/2024

https://original.newsbreak.com/-shoppe-1881150/3417716831162-healing-through-blues-supporting-veterans-with-music

04/27/2024

Hope you can help - MO’s done two shows this year for Blues in the Schools!

04/19/2024

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT
w Lester Lands
Blues Guitarist of the Year 2023–2024
and special guest Noe Gold

04/18/2024

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT!

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04/17/2024

THIS Friday!
w Lester Lands, Blues Guitarist of the Year 2023-2024
Blues My way The Legacy
Between them, they have four "Living Legend Awards"
Jazzzone Jazzabration

04/16/2024

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THIS Thursday - NEW Reception Time 6pm with Director Denny Tedesco - there will be a limited number of autographed books available. Lee's wife had an accident so he'll be unable to join us. GREAT film at 7pm!

04/15/2024

Do you like Rock? Here’s a new award-winning documentary THIS Thursday
Meet Lee Sklar! Denny Tedesco!
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Benefits Long Beach Blues Society

04/12/2024

THIS THURSDAY!
One of the most important modern rock documentaries!
Helps benefit the Long Beach Blues Society
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04/12/2024

My long time buddy Phil Trani received the Philanthropic Pioneer Award from Sumer Temple of Temple Enterprises at the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce - pictured here with my buddies Trish Burke Manser and Bill Lovelace (thanks for the photo!). In the 1990’s he sponsored my Wish Upon a Song Concert series and had me play a residency on his baby grand! Salt!

04/11/2024

NEXT THURSDAY
Tickets https://arttheatre.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/CA2tKnv96IhZDecCnD8Y6A

04/06/2024

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT
Night 1 of 2 in April 6-9 pm
w Blues Guitarist of the Year, Lester Lands
Bill Grisolia, Blues Entertainer of the Year
Lester & Bill have 4 Blues Living Legend Awards

04/04/2024

SAVE the DATES: April 6 & April 19 Bill Grisolia Band w Lester Lands, “Blues Guitarist of the Year” 6-9pm
Yes, that’s 2X this month 😎
they love Lester 💙

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Preserve the Past, Promote the Future

Preserving the Past, Promoting the Future of the Blues is the mission of the “New Blues Festival” tour - the largest annual blues event in Los Angeles county. Tens of thousands of fans from Southern California and across the country have enjoyed new blues music and celebrated the traditional art form in this annual festival.

See also our sister organization, the nonprofit Long Beach Blues Society, a 501(c)3 noted for Blues in the Schools, Veterans and under-served community initiatives and programming.

What is the NEW BLUES?!

New blues is a name given to blues music by artists such as The Black Keys, The White Stripes, John Mayer Trio, Jonny Lang, Joe Bonamassa, Seasick Steve and Stephen Dale Petit who are ushering the blues into the 21st century.

Year after year a great mix of traditional and new blues acts - local, regional and international!

The new blues revolution refers to the time in the late aughts when the contemporised form of the deep blues caught the mainstream imagination, and the blues thereby gained a wider audience.

It is akin to the British blues boom of the mid-1960s pioneered by artists such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, and Phil May, who adapted and added creatively to traditional American Blues Music (e.g., Delta blues, Country blues, Chicago blues, and other blues genres originating in early 1900s America). The British blues boom made British blues popular both in the United Kingdom and in the United States during this time.

The new blues revolution is a predominantly United Kingdom-based phenomenon, although bands such as The Checks from New Zealand have also contributed to the movement. A Los Angeles-based band calls itself the New Blues Revolution in solidarity with this movement.

See also the New Blues Wikipedia article.