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WC Handy Festival Looking For New Designs WAAY Florence, AL - Planning for the upcoming 2012 WC Handy Music Festival is in full swing in the Shoals, but there is one key piece of the puzzle missing : The artwork. The festival organizers are putting out a call for all artists - professional and ...
BLUES BEAT: Joe Louis Walker to play Black-eyed Sally's Middletown Press In 2007, Benoit won the dual awards of BB King Entertainer of the Year and Best Contemporary Male Performer at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis (formerly the WC Handy Awards). In 2006, he received a Grammy® nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album ...
Alabama Shakes to be featured on 'Conan' Times Daily By Russ Corey It was just six months ago that The Alabama Shakes played a free show during the WC Handy Music Festival. Now, the Athens foursome is selling out venues across the country. On Tuesday, they will make their national television debut on ...
Chamber Music Northwest marks Reed College's centennial OregonLive.com "Musicologists usually point to Irving Berlin's 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' (1911), Jerome Kern's 'They Didn't Believe Me' and WC Handy's 'St Louis Blues' (both from 1914) as the most important songs from the period, but they are the tip of the iceberg.
For songwriter Karen Leipziger, the first time's a charm Nashville Scene Not only did "Winds of Change" become the lead track on Clearwater's 2000 Rounder/Bullseye Blues release Reservation Blues, it got nominated for a WC Handy Award for Song of the Year. (The awards, presented by the Blues Foundation, are now known as the ...
Johnny Cash's 80th Birthday Celebration Begins With BOOTLEG VOL. IV : THE SOUL ... Sacramento Bee The Johnny Cash Bootleg Series has been developed by Grammy Award®-nominated producer Gregg Geller, and Grammy® and WC Handy multi-award winning musician/producer Steve Berkowitz. The House Of Cash archive in Hendersonville, Tennessee bore first fruit ...
The Sound That Left Stax Speechless WKNO FM As a young man, WC Handy found music in the wordless sounds of the tapping of shovels, as his co-workers wove complicated rhythms to pass the time on the shovel brigade at a Florence, Alabama iron furnace. His musical genius allowed him to distill the ...
Nutt: Promote local music, artists Times Daily “The MSMA did sponsor Mac McAnally when he headlined the (WC Handy) festival,” Nutt said. “We will absolutely continue to work with the Handy festival.” Joining Nutt, Cooper and Hood on the board are Hall, Marriott Shoals Manager Larry Bowser, ...
Many shades of the blues TheChronicleHerald.ca Despite earning two WC Handy Blues Awards nominations, Got It Goin' On marked the end of Armstrong's days with HighTone, and the beginning of a songwriting drought that lasted several years, until the title track of Blues at the Border kick-started the ...
A homegrown voice for AG Gaston Boys and Girls Club al.com (blog) His mother was a singer and pianist, and his grandfather, Oscar Adams Sr., had been a trombonist for WC Handy's Alabama A&M University orchestra. Adams Jr. took up the clarinet and studied the instrument at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and then at ...
