SMASH helps local musicians stay healthy by providing access to free and low-cost medical, dental, and mental health services to working musicians plus provide support for navigating the complicated and frustrating healthcare system. smash@smashseattle.org Article [...]
Article by Kevin Cummings, with much appreciation to Dawnzella Gearhart for coordinating all the information. Photo credit to Samantha of Ohme Gardens The Spin-offs are a blues, funk and soul band that has a rock [...]
The off-Stage Performer Not actually unsung heroes at shows, the “sound man” at live music events usually gets a mention or sometimes even a big shout out. While you don’t often leave your home to [...]
Featured Image by Ilona Berzups Dan Hill photo STEVE BAILEY A multi award winning Harmonica player from Seattle with a long and successful career, whose grounding in the Blues came from sharing first hand experiences [...]
The Blues is a secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became, by the 1960s, one of the [...]
Interview by Mark Hurwitz Randy Oxford, trombonist and leader of the Randy Oxford Band, recently announced his retirement from all aspects of the music business. Randy has had a remarkable career, spanning four decades. [...]
'Blues on' poster, featuring Little Bill & the Blue Notes. Bill did the event every year, allong with the 'Gray Sky Music and Blues' festival every spring, both in Tacoma. by Little Bill Englehart Unless [...]
