No one is going to mistake San Francisco for Chicago, St. Louis or Clarksdale, Mississippi, but the Bay Area has a proud and legitimate blues scene and annually puts on a show that will wow blues fans ...

Mark Hummel didn’t set out to be an impresario. He had no burning ambition to corner the market on the world’s greatest blues harmonica players. But after getting a bracing shot of energy from ...

Mighty Fine Boogie (Ronnie Earl-- Guitar; Kim Wilson-- Harmonica; James Cotton-- Harmonica); Knocking At Your Door (John Primer-- Guitar, Vocals; Matthew Skoller ...

If you ask James Montgomery if he remembers playing the Shaboo inn in Willimantic back in the day — the legendary local club that closed in 1982 — he’ll hem and haw and scratch his head and say “The ...

Months after his aphasia diagnosis, Bruce Willis found good company in a harmonica and musician Derek Richard Thomas. On Monday, wife Emma Heming Willis shared an Instagram video of the "Die Hard" ...

Longtime East Bay blues harmonica performer Mark Hummel and his Blues Survivors will headline this Sunday’s Blues, Brews & BBQ festival in Washington Park on Alameda’s West End. Hummel says it’s the ...

The Washboard Chaz Blues Trio will likely play some soul-stirring blues with sounds as timeless as the city of New Orleans ...

Austin, Texas, September 24-- Gary Primich, considered by many to be one of the greatest harmonica players in the world, passed away suddenly on September 23rd. Not only is this the loss of a ...

You can be sure that folks on the historic downtown hotel’s patio were standing throughout the concert. Hummel expects the same when he and Funderburgh return for the 12th annual KXCI House Rockin’ ...

One of the Sarasota and Bradenton area's largest annual music festivals has announced the lineup for this year's event. The 12th annual Bradenton Blues Festival will return Dec. 1-2 to Riverwalk ...