Those familiar with the Piedmont blues may recognize some of the genre’s most prominent names: Blind Willie McTell, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, and the Reverend Blind Gary Davis. Harmonica master ...
The Piedmont Blues, a Dec. 10 concert at Strathmore by jazzman Gerald Clayton and The Assembly, combines jazz, traditional buck dancing and photography in an homage to the blues and the African ...
John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were modern ambassadors of a fingerpicking regional acoustic blues style developed mainly in ...
John Jackson, 77, one of the last masters of the so-called Piedmont style of blues singing and guitar picking, who was recognized in 1986 as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for ...
LAURENS, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The excitement is growing as the first-ever Piedmont Blues & Roots Music Festival is set to happen. Downtown Laurens will be on display for many to see. This event ...
Phil Wiggins, a blues harmonica virtuoso who embraced the jaunty Piedmont style and toured the world as part of a duo celebrating a distinctive musical form that was revived in clubs and impromptu ...
Harlem Stage will present six-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist, composer, and bandleader Gerald Clayton and his multidisciplinary project, Piedmont Blues: A Search for Salvation. Developed and directed ...
PIEDMONT — In 1908, the first of some 15 million Model T Fords was created, conjuring a chaotic demand for rubber which, at the time, could only be sourced from a tree that grew in Brazil’s Amazon ...
PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — Blues musician Willie Dixon once said, “The Blues are the roots, and other musics are the fruits. It’s better to keep the roots alive because it means better fruits from ...