Blues Musicians - Want Your Gigs Listed On This Calendar?

Dallas/Ft Worth/N Texas Blues Musicians - Want to see your weekly gigs listed on this calendar and have them read live on the air on KNON's BIG TEXAS BLUES program?

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Please include the following:
Your name * Band Name (if Applicable) * If it is full band gig, solo or duo * Name of Venue * City Venue is located in * Time your show starts and ends

Remember - this is a BLUES calendar posted on a BLUES blog and read on a BLUES radio show, so please only include BLUES gigs. Also, only include shows within the Dallas/Ft Worth/N Texas area.

Thursday, March 12, 2020

DALLAS / FT WORTH / N TEXAS LIVE BLUES 3/10/20 THRU 3/16/20

We continue to celebrate 2020 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH tonight on BIG TEXAS BLUES. In celebration, we will be playing all Blueswomen all month. Be sure to tune in next Tuesday when my special guest in the studio will be Blueswoman Shero Miss Marcy sharing the herstory of Bessie Smith.


Tuesday, March 10
Junior Clark (Solo) – Balcony Club – Dallas (6:30p)
Jason Elmore (Solo) – Balcony Club - Dallas (9:30p)
Trinity River Blues Society presents Gregg A Smith - House of Blues – Dallas (6p-9p)
Dubber’s Jam – A Step Up – Dallas
Aaron Burton’s Delta Blues Jam w/Christian Dozzler - The Goat –Dallas (10p-2p)
Mouse Mays (solo) – Hard 8 BBQ – Coppell (7p-9p)
Mark Sena & Jackie Don Loe – Petra – McKinney (6:30p-9p)
Brent Rozell Jam – The Spot – Arlington (7:30p-11p)

Wednesday, March 11
Blues Jam w/Hash Brown – The Cottage – Dallas (8p-12a)
Michael J Dahoney & the Westsiders – Eddie V’s – Ft Worth (6:30p-10:30p)

HThursday, March 12
Pete Barbeck Jam - The Goat – Dallas (10p-2a)
Aaron Burton – Shady’s Bugers – Dallas (7p)
Mike Morgan & the Crawl – Tavern on Main – Richardson (8p-12a)
B’nois King – Nate’s Seafood – Addison (7p-11p)
Playtown Jam w/Johnny Red – Keys Lounge – Ft Worth (9:30p-1:30a)

Friday, March 13
Bobby Patterson Birthday Party, Cookie McGee opens – Poor David’s Pub – Dallas (7p)
Roscoe Turner – Bucky Moonshine’s – Deep Ellum, Dallas (8p-11p)
Holland K Smith – Balcony Club – Dallas (9:30p-1:30a)
Aaron Burton – Cigar Art – Bishop Arts, Oak Cliff (8p-12a)
    
Saturday, March 14
Larry Lampkin – Bucky Moonshine’s – Deep Ellum, Dallas (8p-11p)
Rob Hunt – The Goat – Dallas (10p-2a)
Aaron Burton – Discovery District – Dallas (5p)
Jackie Don Loe & CT Davis – Milo Butterfingers – Dallas (1p-6p)
Jason Cloud (solo) – Whitehall Exchange – Bishop Arts, Oak Cliff (2p-5p)
Reo Casey – Taverna Rossa – Southlake (9:30p-1:30a)
Texas Flood – Keys Lounge – Ft Worth (9p-1a)

Sunday, March 15
Jackie Don Loe Blues Happening Jam – Nate’s Seafood – Addison (7p – 11p)

Monday, March 16
Michael J Dahoney & The Westsiders – Eddie V’s – Dallas

Monday, March 02, 2020

DALLAS / FT WORTH / N TEXAS LIVE BLUES 3/320 THRU 3/9/20

MARCH IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH!

In celebration of 2020 International Women's History Month BIG TEXAS BLUES will feature the music and herstories of Blues Women for the month of March. (Including Miss Marcy live in the KNON studios schooling you on the herstory of her shero Bessie Smith on Tuesday, March 17th in the 7pm hour.)


Some history about the blues: Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues. Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded. Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith (who recorded and released the first Blues record), Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and the other singers in this genre were instrumental in spreading the popularity of the blues. 


The classic female blues singers were pioneers in the record industry, among the first black singers and blues artists recorded. They were also instrumental in popularizing the 12-bar blues throughout the United States. Mahalia Jackson and Janis Joplin are among those who named Bessie Smith as an influence. According to LeRoi Jones, phonograph recordings of the classic blues singers "affected the existing folk tradition and created another kind of tradition that was unlike any other in the past".
 
Daphne Duval Harrison wrote that the blues women's contributions included "increased improvisation on melodic lines, unusual phrasing which altered the emphasis and impact of the lyrics, and vocal dramatics using shouts, groans, moans, and wails. The blues women thus effected changes in other types of popular singing that had spin-offs in jazz, Broadway musicals, torch songs of the 1930s and 1940s, gospel, rhythm and blues, and eventually rock and roll."


Learn more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_female_blues

Think there were only a few Classic Blues Women? Check out this list:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classic_female_blues_singers

For more information on Classic and Contemporary Blues Women, check out The National Women In Blues web site at:
https://www.nationalwomeninblues.com/history/

Why do we celebrate Women's History Month? 
The purpose of Women's History Month is to increase consciousness and knowledge of women's history: to take one month of the year to remember the contributions of notable and ordinary women, in hopes that the day will soon come when it's impossible to teach or learn history without remembering these contributions.

Why We Celebrate Women's History Month In March - ThoughtCo


The 2020 Women's History Month theme is “Valiant Women of the Vote.” The theme honors "the brave women who fought to win suffrage rights for women, and for the women who continue to fight for the voting rights of others."


 https://womenshistorymonth.gov/ 



Tuesday, March 3
Junior Clark (Solo) – Balcony Club – Dallas (6:30p)
Jason Elmore (Solo) – Balcony Club - Dallas (9:30p)

Trinity River Blues Society presents Larry Lampkin - House of Blues – Dallas (6p-9p)
Dubber’s Jam – A Step Up – Dallas
Aaron Burton’s Delta Blues Jam w/Kelly Nygren - The Goat –Dallas (10p-2p)
Brent Rozell Jam – The Spot – Arlington (7:30p-11p)

Wednesday, March 4
Blues Jam w/Jason Cloud – The Cottage – Dallas (8p-12a)
Frenchie’s Blues Destroyers – Sundown at the Granada – Dallas (9p-11p)
Michael Lee – Bedford Ice House – Bedford (7p-11p)
Michael J Dahoney & the Westsiders – Eddie V’s – Ft Worth (6:30p-10:30p)

HThursday, March 5
Pete Barbeck Jam - The Goat – Dallas (10p-2a)
Buddy Whittington Band – Tavern on Main – Richardson
The Silvertones – Nate’s Seafood – Addison (7p-11p)
Steve Hill & Cadillac Johnson – Hard 8 BBQ – Roanoke (7p-9p)
Playtown Jam w/Shake Russell – Keys Lounge – Ft Worth (9:30p-1:30a)

Friday, March 6
Jason Cloud & JUICE – Bucky Moonshine’s – Deep Ellum, Dallas (8p-11p)
Aaron Burton & Stompin Bill Johnston – The Mitchell – Dallas (10p-1a)
Holland K Smith – The Goat – Dallas (10p-2a)
The Silvertones – A Step Up – Dallas (9p-1a)
Walter Trout, Carolyn Wonderland opens – Kessler Theater – Oak Cliff
Mark Sena & Friends w/Texas Slim – Ricks Chophouse – McKinney (7p-11p)
Michael Lee – Chop Shop Live – Roanoke (8p-12a)
Joey Love (solo) – Two Rows – Allen (7p-10p)
Elvis T Busboy – Keys Lounge – Ft Worth (9p-1a)
    
Saturday, March 7
Tutu Jones – Bucky Moonshine’s – Deep Ellum, Dallas (8p-11p)
DC & the Capitals – The Goat – Dallas (10p-2a)
Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugar Daddy’s – The Balcony Club – Dallas (9:30p-1:30a)
Taylor Newman – The Cottage – Dallas (8p-12a)
Zac Harmon – Poor David’s Pub – Dallas
The Silvertones – American Wagle Harley Davidson – Corinth (12p-4p)
Holland K Smith – Pearl’s Cherokee – Arlington (9p-1a)
Steve Hill Trio – Lost Oak Winery – Burleson (12:30p-3:30p)

Sunday, March 8 - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2020
Jackie Don Loe Blues Happening Jam – Nate’s Seafood – Addison (7p – 11p)

Monday, March 9
Michael J Dahoney & The Westsiders – Eddie V’s – Dallas (6p-10p)