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Capital Blues Messenger Capital Blues Messenger CapitalCapital BluesBlues MessengerMessenger Celebrating the Blues in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia November 2013 Volume 7 Issue 11 6th Annual College Park Blues Festival A Free Indoor Festival You Will Not Want To Miss! Daddy Mack Blues Band Stacy Brooks Band Little Bit A Blues DC Blues Society Band Inside This Issue - College Park Festival Details, Battle of the Bands Results, Blues Calendar, and Much More THE DC BLUES SOCIETY Become a DCBS member! Inside This Issue P.O. BOX 77315 Members are key to the livelihood of the President’s Drum 3 DCBS. Members’ dues play an important College Park Blues Festival - 4 - 5 WASHINGTON, DC part in helping DCBS fulfill its mission to Nov. 2, Interview with Daddy Mack promote the Blues and the musicians who 20013-7315 Battle of the Bands Recap 6 keep the music alive, exciting and accessi- www.dcblues.org ble. Members receive discounts on advance Battle cont., Selwyn Birchwood Show 7 sale tickets to DCBS events, and from area DCBS Solo/Duo Competition - The DC Blues Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) 8 organization dedicated to keeping the Blues alive merchants and clubs when you present your Nov. 22; IBC Tickets DCBS membership card (see p 11). Mem- through outreach and education. The DC Blues Blues Calendar 9 Society is a proud affiliate of the Blues Foundation. bers also receive the monthly Capital Blues Messenger (CBM) newsletter and those with Movie Recommendation—Muscle The Capital Blues Messenger is published monthly e-mail access get the CBM via e-mail plus Shoals, Misc. News, Daddy Mack 10 (unless otherwise noted) and sent by e-mail or U.S. additional e-mail updates about DCBS Interview cont. mail to members. Past newsletters are available at events. DCBS Discounts, Blues Foundation 11 www.dcblues.org. Becoming a member is simple, quick and DCBS Memberships and easy: DCBS New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance, Send changes in name, address or membership 12 status to [email protected] or mail to ▪ Use the mail-in application, or Call for Board Member Nominees DCBS Attn: Membership at the address listed ▪ Apply on-line at www.dcblues.org, or above. ▪ Sign up at DCBS events or DCBS- Cover photos: Daddy Mack from Pay the Piper The Capital Blues Messenger is your publication sponsored events/venues where you CD (Inside Sounds), Stacy Brooks by Jennifer and members are encouraged to submit articles, see the DCBS booth. Noble, DCBS Band by Pat Bransford, Little Bit A photos, and ideas for articles, reviews, cartoons Blues from Blues Highway CD (Smithsonian Members are invited to attend the monthly Folkways Recording) and photography. Please submit material via DCBS Board meetings. For information, send e-mail to: [email protected]. Unless noted, photos & articles were contributed an e-mail to [email protected]. by DCBS Board Members and Newsletter Editor. Blues listings for bands should be sent to Printer: Quick Printing Inc. Wheaton, MD [email protected]. www.quickprintinginc.com Note: The deadline for all submissions is the 15th D.C. Blues Society Membership This issue is © 2013 DC Blues Society of the month prior to publication. DCBS reserves Application/Renewal Form the right to edit or refuse any content, including Date: _________ If renewal, check here ____ Corporate DCBS Memberships advertising, that it deems inappropriate. DCBS offers a Corporate membership option that provides small and large busi- DCBS Board Members ___________________________________________ nesses the opportunity to advertise through President: Felix McClairen Name (please print clearly above) DCBS while supporting DCBS programs. [email protected] For only $200 per year, businesses receive Vice President: Nick Dale __________________________________________ the same benefits of individual DCBS members [email protected] Address (see above) PLUS 6 postings of any combina- Secretary: Celina Wood tion of 1/4 page ads in the DCBS monthly ___________________________________________ [email protected] City/State/Zip Code newsletter and/or web icons on the DCBS web- Treasurer: Frank Kahan site. Each web icon/event posting will remain [email protected] ___________________________________________ on the DCBS website for one week, for a total Jams & Festival: Sam’i Nuriddin Telephone of 6 weeks presence on the DCBS website. [email protected] This is a $240-$280 value. Merchandise: James Ginyard ___________________________________________ To get more information, or to establish [email protected] E-mail corporate membership, visit: Honorary Directors: John Cephas (1930-2009) www.dcblues.org/memb/mbr_join.php. Barry Lee Pearson, Joseph Wilson Dues per year (circle appropriate one): Student: $15 (Include photocopy of student ID) ADVERTISE IN THE DCBS Key Volunteers Individual: $25 Family: $35 Advertising: Jazs Corporate: $200 Canada: $35 (US funds) CAPITAL BLUES MESSENGER [email protected] Other Countries: $50 (US funds) AD RATES Blues in the Schools/Acoustic Jam: Will Williamson Contributions (not dues) are tax-deductible. [email protected], [email protected] Please allow up to six weeks for processing E-Communications Coordinator/Membership Business card $20 Assistant: Chris DeProperty; Walter Lamar If Family, list member names:__________________ 1/8 page $25 [email protected] Grants Manager: OPEN Your volunteer time/talent is always welcome. If 1/4 page $40 [email protected] interested in volunteering, check interest(s): Media: Cassandra Behler 1/3 page $55 [email protected] __ Update Website Membership: Sam’i Nuriddin __ Work a shift at a show (DCBS table, door, etc.) 1/2 page $75 [email protected] __ Promote shows (distribute flyers, handbills, etc.) 2/3 page $110 Newsletter __ Raise funds (sell ads, organize auctions, etc.) Editor: Pat Bransford Full page $140 [email protected] __ Write reviews or take photos for Newsletter Staff: Mary Knieser, Sylvia Kiser (see your name in print!) Rates are based on camera-ready artwork and Blues Calendar: Mike Wolk __ Other? ___________________________ must be received by the 7th of the prior month. Volunteer Coordinator: Margo Hope (Interim) ______________________________________________________________________________________ Design service is outsourced and a fee will be [email protected] Mail with check to charged. Ads should be at least 300 dpi in either Website THE DC BLUES SOCIETY PDF or JPG. Ad size and space allocation contin- Administrators: Jazs, Fred Morser P.O. BOX 77315 gent on prior commitments and editorial content. [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC 20013-73 DCBS reserves the right to refuse advertising it Forum: Crawlin’ Kingsnake [email protected] deems inappropriate. Ad specs and on--line rates: Or Join/Renew Online at www.dcblues.org DCBS on Facebook: Jazs www.dcblues.org. DCBS on PayPal: Fred Morser Questions? E-mail: [email protected] President’sNovember Drum 2013 Capital Blues Messenger Battle of the Bands Happy Hour & Solo/Duo IBC Competition Perhaps the daylong intermittent rain and dreary skies put a You’ll need a scorecard to keep up with damper on the crowd size for the Battle of the Bands. (Typically it’s what DCBS is doing at the DCBS – Silver SRO. Darn if everyone could find a seat this time!) But the weather did Spring American Legion Happy Hour. Or just not deter nine bands from playing their collective hearts out. Neither keep reading the CBM, visiting our website did the weather faze the diehard crowd, who would brave any kind of and OPENING our emailed announcements - weather to see a good Blues fight. And a rumble it was. However, after at least once! the last note was played, there could only be one eliminator. That night With that said, on November 22 at 6 pm, it was the Stacy Brooks Band. Congratulations to Stacy and her dyna- DCBS is hosting a judged Solo/Duo competi- mite band! Her sax man, Walter Tates, Jr., was a favorite for me. I was tion, the winner of which competes in the Felix McClairen reminded of the signature sax sound behind Gamble & Huff’s Philadel- same category at the 2014 International by Ron Weinstock phia International Records. The Stacy Brooks Band will represent DCBS Blues Challenge. (See p. 8 for more info) and the DMV at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN, Competing to represent DCBS & the DMV are Wild Will Williamson January 21-25, 2014. We’re pleased to have such a dynamic performer and Swampcandy. Wild Will is a solo act with a brand of music that and her hot band carry the torch to Memphis. Please “Like” her on incorporates grit and a wry sense of humor. His repertoire draws from Facebook! Tweet her congrats! And otherwise show her some cyber blues, bluegrass, country and rock, blending it all into his distinctive love. fusion. Coming sooner, the Stacy Brooks Band will perform at the College Swampcandy is the duo of Ruben Dobbs (upright bass) and Joey Park Blues Festival (CPBF) on November 2 at the U of MD’s Ritchie Mitchell (kick drum). The duo’s style is an aggressive stomping Missis- Coliseum in College Park, MD. See the lineup & details on p 4 & 5. sippi blues that crosses genres. We’re hoping to have a plugged in act Look out for and support other shows featuring the Stacy Brooks Band. to round out the Happy Hour festivities. How many happy hours offer They’re in fundraising mode to help cover the costs of a very expensive all this without a cover or a fee hidden in high food and drink prices? road trip. Although the CPBF is free---yep free, show your support by OK, I’ll answer: None! coming to see Stacy and buying raffle tickets or DCBS merchandise or Stay tuned for future Blues happy hours at the Silver Spring Ameri- making a donation---all of which will help send the band to Memphis. can Legion at 905 Sligo Ave.
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