BLUE INK www.BLUSD.org JAN-FEB 2015 Vol 17- Issue 1-2 Open Annual BLUSD Meeting, Board Elections/Pro Jam ~ Offical Ballot ~ Mardi Gras Madness ~ Yuma & more Sunday Feb 8 BLUSD Open General Meeting & Pro-Jam at Tio Leo's he Blues Lovers United of San Diego Annual General Open T Meeting and Board Elections will be brought to order at 1pm, Sunday February 8 at Tio Leo’s. All are invited to participate in this meeting. Find out find out what we have accomplished this year. Come tell us about your concerns, give us your ideas on how the board can make your organization better work for you. Better yet, become a volunteer or put your name on the ballot and run for a position on the board of directors. Write-ins are welcome. We currently have four open positions: Vice President, Treasurer, Webmaster, and Volunteer Coordinator. For complete info see page 3 this issue. Printout the ballot and bring with you to the meeting or get one there. If you like, we will give those of you that wish to run for a position a few moments to tell everyone about yourself and qualifications. You must be a current member to run for office or vote. Ballots will be collected and counted at this event. Results will be announced at the end of the jam The Jam. Downbeat 3pm The JammingOut Blues Band, Kevin Cooper, Michael J. Minor, and Lafayette will be settin the groove. There will be a backline, 2 amps and a bass amp, supplied by Paul Palombo. Drums supplied by Ric Lee. (Any one willing to bring keyboards?) All you need to bring are your instruments, cords, sticks and harmonicas (bring your small amps) For you Lo Fi guys if you need to bring your own amps please arrive early enough to have them on stage before 3pm Thank you. You can pre-sign up online at JammingOut.net or at the event. Jam contact; rosalea at 619 246 3585 or [email protected] and [email protected] Looking forward to all of the above! All of us on the Board of BLUES LOVERS UNITED OF SAN DIEGO BLUES LOVERS UNITED OF SAN DIEGO

EDITOR Michele Lundeen – [email protected] GIG CALENDAR [email protected] and/or post at www.BLUSD.org BLUSD TABLE GIGS or use Google Calendar and INVITE: [email protected] WEB MASTER Position Open BLUSD ANNUAL CONTRIBUTORS Janet Blair, Janine Harty, Michele Lundeen, DM, Rosa Lea Schiavone OPEN MEETING & JAM Deadlines for mid-monthly newsletter: Articles/Events/Ads/Info should be submitted by the 5th to [email protected] in order to ensure inclusion. Sunday February 8 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1-6pm Janet Blair Janine Harty Michele Lundeen TIO LEO’S Donna Mallen Bob Prater Napa/Morena Blvd, San Diego Rosa Lea Schiavone – [email protected] PRESIDENT Janine Harty – [email protected] *JammingOut THE HOUSE OF BLUES* VICE PRESIDENT Every Wednesday ~ 7pm Position Open TREASURER (See special Holiday Blackouts this issue) Bob Prater 1055 5th Ave. Downtown San Diego SECRETARY Donna Mallen MEMBERSHIP [email protected] BLUES IN THE SCHOOLS Janet Blair – Director [email protected] BANDS & VENUES: Michele Lundeen – BITS Assistant POST YOUR BLUES-BASED EVENTS ADVISORS Michael Kinsman – Rand De Mattei Use GOOGLE Calendar and make sure to “Invite” [email protected] - OUR MISSION - To preserve and promote awareness of the Blues, America’s first musical or send gig details to [email protected] art form. To entertain and educate the existing and growing audience and to be responsive to the music community’s needs by presenting and SO ALL CAN FIND YOU supporting local and national Blues artists and culture. & SUPPORT YOUR SHOWS!

BLUES LOVERS UNITED OF SAN DIEGO Please send listings/details about very special P.O. BOX 34077 - SAN DIEGO, CA 92163 events to [email protected] Business Line: 619.630.9416 [email protected] - www.BLUSD.org Fans want to find BLUES! It takes a village!

BLUES www.BLUES.org IN THE SCHOOLS Live, interactive blues musical presentations available to share, inform and entertain! AFFILIATE Blues Lovers United of San Diego is a 501(c)3 non profit, membership driven corporation affiliated Contact: [email protected] with The Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN, an umbrella organization for Blues Societies worldwide.

Blue Ink JAN-FEB 15 Page 2 Please Consider a BLUSD Board Position!

he BLUSD Board are volunteers dedicated to help promote the blues Help Support genre and it’s facets in our community. We are looking for blues lovers Tand community minded folks that want to help preserve and support our San Diego blues here in America’s Finest City! Your input is extremely valuable and Preserve to BLUSD’s efforts and we need you! Help us formulate plans for special events and our Blues In The Schools programs, etc. Maybe you have graphic skills, the Blues as a bookkeeping skills, grant-writing skills, organizational skills, web and/or marketing skills or simply are just passionate about the blues and want to help keep BLUSD a vital force. We would LOVE to have you in the family!! BLUSD Board The Board of course can’t do it all. We love that volunteers show up during the year and give their time for the cause! Without volunteers it’s hard to be as Member or visible spreading the good word of the blues. This is vital as well! We need help to man/woman our BLUSD tables at places like Gator By The Bay, the San Diego Blues Fest, Julian Blues Bash, Spring Harp Fest, BLUSD Volunteer Membership parties, House of Blues JammingOut, Photocharity events and more. You could help us plan events, see old and new friends, hear great music, help BLUSD and touring and local artists sell their merch, and more. We do need a 2015 Treasurer and a Webmaster plus few more board members would be helpful. Now’s the time to reachout us if you’d like to be on our team! We love our BLUSD family and have plenty of room for more at the table! Contact us with ANY input [email protected]. Upcoming 2015 BLUSD Board Elections... If you have a desire to be more active in supporting the blues in San Diego and have the time to do it, consider running for office on the BLUSD Board of Directors. Or, if you know someone you think would be a great fit and would like to nominate them, please do. We are always looking for enthusiastic, dependable people with a passion for the blues who would like to be a part of what we do. Contact [email protected]. We can’t do this without YOU! Official Election Ballot – 2015 Board of Directors Blues Lovers United of San Diego (BLUSD) - A California 501(c)3 Non-Profit Corporation Composition of the Board: BLUSD is authorized to have 5 to 11 people on its board of directors. Directors are elected each January by the membership and serve one-year terms. No directors are compensated for their participation. Five officer positions are filled with board members as proposed by the executive committee. The Nomination & Voting Process: Any current BLUSD member may be nominated to serve on the board of directors. They may nominate themselves, or they may be nominated by another member in good standing. BLUSD Members only may vote for the nominees below or write in others. Please vote for 11 individuals. Officers will be nominated and elected at annual meeting. PLEASE RETURN YOUR BALLOTS! Ballots should be received by Feb 8, 2015. Mail to: BLUSD, P.O. Box 34077, San Diego, CA 92163, or via email to [email protected] Nominated to serve one-year board terms are: ( ) Write-in ______( ) Janine Harty, board member (President) ( ) Write-in ______( ) Donna Mallen, board member (Secretary) ( ) Write-in ______( ) Janet Blair, board member (BITS) ( ) Write-in ______( ) Michele Lundeen, board member (Editor) ( ) Write-in ______( ) RosaLea Schiavone, board member (Events) ( ) Write-in ______Ballot Count Ballots will be counted at our Annual BLUSD General meeting open to the public Feb 8th. The election results will then be certified and elected board members will assume their 2015 terms.

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Blue Ink JAN-FEB 15 Page 3 Member Artist Spotlight... DONNA LARSEN onna Larsen began playing her original music on an acoustic guitar in coffee houses and clubs in DSan Diego, CA while still a teenager. Influenced has published a beautifully illustrated Children’s Picture Songbook/CD by strength and passion of the greats, she was inspired to Set called “In My Own Backyard” that is due for release in early 2015. form her own unique vocal style. Donna has cherished “It’s been a long wait for the CD for the Set, but it will be so worth it!” her experiences of performing in North America from For Donna Larsen, it has always been about the music in life. “Music Alaska to Oaxaca, Mexico, and in Europe from Prague to can speak directly to the heart without needing the mind to interpret. It Budapest and Vienna. The richness of these varied has the power to change lives and transform how we feel.” Her cultures has contributed to her music becoming more spiritually centered music resonates in your soul. “Music can take us insightful and spiritually centered. Donna is a Billboard deep inside ourselves, or to any destination imaginable.” Award Winning songwriter, and thrives on writing and Members of Donna’s band include bassist Pete Wilkinson, a native performing music that is thought provoking, positive, and Southern Californian. Pete moved to San Diego to attend San Diego spiritually alive, and lives in gratitude for the gift of State, and while at SDSU, joined his first band, Bison. Subsequent music. years found Pete playing bass with several notable San Diego-area Whether it be Latin, Rock, Pop, Blues, Acoustic, Jazz bands. Pete’s other projects include an original acoustic duo, “The or Reggae, Donna Larsen is all about the feeling music Suburbans,” with wife Cecelia, as well as their 4-piece rock band, brings to your soul. This prolific singer-songwriter has “Matrix.” recently coined the term “PopCoustic” for her The newest member of The Donna Larsen Band, Mishelle Banaga, acoustically driven music. With her new band, Donna is was surrounded by all types of music growing up, from Motown to taking her PopCoustic songs to new levels of depth and Elvis to Carole King, Chicago, Steely Dan and everything in between. richness. She is happy to be including some of San She came from and is thankful to be part of a large family in Los Diego’s most sought after instrumentalists in her band. Angeles where records were always being played at family gatherings. Drummer Michael J. Minor was born in Jackson, Picking up her grandpa's dusty old guitar one day, she began her love Mississippi but and now resides in San Diego CA. affair with the sound of the acoustic. In the late 90s she began to Professional, sought-after musician, he specializes in approach the electric guitar and started finding her own voice as a lead funk, rock, soul, blues and jazz. Mishelle Banaga has guitar player, learning that less is more. Since then she has been recently joined the Donna Larsen Band as lead guitarist, performing on guitar, congas, keyboards, drums, and whatever else and Pete Wilkinson is slappin’ the bass. serves the music. Currently performing in San Diego County, she’s More info at: www.donnalarsenmusic.com compiling her favorite songs for the new CD. Donna also www.Reverbnation/DonnaLarsen 31st International Blues Challenge Winners he Blues Foundation's 2015 International Blues Challenge (IBC), held Jan 20- Jan 24 Memphis, Tennessee, was the 31st year of Blues musicians from around the world competing for cash, prizes, and industry recognition. After an action Tpacked week of competition as well as showcases, here are the winners: BAND: First – Eddie Cotton – Vicksburg Blues Society Second – Noah Wotherspoon – Dayton Blues Society Third – Nico Wayne Toussaint – Southern California Blues Society Best Guitarist – Band (Gibson & Category 5) – Noah Wotherspoon – Dayton Blues Society SOLO/DUO: First – Randy McQuay – Cape Fear Blues Society Second – Brian Keith Wallen – Dayton Blues Society Best Guitarist – Solo/Duo (St. Blues ) Ben Rice – Ashland Blues Society BEST SELF-PRODUCED CD: Cryin’ Mercy – Altered Five Blues Band – Grafton Blues Association LEE OSKAR HARP AWARD: Nico Wayne Toussaint

Blue Ink JAN-FEB 15 Page 6 Mark Calenders for the 2nd Jam-aversary

amminOut The House of Blues will celebrate their second Jam-aversary March J11th in the funky-cool Delta Room downstairs. Thanks to Wicked Harem productions and JamminOut.net for providing a stellar platform advanced and pro-players to share their joy. For more information and early signup go to JammingOut.net This killer, pro-Jam is not just for musicians but for fans and blues music enthusiasts alike. The music is always stellar and many fans come back each week. For the jam itself, players can ideally sign up at jammingout.net to assure a spot but drop- ins are welcomed. Not only do some of our finest local talent showup but touring artists from out of town have been laying it down on Fat Tuesday Revelry the Voodoo Stage at HOB! No cover, all ages! Whatever you do. Come together. Make a at House of Blues joyous sound! Your JammingOut team...rosalea, Doyle, icked Harem Productions' JamminOut The House Of Blues Kevin, Michael, Lafayette and BLUSD Barb. Adv/Pro Blues Jam sanctioned by BLUSD is generally held each Wednesday Night. On Tuesday February 17 the popular W ALL advanced Jammers and public are welcome. jam will be happening on Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras. A BLUSD member band will be featured once The celebration starts at 4pm with The Little Kings featuring David a month at our JamminOut BLUSD Jam. Mosby and special guest Dane Terry laying down some hip blues on the (Disclaimer: Postponment may happen if the Salvation stage (formerly called the Voodoo Lounge). At 5pm Madame HOB room is booked for corporate event) LaRoux & Krewe will serve up a gumbo of New Orlean's rhythm & blues, Zydeco and swamp on the Voodoo stage (in the dining room). At NOTE: A BLUSD Member band will be 6pm, Sickstring Outlaws will tear up the salvation stage with their full- drawnout of a hat at our monthly Board tilt, Americana groove followed by the JammingOut The House Of Blues meetings and one band each month will get Adv/Pro Blues Jam at 7pm on the Voodoo stage. We be JammingOut 'til the opportunity to have a featured set the 1am or when the music stops. following month plus a spotlight feature in Last year a permanent stage was built in the Crossroads restaurant Blue Ink. *If you are not a member band dining area and named the Voodoo Stage. The former Voodoo Lounge please sign up and (see member area is now called Salvation Alley and that stage is now called the application last page, this issue). Salvation Stage. PLUS, please email your bio and a photo to [email protected]

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(LT-RT) San Diego crew in Memphis: Heine and Missy Andersen, Janine Harty, Becky Graul, Janine Harty, Cathy Hammond, Barbara Kabes and Hollie Alcocer. anuary 20-24, 2015 marked the 31st anniversary of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis and the first visit for this writer. The excitement in the air was palpable. With nearly 250 acts from around the world participating, it was impossible Jto see even a fraction of them. I averaged about 10-15 contestants each night and saw a half-dozen Youth Showcases in addition to the Blind Raccoon Showcases featuring Blues Music Award Soul/Blues Female Artist nominee Missy Andersen. BLUSD's contestant, Ben Powell, played two great sets at the Westin Hotel, but unfortunately did not advance to the semi-finals. The finals were held at the opulent Orpheum Theater, built in 1928. Amazingly, 5 of the 16 finalists hailed from Ohio! I was particularly impressed by second-place Band winner and Gibson Guitar award recipient Noah Wotherspoon from Dayton, Ohio. Check him out on YouTube! You can see the complete list of winners elsewhere in this issue. It was great reconnecting with old friends and making new ones, and I look forward to returning next year. I highly recommend this experience to ALL blues lovers!

Janine Harty President, Blues Lovers United of San Diego, www.blusd.org (find a bunch more cool pics from Memphis at www.facebook.com/janine.harty in her IBC albums)

(LT-RT) Eddie Cotton, Winner Band Division, Randy McQuay, Winner Sol/Duo Division, Noah Wotherspoon

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he City of Yuma Heritage Festivals and Robb Bower Presents invite you to Yuma River Daze: Boogie, Brews T and Blues Festival on Saturday, February 7th, from 11am – 7pm in Gateway Park. Gates open at 10am. Enjoy a full-day of live music along the Colorado River featuring... Eric Sardinas & Big Motor, Dennis Jones Band, Alan Iglesias & Crossfire, The Laurie Morvan Band, The Chase Walker Band, Chet & The Committee There will also be food trucks, merchandise, memorabilia and more! Chairs, blankets, umbrellas and shades are allowed. The area designated for shades and umbrellas is first come, first served. Cash only for tickets. ATMs will be onsite. No coolers, no pets, no refunds. Rain or shine. The Yuma Blues Festival After Party and All Star Jam happens Saturday February 7th at Jimmy D's (38 West 2nd St., Yuma's Coolest Club! Doors open at 8pm and the jam session starts at 9:00 until about 11:00 pm. A limited amount of tickets will be Available for $10 at the Festival. First come, first served. Party with 150 of our closest blues friends! Dancing, pool table, cold beer, live music, free WiFi, cocktails, etc. Come on over and join the fun! www.jimmyds.com Call (928) 783-5647.

Blues Guitar Book by Bob Margolin Chicago Blues Rhythm Guitar: The Complete Definitive Guide by Bob Margolin and Dave Rubin. Saturdays... Call for dates The new book/DVD pack was released this month. As rhythm guitarist for blues legend , Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin gained invaluable experience in the art of Chicago blues rhythm guitar. Now in this exclusive and comprehensive book/ DVD package, Margolin and blues author/historian Dave Rubin bring you the definitive instructional guitar method on the subject. The book features loads of rhythm guitar playing examples to learn and practice, covering a variety of styles, techniques, tips, historical anecdotes, and much more. To top it off, every playing example in the book is performed on the accompanying DVD by Bob himself! The book also features a unique code to access the same videos online for download or streaming.

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ebruary 21st from1-6pm, “Mardi Gras at the Moonlight” will be in full tilt at the FMoonlight Amphitheater in Vista. The event will feature along live bands and street performers, craw fish boil and Cajun cuisine courtesy of Chef DK Catering. It will be a slice of New Orleans Louisiana in Vista. Serving up the music on stage will be The Bayou Brothers, Theo and Zydeco Patrol, Euphoria Marching Band, Madame LeRoux & Krewe and The Backwater Blues Band,, with very special guest artists Deanna Bogart and the amazing Mighty Mike Schermer. There will also be the Dragon Knights Stilt Show. Tickets are $75 for VIP and $35 Show and on sale NOW at www.visitIXonline.com. Proceeds from the event got to the Vista Community clinic. February is Black History Month A Century of Black Life, History and Culture: UC San Diego Library Exhibit

ebruary, every day, F at UCSD at the Geisel Library a month long exhibit will showcase 100 years of Black culture covering an Over the past century, African American eclectic life, history, and culture have become major forces in the and the mixture of art, world. In 1915, few could have imagined that African Americans in music, art, artifacts, and and literature would become appreciated by the global community. photographs As lovers of roots and blues music we can’t deny those that laid that foundation, from private and public collections. The not to mention the hardships many faced along the way. The poetry of that life put exhibit is free. to music moves us like no other. It has opened our eyes, our minds, our souls to a Obviously we don’t just need a month to deeper understanding. The blues is truth, and whether we’ve lived some of it or highlight amazing moments in Black American related to it or are simply moved by it, it’s because it’s real. musical history.

Blue Ink JAN-FEB 15 Page 8 BLUES JAMS Call venue to confirm CD Review...... SUNDAY: • Downtown Cafe 3:30-6:30 pm most Sundays (signup at 3 pm) DON’T CALL NO AMBULANCE 182 East Main St., El Cajon (619) 440-5687 Selwyn Birchwood Host: Chet and The Committee Alligator Records MONDAY: Good news! • Gaslamp Speakeasy “Old School Jam” 9 pm - 1 am 708 4th Ave. downtown San Diego (619) 239-9994 The Blues are Host: Fuzzy Rankins alive and evolving. It’s TUESDAY: been over 100 • Patrick’s Gaslamp Pub “Chicken Wing Jam” 8-11 pm years since Gaslamp (619) 233-3077 Blues first Host: Walter Gentry (all styles welcomed) became identified as a • Felix's BBQ with Soul Open Mike 7-11 separate, stand- 324 Euclid (619)546-9120 alone genre of music. The WEDNESDAY: originators, • House of Blues 7 pm -11 pm who 1055 5th Avenue Downtown (619) 299-2583 Host: BLUSD & JammingOut.net transitioned the Blues from its • Proud Mary’s Southern Bar & Grill “Jazz88 Blues Jam” 7-10 African roots to its unique, powerful, American style, have Ramada Inn @ Clairemont Mesa & 163 (619) 398-2974 long-since passed on. The Blues innovators of the 1940’s and Host: Mark Augustin 50’s, who took the music to Chicago and electrified it in the great migration out of the Delta, have likewise nearly all left us. • Pour House Blues Jam & Open Mic 8 pm -12 pm The next generation, who jazzified, rockified and funkified the 1903 S. Coast Highway, Oceanside (760) 730-5944 music, pushing it over the boundaries as their Blues forefathers Host: Lil Kane (Evan Caleb Yearsley) had done, is keeping it alive today. Despite the challenges of the techo-revolution that is FRIDAY: presently assaulting the music industry from all sides, talented • Del Cerro Rec “Slo-Jam” Acoustic 6:30 - 9 pm (3rd Fridays) Host: Walt Richards (619) 589-8177 young artists continue to be drawn to this powerful and electrifying genre. Struck by the lightning bolt of Blues, they Let us know if you hear of a Blues-type Jam that is not listed here feed on its energy and emotion, merge with it, and carry it on to or if a listed Jam is no longer happening! Thanks! BLUSD new levels. 2013 IBC winner Selwyn Birchwood is one those young musicians stricken by the Blues. He started playing guitar at age 12, but it was a live performance by Buddy Guy he witnessed a few years later that transformed him irretrievably to a Blues Become a BLUSD player. He then had the good fortune to be mentored by the legendary Sonny Rhodes, from whom he picked up lap steel Member and you guitar to add to his repertoire. Birchwood wrote all 12 of the excellent songs on his new CD could be featured and sings them with the gritty voice of a veteran Blues man. The band is a tight Blues team, with Curtis Nutall on drums and BLUSD Member band will be drawn out of Regi Oliver on Bariton, Tenor and Alto Sax. From soaring to a hat at our monthly Board meetings and funky, to slow ballad and beyond, this enjoyable album A one band each month will get the breathes new life into the Blues. ~ DM opportunity to have a featured set the 4th Weds of the following month at the BLUSD/JamminOut The House of Blues Jam. Plus a spotlight feature in Blue Ink. Find Gigs & Jams *If you are not a member band please sign up and or more gig and jam options, check out our interactive (see member application last page, this issue). Google calendar at www.blusd.org. Share your Google PLUS, please email your bio and a photo to Fmusic calendars at [email protected]. [email protected] so we have onhand. No Google calendar? Send gigs to [email protected].

Blue Ink JAN-FEB 15 Page 9 UPCOMING 1/30: Dave & Phil Alvin w/ the Guilty Ones at the Belly Up Tavern 1/31: Chris James & Patrick Rynn at Proud Mary's BLUES 2/5: at the Belly Up Tavern 2/7: Royal Southern Brotherhood at Ramona Mainstage NOTES 2/8: BLUSD Open Board Meeting and Jam at Tio Leo's Lounge 2/15: Harlem Gospel Choir at CA Center for the Arts Escondido 2/17: Mardi Gras at House of Blues downtown 2/21: Lucinda Williams at the North Park Theater 2/21: Mardi Gras at Moonlight w-Deanna Bogart, Mighty Mike Schermer & more - Moonlight Amphitheater in Vista) 3/28: San Felipe Blues & Arts Fiesta in San Felipe, Baja, MX

SHARE GIGS : WWW.BLUSD.ORG OR [email protected] OR VIA GOOGLE CALENDERS TO: [email protected] Be a BLUSD Volunteer! Reap cool benefits! e encourage our members to volunteer. Get right in there, roll up your sleeves and start spreading the (blues) news with us! We need volunteers for our BLUSD W“Festival Team,” Regional IBC Team,” “Membership Party Team,” “Newsletter Team,” and “Blues In The Schools Team.” For detailed info see our many volunteer team opportunities at http://blusd.org/volunteer If you are already a member, either fill out the Volunteer Form at http://blusd.org/ membership or give us a call at (619) 630-9416. If you’re not yet a member or need to renew, just follow the steps at http://blusd.org/membership using PayPal’s secure credit card processing system ...THEN, fill out our Volunteer Form at http://blusd.org/ membership and let us know how you can help out! Once you take the first step, our volunteer coordinator will contact you and see where your talents and availability will fit best. Thanks in advance or your interest!

Join or Renew Your Membership with BLUSD Online or by Mail *You can renew online via PayPal at www.blusd.org OR return this form to us with your check payment Membership Level (please check) ____ ($25) Single ____ ($35) Couple ____ ($250) Lifetime or ____ ($350) Couple Lifetime

Name : ______Name of additional member (couple): ______Phone: ______Address:______City/State/Zip:______E-mail: ______For Artists/Bands/ with active membership: Do you want to have a free link on www.blusd.org? ____ yes ____ no If yes, name of Artist/Band: ______Band website: ______Brief description of your music:______Check out member benefits and join or renew your membership at www.blusd.org. BLUSD is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. Dues are tax deductible and also support our Blues In The School program. BLUSD ~ P.O. BOX 34077 • SAN DIEGO, CA • 92163 ~ 619-630-9416 (new) ~ www.BLUSD.org

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