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6Th Annual College Park Blues Festival on Plans to Host Happy Hours Every Friday CapitalCapital BluesBlues MessengerMessenger Celebrating the Blues in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia October 2013 Volume 7 Issue 10 The DCBS Blues Agenda for October & November Includes Must See Events Inside This Issue Selwyn Birchwood —————- Battle of the Bands —————- Monthly DCBS/ American Legion Happy Hours ————— DCBS Volunteer Appreciation Event —————- Solo/Duo Competition —————- And Much More 2013 IBC Winner Selwyn Birchwood A Special DCBS Show on Sunday, Oct. 6 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, New DCBS Happy 3 DCBS. Members’ dues play an important Hour, DCBS Raffle Winner(s) WASHINGTON, DC part in helping DCBS fulfill its mission to 20013-7315 promote the Blues and the musicians who Selwyn Birchwood Show - Oct. 6 4 keep the music alive, exciting and accessi- DCBS Battle of the Bands, Volunteer www.dcblues.org 5 ble. Members receive discounts on advance Appreciation Happy Hour sale tickets to DCBS events, DCBS merchan- The DC Blues Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) Battle of the Bands cont. Bios of organization dedicated to keeping the Blues alive dise and from area merchants and clubs when you present your DCBS membership Competing Bands, Solo/Duo 6 - 7 through outreach and education. The DC Blues Competition Society is a proud affiliate of the Blues Foundation. card (see p 11). Members also receive the monthly Capital Blues Messenger (CBM) Bluebird Blues Festival Recap 8 The Capital Blues Messenger is published monthly newsletter and those with e-mail access get Blues Calendar 9 (unless otherwise noted) and sent by e-mail or U.S. the CBM via e-mail plus additional e-mail 6th Annual College Park Blues mail to members. Past newsletters are available at updates about DCBS events. 10 www.dcblues.org. Becoming a member is simple, quick Festival - Nov. 2 DCBS Discounts, New/Renewing Send changes in name, address or membership and easy: 11 status to [email protected] or mail to ▪ Use the mail-in application, or Members DCBS Attn: Membership at the address listed ▪ Apply on-line at www.dcblues.org, or Misc. DCBS Notices/Calendar 12 above. ▪ Sign up at DCBS events or DCBS- The Capital Blues Messenger is your publication sponsored events/venues where you Cover photo from www.SelwynBirchwood.com. see the DCBS booth. and members are encouraged to submit articles, Unless noted, photos & articles were contributed photos, and ideas for articles, reviews, cartoons Members are invited to attend the monthly by DCBS Board Members and Newsletter Editor. and photography. Please submit material via DCBS Board meetings. For information, send Printer: Quick Printing Inc. Wheaton, MD e-mail to: [email protected]. www.quickprintinginc.com an e-mail to [email protected]. Blues listings for bands should be sent to This issue is © 2013 DC Blues Society [email protected]. Note: The deadline for all submissions is the 15th D.C. Blues Society Membership Corporate DCBS Memberships of the month prior to publication. 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Blues Calendar: Mike Wolk __ Other? ___________________________ Design service is outsourced and a fee will be Volunteer Coordinator: Margo Hope (Interim) ______________________________________________________________________________________ charged. Ads should be at least 300 dpi in either [email protected] Mail with check to PDF or JPG. Submit in B/W and color when possi- Website THE DC BLUES SOCIETY ble. Ad size and space allocation contingent on Administrators: Jazs, Fred Morser P.O. BOX 77315 prior commitments and editorial content. DCBS [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC 20013-73 reserves the right to refuse advertising it deems Forum: Crawlin’ Kingsnake [email protected] Or Join/Renew Online at www.dcblues.org inappropriate. Ad specs and on--line rates: DCBS on Facebook: Jazs www.dcblues.org DCBS on PayPal: Fred Morser Questions? E-mail: [email protected] President’sOctober 2013Drum Capital Blues Messenger Summer Wrap More Hot Stuff Around here, in the DC area, Blues Summer typically wraps up in What’s hotter than our first Sunday Jam? late August and September with the DC Blues Society’s outstanding The Selwyn Birchwood Band on Sunday, Annual DC Blues Festival, the Greenbelt Blues Festival, and the Blue- October 6, when and where the Jam is bird Blues Festival. This year, a newcomer, the Southern Maryland supposed to be. Blues Fest, joined the end-of-summer outdoor festivals. This festival That’s right, the 1st Sunday Blues Jam in was brought to us by the same folks who produce the Chesapeake Bay October is preempted by a replacement act, Blues Festival, and ticket sales benefited the charity End Hunger In but not just any act. Selwyn Birchwood beat Calvert County. The waning summer sun made the perfect weather for out 240 bands to win the 2013 International the two-day festival featuring a decent mix of regional and national Blues Challenge. Selwyn also won the Albert acts. It looked like a modest sized but happy crowd on Saturday. I King Award for "Best Guitarist." His band has Felix McClairen missed the Sunday show. DCBS was in the house, or should I say on opened for name bands like Buddy Guy, by Ron Weinstock the fairgrounds, both days, and made lots of new friends, including the Robert Cray, John Lee Hooker Jr., Joe Louis winners of the DCBS raffle held that day (see story and photo below). Walker, and many other international acts in recent years. Check out The Bluebird Festival was also another terrific blues day. See the Selwyn at www.selwynbirchwood.com. Don’t miss this hot surprise article and photos on p. 8. While outdoor festivals fade until next year, show! Showtime is 5:30pm at the Silver Spring American Legion. Get the Blues keeps heating up in the cooler months. tickets now at www.dcblues.org, and see p. 4 for more information.. You may as well get tickets to the October 12 Battle of the Bands Hot New Blues! also! Nine bands play, sing, and perform their hearts out for a shot at The first hot new Blues event that we served up this fall was the the IBC, hoping to come back a winner like Selwyn did. There are other DCBS & American Legion Happy Hour at the Silver Spring American perks coming to the winner of the Battle. This is one of our best at- Legion Post 41 on Friday September 27. Huge thanks goes to the Ron tended shows, consistently standing room only. Don’t wait to get tick- Hicks Project (photo below), the band that played that evening to an ets. See p. 5-7 for more information. appreciative crowd that we hope will grow as the word spreads. As if all these dates weren’t enough, another DCBS production that The Silver Spring American Legion, located at 905 Sligo Avenue, you don’t want to miss is the 6th Annual College Park Blues Festival on plans to host happy hours every Friday. Right now, DCBS is only in- Saturday, November 2. This free event is growing in popularity each volved in the happy hour once a month on selected Fridays, and the year as the word is evidently spreading that the City of College Park next one, on October 25, will also be an event to honor DCBS’s cadre of Recreation Board and DCBS know how to put on a party! Ritchie hardworking volunteers.
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