RockTheBlues.com and The Motor Club Present… Valentine’s Rock & Roll Showcase Saturday February 13th, 2010 featuring, T h e  A u r y  M o o r e  B a n d with special guests… Soul Solarium Heartless Somar and with the very special guest… Randy Hansen - Live and Unplugged We’ll be video taping the whole show Randy goes on at 9pm SHARP AND we’re having a 1 hour ALL-STAR [...]

The story below was written by someone very close to me and I’d like to see it shared with others.  I feel it has a very insightful and compelling message. I hope you agree. Gary Draper, president RockTheBlues.com On the 3rd of July of this year I was stopped at a red light in Seattle when someone slammed in to [...]

_________________________________________________________________________________________________ - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RockTheBlues.com presents the 3rd annual “Wilbur City Parkfest” WHERE: Wilbur City Park WHEN: Saturday, May 16th “2009″ TIME: 1 to 4 pm ADMISSION: FREE! ADDRESS: Wilbur City Park stage Wilbur, Washington 99185 (Wilbur is located about 20 miles south of Grand Coulee Dam on Highway #2) FEATURED PERFORMERS: Devorah (Devorah is from Friday Harbor,Washington and was selected RockTheBlues.com 2008 [...]

The third Sunday of the month is “Jazz at the Library” at the Anacortes Public Library. Last month’s artist was Washington Blues Society member Mia Vermillion, who is celebrating her newest self-produced blues CD, Alone Together with the Blues. Local libraries like the ones in Anacortes and Kirkland are onto something. Last year, Kirkland’s library hosted a set featuring Son Jack, [...]

Some kids just don’t fit in. They are transparent; a drab wallpaper covering the sheetrock of their adolescent society. Attempts at conversation are pointless with other kids that smile and turn away. Teenage society is ruthless. Games are played and jokes are conjured up with these kids as the butt. It’s not much fun being a teen in school [...]

Candye Kane is a remarkable woman. She is perhaps best known as someone with a ‘past’ that has forged a very successful career in music, but in this writer’s opinion; she is defined by much, much more than this. She is a loving, and dare I say doting, mother brimming with pride about her sons. She is a cancer [...]

Who’d of thought one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen would be a free admission DVD video shoot at the Columbia City Theater in south Seattle. I’m not trying to blow smoke up your tailpipe…..it really was that good. I’d heard from many people say how great JAR OF FLIES (”Alice In Chains” tribute [...]

BluesTrain features Blues-Rock in a big band format! Inspired by the tradition of blues based artists like The Allman Brothers Band, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton, BluesTrain melds blues and rock with style and passion. Combining reverence for our great American Blues heritage with a modern rock styling, BluesTrain is a musical bridge [...]

By Ty Hughes For those of you who may have been wondering where the incredible talent of host and performer extraordinaire, Cordel James, has been hiding – well, we have the goods! The incomparable Cordel James has recently been spotted exercising his craft and entertaining the masses at a well-known, quaint little mega-bar off the shores of [...]

by Eric Steiner The Silver anniversary of the International Blues Challenge (IBC) will be held February 4th through February 9th, and this year’s event features a youth showcase on Friday afternoon sponsored by the award-winning Smokin’ Bluz radio program from Charlotte, North Carolina. The Blues Foundation expects that no member of a youth band be over 21, and it is not [...]