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KIRK FLETCHER
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Delta Groove Music is teaming up with Simi Valley’s Cajun Creole Music Festival to present the 5th Annual Delta Groove All Star Blues Revue.
For the past 20 years, Simi Valley has honored a fundraiser founded in 1988 to benefit the charities supported by the Rotary Club of Simi Sunrise. The festival features multiple stages, over 150 food, beverage, craft and sponsor booths, hosts around 15,000 attendees and donates one hundred percent of all profits to charitable, educational and humanitarian causes. Last year, the Cajun Creole Music Festival introduced a blues stage and this year turned to veteran blues promoter, Randy Chortkoff, to supply the blues acts.
Every year, for the past four years, Randy Chortkoff has held his Annual Delta Groove All-Star Blues Revue in conjunction with the Blues Music Awards in May. The stage has been set in Memphis, Tennessee at the New Daisy Theatre, The Gibson Theatre and Clarksdale, Mississippi’s Ground Zero Blues Club. The audience has grown year after year and the annual review has become something blues fans from all over the world permanently mark on their calendars.
For the fifth anniversary, Chortkoff wanted to do something really special to make a huge splash. When he got the call from Stewart at the Simi Valley Cajun Creole Festival, not only was he honored to supply the blues stage with the best of his artists; he knew right away what would make his 5th Annual Blues Revue something to celebrate. It was then Chortkoff decided to bring his show back home to Southern California, where Delta Groove Music began.
This year the blues stage will feature six acts from the Delta and Eclecto Groove labels each day. The tentative lineup will include soul blues sensation Jackie Payne Steve Edmonson Band, Arthur Adams, Lynwood Slim with the Igor Prado Band, The Insomniacs, the Kirk Fletcher Band, Los Fabulocos featuring Kid Ramos, The Soul of John Black, The Hollywood Blue Flames, Mike Zito, Candye Kane, the legendary Elvin Bishop and a very rare Southern California appearance by The Mannish Boys! The schedule will be confirmed in the coming months and, as usual, there are sure to be several surprise guests joining the lineup.
Simi Valley’s Cajun Creole Music Festival, now with a Blues Infusion, is put on every year by the Rotary Club, with one hundred percent of the profits going to charity. The festival will be held Memorial Day weekend, Saturday May 29th and Sunday, May 30th. For more information, please visit the Delta Groove website at www.deltagroovemusic.com or the festival’s website at www.simicajun.org.
THE INSOMNIACS WIN FOR "OUTSTANDING ACHIEVMENT IN BLUES"
The Insomnicas place #5 in the House Of Blue Radio Hour Listener Poll"
The Insomnicas would like to thank all of thier friends and fans for your unbelievable support. Last week they had the honor of performing at The Portland Music Awards and accepting the award for Outstanding Achievement in Blues. The band also placed #5 in the House of Blues Radio Hour Listeners poll for 2009. There are many great bands that deserve these awards and recognition, but it takes great fans to close the deal. Thanks for taking the time to vote and for your continued suport.
Delta Groove Music has received the award for "Label of the Year" in the STAR BLUES Awards 2009 from Star Radio! Star Radio broadcasts 24 hours a day to Cambridge, Ely, Newmarket, Soham, Waterbeach, Duxford and Littleport from state-of-the-art studios in Cambridge city centre. (http://www.star107.co.uk)
Candye Kane was just recently interviewed on KPBS in San Diego where she talked about her battle with cancer and her new CD "SuperHero".
Excerpt:
"San Diego blues singer Candye Kane has a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. Her latest CD is rising high on the national blues charts, she's nominated for a number of music awards, and Kane continues to make a remarkable recovery from pancreatic cancer. Last year, blues singer Candye Kane started to get stomach aches. At first, she blamed the junk food she was eating after late night concerts. But the stomach aches continued, and began to radiate to her back. After numerous trips to emergency rooms, Kane finally got the right diagnosis: pancreatic cancer. "Well, of course when you're told you have pancreatic cancer, you think you're a goner," Kane says. "I mean, I definitely thought my number was up, and that was it. And I actually said to my doctor, well, if it's my turn to go, I sure have had an amazing run."
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AND LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW!
Attention all blues fans and collectors. Delta Groove has just added a few new autographed copies of CDs to our online store. There are only a limited quantity of these selected copies and they are first come first served. Once the limited quantity is sold out they will no longer be available!
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE NEW ADDITIONS
TO THE DELTA GROOVE STORE!
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Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. “Superhero,” the brand new release by the ever courageous and valiant wonder woman Candye Kane, leapt onto the Billboard Blues chart debuting at #10 the week of August 1st. The album has since spent a total of 3 weeks on the charts, most recently coming in at #13 the week ending August 21st. “Superhero” officially hit stores on June 16th and has since been receiving unanimous praise from critics and fans alike. Be sure to catch Candye on tour now as she prepares to soar into your town! |
Rolling in from the West Coast, Portland, Oregon's Insomniacs have really been making waves since the release of their sophomore effort "At Least I'm Not With You" on Delta Groove Music. The band has had a steady string of gigs over the last several months that have taken them as far East as Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. The fourth of July weekend found them back on their home turf performing to a crowd of nearly 20,000 people at Portland's Waterfront Blues Festival resulting in tremendous exposure for the band. "At Least I'm Not With You" landed as the "Hot Shot Debut" at #14 on Billboard's Top Blues Albums during the week of July 25, 2009.
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Candye Kane’s new CD “Superhero” was recently reviewed for an on-air broadcast of The California Report, episode airing July 10-12. The California Report is a statewide radio news program distributed by satellite from the KQED Radio studios in San Francisco, CA and is carried by more than 30 public radio stations from Arcata to San Diego. http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R907101630/c
Elvin Bishop was a featured guest once again on the House of Blues Radio Hour earlier this month. The official website www.thebluesmobile.com has also posted a bonus clip taken from the show featuring Elvin talking about getting older and his unique sound. The hour-long award winning radio program is hosted by Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) and is syndicated to approximately 100 radio station affiliates nationwide. For more information and to listen to past interviews including Elvin Bishop visit http://www.thebluesmobile.com/briefcase/interviews.php#
In other House of Blues Radio Hour news, The Insomniacs were recently chosen as the featured “Blues Breaker” in a broadcast that aired over the 4th of July holiday weekend. Since 1993 the radio program has regularly highlighted a favorite song of the week coined as the “Blues Breaker.” Past Breakers have included artists such as Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Keb’ Mo’ and Buddy Guy.
A1Blues.com has been on a roll lately inviting several artists from the Delta Groove stable to discuss their latest projects on the weekly podcast. Guests featured in the last few months include Candye Kane (show #096), Rod Piazza (show #094), Bobby Jones (show #093) and The Insomniacs (show #086). The show’s weekly format spotlights a chosen artist for the entire duration of the program and includes an interview segment followed by their music. To subscribe to the podcast or listen to archived shows visit http://a1artistspotlight.com
The Bluzndablood Show hosted by our good friend Dave Harrison has run several programs in the last few months on his radio podcast featuring a couple of the latest releases by Delta Groove. Recent shows include “Nothing’s Sweeter Than Candye!” (show #75) with Candye Kane, and “Soul Monster” (show #72) with Rod Piazza. To subscribe to the podcast or listen to archived shows visit http://bluzndablood.com/
B.B. KING’S BLUESVILLE PICKS TO CLICK: THE WEEK OF AUG 15, 2009
- The Insomniacs "At Least I’m Not With You"
- Rod Piazza & MFBQ "Soul Monster"
FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 8, 2009
- Jason Ricci "Done With The Devil"
- Candye Kane "Superhero"
RANDY CHORTKOFF INTERVIEW!
Our good friend
Dave Harrison at
The BluzNdaBlood Show recently ran a very special preview of our upcoming
4th Annual Delta & Eclecto Groove All-Star Blues Revue. (Thanks Dave!) The program features songs from all of the artists scheduled to perform at the event which include
Jason Ricci & New Blood,
The Hollywood Blue Flames,
The Soul of John Black,
The Mannish Boys,
Bobby Jones,
The Jackie Payne Steve Edmonson Band,
Lynwood Slim and
Los Fabulocos. To listen to a podcast of his show simply follow this link -
http://bluzndablood.com/Show69Details.htm
YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER
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Are you a budding critic just looking for the opportunity to share your opinions with the rest of the world? Have you spent endless hours watching Ebert & Roper and think you have what it takes? Well now's your chance to prove your worth as Delta Groove Music has now begun posting fan reviews on our website for mass public consumption. Send your reviews to: reviews@deltagroovemusic.com, and immortalize your passion and expertise in cyberspace for the greater good of mankind. May the force be with you! |
