BLUSD held our regional International Blues Challenge at Tio Leo’s on Saturday, July 29th. We had SEVEN bands competing: Zavala Sol, Manzanita Blues, JumpStart, Power Lily, Camel Toejam, Casey Hensley Band, and Bill Grisolia Band. Our judges were Big Al Schneider, Steve Douglas, Ric Lee and Barney Roach. They had their work cut out for [...]
Our Summer Blues Camp takes place August 7-11 at Northminster Church in Clairemont! If you have never experienced this, you don’t know what you’r missing. We work with kids at all levels of music abiity. Many kids return year after year, and some of them have gone on to become professional musicieans! After a week [...]
BLUSD is proud to announce our Blues Summer Camp for kids ages 11-17, taking place 7/29-8/2 at Northminster Church in Clairemont. Campers receive instruction on their instrument of choice, and perform in concert on Friday night. It is the best thing EVER! Enroll your kids now, as spots are limited! Contact our Blues in the [...]
Fuzzy and the Blues Band advanced to the semi-finals, but unfortunately not to the finals. Nonetheless, they performed three spectacular shows that did San Diego proud! Here is the list of this year’s winners in all categories. Congratulations to all of them, and we’ll see you in Memphis again next year!
BEST SELF-PRODUCED CD: Blue Metamorphosis, [...]
Ladies and gentlemen…Fuzzy and the Blues Band (Lenny Rankins) will be representing San Diego at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January 2018…woohoo! Thanks again to all the bands who competed this year: Give Me Back My Wig, Jon Campos & the Incurables, Anthony Cullins, Mike Maldonado JumpStart, John January & Linda Berry, and the Baja Blues Boys! Huge [...]
