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2010 Keeping the Blues Alive Recipients by Monica Yasher
Keeping the Blues Alive Awards
Along with the International Blues Challenge, the Blues Foundation presents the Keeping the Blues Alive (KBA) Awards. This award is given to individuals and organizations that have been recognized for their various efforts in the Blues world. Categories are determined on a yearly basis.
On Saturday, January 23, 2010, at the Doubletree Hotel in Memphis, TN, the Blues Foundation will present the 2010 KBA Awards during a recognition brunch. Individuals or groups are recognized and awarded the KBA by a select panel of Blues professionals.
Typically, a KBA is awarded to an individual or organization only once.
If you wish to attend this event, you must purchase the IBC Big Blue ticket package available online at www.blues.org or calling 901-527-2583.
Congratulations to the 2010 Keeping the Blues Alive Award recipients:
Art and Photography: Michael Maness, Memphis, Tennessee
Blues Club: Bradfordville Blues Club, Tallahassee, Florida
Blues Organization: Connecticut Blues Society
Education: Spencer Bohren, New Orleans, Louisiana
Festival: Heritage Music Blues Festival, Wheeling, West Virginia
Festival International: Piazza Blues, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Historical Preservation: Eric Leblanc, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
International: Finnish Blues Association, Helsinki, Finland
Journalism: David Fricke, Rolling Stone, New York, New York
Literature: Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson, Tom Graves, Memphis, Tennessee
Manager: Pat Morgan, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Print Media: Block, Almelo, Netherlands
Producer: Andy McKaie, Universal Music Enterprises, Santa Monica, California
Promoter: Pozitif Productions, Istanbul, Turkey
Publicist: Richard Flohil, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Radio Commercial: Charles Evers, Jackson, Mississippi
Radio Public: Rick Galusha, Omaha, Nebraska
Record Label: Crosscut Records, Bremen, Germany
Visual Broadcast: Film, Television and Video: Pocket Full of Soul.
The IBC weekend, commencing today is sponsored in significant part by ArtsMemphis, bandVillage, Beale Street Merchants Association, Budweiser and its local distributor D. Canale Beverages, FedEx, Gibson Guitars, Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau, Smokin Bluz, Tennessee Arts Commission, and Tennessee Film, Entertainment Commission.
Media sponsors include Beale Street Caravan, Big City Rhythm and Blues, Blues Festival Guide, Blues Revue, BluesWax, Downtowner, House of Blues Radio Hour, Living Blues, Memphis Flyer, WREG-TV, and Sirius XM Satellite Radio B.B. King’s Bluesville.
