There are 3 article(s) tagged Blues:

• August 2026

  • Blues ‘enthusiast’ Morgan Freeman’s album covers 100 years of the genre

    The “Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience” comes to the Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center at the University of Memphis on Saturday, Sept. 26. 

    By The Associated Press August 31, 2026

• July 2021

  • ‘Blue’ sounds: Rodd Bland brings his dad’s music back to Beale

    Second-generation Memphis musician Rodd Bland, the son of late soul/blues great Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, pays tribute to his father’s sound, on a new tribute album and a Beale Street concert. 

    By Ezra Wheeler July 16, 2021

• January 2019

  • On the scene at the International Blues Challenge

    Bands and solo/duo acts from Memphis and Mississippi to the Mediterranean and all points in-between competed Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the annual International Blues Challenge on Beale. Competition continues through Saturday.

    By Chris Herrington January 25, 2019