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The Highland Jazz & Blues Festival is an annual music and arts event that takes place in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. [1] It is held on the third Saturday of September at Columbia Park, a city park located in the historic Highland neighborhood. The festival was created by the Highland Area Partnership, Inc. (HAP) in 2003.
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Highland Jazz & Blues Festival: 2003 present Shreveport [15] Memphis In May International Festival 1977 present Memphis [16] King Biscuit Blues Festival: 1986 present Helena [17] Long Beach Blues Festival: 1980 2009 Long Beach: Old Town BluesFest: 1994 present Lansing [18] Orange County Blues Festival: 1993 intermittent Dana Point [19 ...
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band. The Rides. Formerly of. G3. Website. kennywayneshepherd .net. Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist. He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success as a blues rock artist.
Thomas returned to Shreveport in the late 1950s and in the mid-1960s made recordings on his Red River label. His career spanned over 60 years – in 1994 he appeared at the Long Beach Blues Festival. The Louisiana bluesman, Ramblin' Thomas, was his brother, and fellow Louisiana blues guitar player, Lafayette Thomas, was his nephew.
Bluebird. King. Bluesville. Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 [1] [2] – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter. He was a pioneer of jazz guitar and jazz violin and is recognized as the first to play an electrically amplified violin. [3] [4]
Nicknamed "The Thing" for his acrobatic playing style, [1] Thomas was influenced by his uncle Jesse Thomas, [1] and T-Bone Walker. [3] Writing in Living Blues magazine in July 1977, Tom Mazzolini, director of the San Francisco Blues Festival said, "Unquestionably the finest guitarist to emerge from the San Francisco-Oakland blues scene, there is hardly a guitarist around here today who doesn't ...
Humor & Harmony Festival will be held Aug. 8 through 11, and will include comedy shows, music shows, classic car shows and a celebrity basketball tournament in the heart of Shreveport.