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Event Information:
Coming
to Jacksonville Beach, Florida every
year at Springtime is the famous
Springing the Blues music festival,
featuring blues artists and
musicians old and new in one of the
largest celebrations of blues music
in the country. Springing The Blues
is a free outdoor blues music
festival designed to celebrate
America's indigenous musical form
and promote support of the arts. The
three-day oceanfront event features
a number of renowned blues
performers as well as numerous
displays and activities geared for
the entire family. It is held at
Jacksonville Beach, Florida's
Oceanfront SeaWalk Pavilion on the
1st weekend of April each year.
Past
performers at Springing The Blues
have included Larry McCray, Phillip
Walker, Tinsely Ellis, Saffire "The
Uppity Blues Women," Maurice John
Vaughn, Earl King, Mitch Woods And
His Rocket 88's, Susan Tedeschi,
North Mississippi Allstars, Tab
Benoit, Little Jimmy King, Henry
Gray and the Cats, Grammy Award
winner Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown,
Ruby Wilson, Charlie Musselwhite,
Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers,
Robert Jr. Lockwood.
Blues
is a music genre that originated in
African-American communities of
primarily the Deep South of the
United States at the end of the 19th
century from spirituals, work songs,
field hollers, shouts and chants,
and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz,
rhythm and blues, and rock and roll,
is characterized by specific chord
progressions, of which the
twelve-bar blues chord progression
is the most common. The blue notes
that, for expressive purposes are
sung or played flattened or
gradually bent (minor 3rd to major
3rd) in relation to the pitch of the
major scale, are also an important
part of the sound.
The
blues genre is based on the blues
form but possesses other
characteristics such as specific
lyrics, bass lines and instruments.
Blues can be subdivided into several
subgenres ranging from country to
urban blues that were more or less
popular during different periods of
the 20th century. Best known are the
Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago
blues styles. World War II marked
the transition from acoustic to
electric blues and the progressive
opening of blues music to a wider
audience. In the 1960s and 1970s, a
hybrid form called blues-rock
evolved.
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