The Toronto Blues Society is back once again with Blues In The Garden and this year, we have Camilo Restrepo performing Come enjoy our lovely garden at 900 Queen Street West and listen to some live Blues, enjoy a burger, and cool down with a drink in serene atmosphere. Food, light refreshments and alcohol will be available for purchase. Cash only. Our garden will be open from 1-5pm. Camilo Restrepo will be playing 3 sets starting at 1:30 pm. ►Free admission!◄ When: Saturday, September 23, 2023 Where: Toronto Blues Society Office, 900 Queen St W , Outside in the Garden (North-west corner o ..read more

Countdown for the summer 2023 has started and Blues festivals from coast to coast started to reveal their exciting lineups! Save the date for these upcoming Blues festivals:   April Saguenay Jazz & Blues Festival | April 26-30 | Chicoutimi, QC Hornby Island Blues Workshop | April 29-May 6 | Hornby Island BC May Smokestack Festival | May 26-May 27 | Hamilton ON Mel Brown Music Festival and Symposium| May 26-28 | Kitchener ON   June Paisley Blues Festival | June 2-4 | Paisley, ON Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival | June 2-4 | Downtown Orangevil ..read more

Congratulations to Josephine Matyas & Craig Jones: Their book Chasing the Blues: A Traveler’s Guide to America’s Music won Bronze in the 2022 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition from the Society of American Travel Writers! Named for acclaimed travel journalist, Lowell Thomas, the prestigious award “honours works in more than two dozen categories, including print, digital, audio, video and photography.” Grand River Anniversary Show: The Grand River Blues Society is holding their Annual General Meeting & 19th Anniversary Show at Stonewalls Restaurant in Hamilton on Sunday, Octobe ..read more

Road To Memphis Toronto Blues Society is looking for its next representative at The International Blues Challenge. This year the IBC will once again take place between January 24-28, 2023 on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee and musicians can apply to compete for the “band” or “solo/duo” category. Toronto contest date for the IBC will be announced soon. Select bands MUST be available to perform at both the preliminary competition in Toronto and the finals in Memphis. Deadline for submission of interest to Toronto Blues Society is Sunday, September 24 by midnight. Please send an email to info ..read more

The Toronto Blues Society and Union are bringing Free Live Blues to Toronto’s Union Station every Monday at Noon this Summer, from June 27 through August 22, 2022   June 27 – Brooke Blackburn July 4 – Jack de Keyzer July 11 – Sugar Brown July 18 – Jenie Thai July 25 – TBA * August 1 – Harrison Kennedy August 8 – TBA * August 15 – TBA * August 22 – Angelique Francis   *More acts will be added to the schedule as they are confirmed, and full details of this series will be posted on-line (coming soon)     Union Station Website ..read more

Angelique Francis will host the Maple Blues Awards June 20 at Koerner Hall ..read more

Countdown for the summer 2022 has started and Blues festivals from coast to coast started to reveal their exciting lineups! Save the date for these upcoming Blues festivals: May Hornby Island Blues Workshop | May 4-10 | Hornby Island BC June Paisley Blues Festival | May 31-June 2 | Paisley, ON Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival | June 3-5 | Downtown Orangeville, ON Pender Harbour Blues Festival | June 3-5 | Pender Harbour, BC Beaumont Blues and Roots | June 17-18 | Beaumont, AB Edmundston Blues Festival | June 17-18 | Edmundston, NB Stratford Blues & Ribfest  ..read more

  Mako Funasaka Archives returns! Looking back at important blues moments, performances, and milestones, our New, 4th episode of Talkin’ Blues will debut on Monday, February 28 at 8 pm eastern time Courtesy of Mako Funasaka, this episode will feature a bundle of 4 great artists: an intimate performance by Miss Angel & Mel Brown, an interview and live performance by Johnny Rawls and an interview with the legendary Hubert Sumlin. The video runs for approximately 30 minutes and will be available on TBS Youtube Channel and Facebook and will be available for re-streaming on both of the ab ..read more

Talkin’ Blues: Mako Funasaka has posted the 300th episode of the Talkin’ Blues Podcast (http://www.talkinblues.com/) featuring an interview with American guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter and producer Steve Vai (solo artist, Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth Band & Whitesnake.). Mako writes, “A number of years ago, I almost had the chance to interview Steve Vai when he was in Toronto for a week. When it looked like it might happen, I thought it would be cool to create a podcast around an interview with him. So, I arranged to interview Andrew Galloway and Shakura S’Aida to see how it would ..read more

RIP Harpdog Brown 1962 – 2022 ..read more