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Summer brings out the biggest stars on the New Jersey jazz-and-blues circuit, making July a particularly busy month.

The Comerica Cityfest takes place just outside the Fisher Building. DETROIT - Comerica Cityfest 2009, formerly Tastefest, is setting the stage to deliver a festival that's as big and bangin' as ever, with the best tunes and tastes in Detroit from Wednesday, July 1 to Sunday, July 5. The five-day, FREE event is turning 21 this year and is of age to ...

Detroit -- With the scent of funnel cakes in the air and the sun shining overhead, hundreds of residents strolled along the streets of the New Center area Friday enjoying the 21st annual Comerica Cityfest 2009.

It's another busy day at the Taste. American Girl, Buddy Guy, Hell's Kitchen finalist, Steve Dahl...I could go on, but it's probably best if I just let you read it for yourself! Cooking Corner Once you've been through Gordon Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen the Taste is a breeze.

Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam play the Sherwood Court stage Thursday night, the opening evening of the ROTHBURY Music Festival.

Lock five skilled blues musicians from the heart of Chicago in a room and ask them to jam for a couple of hours, and what do you get? Hopefully an all-out blues-soul-funk experience - and in the case of Chicago newcomers Lubriphonic , that's exactly what's delivered.

This year's Taste of Chicago has some notable musical acts. There's Counting Crows .

The SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival got off to a bluesy start on Friday thanks to an old friend.

Saturday Rock on the Range w/ Billy Talent, Rancid, Rise Against, Anvil, Theory of a Deadman, Shine Down, Hollywood Undead, Blue October, Inward Eye and other special guests Canad Inn Stadium 1465 Maroons Road $29.50 - $114.50 Rock on the Range is the first major outdoor concert at the stadium in nine years.

IT'S called the Jazz Winnipeg Festival, but the official kickoff to the summer festival season is about more than just jazz.

It was hard to miss John and Paige Shutlock's arrival at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts one evening earlier this week.

If any one date was likely to remind Derek Trucks that he has graduated from the role of musical whiz kid to a seasoned artist, then it might have been his recent 30th birthday.

Mountain Stage kicked off FestivALL Friday night with an electrifying blues concert at The Clay Center featuring Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials, Shemekia Copeland, Duke Robillard and an extended set by the legendary Buddy Guy.

'It's like losing John Coltrane, or Ray Charles' Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, who passed away on Friday, was an inspiration in more ways than one for Derek Trucks, a rock guitar phenomenon with a growing, global fan following.

News entry published on 17 June 2009 / Last modified on 19 June 2009 [Updated] On 27 July 2007, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood performed a short, electrifying set at Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival outside of Chicago.

Five-time Grammy award winning blues and rock singer and guitarist Buddy Guy is set to perform at the Savannah Civic Center's Johnny Mercer Theatre on June 23.

Jonny Lang went down to the crossroads - and found a cross. Maybe it's an oxymoron, a devoutly Christian electric blues guitarist, but Lang - who proudly "came to Jesus" four years ago - gave up booze and drugs, not his outrageously wicked way with a Telecaster Thinline.

Jun 12, 2009 3:33 pm US/Central Funeral services were planned for late Chicago blues legend Koko Taylor, a day after musicians paid tribute at a wake to the woman known as "Queen of the Blues." The Rev.

Bluesman Buddy Guy gets up early every morning -- no mean feat for a man who has spent more than 50 years in smoky clubs and bars playing guitar.

Koko Taylor's life in the blues is a musical road map of the genre. Born near Memphis, Tenn., she left farm country as a young woman to start a new life in Chicago.