The Blues Audience newsletter
is New England's only
independent blues publication
dedicated to promoting
the New England blues scene.


The Blues Audience
is designed to help
blues musicians reach the
New England blues audience...
people who love to go out and
see live blues bands
in clubs.

Published by
Across The Board
Graphic Design since 1991.

The Blues Audience
is a member of

• Artist biographies

• Artist obits

• Al Arsenault remembered

• Charlie Harrison
Blues Audience cover artist memorial web page.

Back Issue articles

•The Speakeasy Article by Peter Ward

• Chris Fitz

• Mike Michaels'
Blues Jam at 3-G's Sportsbar, Worcester, MA

• Teo Leyasmeyer memorial article and info about an upcoming concert in his honor.

• Roomful of Blues
in Manchester, NH

• Professor Harp
by Bill Copeland
• Sundays on the
North Shore

• The Love Dogs

•Professor Harp's band at DelVaudo's, Nashua, NH article and pics

• The 15th Anniversary Blues Audience blues party was a blast, click here for pictures.


• The North Atlantic Blues Festival 2006

• Read About bass player Mudcat Ward

• The Legendary Rynborn Blues Club

• Read about
Roomful of Blues

• Doug Aborn, owner of legendary Rynborn Blues Club receives an award from The Blues Audience.

• Check out the article in DOWNEAST magazine about The North Atlantic Blues Festival with an interview with our fearless publisher

• Read about Bob "Satch" Romano's
Award winning Blues Jam.

• The Speakeasy Article by Peter Ward

©2008 Across The Board
Graphic Design, publishers of
The Blues Audience newsletter.
email Diana Shonk- Publisher

The Blues Audience
62 Cricket Hill Rd.

Harrisville, NH 03450

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This is the Big Blues Festival issue-June/July 2008!

I just got back from the North Atlantic Blues Festival!
It was a perfect weekend jam packed with music day and night.

Lurrie Bell was just so cool...

Janiva Magness was sensational. What a show!



I saw Ruthie Foster for the first time,
she brought the crowd to their feet!

click here for a link to a list of New England Blues Festivals

 


More coming about North Atlantic...


• Chris Fitz's new CD!

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Blues Audience t-shirt TODAY!


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We do promotional parties
with our bands,
at clubs all over New England!

Now scheduling for spring-
email the publisher
.

 

There are LOTS of BLUES FESTIVALS coming up this summer.

Plan ahead. Look up where you can go in the newsletter
AND on line at the link below:

 

The Blues Audience radio show is on
Thursdays 2-4pm

at Keene State College in Keene, NH
on air phone:
603-358-8863
with your host, Diana Shonk
streaming live
on WKNH 91.3FM

I feature lots of new blues...
New England blues bands with independent releases
as well as national acts, reporting to Living Blues Magazine top ten Playlist.

I present a live blues events calendar
each show at 3:00 with the info in the newsletter and other info I collect.

Want me to play your blues cd?
I'll give it a listen.
Send it to me!
See the playlists

The EF Lane has a Blues jam on Thursday nights and some young musicians show up. This young man put on a great show with some Stevie Ray Vaughan style guitar. Colin Isotti is very talented, you can tell he has spent a lot of time with that guitar! He has a web site: myspace.com/colinisotti

Last night my niece, Gabrielle Shonk played a song at the jam at Fritz's in Keene, NH it was a bar hopping night for her mother, Sylive, and Gab and me.

Fun in the summer time!

Sunday August 10
The Blues Audience
Mini Blues Festival
and
Fun-draiser!

Featuring Great Groove Theory with
Russell Novotny, Ed Sheer of The Love Dogs, Charlie Scott of The Reprobates,
Lisa Marie, Professor Harp,
Chris Fitz-solo, Jim Murphy
and Carl Querfurth & The Summertime Horns

at 62 Cricket Hill Rd., Harrisville, NH
603-827-3952 1-8pm

Special price for subscribers $20 at the door
Bring a cold dish and get $5 off
Non-subscriber? $30
Serving BBQ from 4:30 on...
BYOB must be 21

Outdoorin the country.
Silent Auction/Yard Sale

Yankee Swap with the grab bag CDs
everyone gets at the door. Swimming nearby.

Call for reservations, pay at the door-
603-827-3952

More Festivals? Click here

April we had a party with Professor Harp at the EF Lane hotel in Keene, NH. Thank you for coming out, we had a great night!



Chris Fitz did a fine job, solo, at The Gardner Ale House, Gardner, MA on May 11th at our party.

Chris was sporting his new Dobro guitar and played it for the first time that night! It sounded amazing! He can really play that guitar alright.

We made some new friends that night and Shirley Frost showed up for the fun! The crowd was very interested in the newsletter and we got a couple two-three new subscribers!

There is nothing that thrills me more than to see someone digging the newsletter:


Read about past parties:
Friday October 19, 2007 party with The Love Dogs... Click on link to pictures)
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Diane Blue and Parker Wheeler
SUNDAY at the Grog in
Newburyport, MA,
October 28, 2007

see pictures.

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Friday Nov 9, 2007 at Gilrein's with my old friends the Gary Bernath Blues Band-
see pictures