Where did the blues come from, anyway?
The Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival is giving festivalgoers a chance to find out more about that question.
New to the festival this year is a series of workshops about three genres of blues music that continue to influence all blues musicians to this day: Chicago blues, Memphis blues and New Orleans blues.
The workshops are led by Jack Lavin, a veteran of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»blues scene and the host of the Yale Hotel Blues Jam for many years. He’ll be joined by Al Foreman on piano, Tim Hearsey on guitar, John Nolan on drums and Jerry Cook and Steve Hilliam on horns for workshops that will be offered free to ticket holders.
Jared Bowles, marketing and sponsorship coordinator, said the workshops are a new idea that’s being tried out to see how audiences respond. He noted that they’ll give people insight into the history of blues music and where it came from – which should give them a new perspective on the music they’ll hear for the rest of the day.
The workshops are being held on site, in the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, with Chicago blues at 3:45 p.m., Memphis blues at 4:45 p.m. and New Orleans blues at 5:45 p.m.
For information, see , or sign up for the workshops through.
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NOTE: This story was updated Aug. 3 with new workshop times.
