TBS' 2024 Triangle Blues Challenge Call for Musicians and Best Self-Produced CD The Triangle Blues Society's Triangle Blues Challenge is a regional competition to select acts that will represent the area in the Blues Foundation’s 40th International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, Tennessee. More than 250 acts from around the world converge on Beale Street to perform before the music industry searching for new talent, with the chance to win recognition and prizes that inc

The soul-blues powerhouse Sugaray Rayford is coming to the Triangle for a special Sunday show – and he's promising a party. "A lot of musicians, the blues notwithstanding, have forgotten how to entertain people," he tells Blues Blast magazine. "Think about groups like Earth Wind and Fire. You loved the songs you heard on the radio, but when you went to see them live, they couldn't just play the song like the record. They needed to kick it up a bit and entertain. Otherwise, i

Howard Levy, a two-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, harmonica player and composer, is set for a May appearance in Durham, N.C., with his new band. He's been playing the diatonic harmonica since the age of 19, developing groundbreaking techniques that allowed him to play it as a fully chromatic instrument. The multi-instrumentalist was soon going far beyond the folk and blues music that the harmonica is usually associated with, as he explored jazz, classical and Middle East

Exactly what is the IBC experience? Worldwide affiliates of the Blues Foundation have their own annual blues challenges, and the winners of solo/duo and band categories head to Memphis to compete in the International Blues Challenge – the largest gathering of blues musicians (and fans) on this planet! It doesn’t matter if you’re a first-timer (or an old-timer like me – this was my 22nd year to attend!), blues musicians and blues lovers from far and wide converge on Beale Str