Pittsburgh blues

Rhiannon Giddens. photo: Dan Winters.

Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival Brings It Online; Doors Open Pittsburgh Tours (Sat., 10/3/20)

Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival, Doors Open Pittsburgh

Dwayne Dolphin

Howlin’ for Food, Music, Drink at Wolfies

Wolfies executes an original concept that ties together Pittsburgh’s collegiate, culinary, and musical heritage.

Dave Grohl

August Concert Preview: Succulent Sounds Ripe for the Picking

Squeeze out every last bit of juice from the 2015 summer concert season.

Justin Townes Earle in Town at Mr. Smalls; Islands Wash Ashore at Altar Bar (CPs Thurs., 9/18/14)

Justin Townes Earle, Islands, The Bronx Wanderers, Pittsburgh Pirates

Tesla Set to Spark Stage AE; Flow Tribe Ready to Get Down at Thunderbird (CPs Thurs., 8/14/14)

Tesla, Flow Tribe, 103rd Associated Artists Exhibition

Joe Grushecky to Jam Rivers; C Street Brass Has “No Limits” (CPs Thurs., 7/24/14)

Joe Grushecky, C Street Brass, Trigger Happy

Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival Kicks Off; Everclear and Soul Asylum at AE (CPs Fri., 6/20/14)

Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival, Everclear and Soul Asylum, Buckwheat Zydeco, Night Life, Jeff Jimerson and Airborne

2 Chainz Brings the Beat to the Benedum; Grouplove ‘Spreading Rumours’ at Stage AE (CPs Sun., 3/23/2014)

2 Chainz, Group, Rory Block, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Sampler, No Bad JuJu CD Release Party

Club Café Hosts Rhett Miller; Good Brother Earl Plays Jergel’s (CPs Thurs., 1/16/14)

Rhett Miller, Good Brother Earl, Pittsburgh Restaurant Week, Union Pig and Chicken

The Blues Orphans jamming at James Street gastropub & speakeasy.|Hill Jordan (foreground) and Dr. Nelson Harrison (background) playing some brass notes.

New Blues Done the Old Way: Blues Orphans Host CD Release Party

At its inception, blues was a folk music, performed by working-class nonprofessional musicians who picked up a guitar after coming home and taking off their muddied overalls. Most major artists of the genre worked blue-collar jobs for years before they reached any measure of success. Muddy Waters drove a truck; Howlin’ Wolf was a cropper;…

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