In the Cool of the the Winter, the Heat of the Blues will be cooking at the Central Iowa Blues Society Winter Blues Fest. Ticket information is available on their website at https://cibs.org/2019/11/2020-winter-blues-fest/. Hope to see you there!!!
Mark your calendar for Toronzo Cannon at our December 28th Rockin In the Blue Year. Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon defies all expectations. The blistering guitarist, soulful vocalist, singular songwriter and city bus driver fuses his muscular, rock-inspired blues guitar playing with his original, keenly detailed slice-of-life songs, blazing his own blues trail. With the 2016 […]
Mark your calendar for Saturday night November 16th, for the Southeast Iowa Blues Society Members FREE event. Iowa Blues man Bryce Janey will be bringing his band to Fairfield, for your dancing and listening pleasure. Bryce has performed onstage with Kenny Neal, Buddy Guy, Tab Benoit, and including the late great “Queen of the Blues” […]
2019 Iowa Blues Challenge – FINALS Sunday, June 16 @ 4PM Des Moines Social Club 900 Mulberry, Des Moines More details coming soon! For its 26th year, the Iowa Blues Challenge (IABC) is returning to its traditional spring time frame. The 2019 Iowa Blues Challenge Finals will be held on Sunday, June 16 at the […]
A BIG thanks to all of the Southeast Iowa Blues Society Members who volunteered to help make this event possible. The Nick Moss band with Dennis Gruenling put on an awesome show, true professional BLUES musicians, no slackers in these great artists. In true Blues fashion, Nick and the band not only gave us an […]
Nick Moss is a BIG Man. Not just physically. He’s a huge spirit, a reservoir of wit and humor, harbors an enormous love of the blues tradition. On top of that a prodigious talent with guitar to go along with a grizzly bear voice that fills the room. When you add world class harp player Dennis Gruenling […]
When we think about great blues there are some obvious places that come to mind; Chicago, Memphis, the delta and Iowa. Yes Iowa! In recent years the list of amazing blues artist coming from the heartland continues to impress, and “The Avey/Grouws Band” is the latest group causing blues lovers to sit up and take […]
Get Ready for the 5th Annual Blue Ribbon Blues Fest, presented by the Southeast Iowa Blues Society. This years Fest will feature great Blues bands from the US and Canada with the featured headliner, the John Nemeth Band. John has received two Blues Music Awards for Soul Blues Male Artist in 2014 and Soul Blues […]
A big thank you to all of the Southeast Iowa Blues Society Members for making our first Member Appreciation event a success. The music of Tony Blew and Bluzillion made for a fantastic evening of music and dancing, and the Best Western had a great tasty short menu at nothing over $5.50 with plenty of […]
