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Capital Area Blues Society
Blues / Roots Music / Acoustic

Keep BLUES Alive! In Twenty-Oh-Nine!



Lansing / East Lansing (Okemos), Michigan
United States

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   Capital Area Blues Society: General Info
Member Since6/19/2006
Band Websitewww.cabsblues.com
Band Members BLUES / ROOTS / ACOUSTIC MUSIC is what we like...

Calling all Capital area (Lansing/East Lansing), surrounding mid-Michigan and even world wide web (internet); Bands, Musicians, solo artists, record labels, recording studios, Music Promoters, BLUES clubs, BLUES bars, BLUES concert halls, BLUES festivals, BLUES Society members, fans & "basically" ALL those professing to be friends of THE BLUES!

* CALENDAR PROCEDURE! * PROMOTE YOURSELF *

You'll be included in the printed calendar in the Blues Ambassador, the Weekly e-Letter and both CABS websites!

Please "EMAIL" your gigs and events by the 21st of each month to: cabscalendar@comcast.net

Suggested (Timesaving/Helpful) Format for Submitting your GIGS. Thanks!!! Your adoring fans, will appreciate it!!!

Show Date:
Show Time:
Venue:
Cost:
Address:
State:
City:
Zip Code:
Description: (websites, venue phone numbers w/10-digits, etc.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

7th Annual C.A.B.S. “Blues Brawl WINNER”
Stan Budzynski and 3rd Degree going to the I.B.C. in Memphis, February 2010!
C.A.B.S. Local Representatives

Upcoming Shows and Events around the Area:

"Monthly" Calendar for The Green Door - Lansing, MI. (if available to post)

"Monthly" Calendar for The 4-1-1 Club - Kalamazoo, MI. (if available to post)

4-1-1 Club_July 2009

BOTS 2009

"Blues on the Square 2009” - Lansing, MI.

(Thursday's downtown 200 block S. Washington, early evening from 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm)

"Around the Corner, I hear some Blues!"

6/11 - Mike Zito w/opener Twyla & the Nightcrawlers
6/18 - Big James & the Chicago Playboys w/openerGreg Nagy Band
6/25 - Sugar Blue w/opener Stan Budzynski & 3rd Degree
7/2 - OFF (Common Ground @ Adado Riverfront Park)
7/9 - OFF (Common Ground @ Adado Riverfront Park)
7/16 - Larry McCray w/opener Lansing Blues Allstars
7/23 - Gina Sicilia w/opener Kathleen & the Blues Junkies
7/30 - Ronnie Baker Brooks w/opener Frog & the Beeftones
8/6 - John Nemeth w/opener 6 Hands Down

"Get your lawn chairs, bring the kids, hang-out & meet some great new people AND of course hear some GREAT Blues music!"

This event (ABOVE) needs the continuing support of the people and it's FREE! (Yes, folks FREE, no excuse not to go!)

“Blues on the Mall” presented by: WLAV 97 FM - Grand Rapids, MI.
The LAV Budweiser “Blues on The Mall” is brought to you by Lake Michigan Credit Union.

Blues on the Mall - GR
Join us for 10 consecutive Wednesday's Starting June 10th - 6pm at Rosa Parks Circle in Downtown Grand Rapids for World Class Blues shows, all for FREE! The 2009 line-up is set.

June 10: Mike Zito
June 17: Big James & The Chicago Playboys
June 24: Sugar Blue
July 1: Harper
July 8: Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials
July 15: Larry McCray
July 22: Gina Sicilia
July 29: Ronnie Baker Brooks
August 5: John Nemeth
August 12: Tommy Castro

Bluesfest International - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - July 16th - 19th

Blues Fest International Windsor

Nick Nedow Police Officer's Benefit - Green Door Blues Bar & Grill -
Lansing, MI. - July 19th

NICK NEDOW POSTER RF 8x11 bw

Farmfest 2009 - Grass Lake, MI. - July 24th, 25th & 26th

FARMFEST POSTER

Heatstock Festival, Fostoria, MI. - July 24th & 25th

Heatstock2009

1st Annual - Sutton's Bay Blues Fest, Sutton's Bay, MI. - July 25th

blues_fest

Redwood Blues Festival - Redwood Lodge, Flint, MI. - August 21st & 22nd

BluesFest2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

For more information about the IBC, log onto the C.A.B.S. website at http://www.cabsblues.com - http://www.myspace.com/CapitalAreaBluesSociety - the Blues Foundation/IBC website at http://www.blues.org/ibc or contact CABS President Toni Alexander at cabsprez@comcast.net
News about local bands:

Got a question? Contact the C.A.B.S. Prez at: cabsprez@comcast.net
Thanks, for your interest!
Toni, CABS Prez

Influences * BEGINNING A NEW TIME SLOT * Sunday Night, January 18th: WMMQ Blues Cruise sails on from 6 pm to 9 pm, with your Host Scott Allman!!!
* SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS SHOW - BE A SPONSOR IF YOU CAN *

"Click-on" LISTEN LIVE - http://www.wmmq.com (upper right hand corner)
Larry McCray LIVE in the WMMQ-FM 94.9 Studios [song - Broken Promises]

Under Ground Blues Hall of Fame - Induction Award Certificates!

CertificateofInductionCABS

UGBHoF Blues Award

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

Bluesfestivalguide.com

Sounds Like THE BLUES, anyway you call it! Right?
Record LabelVarious Artists/Various Labels
Type of LabelIndie




   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 24 2009 12:00P
FarmFest @ Farmlane Campground Grass Lake, Michigan
Jul 24 2009 4:00P
14th Annual Heatstock Festival Fostoria, Michigan
Jul 25 2009 10:00A
FarmFest @ Farmlane Campground Grass Lake, Michigan
Jul 25 2009 12:00P
14th Annual Heatstock Festival Fostoria, Michigan
Jul 25 2009 12:00P
Suttons’ Bay Blues Fest @ Sutton’s Bay Marina Park Suttons Bay, Michigan
Jul 25 2009 1:00P
Westside Summer Fest [3rd Annual] @ City Lot 9 Lansing, Michigan
Jul 26 2009 10:00A
FarmFest @ Farmlane Campground Grass Lake, Michigan
Jul 31 2009 8:00P
Michigan Princess Riverboat & C.A.B.S. present a "Blues Cruise" Lansing, Michigan
Aug 1 2009 1:00P
I Chews the Blues Music Festival: 4th Annual @ Davison Eagles Club Davison, Michigan
Aug 7 2009 4:00P
Cowpie Blues Festival @ Shagbark Farm (10 miles S.E. of Grand Rapids); Alaska (10 miles S.E. of Grand Rapids), Michigan
Aug 7 2009 4:00P
15th Annual - Lansing JazzFest @ Old Town Lansing, Michigan
Aug 7 2009 6:00P
2009 GREAT LAKES FOLK FESTIVAL East Lansing, Michigan
Aug 8 2009 10:00A
Cowpie Blues Festival @ Shagbark Farm (10 miles S.E. of Grand Rapids); Alaska, MI. Alaska, Michigan
Aug 8 2009 12:00P
2009 GREAT LAKES FOLK FESTIVAL East Lansing, Michigan
Aug 8 2009 12:00P
Car Capital Celebration @ [outside] Green Door Lounge Lansing, Michigan
Aug 8 2009 2:00P
15th Annual - Lansing JazzFest @ Old Town Lansing, Michigan
Aug 9 2009 12:00P
2009 GREAT LAKES FOLK FESTIVAL East Lansing, Michigan
Aug 16 2009 8:00P
Jonny Lang @ Meadow Brook Rochester Hills, Michigan
Aug 19 2009 8:00P
Jonny Lang @ Frederik Meijer Gardens Grand Rapids, Michigan
Aug 21 2009 7:00P
Redwood Blues Fest @ Redwood Lodge Flint, Michigan
Aug 22 2009 12:00P
15th Annual Caribbean Festival @ LCC Campus Lansing, Michigan
Aug 22 2009 1:00P
Redwood Blues Fest @ Redwood Lodge Flint, Michigan
Aug 22 2009 7:45P
6th Annual Detroit River Blues Cruise w/Detroit Blues Society Detroit, Michigan
Sep 4 2009 8:00P
Lubriphonic [from Chicago] @ Billys Lounge Grand Rapids, Michigan
Sep 5 2009 9:30P
Swampnight @ Exchange Lansing, Michigan
Sep 6 2009 2:00P
Harmony Fest [bands in description] @ N. Main St. Three Rivers, MI. Three Rivers, Michigan
Sep 16 2009 7:30P
ZZ Top @ Palace of Auburn Hills Auburn Hills, Michigan
Sep 18 2009 4:00P
OLD TOWN BLUES FEST [Artists Schedule: t.b.a.] Lansing, Michigan
Sep 19 2009 2:00P
OLD TOWN BLUES FEST [Artists Schedule: t.b.a.] Lansing, Michigan
Oct 3 2009 9:30P
Swampnight @ Exchange Lansing, Michigan

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   About Capital Area Blues Society
Founded in July of 1995, the Capital Area Blues Society was designed to help support a growing interest in Blues music within the Lansing, MI. area and beyond.

Throughout the course of the years to follow, CABS has seen many ups and downs both within our own ranks (changes in leadership, membership, activity and so on), but always has supported the Blues music scene within our neighborhoods to the best of our abilities.

We have achieved this through many sources: A Bi-monthly publication: The Blues Ambassador, our "New" MYSPACE website (which you are seeing now), our first & regular web site: Capital Area Blues Society special events such as the mid-Michigan Blues Festival, CABS Blues Brawl (an annual event to select a band to compete in the Internation Blues Challenge), education programs, and, more recently, by becoming involved in the very succesful *OLD TOWN BLUES FESTIVAL*

We have welcomed many, many Blues artists to our community including Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, Junior Wells, Tab Benoit, James Harman, Koko Taylor, Johnny Winter and the list goes on and on for days. For a community that is not typically known to be a haven for Blues music, we have shown that with enough determination and some good fortune, many a great thing are possible.

In 2005, CABS celebrated it's 10th year of existence and sees no signs of slowing down. Another great step that CABS has recently taken is that of filing for our 501(c)3 status. Which essentially enables us to do even more within our community through educational initiatives and hopefully will also assist CABS in obtaining more grant monies to put towards future events. We will hopefully know something on the status of this by the first part of the year.

Take a minute to look around this (satellite) MySpace web site. See what we have to offer. Join our ever-growing membership base and, most importantly, become involved in perpetuating the successes of this organization by supporting the events that we and other organizations present to the Lansing community.

Thanks for stopping by,
CABS Board of Directors

Little known fact: The first dues paying member of the CABS organization was Dennis Cullinan who at that time was playing with Those Delta Rhythm Kings. You can catch Dennis currently with the Bill Malone and the Old Town Blues Band. On the web at Old Town Blues Band

CABS is a Member of the Blues Foundation




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Capital Area Blues Society's Friends Comments
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Dewley-Noted Blues Network





Jul 16 2009 4:19 AM

So good to see all our Lansing Blues-Buddies at The Kalamazoo Fest!!...Great minds think alike!
Pat Lady Guitar Wilder





Jul 15 2009 1:43 AM

www.patwilderlive.com - thank you for the add
Mike Dollins





Jul 7 2009 7:31 PM

http://bluesguitarnews.ning.com/ Where Blues Musicians hang out.
Cutaway Guitar Magazine





Jul 7 2009 7:31 PM



Hola con permiso, dejo el último número de la revista, descarga gratuita, click en la imagen.
Salud
TCBLUZLUVR





Jul 6 2009 3:07 PM

Hey KID!
It was nice to meet you in St. Louis! Hope you enjoyed the weekend and had a happy fourth!

See you soon I'm sure!
Christy aka tcbluzluvr
Vintage Amp Repair





Jul 4 2009 1:41 PM

Visit us at:
www.frankharrison.com


 

Thomas Troussier - Harp Player





Jul 3 2009 2:44 PM

News from normandy......THE BOOGIEMATICS are born !


http://www.myspace.com/theboogiematics

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Mike Dollins





Jul 3 2009 2:44 PM

Keep on jammin’ them blues, it’s music to my ears. The House is a Rockin’ at Odie’s House of Blues with host band Mike Dollins & The Cruize Brothers every Thursday Check out www.bluesguitarnews.ning.com  an all blues network to list your gigs, videos and photos.  See who has joined in the blues social network, and join the fun.  Burn them 6L6's into little sizzling pools of melted glass brothers and sisters.  Peace to the world through blues.
Back2Blues Fest





Jul 3 2009 2:44 PM

Great to meet you,,, looks like like you got it goin on,,
God Bless,
Back to the Blues,
The best little Gospel Blues Fest west of Chicago
SMOKIN' BLUZ





Jul 3 2009 2:44 PM

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DOGFATHER





Jul 3 2009 2:43 PM

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Cash O'Riley





Jun 28 2009 4:25 AM

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The Whiting





Jun 23 2009 6:33 PM

MotorCity Women & Detroit Express

LIVE at UM-Flint Theatre
October 16 at 8pm
Flint, MI

Tickets at TheWhiting.com
DriNKin in LanSinG





Jun 13 2009 8:24 PM







Flynn Amps





Jun 13 2009 8:23 PM

Hi everybody, just here to say our new RORY GALLAGHER HAWK BOOSTER is ready for shipping. Have a listen if you get a chance, All the best, Stevie Flynn.
Art & Blues Association





Jun 13 2009 8:23 PM

Regards!
Batteries Not Included





Jun 13 2009 8:22 PM

Hey, be sure to stop in and listen to our rendition of TI's 'whatever you like' and let us know what you think!  Thanks!

BNI

Rhona Brack





Jun 6 2009 3:41 PM

Thank you for the add!
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Jun 5 2009 4:03 AM

Hey Capital Area Blues Society- It's great to have you in our circle!

We help bands effectively work their Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and more. Get in touch with us. We can help! www.sn4m.com

The Katz Sass





Jun 4 2009 1:49 PM

The Hoochie Coochie Band ( Official Site )





Jun 2 2009 4:00 PM

Hi there bro' Just popped by to say thank you for being my friend. I appreciate your friendship greatly and wish you all the best, and feel free to drop by any time.....much respect...Mojo! PS. Would you like to come and join my mailing list! Come and support the Hoochie Coochie Band....much respect...Mojo! ..
MOJO%20MORGAN
J.A. Etchison





Jun 1 2009 6:56 PM

hey there, Capital Area Blues Society!

well, it has been a long and winding road, and an even longer time coming, but my debut CD, I Remember, is FINALLY HERE!!! YAY!!!!!

to celebrate, American HeartBeat Records(tm) has arranged a FREE DOWNLOAD of Now Is The Time in exchange for a valid email address. Now Is The Time is a brand new, upbeat song I wrote: we are living in turbulent times. suddenly it is okay to be greedy and heartless? no way! a song of hope for our future, a new vision of America and the world.

we have a bunch of exciting things planned to kick this whole thing off, and we need to get a better picture of who our friends are, so the FREE DOWNLOAD form will ask you a few questions, like, what is your country and nearest major city. it all takes maybe 15 seconds.

anyhoo, the FREE DOWNLOAD, and the FUN, begins at www.JAETCHISON.com

I look forward to getting to know you a little better, and I thank you SO VERY MUCH for your friendship and support!

please tell your friends about JAETCHISON.com, and ask them to sign up for the email list, too! FUN things are coming up!!



peace from Atlanta, Georgia, USA,


J.A. Etchison


:)
2009 Music Carnival CANCELLED





May 29 2009 5:10 PM

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Mo’ Doppler And The DoppleGangers





May 29 2009 9:18 AM

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Small Blues Trap





May 28 2009 6:27 PM

Paul Karapiperis - "Fifteen Raindrops In An Ocean Of Blues Tales"

CD available at  www.cdbaby.com/cd/karapiperis

..PAUL KARAPIPERIS: Fifteen Raindrops In An Ocean Of
Blues Tales..

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