blues events pictures

Pictures of past events.

Click here to see pics of the Blues Foundation's
2005 IBC band contest held in Memphis

Click here to see pics of the Blues Foundation's
2004 IBC band contest held in Memphis

March 2004 Blues in Schools program held in Jefferson City at Southwest Elementary & in Columbia at Gentry Middle School.
The program was presented by TJ Wheeler .

Only photos of Southwest Elementary are available.

There were plenty of kids in attendance.
Some lucky ones got selected to play as TJs band.

TJ really got the kids involved.

By the end all the kids (and the teachers)
were up on their feet and dancing!

Here is TJ at the Blue Note in Columbia
playing his electric Diddley Bow.

Here is a backstage shot.

2003 Christmas Party & Jam @ MOJO's

We had a good crowd.
Wille D & The JC Blues Band hosted the jam.

Johnny G receives the $1000 check for winning the October Blues Blast.

Adriene joins the band and plays some great harp.

Wille D takes a stroll to the dance floor.

Three jammers join in, Adriene (l), Rick (c), and Darrel (r).

Joyce sings Down Home Blues.

This was a great party, let's do it again next year!

September 2003 BBQ fundraiser at Schulte's.

This is what most of the day was like....BUSY.

Some of BBQ crew at work.

There were a few well deserved breaks.

Thanks to all the hard working members who donated their time to help make this a success.

September 2003 Blues Jam held at Michigan Place in Jefferson City.

Just getting started.

Some players took a break, some kept playing.

New players rotated in for a new sound.

May 2003 Blues in Schools program held at the Jefferson City Regional Library and in Rolla at the Centre.

Several kids and parents came out to learn about the blues and hear some great music in Jeff City.

Thanks to our guest musicians who put on a nice show.
David Rice on guitar with accompaniment on Sax and Clarinet.

The Rolla event included several musicians playing with David Rice, Jim McBride on harmonica & Jim Henry on bass (both from the Pseduo Blues Band) Jim Sigler (of KMUR) on guitar.

Here is another shot.

Morgan Bearden brought his home made Diddley Bow and gave a talk on how to make one. Yes that's a rare "Altoids" resonator model J

September 2002 Blues Jam, after the membership meeting.

We had some young guitar slingers show up for this jam. Pictured are Skylar, Danny, Ron, Ben, Gary, Charlie.

Same group, plus Berry on acoustic slide.

Each time the Jam grows and sounds better.
Thanks to all the musicians who came and played!

August 2002, Children's Art Expo in Jeff City.

Our tents at the expo.
The band VanHoose is on the left, our tent is on the right.

Michele VanHoose (singer) on the left. Chris (MO Blues prez) on the right, Aubrey VanHoose (drummer) in background.

From L to R, new member Dermot, an unnamed BIG blues fan, and Chris.

From L to R, The little one was a winner of a MO Blues shirt, members Terry, and Bruce.

It was a hot day, but we had cool blues to listen to.
This event was for kids, it was a blues in schools event for us. Met many kids & parents, handed out blues info and gave away some CDs and shirts.

July 2002, Cole County Fair, Blues night!

Getting our Blues table in the beer garden setup.

This is what one of our shirts would look like on you!

Finally set up and ready to go.

The fair was fun, we all got to hear Full Moon, The Kentucky Headhunters, (Yes they did some Blues) and especially The Cobalt Project from KC, they really laid down some good blues for all.
Thanks to all who stopped by to see us and bought some of our new shirts.

July 2002 BBQ at Schulte's IGA in Jeff City.

Our first customers arrive.