The Blues originated on the plantations of the American South— songs about the pain and adversity of life sung by black slaves as they toiled in the fields. As the liberated slaves sang from the South to the North, from blacks to whites, in Memphis first fused with country music to shake the world of rock music, and the gospel to fuse the soul, and then spread to England, becoming the musical source of the Beatles, rolling Stones, Zeppelin and other rock bands, it is called the root of modern pop music, it enlightened more than a generation of listeners.
▲ The Rolling Stones and the Blues legend Buddy Guy
From field music to worldwide influence, although the blues for more than a hundred years are difficult to compete with hip-hop, electronics and other popular trends, but as a culture has become the background of modern pop culture, whether it is music or fashion trends continue to draw nutrition from the blues.
Two months ago, the festival's organizer, Bluesir, organized a self-driving tour of American blues music, from the Blues Feast in Chicago's Millennium Park to the Blues Museum in St. Louis, from Beale Street in Memphis to Tunica's Blues Gate, from Clarksdale, the birthplace of the blues, to jazz bars in New Orleans...
Former U.S. President Barack Obama and the late Blues legend b.b. King
▲ Mojohand band members at the Chicago Blues Festival
The original blues scene experience inspired Bluesir to present the unique charm of blues music and its more than 100 years of history in China.
▲ Three-time Grammy-nominated billy branch leads the Beijing Blues Music Festival
Therefore, Bluesir invited legendary blues musicians at home and abroad to join, not only to bring the world's top performance scene, technical exchange workshop, but also to bring fun and interesting live improvisation - blues mustard conference.
At the same time, Bluesir integrates blues with the music socialization of urban life, vinyl records, video art, blues dance, craft beer, American cuisine, and runs through it with the spirit of free improvisation, and a new festival belonging to blue fans is born - the Beijing Blues Music Festival.
The blues are niche music in China, but have a large number of fans worldwide. There are many large-scale blues festivals like the Chicago Blues Festival every year in the United States and Europe, bringing together blues legends and fans. In Asia, neighboring Japan, South Korea, and even Mumbai, India, and Manila, philippines, have their own blues music festivals every year.
This year, Bluesir has invited a number of legendary blues masters who will definitely shock you, and China will no longer be absent in the territory of the blues world.
Unlike other high-threshold music festivals divided by genre category, for the blues that originated in the fields, you don't have to learn its century-old history, you don't need to understand why the blues are the father of rock and roll, you don't need to understand how many rock stars cast their hearts on the blues, you just need to follow your body, the rhythm of the blues will make you writhe unconsciously, and the whimpering harmonica will make you not want to go home.
The first Beijing Blues Music Festival, initiated by Bluesir labels focusing on the domestic blues rock industry, with the slogan of "hi blues", gathered all lovers of urban life who are sensitive to music and rhythm to come to the Apple community Laifu Music Scene on September 16 for an impromptu music party.