Publisher's Notes

June brings us outdoors with more sun and outdoor blues activities including Fiddletunes in Port Townsend, plus Dr. John & The Neville Brothers at Ste. Michelle Winery. We also prepare for the great Portland Waterfront Blues Festival over the Fourth of July weekend, which attracts lots of blues to Seattle as well, plus there’s B.B. King, and then Ritzville, plus Winthrop R&B, plus Mt. Baker and the Port Townsend Country Blues Festival and many more events with blues along the way throughout the state (read the calendar items, especially weekends), and into Canada at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, and in Salmon Arm B.C.!

Blues To Do-TV, our weekly TV show on cable and live-streaming throughout the world is produced by a terrific team of volunteers, most of whom have given up more than Friday nights to help make it happen to plan sound/lights/digital images, teleprompter, duplication. I book the guests every week, come up with a few questions, get permissions and handle mailings and other details during the week. It’s a blast! Let us know if you have some time to get involved.

On June 27th Blues To Do hosts another After Blues To Do-TV Show Jam at 9pm & 11pm(21+) at Egan’s Ballard Jam House on Market Street, with our TV guests on Robbie Jordan and South Sound Youth Jazz. Maxing out at a capacity of 70 people with the doors open, the music is mostly acoustic, with a baby grand piano, great sound & lights and a terrific atmosphere in this former photography studio. We hope to cover our duplication and mailing expenses for the TV show with these after TV show jams, featuring select TV show guests regularly.

Seems sad to report an old friend is gone when it is a club but this one had personality. The Corner Inn, in West Seattle was abruptly closed on Tuesday, June 3rd for some kind of yet unknown development. This was a longtime room for some of the finest calibur NW blues (and other) bands with no cover, such as Kathi McDonald & The Guilty Pleasures or Jeff & The Jet City Fliers, or The Al Rowe Project. I know there are so many more names but the fact is no matter how much of a dive it was, the room provided a community space where the blues could take place with no obstacles so anyone, and I mean anyone, could walk in that door at any time. Going to the Corner Inn meant all of humanity may be there with you, and when smoking was allowed it was full of it. Now that I think of it, The Corner Inn had a unique way of representing America, where we are free to drink, smoke and dance ‘til wee hours, or at least 1:30am or so. But it’s demise is also what’s going on all over Seattle too. Read more on this subject from Hallie Kuperman, who operates The Century Ballroom on Seattle’s Capitol Hill.

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This issue is dedicated to Franklin Bouvee and his wife Ruth.

Livin’, Lovin’ & Playin’ The Blues,
Marlee Walker
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