Blues Foundation
The Blues Foundation is an American foundation dedicated to promoting and preserving the blues . The foundation, founded in 1980, is based in Memphis, Tennessee . It is associated with 165 organizations.
It presents the Blues Music Awards annually , up to 2006 Handy Awards , the most important music prizes in blues music, and operates the Blues Hall of Fame . In addition to these prizes for musicians themselves, it also awards the Keeping the Blues Alive Awards , which are given exclusively to non-musicians who have made a contribution to preserving the blues tradition.
Once a year it organizes the International Blues Challenge on Beale Street in Memphis . There is both a conference for the various blues societies in the USA and a band competition for bands without a record deal. The foundation's promotion of young talent also includes a blues-in-school program and the HART Fund (Handy Artist Relief Trust), a social fund named after WC Handy to support artists.
The foundation dates back to a number of earlier regional and local blues foundations and societies and was the first such organization at the national level. It is based in WC Handy's former home on Beale Street. In 2003, her budget was about $ 1 million a year.
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- ^ Blues Foundation: About
- ↑ a b Steve Cheseborough: Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues , University Press of Mississippi, 2009, ISBN 1604731249 , page 36
- ↑ a b David Evans: The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues , Perigee, 2005, ISBN 039953072X , p. 55
- ↑ Jeffrey Klineman: 'Analytical' Director of the Blues Foundation Plays It by Ear ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: The Chronicle of Philanthropy , April 3, 2003
