Blues Music PodcastsThis fwickimedia mashup contains blues music, blues music news, and blues reviews. Bookmark this page today!In The Beginning....The Vaudeville Years!- July 31, 2008 Vaudeville entertainment for black audiences began in 1909 with an organization called TOBA. Those four letters stood for Theater Owners Bookers Association. Often called by the black entertainers who worked the TOBA circuit: Tough On Black Artists. For many of the artists, trying times to be sure. However, it was an important cog in the machine which brought black entertainment to the rural areas and large cities in the early part of the century. TOBA had more than 100 theaters operating by..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bluepower/~3/349998862/in-beginningthe-vaudeville-years.htm... In The Beginning....Skip James!- July 15, 2008 After several months of deliberation, BluePower has come to the conclusion that it would be beneficial to develop a series which exposed the many fine artists who added so much to the rich heritage of the American folk tradition called The Blues.In order to accomplish our goals in this regard, we needed the product necessary to assemble these pieces of business. Coming to our aid in the form of early Blues product was Mr. Alec Palao and his great company, Ace Records of London, England whom we..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bluepower/~3/336397201/in-beginningthe-birth-of-bluesskip.h... |