tonight we bring you footage from our live blue monday sessions at eighty eight keys in seattle with a red house featuring jimmy holden and tim scott from their reputations bringing you the latest blues news and blue so do it's a real music for real people blues to do t v your connection to blues in the pacific northwest and beyond with the winner of over twenty seven blues awards and still singing the blues marley walker we're live here in front of the central saloon seattle's oldest saloon and yes they're doing more blues these days so we thought we'd do our first five minutes tonight show you from the central they have sixteen tons of nine pound call on the thirty which would be tonight we're recording this right they also have ray rivera band we just recorded them for our t v show great band i love sarah singing she is awesome anyway saratoga back on the vocals and the ray are very bad here every other thursday start blues traditions down here pioneer square nice to see that we did our first this airs on the third we already did our first queen of the blue showcase but look for number two to be on april twelfth coming up at the royal room in columbia city brand new place more details to come red house going to back up three women and i believe it's in that table worn valerie rose i'm still working on the third one but we'll get back to you about that all right our calendar tonight on blues to do t v thank you very much starting pretty much on the first day of spring or close anyway j c brooks in the uptown sound i think we're going to play some of them and they are playing oh i got it right here on the thirtieth at el corazon in seattle j c brooks in the uptown sound that's  calling it me and soul all right also on the blues to do calendar want to mention there's a new jam session into coma it's a chicago blues jam was originally to do it again he's got kenny pryor on the bass cesspool really and welcoming doug stewart they're doing a date thirty eight stone gate every sunday night into coma a new jam we have jams in the area also a new musical the color purple plays at two pm in tacoma at the musical playhouse starting the eighteenth of march so they're going through into april coming back we're going to play some etta james music in the background here because it's a tribute to her but it's a benefit for candy cane candy cane getting a re re check with that cancer she was dealing with a few years back but are they came back she's still battling with that she's been in the fight but needs a little financial support so portland coming together on april first a benefit for candy cane tribute to edit james should be a fine fine show able first again on our blues to do calendar in portland and i got the place is the alberta rose theater in portland oh it is a blow right well almost yeah we're getting real close here and lots of good stuff coming in april it's also the beginning of festival season so you'll see more and more outdoor things on your blue suit calendar here soon john clear  i don't know calling it in an accord is owned by the same folks who own the rockfish way to go guys opening up a new room that's being bullish on the economy is all right the i c brothers going to be here april thirteenth at the show where center in kent along with some others townsend country blues festival this year so young artists get your applications in you might be able go for free yes they're working on it and i will be talking more about that with people from the blue society doing some good work there all right i think i've told you just about everything except for the week for the blues the record industry seems to be bragging about sopa this is something to check out because it's really a dicey issue this many sides to the story of copyright issues and i will be exploring that in the future but protect your congressman or look on the internet about the issue make sure we're not selling out make sure that copyrights are not getting out of control is one way to put it all right we got more look for keep it in center having a benefit for the handicapped challenge a blues festival with jerry miller cody rentis tim parish and the beer breakers and cloud chowder two pm again he put into the center on the thirty first that's march on still time out march and april can always check more a triple w w's to dot com it's mariner season the mariners start twenty eight twenty nine they were just in japan i guess starting their season so look for america schedule and always check for that for your parking needs when you come to see blues and pioneer square all right we'll see on monday is down to eighty eight keys for another session let's see what's coming up on this and should be in april oh i got it right here oh yeah this is a really fun guy i'm looking forward to this because  annie o'neill had to go debut for the voice so she had to reschedule but we got a really fun guy recommended by gary brisky so i haven't seen him yet but looking forward to joe oh you remember what his name was oh man i just wrote it down to say honey bear joe anyway looking forward to i really am it sounds like the real thing acoustic pretty straight up traditional chicago blues at eighty cases monday we have a great month of people coming down in april for a monday sessions and of course more blues here at the central where we're sitting right now it's a little chilly still but it's springtime here in seattle published to t thanks for two minutes real music for real people and here comes our footage for the week what is it red house we house this week i think so and they're going to be backing up the band the women for our showcase number two on april twelfth mark a calendar is more blues to do than you can even handle all right marlee walker checking out the see you next time your music us a letter call or e mail blues new box to two nine five seattle washington nine eight zero two two phone number two zero six three two 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