This coming weekend is the 3-day Gator by the Bay (Spanish Landing Park – across from the airport on Harbor Drive) event, featuring blues and zydeco music.  For more details and the huge lineup of bands, check out www.gatorbythebay.com.

Humphries seems to have shifted its calendar (at least for this month) to blues on Mondays, R&B on Thursdays and open mic R&B/soul/gospel/jazz/blues on Wednesdays.  Kona Kai (also on Shelter Island) is undergoing extensive renovations, so there is less blues on the island right now.

Patrick’s Pub is adding more rock to the schedule, which means fewer nights of blues on our calendar.  Yet House of Blues seems to be adding more nights of blues, and this week Catherine Denise out of Antonio, TX will be here with her award-winning blues playing.

Speaking of House of Blues… there is no Wednesday night jam this week.  But there is the 88.3 Jazz blues jam that night from 6:30-9 at Proud Mary’s (up in Kearney Mesa), which used to be in Little Italy.