San Diego Blues Calendar: Mar 10 – 16

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Alice

If you want to hear blues this week, the best days are during the week Monday – Thursday, and there are jams on each of those nights too.

Thursday night at House of Blues from 7-11pm, Kevin Cooper will be playing on bass with the Sully Sullivan band. They aren’t exactly blues – more rock with some R&B, but they are still great and there is an open bar for the first 1000 drinks!!

It is a very light week for Shelter Island, with no blues on the weekend at either Humphrey’s or Kona Kai. Still no word on when Kona Kai will shut down for renovations, but I believe it is still planned for this Spring sometime.

San Diego Blues Calendar: Mar 3 – 9

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Alice

It’s Mardi Gras in the gaslamp!, and Annette DaBomb & her Bomb Squad will be playing at the House of Blues Tuesday night as part of the festivities.

There is plenty of other live blues around town this week, so I hope to see you out there!! And please don’t forget to tip our hard-working musicians.

Blues Calendar: Feb 24 – Mar 2

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Alice

In addition to what’s on the calendar this week, there is the weekly jam at House of Blues on Wednesdays 7-11pm. Hope to see you there!

Blues Calendar: Feb 17-23

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Alice

This week we have another good line up of blues jams and bands around town.

In addition… at the House of Blues, Lafayette Blues Band will be playing Thursday night 7-11 and the weekly Wednesday night jam is also happening there from 7-11. Hope to see you there!

Blues Calendar: Feb 10-16

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Alice

This week there is a good line up of blues all around the downtown area, and most of it is in the Gaslamp. Tiffany Jane is new to me, and I’m not really sure how to peg her blues sound, so I’m going with her blues/pop listing. She sounds more like Amy Winehouse or Norah Jones to me, so not quite sure that is really blues. Let me know what you think.

There is also a full week of jams to check out. Monday at SpeakEasy, Tuesday at Patrick’s, Wednesday at House of Blues free stage 7-11 (not on schedule since don’t offer discount), Thursday at Spaguetteria, and Saturday afternoon at SpeakEasy with young adults who are really talented and great blues musicians.

Blues Calendar: Feb 3 – 9

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Alice

This week there is more blues happening at Kona Kai and at House of Blues, which isn’t on the schedule since they don’t offer the drink discount. There is the weekly BLUSD jam (Blues Lovers United of San Diego – go to www.blusd.org to support our local blues society!) on Wednesday nights from 7-11pm and this week Lafayette and his blues band will also be on the HOB free stage on Friday night starting at 7pm.

Jams are also happening Monday night at the SpeakEasy, Tuesday at Patrick’s and Thursday at Spaguetteria in Little Italy. And up at Croce’s Park West in Banker’s Hill, Fuzzy Rankins Blues Band will be playing Friday night starting at 8pm.

Blues Calendar: Jan 27 – Feb 2

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Alice

It is another lite week for blues around downtown, but there is still blues every night. There is also the House of Blues jam on Wednesday from 7-11pm, which isn’t on the calendar.

As I mentioned last week, Jimmy Love’s is closed until the spring and will reopen under a new name. We won’t know until they reopen if blues bands will playing there again or not.

Croce’s moved to Bankers Hill (now Croce’s Park West at 5th and Olive), and this week Fuzzy Rankins’ band will be playing there on Wednesday (7-11) and Lady Dottie & the Diamonds will be there on Friday (8-midnight). I should be able to get them on the calendar next month, but for right now Croce’s is holding off on the calendar drink discount as they get re-established.

Blues Calendar: Jan 20 – 26

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Alice

In addition to what is on the calendar here, there is always the BLUSD jam at House of Blues on Wednesdays from 7-11pm.

I will be away this week in Memphis (cold weather here I come) at the International Blues Challenge, cheering for our San Diego blues society’s (BLUSD) IBC champion, Fuzzy Rankins Blues Band. We all leave tomorrow, so you can catch Fuzzy tonight at the SpeakEasy before he goes. I will keep you posted on how they are doing during the week!

Jimmy Loves – change in schedule

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Alice

I just heard that Jimmy Love’s will be closing for renovations this week. I don’t know for how long. As a result, Annette DaBomb won’t be playing there this Wednesday, although I understand Fuzzy Rankins will still be there for the dinner hour (6-8:45) on Friday – although that could change too.

Blues Calendar: Jan 6 – 12

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Alice

There are a lot of blues bands and jams this week across the downtown area.

Jams are happening Monday at the SpeakEasy, Tuesday at Patrick’s, Wednesday at the House of Blues (7-11pm – but not on the schedule since they don’t offer drink discount), and Thursday at Spaguetteria. All the jams are very different and draw their own unique mix of musicians. So check out more than one of the jams if you can. You never know who might show up from out of town or one of our local bands!

Also not on the schedule is Lafayette Blues band at the House of Blues Voodoo Lounge from 7-11pm on Friday.

For the drink discount, print out and show this calendar to the bartender. Enjoy!!

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