Here are some suggested programs we hope to see organized around the world on International Blues Music Day!
Organize a blues concert:
Ideal for blues societies, venues, promoters:Blues Gig - 1-3 bands - local, regional or national acts.
Blues Revue concert - 3-10 blues acts featuring the best regional and local acts available.
Blues Festival - Blues music festival featuring multiple acts. A festival should include at least one national touring act.
Blues Dancing - organize a blues dancing event with live blues or with a DJ.
Incorporate 1 or more of these ceremonies at your concert event:
A toast to the blues - at a designated time blues fans around the world will share a toast to the Blues -
("A toast to celebrate International Blues music Day. A designated day to celebrate and remember the many great pioneers, musicians and practitioners of the blues.
To all the blues brothers and sisters who are gone, to the incredible community and pool of present day talent and to the future of blues music from generation to generation. From the U.S. to (your country) and everywhere in between...together we will always keep the blues alive".)
(IBMD CD Sampler: One bourbon, one scotch and one beer, drink for the brothers who are gone, Six Strings Down, Playing with my friends etc...)
Ideal for blues societies, venues, promoters:Blues Gig - 1-3 bands - local, regional or national acts.
Blues Revue concert - 3-10 blues acts featuring the best regional and local acts available.
Blues Festival - Blues music festival featuring multiple acts. A festival should include at least one national touring act.
Blues Dancing - organize a blues dancing event with live blues or with a DJ.
Incorporate 1 or more of these ceremonies at your concert event:
A toast to the blues - at a designated time blues fans around the world will share a toast to the Blues -
("A toast to celebrate International Blues music Day. A designated day to celebrate and remember the many great pioneers, musicians and practitioners of the blues.
To all the blues brothers and sisters who are gone, to the incredible community and pool of present day talent and to the future of blues music from generation to generation. From the U.S. to (your country) and everywhere in between...together we will always keep the blues alive".)
(IBMD CD Sampler: One bourbon, one scotch and one beer, drink for the brothers who are gone, Six Strings Down, Playing with my friends etc...)
_Organize a blues workshop:
Ideal for music stores, record shops, educational institutions
- Speaker
- In house blues performance with Q&A.
Ideal for music stores, record shops, educational institutions
- Speaker
- In house blues performance with Q&A.
Blues on the radio:
Additional or specialized dedicated blues programming on your blues or rock station or programs.
Announcing upcoming IBMD and events.
Additional or specialized dedicated blues programming on your blues or rock station or programs.
Announcing upcoming IBMD and events.
Blues in the news:
Additional or specialized, dedicated blues content, announcing upcoming IBMD and events as well as reviewing events in your magazines, newspapers, blogs, websites and other media outlets.
Additional or specialized, dedicated blues content, announcing upcoming IBMD and events as well as reviewing events in your magazines, newspapers, blogs, websites and other media outlets.
Organize a media event:
Ideal for musicians, promoters, students
-Get the blues in the news: (at least in the campus news). Organize a blues event (or create a media event at your college)
to get news coverage. From an article, review, interview, press conference, performance or art installation to a full on Blues Parade or anything else you can think of to get the blues in the news.
Ideal for musicians, promoters, students
-Get the blues in the news: (at least in the campus news). Organize a blues event (or create a media event at your college)
to get news coverage. From an article, review, interview, press conference, performance or art installation to a full on Blues Parade or anything else you can think of to get the blues in the news.
Organize a blues music exchange:
Ideal for musicians, promoters individuals with good organization skills.
Ideal for musicians, promoters individuals with good organization skills.
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The IBMD was initiated in 2012 by blues musician Johnny Childs with music industry and UN backing to encourage:
Dear Sir,
The first International Blues Music Day, organised by the IBMD board and NYC Blues Society and supporting partners and presenters, will be held on the 1st Saturday in August in accordance with the resolution taken at the 1st vote of the IBMD board of directors and first 13,000 petition members in consultation with all available music industry representatives and UNESCO international ambassadors.
The intention of this day is to encourage: hundreds of blues events to take place around the world on a single day to celebrate and raise awareness of blues music.
In order to put these intentions into practice, our international organizations and national committees are invited to consider the following plan of action:
Music Events:
Radio and television programmes
The struggle against the pollution of the sound environment
In order to realize these activities, it is essential that we utilize all the means at our disposal: radio and television, concert societies, venues, bars, amateur societies; a great many different types of localities should be used to their best advantage: concert halls theaters, cultural centers, universities, churches, schools, factories, as well as in the open air: in parks, gardens, and stadiums.
We hope that this first International Blues Music Day will constitute a major achievement among our' activities, and that it will become an annual event for the propagation of greater knowledge of our art, and for the strengthening of the bonds of peace and friendship between peoples through music.
Yours faithfully,
Johnny Childs/Executive Director
The IBMD was initiated in 2012 by blues musician Johnny Childs with music industry and UN backing to encourage:
- the promotion of our musical art among all sections of society
- the application of the UNESCO ideals of peace and friendship between peoples, of the evolution of their cultures, of the exchange of experience and of the mutual appreciation of their aesthetic values
- the promotion of the activities of IBMD, its international member organizations and national committees, as well as its program policy in general.
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Letter to all IBMD members dated March 1st, 2013 and signed by IBMD executive Director Johnny Childs.
Dear Sir,
The first International Blues Music Day, organised by the IBMD board and NYC Blues Society and supporting partners and presenters, will be held on the 1st Saturday in August in accordance with the resolution taken at the 1st vote of the IBMD board of directors and first 13,000 petition members in consultation with all available music industry representatives and UNESCO international ambassadors.
The intention of this day is to encourage: hundreds of blues events to take place around the world on a single day to celebrate and raise awareness of blues music.
In order to put these intentions into practice, our international organizations and national committees are invited to consider the following plan of action:
Music Events:
- invite leading composers, interpreters and musicologists to give lectures, and to speak of the importance of blues music, of its place in modern music and life,
- of the ideals of UNESCO and of the activities of the IBMD
- organize meetings of artists, competitions and musical quizzes;
- organize exhibitions of musical instruments, records, posters,
paintings, sculptures, caricatures, or photographs on musical themes;
- invite delegations of musicians of other national origins to
participate in this International Blues Music Day, as well as prize winners, composers and interpreters from different
continents;
- ask major interpreters in your country to give concerts on International Blues Music Day.
Radio and television programmes
- broadcast concerts, as well as talks and debates with the participation of major personalities who are also music lovers, painters, writers, and even politicians On this International Blues Music Day, leading members of the IBMD will broadcast special messages.
- Press and Recordings
- publish articles in the press to draw the public's attention to International Blues Music Day;
- organize the exchange of CDs MP3s and records using them for demonstration purposes
The struggle against the pollution of the sound environment
- propose to local authorities that, on this Day, they should order a few minutes of silence in towns; this period of silence would be used for listening to music to be played in public places such as parks and main squares.
In order to realize these activities, it is essential that we utilize all the means at our disposal: radio and television, concert societies, venues, bars, amateur societies; a great many different types of localities should be used to their best advantage: concert halls theaters, cultural centers, universities, churches, schools, factories, as well as in the open air: in parks, gardens, and stadiums.
We hope that this first International Blues Music Day will constitute a major achievement among our' activities, and that it will become an annual event for the propagation of greater knowledge of our art, and for the strengthening of the bonds of peace and friendship between peoples through music.
Yours faithfully,
Johnny Childs/Executive Director
