Maritimes to Memphis International Blues Challenge 2014

September 21st, 2014

The 2nd annual East Coast Blues Societies "Maritimes to Memphis - Be Part of the Journey" International Blues Challenge Competition will be held at Montes Showbar & Grill, 245 Waverley Rd, Dartmouth, NS on Sunday September 21st. Start time is 3PM.

The following performers will be participating this year:

John Campbelljohn
Bill Stevenson's Nine Steps Band
Christine Campbell
Joe Murphy and the Water St Blues Band
Shrimp Daddy & the Sharpshooters
Chris Field
Good Rockin Dan
Ben Raftus

The winning artists in the band and solo/duo category will travel to Memphis, TN in January 2015 to compete internationally.

What is the IBC?

The world's largest gathering of Blues acts representing an international search by The Blues Foundation and its Affiliated Organizations for the Blues Band and Solo/Duo Blues Act ready to take their act to the international stage. The IBC is a judged "Battle of the Bands" in which competitors take the stage and play a short set for a panel of judges. The acts are judged based on an established set of criteria. Each Affiliate of The Blues Foundation has the right to send a band and solo/duo act to represent the organization at the IBC in Memphis, TN. Affiliates are required to stage a regional preliminary IBC competition, where the winner of that competition earns the right to represent the Affiliate at the Memphis international competition. In 2014, 255 acts from 40 states and 16 countries (and four continents) entered, filling the clubs up and down Beale Street for the quarter-finals on Wednesday and Thursday, the semi-finals on Friday and the finals at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday. The 2015 International Blues Challenge will be the 31st year of Blues musicians from around the world competing for cash, prizes, and industry recognition.

The 31st annual International Blues Challenge runs in Memphis, TN on historic Beale St from Wednesday January 21st – Saturday January 24th, 2015