San Jose Fountain Blues & Brews Festival

Measures to slow the spread of Covid-19 make it necessary for us to cancel the 39th San Jose Fountain Blues & Brews Festival scheduled for June 20th. Please be safe, stay at home, and follow us on Facebook, and at fountainblues.com, for updates on future Fountain Blues Foundation events and community outreach activities.

Happy birthday #johnleehooker one of the greatest!

Our friends at San Jose Jazz featuring one of our #sanjosefountainbluesandblues favorites - JC of JC Smith Band #bluesmusic #livefromhome #SJZ

One of our favorite regulars at #sanjosefountainbluesandbrewsfestival - JcSmith JC Smith Band - is rumored to be joining this event ... Great weather forecast for some live blues and benefits Downtown San Jose businesses. #dtsj #bluesmusic

Tonight! Can't stop the Blues with TOMMY CASTRO and Samantha Fish #bluesmusic #musiccures #cantstoptheblues #togetherathome

#TBT blues tonight 6pm CA time - with the amazing @John Blues Boyd - brought you you by our friends at Greaseland Studios and Kid Andersen - and ongoing streams thanks to Can't stop the Blues. #cantstoptheblues #bluesmusic #musicheals #togetherathome

StellaR Blues Tonight 7pm CA time The Aki Kumar & Jon Lawton Duo brought to you by Can't stop the Blues #musicheals #bluesmusic #togetherathome

We have the cure for your #MondayBlues Fantastic Negrito #ChocolateSumurai on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert #bluesmusic #togetherathome #musicheals

One of the Bay Area’s favorite, swingin’ blues bands Rick Estrin and The Nightcats - have rocked the #SanJoseFountainBluesAndBrewsFestival stage for decades - play live tonight on the Can't stop the Blues stream 7pm PST/10pm EST. More details in below link ... including how you can pick up merch from the band. #bluesmusic #musicheals #togetherfromhome #cantstoptheblues

Thanks to our friends at Sofa Street Fair #sofamusicfestival - the live music continues #sofasaturdays every Saturday 6-9pm PST ... featuring a wide variety of talent from #SanJose and beyond 6 channels over 3 hours. - - Tonight, you can catch the R&B/soul of Derrick Sanderlin(Official Music Stuff)... the Americana/bluesy-soul of Ren Geisick ... guitar driven rock of The Beast of England... the jazz/funk/ soul fusion of Joy Hackett... and many more. -... - PLUS ... you can #shoplocal order curbside pickups and/or deliveries from local #downtownsanjose restaurants and breweries and more - full line up and list at: sofamusicfestival.com See more

Happy Mother’s Day to all the inspiring Mom’s and Mother figures out there ... life makers, risk takers, unconditional lovesakers. Here’s a little something from the Mother of the Blues - ‘Ma Rainey. Even prior to Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith, Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett 1886) was the first entertainer to successfully bridge the divide between vaudeville the cabaret-style shows that developed out of minstrelsy in the mid-1800s, and catered largely to white audien...ces and authentic black Southern folk expression.* As the biographer Sandra Lieb observed in Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey (1983), by combining a black folk style with techniques learned on the vaudeville stage, Rainey offered to whites a glimpse into black culture far less obscured by white expectations, and offered to blacks a more direct affirmation of their cultural power.* Of the nearly 100 songs she recorded in the 1920s, many were national hits, and some have become part of the American musical canon. Her 1924 recording of See See Rider, on which she is accompanied by a young Louis Armstrong, was added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry in 2004. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CilGS1Y4hCc *New York Times / ‘Overlooked No More: Ma Rainey, the ‘Mother of the Blues’ by Giovanni Russonello June 12, 2019

RIP to the Legendary #LittleRichard... thanks for paving the way for so many you have influenced. "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice." -Jimi Hendrix, https://www.rollingstone.com//m/little-richard-dead-48505/

Tonight! A not-to-be-missed set by BMA Award Winner / Grammy Nominated Chicago slide blues guitar legend John Primer. Primer graced The Fountain Blues Foundation’s #SanJoseFountainBluesAndBrewsFestival stage with stellar sets in 2012 and 2015... tune in tonight to melt away your #Covid19 blues #cantstoptheblues #musicheals #bluesmusic #blueslegend #togetherathome

The Can't stop the Blues channel have the cure for your Monday Blues - Tonight 9pm PST/ 6pm EST. #bluesmusic #bluesfans #cantstoptheblues #musicheals #togetherathome

Tonight - you can enjoy the BMA’s virtually. Congrats to all the nominees! #bluesmusicawards #togetherathome #bluesmusic #bluesfans