The deadline for the upcoming Kyana Blues Society contest is May 15. Here’s the poster for the contest.

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Once more, it’s time for a round-up of current ticket giveaways in the area:

WQMF has tickets for:


WTFX The Fox has tickets for:


WFPK has tickets for Bonnie Raitt at Whitney Hall on May 13. Drawing is Monday, April 23.


Louisville MUSICulture blog has tickets to giveaway for Bear In Heaven at Zanzabar on Friday, April 20 and Woods at Zanzabar on Sunday, April 22.

WAMZ has tickets to see Rascal Flatts at the Fair on August 18.


Lamont Gillispie And 100 Proof Blues made an appearance on WHAS’ “Great Day Live.” Check out the video:

Rachel Bailey at Paste reviews Joan Osborne’s Bring It Own Home CD and judges it to be lacking.

The Stray Cat Band featuring Greg Martin of the Kentucky Headhunters will play a show tonight at the Rudyard Kipling Restaurant, celebrating Greg’s birthday. Show time is 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. Greg, of course, is a Louisville native now living in Southern Kentucky. It’ll be a rockin’ and rollin’ show.

Joan Osborne was CBS This Morning and sang several tunes from her new album, Bring It On Home, plus a reprise of “One Of Us.” You can see the video here.

The 40-band show that the Louisville Crashers lead singer Mark Maxwell et al put together yesterday at Silver Creek High School in Sellersburg garnered them a write-up in the C-J.

Okay, there’s no Louisville connection here at all (other than hoping the band gets booked here soon) but that doesn’t matter – Alabama Shakes is the real deal. Scoot on over to Paste Magazine for five new songs.

Mississippi Adam Riggle

The March issue of Louisville Music News is out, with bluesman Mississippi Adam Riggle on the cover. Also in this issue Sue O’Neil remembers Jim Rosen and da Mudcats; Eddy Metal features Uncle Kracker’s Kevin McCreery plus all the other hard rock news; Alexander Campbell begins a long series about Russian music; Martin Kasdan Jr. has all the latest jazz news and Michael Stout catches up on the country scene.

Grab your copy at your favorite club, library, music store or wherever else you find it.

Bonnie Raitt

Better hope you don’t lose a lot of money at the track on Derby Day, ‘cause you’ll need it for Bonnie Raitt and Marc Cohn, who’ll be playing Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center, on May 8, the following Wednesday. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 17 and will be in the $34.50 – $89.00 range. Not yet…

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