Bman's Blues Report

30th Annual Carolina Blues Festival, May 21, hosts Elvin Bishop   Greensboro, NC -  2015 Rock ‘n Roll and 2016 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee,  Elvin Bishop , will headline the 30th Annual Carolina Blues Festival in association with YES! Weekly, May 21 at Barber Park Amphitheater, 1500 Dans Road, Greensboro, NC. Additional performances from  Bob Margolin, Samantha Fish, Marquise Knox , along with  Dangerous Gentlemens, Blind Dog Gatewood , and young  Seth Williams , round out the day long blues festival ...

Williams began performing in the mid-1950s and has sat in with blues greats like Muddy Waters and Elmore James. In the mid-1970s, Williams formed the Bluesmasters band, performing throughout the Midwest. Marquise Knox was born in 1991 in St. Louis while his mother was visiting family. They returned to Granada, Mississippi, but moved to St. Louis for good a couple of years later. Marquise still resides in St. Louis, Missouri, but also spends a lot of time in Grenada, where he loves to fish and visit friends and family. Marquise hails from a musical family deeply entrenched in the Blues. He learned how to play guitar from his grandmother whose family were sharecroppers and whose great, great grandparents were slaves. He also played with his uncle Clifford, who was a major influence in Marquise's life. For Marquise, Blues is his heritage and a way of life. He spent his early teenage years in St. Louis mentoring under the late great Blues legend, N.E.A. Heritage Fellowship rec...