Welcome to the Pictou County Blues Society
Mission
To foster appreciation, promotion, preservation and enjoyment of the blues in all of its forms in Pictou County and Northern Nova Scotia.
Mandate
- To bring together the blues community in Pictou County and surrounding area through participation in blues events and activities.
- Expand the overall awareness of the blues in Pictou County and surrounding area.
- To help support local, national and international blues artists.
- To develop, maintain and increase its membership as a means of fostering and supporting blues.
- To stage or assist in staging events that will foster appreciation and awareness of the blues.
- Create an exciting social setting for blues lovers to meet and in doing so raise money for deserving local charities of all causes and other charities which actively assist deserving blues artists who are in need.
- Expose our youth and those who educate our youth, to the blues art form, through Blues In The Schools program and similar educational opportunities through our schools.
Sponsors
Webbuilders
Remax/Newstyle Realtors
Lawton's Drugs
Keltic Concrete
Country Inn & Suites
East Coast FM 94.1 CKEC
BLUES IN THE PARK
The Pictou County Blues Society is very excited to be able to announce that the society has been invited to partner with the New Glasgow Jubilee this year.. we will be sponsoring, along with THE BLUE C MUSIC STORE, a Blues Stage in the Carmichael Park in New Glasgow, on Sunday August 1st from approximately 3:30 to 6:30 p.m..
We would like to thank The Blue C Music Store for supporting this free blues event with us and the New Glasgow Jubilee for inviting us to be involved with their very successful Music Jubilee.
This is a free all ages blues event , and will follow the youth band performances and the songwriter's circle performance also in the park. The Blues Stage will open with "The Wildkat Blues Project" a well known and much loved Pictou County blues band, and following, from Truro, "The MCCready Brothers" a blues duo, a regular acoustic blues act at the famous Dutchie Mason Blues Festival, performing authentic delta blues.
Thank you to all who came out to our third blues show featuring the John Campbelljohn Trio, held at the Whitetail Pub and Grill. John and the boys put on an awesome blues show for the fans and we were able to make a charitable donation to the Haitian people. Thanks to everyone for your support, and let's keep this going, we are so enjoying putting these shows together and hope to have along future ahead of us.
IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS THAT I PASS ON THE DREADFUL NEWS THAT L'IL DAVE WAS KILLED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT ON VALENTINE'S MORNING ON HIS WAY HOME FROM HIS LAST GIG ON THIS TOUR.
ON HIS WEB SITE YOU CAN FIND ALL THE DETAILS ON HIS ACCIDENT AND THERE IS INFORMATION AS TO WHERE YOU CAN MAKE A DONATION IN HIS MEMORY IF YOU SO WISH. THE PICTOU COUNTY BLUES SOCIETY WILL BE MAKING A MONETARY DONATION TO HIS FAMILY.
www.lildavethompson.com
I am happy to say that our 2nd blues show with the L'il Dave Thompson Band was a great success. The band travelled all the way from Mississippi to play for us and I was so glad to see the blues fans made the effort to get out on a snowy night, despite it being Super Bowl Sunday. We all had a wonderful night of great food and dancing and L'il Dave, Al, Mike and Bob, loved playing for us. You blues fans raised $100.00 for EarthArc, animal rescue centre, so the horses thank you for the hay that money will provide for them. Thanks to Darryl and Rose and the bar and kitchen staff at the WhiteTail.
Thanks to Bonnie, Juliann, Diane and Charlie, Carlos, Bryce and Robbie, the volunteer board members who put in the hours required to do all the prep work for these blues shows
A special thank you to our sponsors, who are so generous.
Many thanks, the Pictou County Blues Society
Email: get2sandy2@hotmail.com
JOE MURPHY
OUR LAST BLUES SHOW FOR THIS SEASON.....THE ONE AND ONLY.....
Joe Murphy and the Waterstreet Blues Band
Friday, June 18th, 2010, at the Whitetail Pub and Grill, Westville
We have been waiting a long time to have Joe Murphy and The Waterstreet Blues Band come to town and here it is.