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Events for April 15 – April 21

Wednesday, April 15
Brown County Inn (Nashville, IN) – Open Mic – 6:00-9:00
Central Hotel (Madison, IN) – Open Mic with Jimmy Davis – 7:00-9:00
Ricky B's Club Cafe – Rick Bartlett (soul/r&b/rock) – 5:00-10:00
Slippery Noodle (Indianapolis, IN) – Blues Jam – 7:30-12:00
Stevie Ray's Blues Bar – Open Jam with The John Burgard Band – 7:30-11:30
Tee Dee's Blues & Jazz Club (Lexington, KY) – Weekly Jam – 7:00-9:00

Thursday, April 16
Cabin Restaurant (Bloomington, IN) - Bloomington Blues Jam hosted by Jeff Shew and the Late-Night Crew – 7:00-10:00
Louisville Palace - CeCe Winans (gospel/r&b/CCM) – 7:00-10:00
Mansion Hill Tavern (Newport, KY) – Farm Cat – 8:00
Ricky B's Club Cafe – Rick Bartlett (soul/r&b/rock) – 5:00-10:00
Shorty's Bar & Grill (Bedford, IN) - Blues, Brews & BBQ with Dame's Rocket (acoustic rock/blues) – 6:00-9:00
Slippery Noodle (Indianapolis, IN) – Big Al & the Heavyweights – 8:00-12:00
Stevie Ray's Blues Bar – Thursday Night Throw Down with Larry Ferguson & Alpha Dog – 7:30-11:30
Zanzabar – MIRAAGE (pop/jazz/hip-hop) / Bedford (rock) / Treyvon King Band – 8:00
Radio/Internet Streaming
WBRT (1320 AM) (Bardstown, KY) – Bourbon City Blues – 1:00-3:00 pm
WFMP-LP (106.5 FM) (Louisville, KY) - Post Time: A Derby City Blues Review – 1:00-2:00 pm

Friday, April 17
Brown County Inn (Nashville, IN) - Paul Bertsch Band (blues/rock) – 8:00-11:00
The Fox Den - V-Groove (r&b/blues/rock) – 9:00
The Grüv Sports Bar & Lounge – Soul in the City Fridays – 8:00-10:00
Hotel Louisville – Toni Green's Sunset Grooves (jazz/blues/soul) – 7:00-9:00
Hotel Louisville – Jerry Green and Friends (funk/r&b/soul) – 9:30 - $10
Jeff Ruby's – Robbie Bartlett Band (blues/r&b/jazz) – 8:00-11:00
Mansion Hill Tavern (Newport, KY) – Tom Holland and the Shuffle Kings – 8:00
Old Hickory Inn – Hot Jive Stew – 8:00-11:00
Proud Mary BBQ (Lexington, KY) – Five Below Band (blues/rock) – 6:00-10:00
Ricky B's Club Cafe – Rick Bartlett (soul/r&b/rock) – 5:00-10:00
Slippery Noodle (Indianapolis, IN) – Love 'N' Fire / Blackjack Davey – 8:00-12:30
Stevie Ray's Blues Bar – da Mudcats 6:30 / All That Band (variety) 9:00 - $7
Switchyard Park (Bloomington, IN) - Food Truck Friday with Big Dog (blues/soul/funk) – 6:00-8:00
Trifecta Glass Art Lounge (Lexington, KY) - Laura Ellen Penn and The Blue Licks – 8:00-10:00
Ward Hall (Georgetown, KY) – Mo Bell (blues/r&b/rock) and Zoë Zamora (worship/christian) – 6:30
Wild Turkey Trace Golf Course (Lawrenceburg, KY) - The VSP Band (soul/r&b) – 7:00-10:00
Radio/Internet Streaming
WFMP-LP (106.5 FM) (Louisville, KY) - Post Time: A Derby City Blues Review – 8:00-9:00 pm
WUKY (91.3 FM) (Lexington, KY) – Joe's Blues with Joe Conkwright – 9:00-11:00 pm

Saturday, April 18 – Thunder Over Louisville / Record Store Day
The Alibi (Corydon, IN) - Shumate Blues Revival – 8:00-12:00
Backstretch Bar and Grill (Lexington, KY) – Southside Underground Rhythm & Blues Band – 8:00-11:30
Banners (Lexington, KY) – Five Below Band (rock/blues) – 8:00-12:00
Belterra Casino Resort (Florence, IN) - Chuck Brisbin & Marcos Sastre with the Herd – 8:00-11:00
Brown County Inn (Nashville, IN) – BA Blues (blues/rock) – 8:00-11:00
Hotel Louisville – Jerry Green and Friends (funk/r&b/soul) – 9:30 - $10
Jeff Ruby's – Robbie Bartlett Band (blues/r&b/jazz) – 8:00-11:00
Joe's Crab Shack – Soul Circus (variety) – 6:00-9:00
Mansion Hill Tavern (Newport, KY) – Prestige Grease – 8:00
Proud Mary BBQ (Lexington, KY) – Mo Bell (blues/r&b/rock) – 1:00-4:00
Ricky B's Club Cafe – Rick Bartlett (soul/r&b/rock) – 5:00-10:00
Rose's Pub (Frankfort, KY) - Shaun T Cohorn and Broken Dreams (blues/rock) – 8:30
Slippery Noodle (Indianapolis, IN) – Chris Avey / Tom Holland & the Shuffle Kings – 8:00-12:30
Stevie Ray's Blues Bar – The Travlin Mojos 4:30 / Big Black Cadillac (funk/soul/blues) 9:30 - $4/$7
Radio/Internet Streaming
ARTxFM (WXOX/97.1 FM) (Louisville, KY) – All That Jazz hosted by Juan Leone, a collection of jazz, blues and gospel from the late 1950s to the early 1970s - 8:00-10:00 am
WFYI (90.1 FM) (Indianapolis, IN) - The Blues House Party hosted by Matthew Socey – 8:00-10:00 pm
WKMS (91.3 FM) (Murray, KY) – State Line Blues hosted by Lew Jetton – 7:00-9:00 pm
WMKY (90.3 FM) (Morehead, KY) – Nothin’ But The Blues with Paul Hitchcock – 8:00 pm-Midnight

Sunday, April 19
Gatton Park Amphitheater (Lexington, KY) - ZZ Top and Dwight Yoakam – 7:00
Joe's Palm Room – Soulful Sunday with the Unlimited Show Band (r&b/funk/blues) – 5:00-8:00 - $10
Lou Lou on Market - Jim Masterson and the Good Thieves (blues/jazz) – 6:00-9:00
Mansion Hill Tavern (Newport, KY) – Noah Wotherspoon (acoustic solo) – 2:00
Old Forester's Paristown Hall - Rhiannon Giddens (folk/old-timey/gospel) – 7:00
Radio/Internet Streaming
ARTxFM (WXOX/97.1 FM) (Louisville, KY) – That Driving Beat hosted by James & Uwe. That Driving Beat is an all-vinyl radio dance party spinning 1960s soul, rhythm & blues, garage rock, pop, and other movers and shakers from the 1960s! These tunes come from Detroit to Memphis, Muscle Shoals to London, New York to New Orleans, and anywhere else upbeat dance tunes and juke joint anthems were getting laid down and pressed on wax. You can call some of it Northern Soul, most of it Mod, but it's all got That Driving Beat – 6:00-8:00 pm
LRS102.com (Louisville, KY) – The Coffee Blues hosted by Hippy Head – 8:00-10:00 am
WFMP-LP (106.5 FM) (Louisville, KY) - Post Time: A Derby City Blues Review – 1:00-2:00 am
WFPK (91.9 FM) (Louisville, KY) – WFPK Blues Party with Sheryl Rouse – 9:00 pm-12:00 am
WHAY (98.3 FM) (Whitley City, KY) - Smokestack Lightnin' Blues Show – 6:00-10:00 pm
WLLV (101.9 FM/1240 AM) (Louisville, KY) - The Soulful Sounds of Derbytown hosted by Marjorie Marshall – 4:00-6:00 pm
WUKY (91.3 FM) (Lexington, KY) – Blues Before Sunrise – Midnight-6:00 am

Monday, April 20
Mercurios Music & RestoBar – Monday Night Open Jam – 6:30-9:30
Slippery Noodle (Indianapolis, IN) – Phil Pierle – 7:30-10:00
Tee Dee's Blues & Jazz Club (Lexington, KY) - The Tee Dee Young Band & Friends (blues/jazz) – 9:00
Radio/Internet Streaming
ARTxFM (WXOX/97.1 FM) (Louisville, KY) – Night Train Cocktail Lounge hosted by Brian Manley. The lounge rides into the past, featuring music and lost sounds from the 1860s to the 1970s. The show follows the rails amid a mix of directions, including surf, soundtracks, garage, proto-punk, pop, No Wave, jazz, composed, blues, comedy, cylinder and 78 recordings, rock n roll, old country, field recordings from around the world and whatever is scratched onto warped vinyl hidden in the the bottom of those boxes tucked away in your grandmother's attic – 8:00-9:00 pm
WDNS (93 FM) (Bowling Green, KY) – The Lowdown Hoedown with Greg Martin – 7:00-10:00 pm
WFHB (91.3 FM) (Bloomington, IN) – Blue Monday hosted by Blues Doc Bob – 9:00-11:00 pm
WPBK (102.9 FM) (Stanford, KY) - Buried Alive in the Blues with Walt Knies – 9:00 pm
WUKY (91.3 FM) (Lexington, KY) – Joe's Blues with Joe Conkwright – 7:00-9:00 pm

Tuesday, April 21
BoomBozz Pizza (Bardstown Rd) – Open Stage – 8:30
Bud's Rockin' Country Bar & Grill (Evansville, IN) - Boscoe France Band – 7:00-9:00
The Monarch - Peter Case (rock/blues) – 7:00
Off Broadway Taproom (Madison, IN) – Open Mic hosted by Jimmy Davis – 7:30
Ricky B's Club Cafe – Rick Bartlett (soul/r&b/rock) – 5:00-11:00
Slippery Noodle (Indianapolis, IN) – Chris Shaffer Duo – 7:30-11:30
Stevie Ray's Blues Bar – Tuesday Night Jam with The Warren Shacklette Project – 7:30-11:30

All dates subject to change without notice.

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