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Tuesday, April 8th.
Notice!!!!
Meeting and Jam for April 8th has been cancelled
Tuesday May 13
Membership Meeting and Jam
Pineapple Joe's
6297 North US Hwy I
Fort Pierce, Fl. 34946
For directions: 772-465-6930
Scholarship
The Blues Alliance of the Treasure Coast would like to show great appreciation to the following people for their generosity toward our, "R. Dale Trefelner Music Scholarship" Fund. This year, our own President, Bob "Cougar" Whitt has donated a Platinum Plus amount of $300.00 to be added to the fund for 2006/2007. Also, Bob has contributed another $300.00 to jump start the 2007/2008 account. Adding to this, our Corporate Sponsor, "Centaur Accounting', Ed Outcalt who is on our Board of Directors, has contributed $200.00 which is a Platinum amount. Janet C. Whitt-Thomas, sister of Bob "Cougar" Whitt in Ky., has joined as a member and has contributed $100.00, a Silver amount.
Blues Competition Follow-Up,
KOTB
The Guitar Center King of the Blues competition.
I (Tim O'Donnell) was recently involved in a contest put on the Guitar Center. I heard about it on the radio and there were some great prizes involved. The first date of competition was in March. I drove down to the Guitar Center in West Palm and signed in. It was mostly local guys.
This contest used to be called guitarmageddon and hosted an array of very speedy guitar players. They changed it to the King of the Blues to try and get more people involved. The first night there were some good guitarist. I went and did my thing and advanced. A month later I went to the same store and won the area of West Palm Beach. Three weeks after that I competed in Hallandale and won that event which won me a Les Paul and a bunch of other stuff. This also put me on a plane to Nashville to the Regional finals.
Cougar drove me and Rebecca up and I competed but lost to a very good guitarist from Houston named Aaron Loesch. Amazingly the whole thing was cool and I met a bunch of cool people and from what I saw in the comp some real true blues guitarist were advancing. From somewhere in the range of about 5000 contestants I made it to the final 22 and couldn't believe it. The final is in Hollywood Ca. on June 16th. For any info on the comp you can go to gckingoftheblues.com. Both Rebecca and I have tracks listed on the site which can be voted on for airplay. Check it out and listen to some good undiscovered artists.
Tim
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The Blues Alliance of the Treasure Coast is proud to announce that Ben Prestage and The Nouveaux Honkies will be going to the IBC, 2008. The IBC will be from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2,, Beale St., Memphis, Tenn.
Best wishes from everyone!
The IBC will be held from Jan. 29th until Feb. 2nd, Beale St., Memphis, Tenn. There will be events leading up to the actual competition per information from National. If you need further information about going to this event, please let us know. We have some information regarding accommodations that we can share with you. Our President, Bob "Cougar" Whitt, will be attending this year, once again to support our contestants. PG
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