News Roundup (Tex Lecor, Handsome Devils, Blues Blast Awards, Passings)

Quebec Singer Tex Lecor Passes

Links: Tex Lecor,  Video above courtesy of UnisdiscMusic

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News

Local

• Barber Shop Podcast w Handsome Devils
  
  
  
  Links: Handsome Devils, More Barber Shop Podcasts, Video above courtesy of Barber Shop Podcast
  
  
• Local and Canadian Native American Music Award Winners
• Blues Hammer Debut Album
• Shane Guse Wins Canadian Country Music Association Award

Canada

• Original Guess Who singer hospitalized after stroke

Blues Blast Music Award Winners

• Contemporary Blues Album: Samantha Fish – Chills and Fever
• Traditional Blues Album: Mississippi Heat – Cab Driving Man
• Soul Blues Album: Thornetta Davis – Honest Woman
• Rock Blues Album: Mike Zito – Make Blues Not War
• Acoustic Blues Album: Fiona Boyes – Professin’ The Blues
• Live Blues Recording: Walter Trout – Alive in Amsterdam
• Historical Or Vintage Recording: Roy Buchanan – The Genius Of The Guitar – His Early Recordings
• New Artist Debut Album: Southern Avenue – Southern Avenue
• Blues Band: Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of Erik Grubbs
  
  
• Male Blues Artist: John Mayall
• Female Blues Artist: Beth Hart
• Rising Star Award: Southern Avenue

World

• Passings: Don Williams, Rick Stevens (Tower of Power)

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The Adventures of Trebleclef the Music Loving Monkey

Trebleclef popped by the Locke Street Festival in Hamilton

Treble with festival (and Blues Lovers) sponsor Judy Marsales

Click here for more pictures from the event

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