Monday, February 10, 2025

Get Out Your Guitar Day Videos by Danny Medakovic

Update of 2019 Post











Links: Dan MedakovicMore Dan Medakovic Stories, Videos above courtesy of Dan Medakovic, More 'Get Out Your Guitar Day' Videos

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Music Listings: February 11-13, 2025

Tuesday, February 11 (Get Out Your Guitar Day)






7-10pm: Open Mic with Brennagh Burns @ Lukaya Cafe (Hamilton) (Weekly)


7-10pm: Open Mic @ Trackside Tavern (Cambridge) (Weekly)


7pm: Felicia McMinn @ Capitol 33, Lounge (Delhi) (Weekly)



7:30-11:30pm: Open Mic @ Sip Club (Guelph) (Weekly)

8-11pm: Open Jam with the Boom Babiez @ Ale House (Hamilton) (Weekly)




8pm-1am: Indie Jam Night @ Manny's Place (Brantford) (Weekly)

8-11:30pm: Open Mic @ Bobby O'Brien's (Guelph) (Weekly)


Wednesday, February 12




6-9pm: Open Mic with Victor Morgado @ Oggi Bistro (Fort Erie) (Weekly)

7-8:30pm: MUSIC IN THE AIR! IMPROV SINGING with Jane Lewis @ Art Not Shame (Guelph) $100-$125 sliding scale (Wednesdays, Feb 12-Mar 5)



7-10pm: Open Mic @ The Bullring (Guelph) (Weekly)

7-10pm: Open Mic @ DeBar (Guelph) (Weekly)

7-10pm: Open Mic @ Caledonia Legion (2nd & 4th Wed of month)


7:30-8:30pm: Open Mic with Dano @ Iron Horse Restobar (Hamilton) (Weekly)

7:30-10:30pm: Open Mic with John Restas @ AB Sports Bar (Burlington) (Weekly)

7:30pm: Jully Black @ FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, PARTRIDGE HALL (St. Catharines) Regular $45/Member $35

7:45pm: Jazz Night (Open Stage) @ Corktown Pub (Hamilton) (Weekly)

8-12pm: Open Jam  @ Frankie's (Brantford) (Weekly)

8pm: Felicia McMinn @ 211Main (Port Dover) (Weekly)

9pm: Open Mic @ The Dickens (Burlington) (Weekly)

10pm-2am: Open Stage @ NV (Guelph) (Weekly)

Thursday, February 13 (World Radio Day)

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Frost Bites (Hamilton) (Feb 13-18)





6pm: Mike Balonjan @ Limani at Fifty (Stoney Creek) $16 per vehicle/$15 refund if you spend over $50 at restaurant (Weekly)

6pm: STEVE SINNICKS @ Slye Fox Pub (Burlington)

6-9pm: James Anthony @ Lone Wolf Bar (Burlington) (Weekly)

6-9pm: Open Mic @ Crystal Chandelier (Crystal Beach) (Weekly)

6-9pm: Lucas Stagg @ Aging Oak (Cambridge) (Weekly)



6:30-9:30pm: James Ferris with Fried Balogna @ The Corktown Pub (Hamilton)(Weekly)



---- 7:00pm - 7:59pm ----







7-10pm: Josh Coulter @ Judge & Jester (Grimsby) (Weekly)

7-10pm: MICHELLE HEDLEY @ Teddy's (Grimsby)


7-9pm: Paul Gigliotti @ Doc Magilligan's (Niagara Falls)



7-10pm: Amitida @ Manhattans (Guelph)

7-11pm: Open Mic @ Offside Sports Bar & Grill (Fergus) (Weekly)

7pm: MICHAEL MAGUIRE @ Easy Pour (Cambridge)

7-10pm: Open Stage -Mic Up @ Silvercreek's (Guelph) (Weekly)




7:30-10:30pm: Ryan Thomas Smelle @ Irish Harp (Niagara-on-the-Lake) 

---- After 8:00pm ----


8-11pm: Music Factory @ BLK Swan, Brant St (Burlington) 

8-11pm: Open Mic Night + Jam @ Temple Bar (Oakville) (Weekly)

8-11pm: Will Natrinsky @ South Coast Cookhouse (Crystal Beach)

8pm: The Eminem Show: A Tribute to Slim Shady @ Sanderson Centre (Brantford) $54.75



9-11pm: Open Mic with Anthony Vaughn @ King George (Hamilton) (Weekly)

9-1pm: Open Jam with Greg Gingerich @ Manny's Place (Brantford) (Weekly)


Sunday, February 9, 2025

Please Support Local Charities




Please Support Local Charities

From their website: Since 1966, the poverty of loneliness and exclusion has been overcome with friendship and compassion at Welcome Inn Community Centre, where people from all walks of life work together to alleviate poverty in the North End and across Hamilton.

The Hamilton Blues Lovers (HBL) want to showcase a deserving local charity every week.  HBL is not affiliated with these charities nor does it fund raise for them.



Thursday, February 6, 2025

Please Support Our Wonderful Sponsors




Please Support Our Wonderful Sponsors



Ken Wallis is an amazing local music supporter. He has a great radio show

Tuesdays: 4-5:30pm: Blues Source Canada w Ken Wallis @ INDI 101.5 FM 




Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Monday, February 3, 2025

Canadian Grammy Winners 2025


There was a lot of Canadian content at the 67th GRAMMY Awards that took place at the Crypto.com Arena (LA) on Sunday, February 2 and was broadcast live on CBS.

Here is the televised ceremony:



Hamilton Bluesman Steve Strongman attended as a nominee. Below is his commentary



Below is a complete list of Canadian winners. Click here for the complete list


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Sunday, February 2, 2025

Honouring the Day the Music Died w Videos by Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper


Click pic to learn about 'The Day The Music Died"


Links: Video above courtesy of Buddy Holly - Topic




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Support Local Charities


From their website: Begun in the 1980's out of a desire to help one family with a terminally ill child, the TENDER WISHES FOUNDATION has grown to seek out and grant wishes to children in the Niagara Region who suffer from a potentially life-threatening illness.

The Hamilton Blues Lovers (HBL) want to showcase a deserving local charity every week.  HBL is not affiliated with these charities nor does it fund raise for them.



Friday, January 31, 2025

Black History Month Videos ft the Jewell Family




In 1925, Percy Cornelius Jewell, a CP Rail employee, married Ida Brooks, and while living in Guelph, the couple had four children: Percy, Ted, Melba, and Pat. Although little could be found about the younger Percy, the other three Jewell children all found moderate success as a result of musical prowess. Melba and Pat formed two thirds of trio known as the “Fabulous PJ’s” performing alongside the white Patti-Jo Patriquin and releasing at least one album together. 




Links: Video above courtesy of Guelph Museums

Ted, however, went a different route and played as part of the musical accompaniment of several shows at Guelph’s Capitol Theatre, including the August 1950 musical “Up in Central Park,” before studying music at the University of Toronto and going on to graduate from the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Ted Jewell attained post-secondary education and eventually would be named Chancellor of Huntington University. For Melba and Pat Jewell, while their band would have allowed them to tour and generate revenue for themselves, being part of a mixed-race band may have allowed an even greater level of access. 



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