About "South
Australian Roots and Blues"
We have been promoting blues and roots music in South Australia since 1997. We do this through our Gig Guide, Podcasts, Video Clips, CD Reviews, Gallery, Web Features and Newsletters.
Contributions are gratefully received. Items will be included in our Newsletter Bulletins and on the Web Site at the editor's discretion. Direct your correspondence to: david@sablues.org. See contact page for further details
"SA Roots and Blues" originally grew out of "The SA Blues Society". We have evolved to include "roots music" with its ties to folk, country, rock and world music. The "SA Roots and Blues" team consists of an editor, a panel of writers/reviewers and volunteers who help distribute posters and flyers.
We have over 500 subscribers to our Email Newsletters. Our Web Site gets well over 4000 visitors and 80,000 hits each month. Our Podcasts receive between 400 to 700 downloads. Our network includes Promoters, Venue Operators, Community Radio Presenters, Record Stores, Musicians and Patrons.
"SA Roots and Blues" spreads the word effectively and fast!
We allow for a small amount of advertising on this website ( primarily to help cover our web hosting costs). Why not bring your product or service to the attention of our ever increasing patronage? ...and assist us in promoting roots and blues music in South Australian.
View our Sponsorship and Advertising Options. They are cheap!
We have been promoting blues and roots music in South Australia since 1997. We do this through our Gig Guide, Podcasts, Video Clips, CD Reviews, Gallery, Web Features and Newsletters.
Contributions are gratefully received. Items will be included in our Newsletter Bulletins and on the Web Site at the editor's discretion. Direct your correspondence to: david@sablues.org. See contact page for further details
"SA Roots and Blues" originally grew out of "The SA Blues Society". We have evolved to include "roots music" with its ties to folk, country, rock and world music. The "SA Roots and Blues" team consists of an editor, a panel of writers/reviewers and volunteers who help distribute posters and flyers.
We have over 500 subscribers to our Email Newsletters. Our Web Site gets well over 4000 visitors and 80,000 hits each month. Our Podcasts receive between 400 to 700 downloads. Our network includes Promoters, Venue Operators, Community Radio Presenters, Record Stores, Musicians and Patrons.
"SA Roots and Blues" spreads the word effectively and fast!
We allow for a small amount of advertising on this website ( primarily to help cover our web hosting costs). Why not bring your product or service to the attention of our ever increasing patronage? ...and assist us in promoting roots and blues music in South Australian.
View our Sponsorship and Advertising Options. They are cheap!
Attention Musicians, Promoters and Distributors!
If you want "SA Roots and Blues" to assist with promotion then all you need to do is:
1/. Inform the editor ( via email or telephone 0408 085 821 )what it is that you want "SA Roots and Blues" to promote and we will do the rest!
2/. If you want flyers and posters to be distributed then arrange for a pick up or courier them to:
"SA Roots and Blues"
53 Cooinda Avenue
Redwood Park SA 5097
3/. If you want CDs, DVDs, Books etc to be reviewed then post items to the above address.
"SA Roots and Blues" is a non profit organisation. We do the work because of our affinity with roots and blues music and our wish to promote it as widely as possible!
Give me a ring on 0408 085 8221 or Email me with any enquiries that you may have.
David Stoeckel.
Editor of "SA Roots and Blues".
If you want "SA Roots and Blues" to assist with promotion then all you need to do is:
1/. Inform the editor ( via email or telephone 0408 085 821 )what it is that you want "SA Roots and Blues" to promote and we will do the rest!
2/. If you want flyers and posters to be distributed then arrange for a pick up or courier them to:
"SA Roots and Blues"
53 Cooinda Avenue
Redwood Park SA 5097
3/. If you want CDs, DVDs, Books etc to be reviewed then post items to the above address.
"SA Roots and Blues" is a non profit organisation. We do the work because of our affinity with roots and blues music and our wish to promote it as widely as possible!
Give me a ring on 0408 085 8221 or Email me with any enquiries that you may have.
David Stoeckel.
Editor of "SA Roots and Blues".
About
Roots
and Blues Music.
"At the beginning of the 20th Century, the term "folk music" was used by scholars to describe music made by whites of European ancestry. Folk songs communicated the hopes, sorrows and convictions of ordinary people's everyday lives. The definition of folk music has been expanded to include the song styles of African Americans of the Mississippi Delta, Cajuns of southwest Louisiana, Native Americans and Mexican-Americans. It was sung in churches, on front porches, in the fields and other workplaces, while rocking children to sleep, and at parties. The melodies and words were passed down from parent to child, though songs - and their meanings - often changed to reflect changing times.
"Hillbilly" and "race" records become profitable recording industry genres that popularize regional music. The emergence of radio broadened audiences and helped the cross-fertilization of various musical forms. In the 1960s, awareness of folk songs and musicians grew, and popular musicians began to draw on folk music as an artistic source as never before. "Folk music" then became a form of popular music itself, popularized by singer/songwriters such as Bob Dylan, who helped pioneer the intimate, often acoustic performing style that echoed that of community-based folk musicians.
Music writers, scholars and fans began to look for new ways to describe the diverse array of musical styles still being sung and played in communities spreading across America and now throughout the world. The term "roots music" is now used to refer to this broad range of musical genres, which includes blues, gospel, traditional country, alt.country, folk, cajun and zydeco. " *
* http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic
"At the beginning of the 20th Century, the term "folk music" was used by scholars to describe music made by whites of European ancestry. Folk songs communicated the hopes, sorrows and convictions of ordinary people's everyday lives. The definition of folk music has been expanded to include the song styles of African Americans of the Mississippi Delta, Cajuns of southwest Louisiana, Native Americans and Mexican-Americans. It was sung in churches, on front porches, in the fields and other workplaces, while rocking children to sleep, and at parties. The melodies and words were passed down from parent to child, though songs - and their meanings - often changed to reflect changing times.
"Hillbilly" and "race" records become profitable recording industry genres that popularize regional music. The emergence of radio broadened audiences and helped the cross-fertilization of various musical forms. In the 1960s, awareness of folk songs and musicians grew, and popular musicians began to draw on folk music as an artistic source as never before. "Folk music" then became a form of popular music itself, popularized by singer/songwriters such as Bob Dylan, who helped pioneer the intimate, often acoustic performing style that echoed that of community-based folk musicians.
Music writers, scholars and fans began to look for new ways to describe the diverse array of musical styles still being sung and played in communities spreading across America and now throughout the world. The term "roots music" is now used to refer to this broad range of musical genres, which includes blues, gospel, traditional country, alt.country, folk, cajun and zydeco. " *
* http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic
