Since 1988, The Kentuckiana Blues Society has been dedicated to the preservation, promotion and perpetuation of the blues tradition in all of its forms. To further this mission, KBS honors a member of our blues community every year with the Sylvester Weaver Award. We also present the KBS Blues Challenge, in which bands compete for a chance to represent us at the annual International Blues Challenge in Memphis. In addition, KBS is proud to sponsor a Blues in the Schools program to perpetuate the blues by engaging and educating our youth. To see some of the many other ways we have worked to preserve, promote and perpetuate the blues, click here to view our KBS Blues News archive. https://bit.ly/KBSBlues_Newsletters
The Sylvester Weaver Award is given yearly by the Kentuckiana Blues Society to an individual who exemplifies the goals of the KBS. In 1991, the KBS raised the funds necessary to right a longtime wrong. We put a headstone on the grave of pioneering bluesman and Louisville native Sylvester Weaver. A dedication ceremony took place on Sunday, March 29,1992. The KBS has setup an award, The Sylvester Weaver Award, to honor the memory of a true pioneer in the blues music world and is presented to those who the KBS feels has dedicated their lives to presenting, preserving, and perpetuating the blues. Sylvester’s grave is in the Old Louisville Cemetery and is high on the hill facing Poplar Level Road. Take some time to visit the site and pay tribute to a great blue musician.
Sylvester Weaver was a Louisvillian who in 1923 made recording history with his "Guitar Blues", the first blues guitar record. His career was short-lived, but his music lives on. He retired as a recording artist in 1927, but the second record that he made, "Guitar Rag", was appropriated by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in the early 1930s and reincarnated as "Steel Guitar Rag", which has become a country classic.
Henry Woodruff
Jim Rosen
Foree Wells
Pen Bogert
Winston Hardy
Perry Aberli
Fred Murphy
Mary Ann Fisher
Smoketown Red (Junie Downs)
Joey Lamont Gillispie
Tanita Gaines
Rocky Adcock
Scott Mullins
Mark Stein
Sue O'Neil
Keith Clements
John Burgard
da Mudcats
Mike Lynch, Gene Wickliffe, Rob Pickett
Sonny Sitgraves
Joe DeBow
Jim Masterson
Robbie Bartlett
Jimmy Brown
Howard Rosenberg
Byron Davies
Mark "Big Poppa" Stampley
Natalie Carter
Mike Suttles
Gary Sampson
James Warfield
Jason Lockwood
Bruce Lively
Rusty Ends
Cort Duggins
Bill Dean
KBS has proudly been involved with Blues in the Schools for many years. It is important to continue the blues tradition, and what a better way than going directly to area children with lessons in blues music history and performance.
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Kentuckiana Blues Society
PO Box 755
Louisville, KY 40201-0755
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