Blues Dance World Podcast

This month we’re talking about DJing for our blues community. To help guide us through our trek with her impressive blues music knowledge is Anna Washenko. She is one of the main competition DJs for BluesShout! and the headline DJ for many other national events. For our Monthly Blues Jam, Katies doing something special. She will be tracking down the lineage of one of the most well known and covered blues songs, St. James Infirmary. Reference Site: Smithsonian Folkways Song #1: A.L. Lloyd and Alf Edwards – The Unfortunate Rake Song #2: Alan Lomax – St. James Hospital Song #3: Dave Van Ronk – Gamblers Blues Song #4: Louis Armstrong – St James Infirmary After that, Katies tells us about her experience at Sweet Molasses, which involved Airbnb cats, American Idol style prelims, and awesome performances. Here are some of those performances if you’d like to check them out: http://bluesdanceworld.com/2016/07/29/sweet-molasses-2016-29th-videos/ We then dive into our main topic of what’s involved in Blues DJi