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The Plough Heaton Moor Road Heaton Moor Stockport

This Music Session has been running for over 18 months and has become very popular, and considering we started as a small practise session it has gone from strength to strength,We run as an acoustic session and the atmosphere is fantastic, with a wide range of music from Country, a touch of Folk with Kierons and Glynne’s influence, and the sounds of Blues is just fantastic, Rock, Cajun, Bluegrass just get the place rocking, It’s run as a sing around and every one plays along, it’s just a great jam session,I would like to welcome everyone to this Jam, Session and look forward to seeing you,, please put a date in you diary for the 1st Sunday and 3rd Sunday every month and come on down, from 1 till 4pm

Contact Patrick 07711 833 144 smokey.terrain@live.co.uk

I know that Halifax is not strictly in our area, but the blues is an Americam music and those guys will drive 30 miles for lunch. The KingBz email to say….

Hey everybody theres a new Jam Session starting on thursday 17 May at the Golden Lion at Highroadwell in Halifax. Its going to be hosted by us (the King Bz) and the landlord himself who is a fantastic guitarist and singer. All PA is supplied as well as full back-line, the whole thing will be miked up so it can be recorded at the same time (cool or what?)

So come on you lot get over there this guy is one of us and not somebody just jumping on the “jam session” banner, so come on lets give it OUR FULL support. John (Landlord) is also booking blues bands for his regular Blues Club.

See you all there. Paddy

Thanks to Blues Bob for tipping me off to this jam night on the Wirral. Bob says….

Weekly jam night now well into it’s second year every Thursday from about 9:00pm at The Southend Live, Tranmere, Wirral. The evenings are hosted by the house band Catch 32 who open proceedings with a few numbers. The night heavily features blues as you would expect from jam night, but anything goes. Guests are invited up for the rest of the evening and may comprise full bands or solo artist or a good mix n match of local players. The night features good array of local talent from Sax players, Guitarists, Drummers, harmonica and even Uke’s. Full backline available for bands. Everyone is made very welcome whether they are singing, playing or simply watching. For location map and more information pease visit the website at www.myspace.com/bluesbob.

If there are aspiring beginner musicians out there who are learning to play blues then it may be worthwhile popping on over to harmonicaboogie.com.

While the site and on-line jams are designed primarily for the harmonica players of the world, I think that there is a lot of value for other instruments. Maybe the most valuable resources are the free to use blues backing tracks, freely downloadable for you to jam along with. The tracks even give the harp players the key of the song and suggested harps to use.

Give it a go. If you upload a tune then send me the link and I’ll post it for the whole north west to hear.

Here is the direct link to the backing tunes. Enjoy!

Dave Sawyer writes in to tell us of a Blues Jam night.

There is a regular blues jam each Thursday from about 9:00pm at The Plough in Oldham. The evenings are hosted by The Backwater Blues Band who generally open proceedings with a 20-30 minute session. The band then mix and match with a variety of guests for a couple of hours before completing the evening with a second 20-30 minute slot. Everyone is made very welcome whether they are singing, playing or simply watching. For more information on The BBB please visit the website at www.backwaterbluesband.co.uk

Thanks Dave

** THIS JAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED **

I HEAR THAT THE VENUE HAS CLOSED DOWN

My old mate Neil, from my band days, tells me that he is running a jam night at the Royal Oak, Liscard every Monday.

Riffs Live Music Venue in Blackpool are looking to begin a Sunday night blues jam shortly.

Watch their website for more information.

The weekly ‘Juke-Joint Blues’ acoustic blues jam sessions at the John O’ Gaunt Pub, Market Street, Lancaster
every Sunday from 4.00pm - 7.00pm.

There is a jam night at The Royal Oak on Bridge Street, Ramsbottom.
There is a wide diversity of musicians and usually it is Blues based, however it is not always possible to control who comes down so sometimes it strays from the Blues format but it is always good fun.

The Jam night is the first Monday of every month.

There’s a good jam nite - not strictly blues where everyone gets a look in to do 2 or 3 tunes.

All standards are embraced from genius to duffer, although usually the standard is very high.

Alternate Mondays at The Bank at Sale, behind Sainsbury’s in Sale.

For more information look in the news section at http://electric-caveman.com/

Backline, drums and PA laid on. Just bring your axe, horn or gob-iron!