March 14, 2012
If you're in the Vancouver area and you've just got to hear the blues, there's a cure. Enter the White Rock Blues Society, a hardcore organization that's devoted to the sounds of the Deep South.
The White Rock Blues Society is a non-profit incorporated organization that has been formed with the following objectives: 1. To perpetuate, promote, share and advance ‘Blues’ and related music in our community and surrounding area. 2. To establish and promote the White Rock area as a regional epicenter for quality music and music venues. 3. To present performances from a wide variety of local, regional, national, and international artists. 4. To nurture creative artistic activity by supporting emerging artists from our community and surrounding areas by providing outlets and opportunities for performance. 5. To foster as many live music venues as possible in such locations as restaurants, clubs, parks, community centers and concert halls. 6. To entertain, educate and inform members of our community of all ages young and old about “blues” and related music.These folks are serious about the music they love....which includes that of the man pictured above, Robert Johnson. Did he sell his soul to the devil in exchange for the ability to play guitar? Does it matter? He played like no one else, before or since. Just try and listen to the blues and not be transported to the Delta, or at least to a different time and place. It's like that scene in Treme where the Japanese superfan helps get Wendell Pierce's character his trombone back: If the music moves you, let it.