Give Back NH: Granite State Blues Society

Each different Monday on Morning Version we spotlight the movers and the shakers that make up the realm’s non-profit neighborhood. For this week’s Give Again New Hampshire phase: a have a look at a statewide group that began 20 years in the past with a small blues pageant out of a barn in New Boston:

Sharlene Labore : So the blues is alive and effectively in New Hampshire, and we would like you all to know that. My identify is Sharlene Labore, and I’m the president of the Granite State Blues Society.

Debbie Madison: Granite State Blues Society‘s essential mission is to unfold consciousness of blues music and promote the style. I’m Debbie Madison and I am on the board of the Granite State Blues Society.

There’s lots of planning that goes into the festivals and the fundraisers, and I spend lots of time on the swag desk promoting T-shirts and signing up folks for memberships to the Blues Society.

Labore: We’ve two main occasions yearly. We do a blues problem, which is usually in Could, and that’s when native musicians can enter the blues problem in New Hampshire. After which the winners signify New Hampshire in Memphis on the Worldwide Blues Problem, which is basically cool.

Frankie Boy & The Blues Categorical: It is somewhat fundraiser to assist us journey to Memphis in January of 2023 for the Worldwide Blues Problem Finals. We’re driving down— this band that you are looking at proper right here—4 piece band within the van. We’ll be consuming, sleeping and having fun with the life on the highway whereas we acquired it.

Madison: So in November on the thirteenth, we’ll be on the Stone Church in Newsmarket, New Hampshire to do a fundraiser for Frankie Boy and the Blues Categorical and Erin Harpe CBD to assist defray their prices to go to Memphis to compete.

After which once we get again from that, we’ll begin planning our pageant, which would be the first Saturday in August at Marty’s Driving Vary in Mason, New Hampshire.

Labore: What the Blues Society would actually love for is to get extra involvement from New Hampshire blues aficionados. We would like you to affix us. We would like you to turn into a member. We would like you to return to our reveals that we promote.

When you love the blues and also you’d wish to turn into a part of an ideal group, you’ll be able to cease by our swag desk on the fundraiser on the Stone Church on November thirteenth, Sunday afternoon at 2:00. It is a $10 cowl cost and you may help some nice music within the state of New Hampshire with the blues.