Welcome to Mid-Michgan's Official Home
For Great Blues Music and Rich Blues Heritage
for Over 15 Years
"......thanks for all you do for keeping the Blues growing."
Bill Wax, Proprietor of Low-Fi's Bar and Pool Hall on XM Radio Channel 74
Founded in July, 1995 the Capital Area Blues Society was organized to support a growing interest in Blues in the Lansing area. We are a growing organization with many ideals and goals and appreciate your interest. We exist for the preservation, promotion, and education of the uniquely American music called the Blues.
2010 CABS BOARD
MEETINGS
Next CABS Meeting: February 17, 2010 at 7pm at 1210 Turner, Old
Town, Lansing, MI.
This is an important Board meeting.
Election of new CABS Officers and Board of
Directors.
What We Do
- Our monthly newsletter
publication, The Blues Ambassador, is our best marketing and
communication tool. We distribute over 500 copies through
direct mail and drop-off stops around the greater Lansing
area.
- Our
websites: www.Myspace.com/capitalareabluessociety
and www.cabsblues.com
- Special events and fund raisers.....Our biggest party of the
year, the annual Blues Brawl, selects a band to compete
in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Education programs and, more recently, being involved in the very
successful *OLD TOWN BLUES FESTIVAL*
We have welcomed many Blues artists to our community including
Jason Ricci, Watermelon Slim, Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers,
Junior Wells, Larry McCray, Tab Benoit, James Harman, Koko Taylor,
Johnny Winter, and on and on. This is a community not known to be a
haven for the Blues. However, we have shown with determination and
some good fortune, great things are possible in the Lansing
area.
In 2010, CABS will celebrate its 15th year of existence without any
signs of slowing down. We are a 501(c) (3) nonprofit which
enables CABS to do more within our community through educational
initiatives. Hopefully this will also assist our organization
in obtaining more grant monies to put towards future events.
Please take a minute to look around the Capital Area Blues Society
web site. See what we have to offer; Join our ever-growing
membership base, and, most importantly, become
involved. Help us in perpetuating the success of CABS
by supporting the events that we and other organizations present to
the Lansing community.
The first dues paying member of the CABS organization was Dennis
Cullinan who then was playing with Those Delta Rhythm Kings.
Dennis is currently still playing the saxophone with Bill Malone
and the Old Town Blues Band.
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For More Information, Contact Us At:
cabsprez@comcast.net
