2025 Soulard Blues and Roots Festival

2025 Soulard Blues and Roots Festival The Soulard Blues and Roots Festival is an annual festival celebrating the music, art, and culture of the St.

Louis region, with a particular emphasis on the Historic Soulard neighborhood, where the art and culture of the Blues continues to live & thrive.

It's Labor Day Monday, and it's the LOVE of LABOR Fest - hosted by LOVE of KDHX and Dogtown Records Radio!The guest spea...
09/02/2024

It's Labor Day Monday, and it's the LOVE of LABOR Fest - hosted by LOVE of KDHX and Dogtown Records Radio!

The guest speaker today at 12:45 will be well known music journalist Bob Baugh, a writer for Big City Rhythm and Blues magazine, a national music publication.

Prior to his extensive music journalism, Bob Baugh was an Executive Director for the Industrial Union Council of the AFL-CIO, with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library - https://www.c-span.org/person/bob-baugh/1008651

Bob Baugh - "Labor Day is a holiday that grew out of local and national worker marches for workers rights. The workers knew that their demands for better hours, wages and working conditions meant having a voice in the workplace that would make their homes and communities safer and more secure. St. Louis workers were at the center of these struggles beginning with the great Railroad strike of 1877 and the founding of some of the earliest local unions like the Carpenters and Electrical workers (IBEW) that were founded here.

LOVE OF LABOR PRESENTED BY LOVE OF KDHX

League of volunteer enthusiasts

Noon till 6 PM Labor Day in partnership with Dogtown Records Radio, Big Daddy's Soulard at the corner of 10th and Sydney on the shady patio stage.

Event schedule

12:00PM: DJs Walter and Willa Volz
12:45PM: speaker Bob Baugh
1:00PM: Rough Shop
2:00PM: DJ rich Reese
2:45PM speaker Shannon Duffy
3:00PM The May Day Orchestra
4:00PM: DJ Ital K
4:45PM: speaker DJ Ital K
5:00PM: Comrad!
5:30PM DJ Bobee sweet

*Schedule subject to change

LOVE, the KDHX associates, are part of this tradition. Volunteers may not be paid but they are workers. Their rights and voice as partners in KDHX have been eroded. Associates were fired and others struck to demand representation. Make no mistake this is all about the solidarity of the associates and community fighting for the democratic rights of those workers in the workplace. LOVE stands for building a better workplace and a better co

Donโ€™t want to miss today!!! Soulard Blues & Roots Festival!! 7pm Soulard Blues Band featuring Big George Brock Jr. & 8:3...
09/01/2024

Donโ€™t want to miss today!!!
Soulard Blues & Roots Festival!!
7pm Soulard Blues Band featuring Big George Brock Jr. &
8:30pm Rich McDonough & the Rhythm Renegades feat. Andy Duncanson & Teecโ€™a Easby

Rich McDonough is a name synonymous with great Blues guitar, a fact long known to Blues lovers around town. Rich's band ...
09/01/2024

Rich McDonough is a name synonymous with great Blues guitar, a fact long known to Blues lovers around town. Rich's band of Renegades hits the Kim Massie Memorial Street Stage at 8:30pm on Sunday, September 1st!

Joining the Renegades for this special festival show are special guests Andy Duncanson & Tee'ca Easby! Don't miss this show!!

This Labor Day Monday, it's the LOVE of LABOR Fest - hosted by LOVE of KDHX and Dogtown Records Radio!The guest speaker ...
09/01/2024

This Labor Day Monday, it's the LOVE of LABOR Fest - hosted by LOVE of KDHX and Dogtown Records Radio!

The guest speaker on Monday at 12:45 will be well known music journalist Bob Baugh, a writer for Big City Rhythm and Blues magazine, a national music publication.

Prior to his extensive music journalism, Bob Baugh was an Executive Director for the Industrial Union Council of the AFL-CIO, with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library - https://www.c-span.org/person/bob-baugh/1008651

Bob Baugh - "Labor Day is a holiday that grew out of local and national worker marches for workers rights. The workers knew that their demands for better hours, wages and working conditions meant having a voice in the workplace that would make their homes and communities safer and more secure. St. Louis workers were at the center of these struggles beginning with the great Railroad strike of 1877 and the founding of some of the earliest local unions like the Carpenters and Electrical workers (IBEW) that were founded here.

LOVE, the KDHX associates, are part of this tradition. Volunteers may not be paid but they are workers. Their rights and voice as partners in KDHX have been eroded. Associates were fired and others struck to demand representation. Make no mistake this is all about the solidarity of the associates and community fighting for the democratic rights of those workers in the workplace. LOVE stands for building a better workplace and a better community."

TODAY AT 5PM, IT'S THE 'BASS BASSICS' WORKSHOP!!It's for anyone who wants to learn Blues bass 'bassics', or just immerse...
09/01/2024

TODAY AT 5PM, IT'S THE 'BASS BASSICS' WORKSHOP!!

It's for anyone who wants to learn Blues bass 'bassics', or just immerse yourself into an amazing gathering with these legendary bass players of STL!

Talkin' about Sharon Bear, Eugene Johnson and Art Dwyer, accompanied by Marty Spikener! Be a part of it, it's happening today at 5PM on the Tom Hall Memorial patio stage.

At 3:45PM today, Eugene Johnson hits the Kim Massie Memorial Street Stage at the Soulard Roots and Blues festival!!Eugen...
09/01/2024

At 3:45PM today, Eugene Johnson hits the Kim Massie Memorial Street Stage at the Soulard Roots and Blues festival!!

Eugene Johnson is a self taught musician who has been playing music for as long as he could remember, and has recorded with several international artist such as: Albert King, Oliver Sain, Members Of The Family and has performed with Barbara Carr, Chuck Berry, and Kim Massie!

Schedule update...Kicking things off on the Kim Massie Main Street Stage at 12pm HIGH NOON, the wonderful acoustic duo o...
09/01/2024

Schedule update...
Kicking things off on the Kim Massie Main Street Stage at 12pm HIGH NOON, the wonderful acoustic duo of Nick Pence & Colin Blair. Don't miss it!!

TONIGHT - The Chris Shepherd Band hits the Tom Hall Memorial Patio Stage at 7:45, part of the 2024 Soulard Blues and Roo...
08/31/2024

TONIGHT - The Chris Shepherd Band hits the Tom Hall Memorial Patio Stage at 7:45, part of the 2024 Soulard Blues and Roots fest!

Chris Shepherd's smooth vocals invoke depth and volume with meaning, driving home blues messages with a soulful twist . In contrast, his gritty old school guitar speaks the straight-forward language of St. Louis's musical heritage. Brick City Blues claims its place in Old and New St. Louis as it reaches back into the city's rich musical legacy of vibrant roots and brings it's relevancy forward into the here and now. This is the essence and the excellence of the Chris Shepherd Band.

The Soulard Blues and Roots festival starts in ONE hour, and kicks off with the School of Rock band - Kirkwood, then it'...
08/31/2024

The Soulard Blues and Roots festival starts in ONE hour, and kicks off with the School of Rock band - Kirkwood, then it's Matt "Rattlesnake" Lesch Band > John McVey Band > Ivas John Band > Gene Jackson and Power Play.

And that's just the Kim Massie Memorial STREET Stage!

See the patio stage lineup and the complete fest schedule right here - https://www.stlblues.net/festivalSchedule.asp?theDate=8/31/2024&VenueID=6404

Brushes and Blues is a new addition to the Soulard Blues and Roots festival, and is led by Soulard artist Janet French. ...
08/31/2024

Brushes and Blues is a new addition to the Soulard Blues and Roots festival, and is led by Soulard artist Janet French. Janet has been an artist all her life.

Join Janet at 1pm on Saturday or Sunday (or both) on this Labor Day weekend for Brushes and Blues, and paint to the Blues. For $25 you get a pre-drawn wood, w instrument theme - ready to hang -and paints, pallets, brushes, etc. Space is limited to the first 15 for each day, so don't be late ๐Ÿ™‚

JANET FRENCH - Art major in college. Universities included Maryville, Flo Valley, Wash U, Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, and Meramec. Designed 4 Great Forest Park Balloon Race t-shirts from 1998 to 2001. Won the Mardi Gras poster contest in 1998. Created 2 Soulard Parlour Tour posters. Was an artist in the garden for 7 years for the Soulard Garden Tour. Won the first B3 festival Plein Air art contest in 2022.

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