Well, the scheduel is is stone,,, as far as any scheduel involving musicans can be .
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This is an exciting lineup this year with some bands like Dusty Shoes, Johnny Mannion Band, Ken Whitely, KL Williams and Rebel Soul, and The Trimmed And Burnin Blues Project returning while Jimmie Bratcher, Jesse Dixon, Eric Turner, and Chad Weibe The Mennonite Bluesman will be here for the first time.

Note: BHOF denotes members of the Blues Hall Of Fame
         UBHOF denotes Uncle Henry's Blues Hall of Fame

Fiday July 31rst:

5:00-6:00         The trimmed and Burnin Blues Project  
                       Shannon Coberly BHOF
                       with special guest Eric Turner

6:00-6:30          Opening with Mayor Sharon Gates
                       

6:30-7:30          The Soujourners

7:45-8:45          Ashley Cleveland

9:30-11:00         Mr. Jesse Dixon
                         with the Sojourners

11:00 till the cows come home   Larry Howard invitational Blues Jam
                                               BHOF

Saturday August 1rst:

10:30-11:30       Gene Murphy and the Knitting Club

11:45-12:45         Chop Liver Band

1:00-2:00            Dr. Bones

2:15-3:15            Kl Williams and Rebel Soul
                          KL Williams UBHOF

3:30-4:15            Steve Delemar Band

4:30-5:30            Graham Ord

5:45-6:45            John Lee Sanders

7:00-8:15            Jimmie Bratcher Band

8:30-9:15          Johnny Mannion Band 
                           Johnny Mannion BHOF

9:30-11:00        Larry Howard BHOF
                          with Johhny Mannion Band BHOF
                          and special guest Eric Turner
                                        
12:00- till the cows come home Larry Howard invitational Blues Jam

Sunday August 2nd:

11:00-11:45          Praise and worship w/Speaker Pastor Shawn Van Dopt

12:00-1:00          Special Guest

2:00-3:00              Dusty Shoes

3:15-4:15              Chad Wiebe  The Mennonite Bluesman

4:30-5:30              Ken Whitely    BHOF

5:45-6:45              wHITE mOSES AND THE fURY

7:00-8:30               The Trimmed And Burnin Blues Project   
                             Shannon Coberly BHOF

8:45-10:00             Darrell Manfield BHOF
                             with The Johnny Mannion Band   BHOF
                             with special guest Eric Turner

This is the sixth year, every year we say "how can it get any better than this?" and it does. We'd love to see you there!
God Bless,
Back to the Blues,
The best little Gospel Blues fest west of Chicago

 
Murray Moore, this is the guy who started this whole thing!

 

http://www.back2Blues.com

Due to new laws pertaining to online raffle ticket sales we will no longer be selling raffle tickets for this guitar online. We would like to thank those of you who have already purchased tickets online and assure you that your tickets will be honored by making sure they are in the box at the time of the drawing.  If you purchased online raffle tickets and your ticket is drawn we will contact you to make arraingments for shipping if you are not present and unable to pick it up.
Tickets may be purchased at the House of James bookstore in Abbotsford BC and will be available at the Trimmed And Burnin Amps/Guitars booth during the Back2Blues Fest July 31-Aug 2nd. This means that there will be fewer tickets purchased so the odds of winning this guitar just went way up!! This also means that less money will be raised for the water well drilling ministry. Please pray about this. If you feel so led please go to http://www.Back2Blues.com where you can make a direct donation. This will not enter you to win this guitar but will be greatly appreciated and go to a worthy cause.
Again, thank you all for your support,
God Bless,
Back to the Blues,
The best little Gospel Blues Fest west of Chicago

 


 


 

It's coming together, Get ready for an amazing weekend!!! We have a great lineup again this year, there will a few more added as we get closer so stay tuned.
July31rst-Aug 2nd-Aug 3rd,,,,
Were extending Sunday's performances to 10:00 or 11:00 PM as it's a "long" weekend in Canada!!! DO NOT miss the Back2Blues Guitar Raffle!!!
Tickets for this years festibal can be purchased at http://www.back2blues.com
Guitar raffle tickets may be purchased there as well.


Mr. Jesse Dixon with the Sojourners
Sojourners
Ashley Cleveland
Larry Howard with the Johnny Mannion Band
Plus the Larry Howard invitaional Blues Jam
Rev. Jimmy Bratcher and band
Johnny Mannion Band
Darrell Mansfield with Eric Turner and the Johnny Mannion Band
Ken Whitley
John Lee Sanders
Graham Ord
Chad Bush Wiebe
Dr. Bones
Dusty Shoes
Steve Delemar Band
Arron Loewen
Chop Liver Band
Trimmed And Burnin Blues Project

The Blues Hall of Fame is being well represented here this year by BHOF members:
http://www.myspace.com/blueshalloffame
Murray Moore
Johnny Mannion
Larry Howard
Ken Whitley
Darrell Mansfield
Shannon Coberly

Stay for the Larry Howard Blues Jam,,,, Late Saturday night!!!!
Camping, Food, Kids games, Corn Roast, THREE DAYS of world class Gospel Blues  http://www.back2blues.com
Do Not miss the 2009 Back2Blues Guitar Raffle!!!!!

 
Shannon Coberly of Trimmed And Burnin Amps/Guitars is building another Back2Blues Fest guitar. This guitar is being donated to be sold by raffle ticket, the proceeds going to the Back2Blues well drilling ministry. You can purchase $5.00 raffle tickets by going to www.back2blues.com 
The 2009 Back2Blues Guitar is a one of a kind never to be reproduced to these specs again and comes with a Certificate of Authenticty signed by the builder.
Top: One piece flame maple carved to .20 thickness.
Back: .25 thick Book matched flame maple from the same tree as the top
Core: Chambered Angeire
Neck: Honduran Mahogany, Gaboon Ebony fryeboard, abalone face and side dot inlays, 6150 medium jumbo frets, Gotoh tuners, 1.7 wide Graphtec nut.
Pickups: GFS lipstick Humbuckers. 9K neck-12K bridge
Controls: 500K CTS pots, one blender pot to select or blend the pickups.
Finish: Hand rubbed oil and wax, Logos will be laser etched into the neck and body
Please stay tuned for updated photos as the guitar nears completion. Dont miss out on this guitar!!! The drawing will take place on Sunday afternoon August 2nd, 2009.
God Bless,
Back to the Blues,
The best little Gospel Blues Fest west of Chicago

 


 

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This was the best year EVER,, I have to say that I've been to some great concerts and festivals but this was the best that I've ever attended. There are many people to thank, many events and moments to remember, I'll try to post them as they come to mind. Stay tuned for pictures and short videos. The volenteers were amazing, the food was great,,,and plentiful ;>) the weather was "interesting",,, a few showers just to make us feel at home but overall very nice. Larry Howard was a highlight this year, he was awarded ambassadorship to Georgia by Mr. Johnny Mannion from the Blues Hall of fame and started a jam after hours that everyone was eager to be involved in.. Murray Morre who has worked tirelessly to keep the B2B's fest going and improving each year was also honored with an ambassadorship to Chilliwack BC by the Blues Hall of Fame. I'll write more about that later! A funny story indeed! The Johnny Mannion Band was "hotter'n peppered puddin", Danny Brookes had us "Souled Out and Sanctified", and a very special suprise appeared in the personage of Mr Ken Whitely. A true gentleman, inspiring musican, singer, and song writer he shared the stage with many this weekend. One of the sweeted things about this weekend was the giving, sharing, and passing along personal tips, techniques, and time amoungst the artists and bands. There were no ego trips, no bad vibes, no holding back from each other, they were accesable to the audiance and took time to visit, sign autographs, and be a blessing to those who were watching and enjoying. I am humbled and blessed to have been a small part of this event,,, I will remember this for the rest of my life!!! Thank you, and God bless you, from all of us at Back to the Blues, The best little Gospel Blues fest west of Chicago

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We have tickets for this years Offical Back2Blues Guitar raffle. They're only $5.00 apeice and you can buy as many as you want for a chance to win this $2000.00 custom built and donated by Trimmed And Burnin amps/Guitars. This guitar is built to play the blues. Please help to support this the Back2Blues Fest buy purchasing a couple tickets.

If you are purchasing tickets from the UK or elsewhere besides the USA or Canada plesae follow the instructions blelow. We will ship this guitar to the winning ticket holder,, wherever you live!

Unfortunately we cannot add zones to our cart, however you could use the  British Columbia zone and put the entire address in the address field, choose BC in the province and canada in the country fields and NA in the postal code. We will send out the ticket(s) by mail and include the numbers in the confirmation email as a backup.

http://www.houseofjames.com/store/advanced?title=back+to+the+blues+guitar+raffle+ticket

 To purchase ticket for the festival please click here.

http://www.houseofjames.com/store/advanced?title=back+to+the+blues+gospel+blues+festival

God Bless,

Back to the Blues,

The best little Gospel Blues Fest west of Chicago

Well we think it's in stone,,, maybe not! ;>)

Firday July 25th:

5:30   Surrender

6:15   Darrell Mansfield

7:30   Johnny Mannion Band

9:00   Danny Brookes & The Rockin Revelators

 

 

 

Saturday July 26th

10:30 Chop Liver Band

11:30 Gene Murphy & The Knitting Club

12:45 Dusty Shoes Band

1:45  KL Williams & Rebel Soul

2:25  White Moses & The Fury

3:45  Steve Delemar & Soul In One

4:45  Ken Whiteley

5:45  Peacemakers

7:00  Trimmed And Burnin Blues Project

8:00  Larry Howard

9:00  The Sojourners

11:00 Late night?? Jam??

 

Sunday July 27th

9:00  Dr. Bones

10:00 Worship with Aarone Loewen & Band    Gospel Blues Worship with Speaker Randy Ritz

10:45  Morning Service

11:30 Dr. Blu

12:45 Dr. Bones

1:45   Johnny Mannion Band

3:00  Wes Mackey

4:15  Danny Brookes & The Rockin Revelators

Close approx 6:00   God Bless Ya'll!  

 

Here are the bands for this years Back to the Blues Fest! We are very pleased with this years line up so please stay tuned for a scheduel and any last minute changes. We hope to see you there! July 25th-26th-27th 2008

Danny Brookes & The Rockin Revelators

Jim Burns & The Sojourners

Larry Howard

Darrell Mansfield

Wes Mackey

Johnny Mannion Band

Ken Whitely

Peacemakers

Trimmed And Burnin Blues Project

KL Williams & Rebel Soul

Dusty Shoes

Surrender

Gene Murphy & The Knitting Club

White Moses & The Fury

Steve Delamar & Soul in One

Chopped Liver Band

Dr. Blu

Arrone Lowen & Band (Hymns-Blues Style)

Ken Tucker

Dr. Bones

At age 14 he left home,, this was 1968. He started hitch hiking around the United States, mostly the west coast. He was a big kid and looked older than he was so he got jobs traveling with carnivals, picking fruit,  playing a little guitar in some out of the way taverns. Mostly he liked the back country mountians and deserts finding that even the Haight Ashbury was a mean place to try to get along in so big cities were mostly avoided. He lived in caves in the Palm Springs  desert and a hollow Redwood tree in Humbolt County for awhile. There were those along the way that extented kindness but mostly he avoided people, little by little losing his ability to relate. After a little over a year and a half of hard living, more than half starving  and being alone he decided to return to the home of his parents and attempt to finish high school.

 After two days at home it became evident that it would not be possible to stay so he packed up his back pack, compass, and his sharpest knife  heading out onto the road again but before leaving town he decided to stop and see Mrs. Kappy Britain. She had been a bright spot in his life, his favorite school teacher. He found that she had started an "off campus" school, a pilot program to help square pegs fit in the round holes better. She took him in to live with she and her family for about a year where he experianced a stable family life for the first time in his life.

He was treated like a son, as one of the family. Kappy had a son the same age, Scott. Scott was a very talented, athletic, artisticly gifted student and they became very close friends and brothers. He also became a bad influence on Scott!

He and Scott lost contact with each other, life went on. They finally got together in July of 2007 for the first time in 30 years to celebrate Kappy's 77th birthday. Scott Britain bought 5 rafle tickets for a Trimmed And Burnin ResoTele guitar from him. On July 29th at the Back2Blues Festival a drawing took place to see who would win this custom guitar. A person who had not purchased a ticket was selcted from the excited crowd and asked to come up on stage to reach her hand into a bucket and pull out a ticket. The name on the ticket was Scott Britian.

So who is "he"?? He is a man who has been blessed by God with three fine sons, a rarely fine woman who has stayed married to him for 33 years who has brought him happiness and blessings. If you ask him he'll tell you that he is living in underserved grace, just a square peg who eventually learned to build guitars. Keep your lamp Trimmed And Burnin

His daddy saw his son comin home, it made his Father glad

made his Father glad

Bring rings and robes my boy has come home at last

My son come home we'll kill the fatted calf

And that'll be the way to get along. Yeah that'll be the way to get along

 

We'll have pictures of Scott Britian taking possesion of his Trimmed And Burnin ResoTele by the end of August. Please check back.