Blues in Canada

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@2066 Lounge Bar 2066 Queen E., Toronto, ON M4E 1C9 maps reviews 416 698-2066  
2nd Ave Grill 10-123 2nd Ave, Saskatoon, SK S7K 7E6 maps reviews 306 244-9899 www.2ndavegrill.com
Alleycatz 2409 Yonge, Toronto, ON M4P 2E7 maps reviews 416 481-6865
Apollo Bar 239 Red River Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 1A7 maps reviews 807-346-9461  
Bayou Jazz & Blues Club 1077 Bank St., Ottawa, ON K1S 3W9 maps reviews 613-738-1709  
Bearly's Bar & Grill 1269 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS B3J1Y2 maps reviews 902 423-2526 www.bearlys.ca
Beat Niq Jazz & Social Club 811-1st Street SW, Calgary, AB T2P 7N2 maps reviews 403 263-1650
Bella Vista 53 Maryland Street, Winnipeg, MB R3G 1K6 maps reviews 204 775-4485
Big Momma's 186 Prince Street, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4R9 maps reviews 902-892-4200
Bistro à Jojo 1627 St Denis street, Montreal, QC maps reviews 514 843-5015
Black Swan 154 Danforth, Toronto, ON M4K 1N1 maps reviews 416 469-0537
Blue Goose Tavern 1 Blue Goose St., Etobicoke, ON M8V 2R5 maps reviews 416 255-2442
Blues At The Bow PO BOX 340, Bow Island, AB T0K 0G0 maps reviews 403 545-2340  
Blues On Whyte Pub 10329 Mill Creek BRG NW, Edmonton, AB T5A 0A3 maps reviews 780 439-3981
Blues Underground Network C/O 517 Hemlock Street, Kamloops, BC V2C 1C4 maps reviews 250 314-1984 www.bluesunderground.com
Booker's BBQ Grill & Crab Shack 316 3 St SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2S4 maps reviews 403 264-6419
Boomer's Basement Roadhouse 15 Scott St., Kitchener, ON N2H 2P6 maps reviews 519-579-2380
Bourbon Street Lounge 1333 Weber St. E., Kitchener, ON N2A 1C2 maps reviews 519-893-1234
Brandon Blues Society c/o 1617 8th Street, Brandon, MB R7A 4A1 maps reviews 204 727-7114 home.westman.wave.ca
Buds On Broadway 817 Broadway Ave, Saskatoon, SK S7N 1B5 maps reviews 306 244-4155
Bugaboo Creek Pub 422 Queen St, Fredericton, NB E3B 1B6 maps reviews 506-453-0582
Bunches Bistro 111-1889 Springfield Rd., Kelowna, BC V1Y 5V5 maps reviews 250 860-8880 www.delicitybunches.com
Cafe Bar Goti 234 Heriot, Drummondville, QC J2C 1K1 maps reviews 819-477-0055
Cafe Campus 57 Prince Arthur East, Montreal, QC H2X 1B4 maps reviews 514-383-0087 www.cafecampus.com
Cameron House 408 Queen W., Toronto, ON M5V 2A7 maps reviews 416 703-0811
Canada South Blues Society 1185 Argyle Rd, Windsor, ON N8Y3K2 maps reviews 519-977-9631 www.bluessociety.ca
Canadianblues.ca C/O The Out Box PO Box 23083, Midtown Postal Outlet St. Catharines, ON L2R 7P6 maps reviews 905-685-8804 www.canadianblues.ca
Cannery Row 317-10th Avenue SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0A5 maps reviews 403 269-8889
Capilano College Performing Arts Theatre 2055 Purcell Way, Vancouver, BC V7J 3H5 maps reviews 604-990-7810  
Cellar Jazz Club 3611 W Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6R 2B8 maps reviews 604-738-1959 www.cellarjazz.com
Central Bar & Grill 708 View St, Victoria, BC V8W 1J8 maps reviews 250 361-1700
Champs Bar & Grill 332 Richmond St., London, ON N6A-3C3 maps reviews 519 432-5959
Chicago's Diner 335 Queen W., Toronto, ON maps reviews 416 977-2904
Chicago's Diner 335 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON M5V 2A4 maps reviews 416-977-2904
Chivana West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6K 1P1 maps reviews 604 733-0330 www.chivana.com
Coastal Jazz and Blues Society 316 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1K9 maps reviews 604-872-5200 www.coastaljazz.ca
Commodore Ballroom 868 Granville, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1K3 maps reviews 604-739-7469 www.hob.com
Cottage Bistro 4468 Main St., Vancouver, BC V5V 3R3 maps reviews 604 876-6138
Creekside Theatre 10241 Bottom Wood Lake Road, Lake Country, BC V4V 1Y7 maps reviews 250 769-5664 www.okanagan.net
Delta Blues Society 9289 Forest Place, Delta, BC V4C 7A3 maps reviews 604-883-3620
Discovery Blues Bar 4109 4th Ave, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H6 maps reviews 867 668-4545
Doc Willoughby's 353 Bernard Ave, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6N6 maps reviews 250 868-8288
Double Olive 81 James Street, St. Catharines, ON maps reviews 905-704-4549
Dream Cafe 74 Front St., Penticton , BC V2A 1H1 maps reviews 250 490-9012
East Coast Blues 6958 Ward Ave., Halifax, NS B3L 2K4 maps reviews 902-454-4283 www.eastcoastblues.ca
Emily's 616-10th Street East, Saskatoon, SK S7H 0G9 maps reviews 306 664-1953
Fatcat Blues Bar George , St. John's, NL A1C 5W1 maps reviews 709-739-5554 fatcatbluesbar.com
Fitzy's Crabshack 143 Dunlop St E, Barrie, ON maps reviews 705 721-8785
Fox Glen Golf Club 7525 Howard Ave, McGregor, ON N0R 1J0 maps reviews 519 726-4292
Garden Bay Pub Pender Harbour, Garden Bay, BC V0N 1S0 maps reviews 604-883-2674
Gate 403 403 Roncesvalles, Toronto, ON L4M 1A3 maps reviews 416 588-2930
George & Dragon 7 Main St North, Georgetown, ON L7G 3G9 maps reviews 519-740-1916
Goose & Firkin 1875 Leslie, North York, ON M3B 2M5 maps reviews 416 383-1200 www.firkinpubs.com
Grossman's 379 Spadina, Toronto, ON M5T 2G3, maps reviews 416 977-7000 grossmanstavern.com
Grossman's Tavern 379 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON M3B 2M5 maps reviews 416-977-7000 www.grossmanstavern.com
Gypsy Heart Dream Cafe 74 Front Street, Penticton, BC V2A 1H1 maps reviews 250 490-9012
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Blues Music

Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of African influence. The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became the roots of jazz, rhythm and blues, and bluegrass. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues rock developed from the combining of blues with various rock and roll forms. Wiki Blues Music

Blue note

In jazz and blues, blue notes are notes sung or played at a lower pitch than those of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers. Country blues, in particular, features wide variations from the tonic but still with the blue-note feeling. The blue notes are usually said to be flattened third, flattened fifth, and flattened seventh scale degrees, although they approximate pitches found in African work songs. These blue notes are what turns a major scale into the blues scale. The same transformation of notes transforms the minor scale into the minor blues scale, as heard in songs such as "Why Don't You Do Right?". The blues scale is used in almost all twelve-bar and eight-bar blues, but it is also used in blues ballads and in conventional popular songs with a "blue" feeling, such as Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather". In its earliest manifestations, the flattened third, or mediant, and flattened seventh, or subtonic, were the main blue notes. Wiki Blue note