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Presentation.
These slides are informational to the design of
the event.
Assumption #1: 250 tickets Sold. ALL tickets
MUST be sold for the raffle portion to work.
Assumption #2: Cost of Meal and set-up is $15
per Person (two meals per ticket sold).
ALL tickets MUST be sold as PRE-SALES.
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Intent of color slides is to provide some
educational component in a trivia style manner
(did you know..?).
Slides are incomplete. Suggestions welcomed.
Draft version of slide show begins on the next
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Raffle Dinner
May
t
h
18
$100 per Ticket
Every Ticket includes:
Dinner for Two with Blues & Jazz and Dancing.
Smallest Prize is $100. Tickets will go on Sale January 2013.
Presented by the Men of Holy Family
:: Proceeds go toward the MOHF $1MM Goal for the parish. ::
Raffle
Dinner
It Could Be
Your
LUCKY
Day!
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• Blues music is a style of music that
is based around using "blue notes." It
started in African-American
communities in the United States and
was influenced by various things, like
spirituals, field hollers, church music
and chants.
• The term "the blues" was first used
by Washington Irving in 1807.
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W.C. Handy
• African-American composer W.C. Handy introduced the
blues via recordings between 1911 and 1914. Blues had
been around for over 50 years.
• His strong musical background and his ability to
remember any song he heard helped in creating new
compositions.
• He is credited with organizing the first blues
performance at Carnegie Hall, 1928.
W. C. Handy
• Handy's role in bringing blues music to the public earned him the title of
"Father of the Blues".
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• Blues music is shrouded in a veil of
legend and lore.
• Recognized as one of the only
forms of music that originated in the
United States, blues can be traced
back as far as the 1860s through
word of mouth.
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Mamie Smith
• Blues exploded
nationally in the
1920s when
Mamie Smith
performed the first
blues tune with
vocals: "Crazy Blues"
(1920).
Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds
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• Blues music has been an
integral part of American
culture that is still evident in
music today.
• The genre has been highly
influential to rock 'n' roll music
of the past and modern day. It
also paved the way for
rhythm & blues (R&B),
bluegrass and jazz.
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There are four main types of blues music styles.
Delta Blues began in the Mississippi delta areas and
is the original style of blues.
Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Charlie Patton and Blind Blake
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There are four main types of blues music styles.
Chicago Blues introduced electric instruments to the
blues sound, as well as microphones
for vocals and amplifiers.
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There are four main types of blues music styles.
Texas Blues is nearly identical to Chicago Blues in
instruments but has a Texan flair not found in Chicago.
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There are four main types of blues music styles.
Blues Rock is the youngest style, beginning in the
1960s. Influenced by Delta and Chicago Blues.
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Ma Rainey
• In 1923, Ma Rainey
signed with Paramount
Records and recorded
100 songs between 1923
and 1928.
• She was billed as the
“Mother of the Blues.”
• Commemorative Stamp
issued Sept. 17, 1994
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Robert Johnson
• No other blues musician is more shrouded in mystery and intrigue than
Robert Johnson.
• When he first played the guitar for Son House and Willie Brown, they
told him that he should stay with playing harmonica.
• He returned a short time later (1930) to play guitar for them again and
surprised them by exhibiting skills that were greater than their own. It was
then that the rumor began that Johnson had sold his soul to the Devil.
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Jelly Roll Morton
• Before he was 10, Jelly Roll learned the guitar and banjo. By
the age of ten, he was starting to play his main instrument, the
piano.
• His style of playing was predominantly characterized by
African American elements such as ragtime, blues, field hollers,
spirituals. Elements of Hispanic/Caribbean music and white
popular music were also present in his style..
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B. B. King
• Blues music has been an integral part
of American culture that is still evident
in music today.
• Nicknamed “King of the Blues”
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Benny Goodman
• King of Swing music.
• The Swing and jazz oi wo pw ;f
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Bessie Smith
• Blues Singer.
• The genre has been highly
influential jazz.
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Billie Holiday
• Lady Sings the Blues – the movie
was the story of Billie Holiday.
• The genre has been highly
influential bluegrass and jazz.
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Buddy Guy
• Blues music has been in music
today.
• The genre has been highly
influential to jazz. E qow e rwo h.
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Buddy Rich
• Jazz Drummer
• The genre jazz.
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Charlie Parker
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• Charlie Parker comes close to
having as much influence on the
history of Jazz as Louis Armstrong
does.
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Dizzy Gillespie
• Jazz music has music today.
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Duke Ellington
• Jazz music today.
• The genre has been highly
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Ella Fitzgerald
• “First Lady of Jazz”
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Ethel Waters
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Gene Krupa
• Jazz drummer.
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Howlin’ Wolf
• Jazz music today.
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Jimmy Rushing
• Jazz music today.
• The genre has been highly
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John Coltrane
• Jazz music today.
• The genre has been highly
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Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong
• His amazing technical abilities, the joy and spontaneity, and amazingly
quick, inventive musical mind still dominate Jazz to this day.
• Noted as the greatest of all Jazz musicians.
• Armstrong defined what it was to play Jazz.
• The records made by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven
are considered to be absolute jazz classics and speak of
Armstrong's creative powers.
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Count Basie
• Jazz music today.
• The genre has been
highly influential
throughout the country.
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Maynard Ferguson
• Jazz music today.
• The genre has been highly
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Mighty Joe Young
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Jazz music today.
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Sunnyland Slim
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Charlie Patton
• Noted as “the King of Delta Blues”
• The genre has been highly influential
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Son House
• “Father of the Delta Blues”
• Noted for teaching Robert Johnson the
Blues Guitar.
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LeadBelly
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Leelly
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Blind Blake
• Blues Guitar Legend
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