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[Jazz & Song] [African Americana]. 'American Negro Blues Festival 1963' – Original Handbill. Rare handbill for the American Negro Blues Festival at Fairfield Hall in Croyden, featuring Lightning Hopkins, Howling Wolf, Sleepy John Estes, Hubert Sumlin, John Henry Barbee, Hammie Nixon, Sugar Pie Desanto, Clifton James, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon, and Sunny Boy Williamson. Mild wear and toning throughout, usual folds, else fine. 5.75 x 7.75 inches (14.5 x 17.8 cm.).
The 1963 appearance of the American Folk Blues Festival (American Negro Blues Festival as it was called at the time) introduced the Blues as a rapidly growing popular genre in the UK. The festival – which began in 1962 and toured annually for years following – provided the initial exposure of leading Blues artists to European audiences, most of whom had never toured outside of the United States. The festival attracted a tremendous amount of media coverage, and "directly influenced a generation of young British musicians, with new bands such as The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds with an interest in blues music already emerging. The festivals were the primary movers in the blues explosion that would lead to the 'British Invasion' of the USA."
[Jazz & Song] [African Americana]. 'American Negro Blues Festival 1963' – Original Handbill. Rare handbill for the American Negro Blues Festival at Fairfield Hall in Croyden, featuring Lightning Hopkins, Howling Wolf, Sleepy John Estes, Hubert Sumlin, John Henry Barbee, Hammie Nixon, Sugar Pie Desanto, Clifton James, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon, and Sunny Boy Williamson. Mild wear and toning throughout, usual folds, else fine. 5.75 x 7.75 inches (14.5 x 17.8 cm.).
The 1963 appearance of the American Folk Blues Festival (American Negro Blues Festival as it was called at the time) introduced the Blues as a rapidly growing popular genre in the UK. The festival – which began in 1962 and toured annually for years following – provided the initial exposure of leading Blues artists to European audiences, most of whom had never toured outside of the United States. The festival attracted a tremendous amount of media coverage, and "directly influenced a generation of young British musicians, with new bands such as The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds with an interest in blues music already emerging. The festivals were the primary movers in the blues explosion that would lead to the 'British Invasion' of the USA."