copy and photos by Mark Wright Terre Haute’s Blues at the Crossroads 2018 is in the books, and from my own eyes and ears and the accounts of the numerous folks I talked to, it was a resounding success. Nearly perfect weather drew crowds in the thousands, a new arrangement of vendors and services made …
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by Mark Wright On Friday and Saturday, September 14-15, several thousand people and 18 bands will unite at 7th and Wabash for two days of music and fun as the Blues at the Crossroads Festival returns to Terre Haute. Friday night’s kickoff begins at 6:00 pm and will continue until 1:30 am or thereabouts; the …
by Mark Wright Featured Image Courtesy Blues at the Crossroads [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I arrived at The Verve in Terre Haute at 12:30 on a Friday afternoon to talk to Connie Wrin about the upcoming Blues at the Crossroads, I did not realize I would be walking into the chaos of two local television stations and someone …
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by Donovan Wheeler photos by Garrett J. Poortinga, Green Hat Media LLC 2017 [box type=”info” align=”aligncenter” class=”” width=””]Chris Dollar @ Wasser Brewing Company — February 24th[/box] [dropcap]A[/dropcap]t their peak, Bloomington’s New Old Calvary, a traditional bluegrass band with creative, nontraditional elements were touring the Midwest and putting out recorded music hand-over-fist. In the middle of …
by Mark Wright photos courtesy of Blues at the Crossroads [dropcap]A[/dropcap]ccording to Wikipedia (yeah, I know it’s not a scholarly source, but this is not a research paper), the crossroads of America is an intersection in Terre Haute, Indiana. “At about the same time [1926, when U. S. highway 40 was named The National Road], …
