THE BLUES

The St. Louis Blues Festival takes place tonight and tomorrow. I hope to go by and get some images of the musicians. This is from a few years ago, someone playing a blues harp, a harmonica put to special use. I’m shooting the first show of the St. Louis Fringe Festival tonight.           

The Blues

No, nothing to do with the hockey team, which has been quite successful in the first round of the playoffs.

There was a blues band playing in the new extension of the Arch grounds. This man was easily the most visually interesting. He is playing a harmonica, a blues harp in musical terms. The sounds he could make were quite amazing.         

The Blues

.
From the St. Louis Festival of Nations. American blues certainly counts as part of the spectrum of international musical art. This picture is one of the early shots in my hands project. Those arched fingers cover a harmonica, a blues harp. So simple an instrument, yet so capable of the sound of human melancholy.

TOMORROW: K KK KK KK Kat... (guest photo). Time to head way, way east. No Arch picture this week.