Check out our Calendar for the latest on all upcoming blues shows
hosted by the Idaho Blues Society and IBS Member Bands!
Attention All Blues Lovers:
We Need YOU!
The Idaho Blues Society is an all-volunteer organization of blues lovers just like you. We depend on our volunteers to help staff our merch booths, raise donations, collect donated instruments, and more. In turn, volunteers may qualify for free IBS membership and show tickets—and meet new friends!
Too Slim & the Taildraggers on Tour Here this Week!
Saturday, May 29 | 7 pm
Watson's Mystery Cafe & Spirits - Boise
"His gravelly voice and his never-waste-a-note guitar playing wrap themselves around his lyrics to deliver a blues rock experience that strikes us in our hearts and shakes us to our bones, leaving us always waiting with bated breath for the next album."
Blues Blast Magazine
Enjoy Blues Tuesdays by the River
Cold drinks, delicious food, live blues, and that laid-back river vibe—there's no better way to spend a spring evening than hanging out by the river at the Riverside Hotel's Sandbar Patio Bar & Grill in Garden City listening to top-notch local bands blues bands play the blues every Tuesday, 5-8 pm (until Memorial Day, 6 - 9 pm after). Here's the schedule through July:
| May 26 | Jeff Engelbert Band |
|---|---|
| June 2 | Trials & Tribulations Blues Band |
| June 9 | Blues Addicts |
| June 16 | Silverbacks |
| June 23 | Trials & Tribulations Blues Band |
| June 30 | Deb Michels Gang |
| July 7 | Carmel n the Closers |
| July 14 | Blues to Lose |
| July 21 | Deb Michels Gang |
| July 28 | Silverbacks |
Blues Wednesday
June 17, 6:30-9 pm
Players Pub & Grill (Inside Westy's)
Garden City
Ready for a mid-week evening of cool blues on a hot summer night? The talented Boise-based Poverty Flats band will be offering up a fun mix of blues, blues--rock covers and originals at this month's Blues Wednesday event at Players Pub & Grill. Come ready to dance, dance, dance on Player's spacious dance floor or just relax and listen to the music while enjoying Players' reasonably priced drinks and delicious pub food.
Blues Jam
Sunday, May 31, 1-5 pm
Watson's Mystery Theater
Boise
Blues musicians, dancers and listeners, mark your calendars now for our May blues jam. Doors open at 12 noon for musician sign-up. Jammers, bring your talent, instruments, cables, and pedal boards. Backline is provided. The host band will be Blues to Lose, who will play a short set at the open and close of the jam. Your $5 donation helps pay the band and support IBS programs to encourage youth to learn and play the blues.
Support Our Youth
is a nationally recognized educational initiative
that uses music as a teaching tool.
Each school year, two teams of Idaho Blues Society musicians visit more than a dozen schools in Idaho to share stories abou the history and culture of blues music, perform live music and invite students to sing along, and conduct workshops to teach youth in grades K-12 about blues music. The program is flexible and can be tailored to the age, interests, and learning objectives of elementary, middle, and high school classes. This is often the first time students have experienced live music. Kids love it!
to help get instruments into the hands of young people interested in learning to play the blues.
We accept donated instruments, inspect and arrange for repairs if needed, then distribute to school music programs or individual students in need. In some cases, donated musical equipment may be sold online, with funds used to pay for needed repairs of other donated instruments or to support our Blues in the Schools music education program.
To donate or request an instrument,
