Huntington Blues Society

06/23/2026

Don't miss out on this opportunity to play your Blues on Beale Street in Memphis! Click the link to sign up or message us if you have any questions. Our Affiliate Challenge will be held July 18, 2026 during the Appalachian Blues Festival

The Huntington Blues Society maintains Affiliate status with The Blues Foundation and is eligible to send Blues artists within a 200-mile radius of Huntington, WV to the International Blues Challenge held in Memphis, TN every January.  We hold our local Challenge on the third weekend in July as par...

06/22/2026

Thank you for coming out tonight ❤️🎶. 📸 Sonja Adkins, thanks for the pics

06/19/2026

06/19/2026

'Black musicians were the newspapers, if you will' — Here's how the...

06/04/2026

Fun memory from 10 years ago,
June 4, 2016

Jewel City Jamboree. Good times and music with Tyler Childers and the HuntingtonBlues Society!

06/04/2026

"The Appalachian Mountains are only now beginning to be recognized as one of the primary incubators of African-American music, especially the blues tradition... Why, with such an array of blues legends—the Empress of the blues, the Queen of the blues, and the Godfather of soul—has the region's blues tradition received so little attention?"

June is Black Music Month! As such, we wanted to share this article we found from the Smithsonian Folkways Magazine! Black Music has had an incredible impact on Appalachian Music, just consider the banjo! The banjo is a traditional African instrument that has become synonymous with our region and culture.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/black-history/the-music-of-the-mountains/51-00b7fb76-16cd-4943-a19d-7ef026484a1e

05/18/2026

Thanks for coming out tonight ❤️🎶

📸Sonja Adkins 📸

05/16/2026

Blues every Saturday at 1:00! Tune in at https://wtsq.org/

Howdy Folks,

Tune in on WTSQ.org or the WTSQ Mobile App at 1pm Eastern time for episode 95 of Black Dog Blues on WTSQ 88.1FM - The Status Quo. It's time for another Mailbag Blues Day! Music in this episode was selected from suggestions I received from the blues community writ large, that includes listener feedback, our local blues societies, artists and fellow DJs from all over the world. If you have a song or an artist you'd like me to check out, send me a message, I'd love to hear them.

Be sure to check out the rest of the lineup with Flower Power at 9am, Breaking Down The Pressure at 11am, All Skate at 2pm, Lost in the Static at 8pm, and Radio S**t at 10pm. There's something for everyone at . made possible by .

05/15/2026

Many fish bites if ya got good bait