Blues Dragon Club Cardiff
The Gower (pub), Gwennyth Street, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4PH, Wales. see map
Live music every Thursday 8.30 to 11.00 pm in the upstairs bar
(band usually on stage about 9 pm)
Café Jazz, 21 St Mary Street, Cardiff, CF10 1PL, Wales. see map
Live music every Friday 9.30 pm to midnight  
(band usually on stage about 10 pm)
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Some Artists who have appeared at the Blues Dragon

Arthur Ebeling Big Beat Boogie Band (B4) Binder
Blues State U.K. Clive and Kicking Doug Jay and the Blue Jays
Dynamo's Rhythm Aces Eddie Martin Eugene 'Hideaway' Bridges
Forster-King Band Fugitives Guy Tortora
Gwyn Ashton Hamilton Loomis Hitman Blues Band
Honeyboy Hickling Ian Parker Band Jimmy Griswold
Joanne Shaw Taylor John Fenlon Band Kate Pereira
Kent DuChaine Little Dave Thompson
Mo'Indigo The Mystics New Blood (Afterview)
The Numbers Racket Paul Byrd Rosie Walters Band
Snatch It Back The Sodamen The Spikedrivers
Tam White Tin Pan Alley
Todd Sharpville Tommy McCoy
Trafficker T.S. Blues Uncensored
West Coast Sound Worried Men

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Other Bands (not necessarily blues)

Aynsley Lister Band - voted 'UK Rock Blues Band of the year (2001)' by the British Blues Connection
Bad Influence - my favourite London blues/rock band
Bluesdragon - a Japanese Blues Band!
Freed - tribute to Free, what more could you want?
Freeway - excellent local rock band
Jimmy C and the Bluesdragons - great name for a band!
Red Roc and the Doctors of Swing - Jump Jive and Swing band from the Cambridge area

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Festivals

Abertillery 13 August 2005

Colne 26-29 August 2005
Dragon Blues Festival, Wrexham - also Hooker Blues Club
Linton Festival of Music and Ale, near Ross-on-Wye 17-19 June 2005
Blues Weekends (various locations) by Boogaloo Promotions - also Blues Club at the Farnham Maltings

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Gig Lists

Cardiff County Council - what's on
Entertainment in Wales - bands, venues etc
Ents24 - good site for what's on all over Britain
Gig-Guide.co.uk - a guide covering the U.K.

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Venues

Ain't Nothin' But - the blues bar in London
Blaenau Gwent Blues Club - not too far away!
Blue Front Blues Room - blues club in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Bottleneck Blues Club - in Kent
Café Jazz - Cardiff's premier jazz venue, with blues every Friday
Coal Exchange - Cardiff's best live music venue (apart from the Blues Dragon!)
District Club - Pontypridd
Farnham Maltings - Blues Club (also Boogaloo Promotions blues weekends)
Hooker Blues Club - in Wrexham (also site for Dragon Blues Festival)
The Point - Cardiff Bay
Tawe Delta Blues Club - in Swansea

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Other Links

ABC Sounds - Fine Musical Equipment at great prices!
Best of Wales - The Best Web Sites - Welsh links
Blue Highway - a site with good links
Blues Clubs Worldwide   
Blues Connections - more useful info
Blueslinks.nl - Dutch site with the most blues links I've seen anywhere
Blues Matters! - international blues & blues/rock revue magazine
Bordeaux Pub - good English/French bar in Bordeaux
Cardiff Students' Union Live Music Society
Devil's Music - a blues discussion forum
Google - search engine
GTFM Radio (Pontypridd) - blues program every Monday 10pm to midnight on 106.9 FM and also on www.gtfm.co.uk
Knights in Blue Denim - site with amazing list of artists past and present - even includes the Idle Race
Llanishen Reservoir Action Group - campaign to stop Western Power building a housing estate on the site of Llanishen Reservoir 
More to the Blues - "Blues club directory Blues clubs your free searchable calendar on our site Join today it's free!!!!!"
Picasso Griffiths - web site of the artist who created the Blues Dragon logo
Pipedown - the campaign for freedom from piped music
SearchInWales.com - an independent Welsh-based search engine
StayAhead Training Ltd - Unix, Linux and Oracle training specialists
Tennis Hut - indoor tennis centre in Llanishen - for when you need a break from the blues
Tennis Hut Construction Ltd - suppliers of indoor sports halls
The Blues Channel - another useful information site
Toxic Pete - photos and reviews

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Blues Dragon web address: www.bluesdragon.co.uk
Blues Dragon web page author: Alan
e-mail:
alan@bluesdragon.org.uk