 “From the Home of the Blues and the Birth Place of Rock and Roll we’re definitely downtown in Memphis, Tennessee. Tonight from Downtown Memphis, its time for the Best in Blues on Beale Street Caravan.”
Co-hosts Daren Dortin and Pat Mitchell kick off each week's program with this rousing introduction. Now in its seventh season, Beale Street Caravan remains the world’s most popular Blues radio program with over 300 US affiliate stations and over 100 affiliate stations worldwide in Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and Asia. Great Blues music interspersed with an interview with the featured artist before a live crowd entertains a worldwide audience of 2.4 million listeners each week. Beale Street Caravan® takes its audience inside exciting live Blues events in Memphis and around the globe; events such as the W.C. Handy Blues Awards, the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival in Telluride, CO, The US Embassy Venezuelan Blues Tour, The Mississippi Valley Blues Festival in Davenport, IA, The King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, AR, and The Blues Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award ceremonies. In addition, celebrity hosts such as Sam Phillips, Jerry Wexler, Cybill Shepherd and others stop in each week to give the audience an inside view into the history and process of the Blues. It’s the Best in Blues on Beale Street Caravan.
In seven short years Beale Street Caravan® has become the world's most popular hour-long non-commercial Blues radio program. Styled in a magazine format, the Caravan is aired weekly on over 300 public, community and college radio stations nationwide.
So if you're looking for the Best in Blues, you've come to the right place.
http://www.bealestreetcaravan.com/
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