02-24-14 Music News You Can Use

Monday music picks in New Orleans include pianist Jon Cleary at The Maple Leaf

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2014/02/new_orleans_music_hot_picks_fo_295.html

Previewing this year's 8th annual Lewis & Clark Jazz Festival

http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/briefs/western-iowa-tech-to-hold-th-lewis-and-clark-jazz/article_c8e813a7-24d4-59cf-a188-72e7a9c5ff7a.html

The Calgary Blues Music Association is singing a happy tune

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/music/Music+association+rising+blues/9538149/story.html

A look ahead to this year's Folk on the Oak

http://www.whtimes.co.uk/what-s-on/guitar_great_joins_folk_by_the_oak_2014_line_up_in_hatfield_1_3353785

Rick Springfield sighting

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/02/23/singer-guitarist-rick-springfield-rocks-hard-at-hard-rock-live

Parenting, and all that Jazz

http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20140224/LIFESTYLE/302240010?nclick_check=1

A new book about Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20140223/FEAT/302230052/Book-review-Story-musician-Jimmi-Mayes-amazing-unforgettable?nclick_check=1

The Big Easy salutes 20 years of Bayou City Blues

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2014/02/big_easy_celebrates_twenty_yea.php

TTB: Strength in numbers

http://www.dailyitem.com/0300_entertainment/x488695659/TTB-Strength-in-numbers

And Robben Ford spends A Day in Nashville

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/02/22/robben-ford-a-day-in-nashville-2014/