Michael Roach (musician) explained

Background:person
Michael Roach
Birth Date:18 March 1955
Birth Place:Washington, D.C., U.S.
Genre:Piedmont blues
Occupation:Musician
Instrument:Guitar

Michael Roach[1] (born March 18, 1955, Washington, D.C., United States) is an American blues performer and educator based in England, who has released six albums on the independent Stella Records label. He conducts workshops on African American musical/cultural heritage internationally,[2] and is a founder of the European Blues Association.[3]

Career

In 1941, Roach's parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C., where the twenty-seven-year-old Roach later heard regional musicians John Jackson, John Cephas and Archie Edwards, who became his mentors in traditional Piedmont blues guitar.[4]

Upon relocating to the UK, Roach became active on the European blues scene,[5] and founded the European Blues Association (EBA)[3] with writer/historian Dr. Paul Oliver, MBE in 1997. The European Blues Association became a registered charity in 2002, and Roach currently serves as its director.

In 2000, Michael Roach founded "Blues Week",[5] an annual residential program of lectures and instruction in country blues guitar, harmonica, blues piano and vocals at Northampton University (UK).[6] In 2003, Roach presented Deep Blue, a three-part series on blues music featured on BBC Radio 4.[7] [8] In 2006 he released an instructional DVD, Introduction to Country Blues Guitar.

Roach's tours as an educator and performer have taken him to the Augusta Heritage Center (US), Centrum Piedmont Blues Intensive[9] (US), The Ironworks[10] (UK) and the Smithsonian Institution (US).[11] He has performed and lectured at blues, jazz, folk and roots music festivals in Croatia,[12] Czech Republic,[13] England,[14] [15] the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and Wales.[16]

Discography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Crossroads – Nightlife Features . TimeOutDubai.com . January 19, 2009 . October 21, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193620/http://www.timeoutdubai.com/nightlife/features/5652-back-to-the-crossroads/ . March 3, 2016 . dead .
  2. Web site: What's On - Anvil Arts. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191636/http://www.anvilarts.org.uk/whats-on/10/oct/michael-roach-and-paul-oliver. dead. March 3, 2016. March 3, 2016. September 13, 2018.
  3. Web site: About the EBA . Euroblues.org . October 21, 2011.
  4. News: The Piedmont style . https://archive.today/20120720165038/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/389811901.html?dids=389811901:389811901&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+29,+2003&author=Richard+Harrington&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=The+Piedmont+style&pqatl=google . dead . July 20, 2012 . Richard . Harrington . August 29, 2003.
  5. Web site: April 2003 D.C. Blues Society News Letter. Dcblues.org. 2014-05-29.
  6. Web site: Third year for Blues Week at Park Campus . Northampton.ac.uk . 2014-05-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140529232608/http://www.northampton.ac.uk/news/release/?id=UON7170 . May 29, 2014 .
  7. Book: Cross the water blues: African ... – Neil A. Wynn – Google Books . 9781604735475 . October 21, 2011. Wynn . Neil A. . February 9, 2010 . Univ. Press of Mississippi .
  8. Book: Wynn , Neil . 2007. Cross the Water Blues. University Press of Mississippi. 19. 978-1-60473-546-8.
  9. Web site: Piedmont Blues Intensive – Blues at Centrum . Centrum.org . October 16, 2009 . October 21, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110929123848/http://www.centrum.org/blues/piedmont-blues.html . September 29, 2011 .
  10. Web site: Gig: Michael Roach – Ironworks, Oswestry – 10 Jun 2010 – . Bluesinthenorthwest.com . May 20, 2010 . October 21, 2011.
  11. Web site: Top names lined up for Blues Festival – Manx Entertainment News . Iomtoday . October 21, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080404010629/http://www.iomtoday.co.im/what-where-when/Top-names-lined-up-for.3801380.jp . April 4, 2008 . mdy-all .
  12. Web site: Kastav Blues Festival 2010. | R-1 PORTAL RIJEKA . R-1.hr . October 21, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111008212722/http://www.r-1.hr/kastav_blues_festival_2010/35353_3 . October 8, 2011 .
  13. Web site: Blues Alive Festival XV at Dům Kultúry (Šumperk) on 18 Nov 2010 – . Last.fm . February 11, 2009 . October 21, 2011.
  14. Web site: Marlborough Jazz Festival . Marlboroughjazz.co.uk . October 21, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070703191415/http://www.marlboroughjazz.co.uk/program.html . July 3, 2007 . dead .
  15. Web site: Barnstaple Fringe : Part of the North Devon Festival . Musicface.co.uk . 2014-05-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193524/http://musicface.co.uk/download/barnstaplefringe.pdf . March 3, 2016 . dead .
  16. Web site: Artists « Tenby Blues Festival 2011 . Tenbyblues.co.uk . June 24, 2010 . October 21, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723132332/http://www.tenbyblues.co.uk/?page_id=10 . July 23, 2011 .
  17. Web site: Michael Roach – Ain't Got Me No Home . Discogs.
  18. Web site: Michael Roach – Good News Blues . Discogs.
  19. Web site: Michael Roach – Cypress Grove (2003, CD) . Discogs.
  20. Web site: Innocent Child : Michael Roach. Amazon.co.uk. March 4, 2024.

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