BBC Radio Gloucestershire has put John Hellings programme about Blues in Gloucestershire on their website. It's a great programme. www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire will take you there. Then click on features. Better still, click from our home page. 

The European Blues Association and the University of Gloucestershire,  supported by the CGI (organisers of the Blues Festival),  have agreed that the University will now be custodians of items from the Paul Oliver Collection of African American Music and Reelated Traditions. This is of enormous benefit to the Ccounty of Gloucestershire. The EBA continues to edge closer to  establishing the first dedicated Centre for the Study of Blues and African American Music in Gloucestershire County's Music and Drama Library in Gloucester. Please go to ‘The EBA Archive’ for more details. The EBA will hold workshops and performances in this library in Greyfriars  (near Cafe Rene) during the festival.

The Paul Oliver Collection

This extensive collection of books, papers, recordings, visual material, and other artifacts represents an enormously valuable resource in teaching and research as Paul Oliver is one of the world's leading authorities on the Blues. Among his many publications are Blues Fell This Morning, The Story of the Blues, and Blues Off the Record. His work, which began in the 1950s, includes interviews, field work, and research in recording and printed sources tracing the origins and development of African American music and culture from the time of slavery through to the Twentieth Century.