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Healing Blues Band hits the road

By Grant Britt    Apr 6, 2017

"It’s not just your imagination. They really are out there, interstellar pod people slumming intergalactically, disguised as musicians..."

Healing Blues project: Suffering expressed through songs

By Dawn DeCwikiel-Kane    Apr 27, 2014

"Shannon Stewart tapped his feet to the music, nodding his head and smiling with recognition. At moments, he appeared to fight back tears, then quickly recover..."

Healing Blues speaks truth about homelessness

By Ogi Overman    Oct 27, 2016

"In September 2014, two Greensboro College professors released a concept album they had been working on for almost a year..."

Homelessness, Blues, And The Power Of Spoken Words

By David Ford    Dec 28, 2016

"A new album is giving voice to the homeless living in the Triad. CD pairs dozens of local musicians with the narratives of fourteen homeless people..."

The Healing Blues

By Ericka Bryant    May 10, 2016

"The blues. A man dejected, depressed, down on his luck, down in the dumps, stuck under his own personal rain cloud. The blues..."

The Healing Blues Project

By Making Music Magazine    May 19, 2015

"The Healing Blues group later came together and formed Healing Blues Café sessions at Greensboro’s Elsewhere Living Museum..."

Turning Hardship Into Harmony

By Natalie Wilson    Sept 25, 2014

"Since January, students and faculty at Greensboro College have been working with local musicians to tell the stories of clients at the Interactive Resource Center..."

Various Artists – The Healing Blues (2014)

By S. Victor Aaron    Nov 7, 2014

"This album is for a great cause, to raise funds for the Interactive Resource Center, an innovative day resource center helping people in the Greensboro, North Carolina area who are homeless or facing homelessness..."

Three concerts to launch Healing Blues Project CD

By Ogi Overman    

"Before coming to Greensboro College from UConn three years ago, art professor Ted Efremoff headed up an art project that involved planting wheat seeds..."

Healing Blues Project Pairs Homeless, Musicians

By Todd Cohen    Jan 26, 2015

"In the lyrics of “Cross Road Blues,” a classic Delta blues song, the image of a country crossroads has come to represent a place where a musician can hitch a ride, or kneel and pray for mercy, or even sell one’s soul to the devil in return for musical talent..."

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