Birth of the Blues

The Joseph Caleb Auditorium’s Caleb Around Town, presented in recognition of America250 as part of the “Black Birth of Music Series,” proudly announces the Birth of the Blues Concert, a tribute to W.C. Handy, the legendary composer celebrated worldwide as the Father of the Blues. The Black Birth of Music Series celebrates W. C. Handy’s recording of “Memphis Blues,” the 1908 publication of “I Got the Blues” and some of America’s notable blues songs by legendary South Florida blues musician Val and Mojo Ike Woods.