When you come from Bolton, Mississippi (pop. 567), the blues is in your DNA. Indeed, it’s the same place that gave the world Charley Patton, Bo Carter, Sam Chatmon and others who, it could be argued, established the blues as a distinct genre during the early part of the 20th century. The spirit of those artists along with more recent practitioners such as R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes is ingrained in the sound of Robert Connely Farr.
Cafe Deux Soleils in East Vancouver, which has served as a hub for poets, musicians and other members of the community since the 1990s, abruptly announced its permanent closure on Tuesday.