Dear Intrepid Family, We hope you and your families are all hanging in there and remain Strong during these very difficult times we are all experiencing! With the world at a standstill and negativity surrounding us, we are thrilled to announce Intrepid Artists International’s inaugural Virtual Music Festival… “A Unity Celebration with Friends” to take place July 10-11. We hope that it will be something that music lovers around the globe can all enjoy, at the same time hopefully help our cause a little. We are looking to raise money through private sponsorship and donations to help pay for health insurance for the Intrepid employees and their families. On top of this, 20% of net proceeds will be donated to the Blues Foundation COVID19 Fund. The event will be FREE but we hope that those who are able will pitch in to help our cause. Our artists have all gotten together and donated their services and time to make this happen for us and we could not be more grateful to them. Intrepid has ALWAYS been a family and been there for each other and now is no different. We are blessed to work for all the fine artists that Intrepid represents! Not only will we have music from approx 4:00 PM to Midnight each day BUT we will also be auctioning off a STUNNING Custom Olympus Guitar that was made especially for the Intrepid 25th Anniversary Celebration last year. There will be giveaways, merchandise packages and opportunities to bid on Zoom Guitar Lessons with some of the Intrepid Artists as well as one on one Zoom Meetings with some of the Intrepid artists and much more! While this event is geared to help raise money to help cover health insurance costs it will be streamed FREE across Facebook and other platforms and we hope that you can join in on the fun and help us with this very worthy cause. We are ready to get back to doing what we all LOVE and Thank you in advance for joining us for some Fun and Great Music on July 10-11. See you there. This event will be presented in conjunction with our dear friends at Blues Radio Int’l and Datflys Concert Videos. Please check back here for further information! Best, Team Intrepid |
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Intrepid Thanks our Unity Celebration Sponsors!
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Congrats to every nominee for the 2020 Independent Blues Awards!
Making A Scene has just released their list of nominations for the 2020 Independent Blues Awards! Congrats to every nominee!
Intrepid is proud to highlight the following artists from our roster who have been nominated for an award:
Male Artist:
Eric Gales
Toronzo Cannon and The Chicago Way
Mike Zito
Female Artist:
Joanna Connor Band
Traditional Band:
Toronzo Cannon and The Chicago Way
Blues Rock Band:
Albert Castiglia Band
Contemporary Blues CD:
Albert Castiglia Band
Toronzo Cannon and The Chicago Way
Blues Rock CD:
Eric Gales
New Artist CD:
Nick Schnebelen
Live CD:
Mike Zito
Traditional Blues Song:
Toronzo Cannon – The Chicago Way
Blues Rock Song:
Albert Castiglia – I tried to Tell ya
Nick Schnebelen – I’m a Fatboy
Song For the Common Good:
Albert Castiglia – Heavy
Eric Gales – Reaching for a change
Road Warrior:
Albert Castiglia
Mike Zito
Joanna Connor
Eric Gales
Stage Performance:
Albert Castiglia
Mike Zito
Eric Gales
Producer/Engineer:
Mike Zito
Tony Braunagel
Tom Hambridge
Music Video:
Mike Zito – Johnny B. Good
Albert Castiglia – Heavy
Congrats to every nominee and winner from the 41st Annual Blues Music Awards
We would like to give a special shout out to our artists who took home some hardware last night at the awards!
Blues Rock Album of The Year: Albert Castiglia
Blues Rock Artist of The Year: Eric Gales
Instrumentalist – Horn: Vanessa Collier
Instrumentalist – Bass: Michael “Mudcat” Ward
Congratulations to The Proven One’s and Albert Castiglia!
We are thrilled to announced the addition of Robert Jon & The Wreck to the Intrepid Artists Family!
Intrepid Artists International is very fired up to welcome Orange County Rockers, Robert Jon & The Wreck to The Intrepid Artists Family!
Their new CD, Last Light on The Highway is set to come out May 8 and is already receiving Amazing Reviews. This is the first single on the Album, “Oh Miss Carolina.” Crank it up and check these guys out!!!
NORTH AMERICAN Fall tour in the Works! For European dates, Please speak with our partner, Manny Montana at Teenage Head Music
If you like the sounds of The Allman Brothers Band, Marshall Tucker Band, Black Crowes, The Rolling Stones, Santana, Led Zeppelin, etc… We think you will LOVE Robert Jon & The Wreck! GET WRECKED!
Congratulations to all of our nominees for the 41st Annual Blues Music Awards
Blues Rock Album:
Albert Castiglia – “Masterpiece”
Blue Rock Artist of the Year:
Albert Castiglia
Eric Gales
Instrumentalist – Bass:
Willie J Campbell
Michael “Mudcat” Ward
Instrumentalist – Drums:
Tony Braunagel
Instrumentalist – Guitarist:
Laura Chavez
Instrumentalist – Horn:
Vanessa Collier
Instrumentalist – Piano:
Anthony Geraci
Dave Keyes
Instrumentalist – Vocalist:
Curtis Salgado
Contemporary Blues Album:
Toronzo Cannon – The Preacher, The Politician or The Pimp
Contemporary Blues Male Artist:
Toronzo Cannon
Contemporary Blues Female Artist:
Vanessa Collier
Soul Blues Male Artist:
Curtis Salgado
Album of the Year:
Toronzo Cannon
Mike Zito’s tribute album to Chuck Berry is #1 on Billboard Blues for the 2nd week in a row!
We’ve added special acoustic sets for Saturday afternoon at our host hotel!
Marriott City Center Hotel (Saturday)
11AM-12:15PM – Matt Mayes & John Meyer
12:30PM – 1:45PM – Kenny Neal & Toronzo Cannon
2PM-3:15PM – Albert Castiglia & Mike Zito