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In the last two months there have been some pretty exciting developments in my career. An article about me in a major newspaper, a terrific video interview, and next week I will be competing in the International Blues Challenge.
Village Voice Article by Rafael Alvarez
In March 2022 Ross was the subject of a 2000 word article in The Village Voice by my good friend Rafael Alvarez Rafael is a veteran journalist and author who wrote for years for the Baltimore Sun and the HBO series The Wire. He also knows me as well as just about anybody so he was really able to capture my story in this 2000 word article.
"Robert Ross Never Thought It Would Be this Hard for this Long"
Video Interview
I did a video with Jim Nestor who has an interview series simply called The Interview Series From Jim Nestor Agency. Jim asked me to do the video and I was MORE than happy to oblige. And it came out great.
International Blues Challenge
I will be going to Memphis to compete in the IBC on May 6th and 7th, 2022. The first two nights are the quarter-finals, and everyone plays. Then, if you are chosen to advance, you play May 8th in the semi-finals, and hopefully also in the finals on May 9th, I will be in the solo/duo category. I earned the right to compete in the IBC by winning the South West Florida Blues Challenge.
This is the second time I have participated in the biggest blues competition in the world. The first time was in 2020 and I made the semi-finals as a duo called Ross 'n' Rose with Heidi "Heidi Ho" Rosenbaum on drums. We earned the right to go to Memphis for the IBC by winning the South Florida Blues Challenge.
Obviously, the 2021 IBC was cancelled, so I'm competing twice in a row in the solo/duo category.
That's about it for now.
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I will be taking on a limited number of dedicated guitar, bass, and harmonica students regardless of age or current level of expertise.
Robert is a two time New York Music Award winner and a New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee. Robert is known for a wide variety of blues, jazz, soul, country, rock ‘n’ roll, folk, and other roots music. Robert worked and recorded with Big Joe Turner and also worked with Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Otis Rush, Big Mama Thornton, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, and other legends. One of Robert’s songs was recorded by Johnny Winter, and two other songs appeared on the soap opera “All My Children”. The Robert Ross Band has released 7 internationally distributed CDs and toured two continents. Robert has been teaching guitar for more then 25 years privately, and 13 years in NYC public schools. Robert’s work in the schools has been cited by the NY State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) for “best practices in arts in education programming”.
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