Slideshow: International Blues Challenge

More than 200 band and solo/duo competitors are in Memphis for the Blues Foundation’s 31st International Blues Challenge. Here are Tim Parsons’ images from the Jan. 21-23 quarterfinals and semifinals.

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Bill Miller Band, Cape Fear Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Jimmi and the Band of Soul, Minnesota Blues Society

Hurricane Ruth, Blind Racoon Showcase

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Mean Jay’s Joko Reantaso and Carissa Ramos, Philippine Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Angela Esmeralda and Sebastiano Lillo, DeltaBlues, Italy, take a photo with Tom Andrews of the Blues Festival Guide

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Iko-Iko, South Florida Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Jenna & Her Cool Friends, Smoky Mountain Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Fistful of Bacon, Indiana Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Blues Foundation President and CEO Jay Sieleman on Beale Street. Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — John Nemeth upstairs in the Rum Boogie Cafe after the conclusion of the quarterfinals

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Ron Roskowske and Chris Shepherd of Kingdom Brothers, St. Louis Blues Society

Tahoe Onstage — Beale Street in Memphis is filled with blues during the International Blues Challenge every year. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Fifteen-year-old Joko Reantaso of Mean Jay, Youth Showcase, Philippine Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — John Nemeth — Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — B.B. King’s Blues

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Nico Wayne Toussaint’s Mighty Quartet, Southern California Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Sister Lucille Band, Lake of the Ozarks Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Smokers Blues Band, River City Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — The Brat Pack, Blues Asia Network

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Generation Blue, Youth Showcase, Grafton Blues Association

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — The Pig on Beale kitchen staff checks out the blues

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Dave Manning, Reno Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — The C.D. Woodbury Band, South Sound Blues Association

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — JP Blues, Atlanta Blues Society

Tim Parsons/Tahoe Onstage — Erik “Fingers” Ray, Boston Blues Society

ABOUT Tim Parsons

Tim Parsons is the editor of Tahoe Onstage who first moved to Lake Tahoe in 1992. Before starting Tahoe Onstage in 2013, he worked for 29 years at newspapers, including the Tahoe Daily Tribune, Eureka Times-Standard and Contra Costa Times. He was the recipient of the 2011 Keeping the Blues Alive award for Journalism.

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