Regional IBC, November 2009: Part 1
Facts
- This page is documented as "Part 1" of a multi-part writeup for SCBS's November 2009 regional IBC qualifying event, continuing into a "Part 2" page.
- The event almost certainly functioned as Southern California's local preliminary competition for sending an act to the following year's International Blues Challenge in Memphis, consistent with how Blues Foundation affiliate societies are structured to participate.
- An Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot confirms this exact URL existed on the original scbsevents.org site.
- No specific competitors, venue, judges, or winner for this November 2009 qualifying round could be independently verified.
This page archives "Part 1" of the Southern California Blues Society's November 2009 regional International Blues Challenge (IBC) qualifying event, the year-later continuation of the series documented on our Regional IBC, November 2008 page. The Southern California Blues Journal is an independent guide rebuilding this domain's record of local blues events after the original site lapsed; we did not organize this competition and are presenting only what can be responsibly verified about it.
As explained in more detail on our 2008 entry, the IBC is a real annual competition run by The Blues Foundation in Memphis, and participation is only possible through a Blues Foundation affiliated blues society that sponsors a local act after running its own preliminary contest. SCBS's "Regional IBC" events, including this November 2009 installment, were almost certainly that local qualifying round for Southern California, deciding which act the society would send on to compete in Memphis the following year. The "Part 1" designation here suggests the original page, like several of this site's other multi-part event pages, was structured as the first half of a longer photo gallery or writeup covering the full evening.
We confirmed via an Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot that this exact URL existed on the original scbsevents.org site before it went offline. That confirms the page's prior existence but does not give us the archived page's actual readable content, so we cannot tell you which acts competed that November, where the event was held, who judged it, or which act ultimately won the Southern California qualifying spot. We looked for independent confirmation of a Southern California-sponsored act advancing to the IBC around 2009 to 2010 and did not find a source reliable enough to state as fact here; where our research turned up inconsistent secondary claims about SCBS's IBC history in other years, we have chosen not to repeat them as if they applied to this specific event.
For the second half of this same November 2009 evening's documentation, continue to Regional IBC, November 2009: Part 2, and for the prior year's qualifying round in this series, see Regional IBC, November 2008. Our photo archive is the best place to look for any images we have been able to source and credit properly from this period of SCBS's programming.
