American Folk Blues Festival

CTL-E-0475 · Event · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Touring package of American blues musicians across Europe, founded 1962 by German promoters Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau; the principal institutional pipeline for Chicago blues to Europe in the 1960s.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-166; source research type(s): Event. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Louder (loudersound.com); Bear Family (bear-family.com)
University of Mississippi eGrove (egrove.olemiss.edu) (primary source)
Bear Family (bear-family.com)
Louder (loudersound.com)

Record CTL-E-0475 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 4 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: GLOBAL-001.
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