Bluesboy Hopes To Raise $25k For Charity With Free Christmas Song

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Dec 15, 2014, 10:33 ET

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Dec. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrated blues rock master Joe Bonamassa is helping Christmas to arrive a bit early this season with the release of a special, all-new never-before-heard Christmas song that will be available to download and share online for free. In the spirit of the season, for every individual download of the song between December 10^th and 25^th, Bonamassa will donate money to the Keeping the Blues Alive (KTBA) foundation, a non-profit he founded in 2011 and oversees to promote the heritage of the blues to the next generation, fund music scholarships, and supplement the loss of music education in public schools. Bonamassa's goal is to raise $25,000 in total, and every individual download will help get him closer to that goal.

To date, KTBA has funded 111 music projects and five scholarships across the 50 states, reaching over 20,000 students. This past summer, Bonamassa played to a sold-out crowd of over 9,000 fans at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. For each ticket sold, $5 was donated directly to KTBA, raising over $40,000 to fund struggling music programs around the country. In February 2015, Bonamassa will headline "Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea," a four-day music festival aboard the beautiful Norwegian Pearl, which has raised $25,000 for KTBA.

The new track is "Lonesome Christmas", a catchy, up-tempo blues rocker with energetic vocals, evocative horns, and of course some fiery guitar soloing from the man hailed as a titan of the genre.

Download "Lonesome Christmas" here:
http://jbonamassa.com/holidays/2014/lonesome-christmas/?id=press-release

Watch the music video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJGz_J-4pL0

This holiday season, help Joe Bonamassa spread the gift of music and, with this free download, bring a little joy to those in need.

About Joe Bonamassa: As Joe Bonamassa enters his 26th year as a professional musician, he continues to blaze a remarkably versatile artistic trail, and amass an authentic, innovative and soulful body of work. Bonamassa's career began onstage opening for B.B. King in 1989, when he was only 12 years old. Today, he is hailed worldwide as one of the greatest guitar players of his generation, and is an ever-evolving singer-songwriter who has released 16 solo albums in the last 14 years, all on his own label, J&R Adventures. In 2013, Bonamassa earned his first GRAMMY ® nomination for Best Blues Album, and with the release of this year's new studio record Different Shades Of Blue, he debuted at #8 on Billboard's Top 200 (a career high) and received his thirteenth #1 Billboard Blues Album (more than any other artist). On January 23 and 24, 2015, he'll fulfill a childhood dream when he headlines two shows at New York City's legendary Radio City Music Hall.

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