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About This Project
About This Project
Over the course of the Spring semester of 2024 for the class JTC 326 Online Storytelling, Tyler took a deep look at the blues societies in Colorado. This project was specifically a transmedia project incorporating three main elements of storytelling. The work included in the project included a podcast, two written pieces, a video, an interactive map and several photographs. Several interviews include members of two of the largest blues societies in the state including their presidents.
Illustration by Tyler Weatherwax
In this podcast, Tyler and Mile High Blues Society President George Williams sat down to discuss the importance of having a blues society in communities and the work that goes into it. With the blues dropping in popularity in younger generations find out what is being done to preserve the blues.
The blues are an American art form that has shaped the lives of many for decades. The Colorado Blues Society works to preserve the blues and pass it on to the next generation of musicians. However, the blues finds itself in a fragile state in today's world.
Colorado Blues Society Vice President Mark Schleicher and Treasurer Joe Minke stand in front of one of their favorite places to meet in Fort Collins. Photo by Tyler Weatherwax
A short video on the Blues from the perspective of young Gen Z musicians and their thoughts on the genre.
Photo: Google
If you are new to the blues and just don't know where to start, this story sets you down a path of blues musicians that will help introduce a new fan to the genre as a whole.
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