Sean Costello

Annual Celebration of Sean Costello Darwin’s, Sandy Springs GA, April 13, 2019

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Every year in April, music lovers in Atlanta gather to celebrate the life of Sean Costello, a young bluesman who left us too soon, but whose legacy goes on through his music, this celebration and the foundation his family established, The Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research The concert is also a fundraiser for […]

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The 10th Annual Celebration of Sean Costello – Darwin’s Blues Club, April 14

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So many people were packed into Darwin’s in Sandy Springs, GA Saturday night. Most of us knew each other, so there was lots of hugging and .chattering. All of us were there for the incredible night of music, and it was all to honor Sean Costello. Sean was a fantastic bluesman, and songwriter who died at the age […]

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Come Celebrate Sean Costello at Northside Tavern Sat. April 16 – A Benefit for Bipolar Research!

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The annual Sean Costello celebration and benefit,, titled “We Can Get Together.” begins at 7 p, Saturday at Northside Tavern in Atlanta. It will feature Sonia Leigh, The Joe McGuinness Trio, The Georgia Flood, No Solution, and Stephen Talkovich and Larry Griffith. Sean Costello was a brilliant young blues man who was and still is […]

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A Brief History of the Blues.

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A Brief History of the Blues A Brief History of the Blues in Song! by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud Listen to the history of the blues with over 50 songs, progressing from the beginning of the blues and ending with some of the new hot artists of today! The Beginnings Even though the origins of […]

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Sean Costello: ‘In the Magic Shop’

Rhetta Akamatsu blues, In the Magic Shop, Sean Costello October 22, 2014

To many blues lovers in Atlanta and throughout the country, the loss of Sean Costello in 2008 on the eve of his 29th birthday still stirs sorrow. He was so brilliant as a blues man that even those of us who did not get to meet him personally feel as though we know him because […]