More on the IBC from the BSWPA

Here's some more info on Sunday's IBC playoffs, courtesy of Don Vecchio and Maria Kovacs of the Blues Society of Western Pa.

First, from Maria, you can now find new videos, including the winners, at the society's YouTube channel. They have photos of the first two rounds of the IBC competition here, and will probably add photos from the finals later this week. 

And if you Twitter (who doesn't these days?), you can follow the bues society at its Twitter site.

And since Dr. Blue was only identified as Dr. Blue, I ask Don if he could offer any more info. He did, and here it is. It turns out that Dr. Blue is a real doctor as well. Here's what Don sent me:

 His real name is Dr. Jeff Coben . He graduated from Pitt medical school , where he took up the harmonica. He had his residence at Northwestern in Chicago  -- where his love for the harp and the blues ebbed. He saw a harp player that did things no other harp player did. He and his fiance ( now his wife) would go see him regularly. For his birthday , his fiance got him a 1 hour lesson with this harp wizard. It turned into a 6 hour lesson and music session, and they became good friends. The wizard was Sugar Blue . He moved back to Pittsburgh in 1990. Today , Dr. Jeff Coben is head of the Research Center and professor of medicine at WVU . He is also an emergency physician.

That's a neat story. Thanks, Don.  And thanks to Maria for the links.

And as a public service, so you don't have to actually go to the links, here are videos of the winners:

Bubs McKeg and Dr. Blue

Felix and the Hurricanes