IBC Fundraiser

IBC Fundraiser featuring NJBS winners - Ed Alstrom (solo/duo category) and BLUES People (band category).  

Ed Alstrom was the winner of the Solo/Duo category in the recent New Jersey IBC competition. He attended Westminster Choir College studying classical organ, then veered off into every imaginable kind of music. He started out playing organ, then piano, guitar and bass, and has been active on all of these in the New York area with many name acts. He realized a childhood dream in 2004 when he became Organist at YANKEE STADIUM, and he’s still there. Ed has released 4 CDs under his own name, the most recent being a blues-centric collection of all originals called ‘Flee Though None Pursue’.

2023 and 2024 NJBS International Blues Challenge champions and 2024 IBC/Memphis semifinalists, BLUES People is a NY/NJ blues band featuring...KELTON COOPER (vocals/guitar), MIKE GRIOT (bass), RON THOMPSON, (keys) and GENE LAKE (drums). Early comparisons to…