“Blues on Halloween” – 17th annual tribute to Mai Cramer’s Blues After Hours

17th annual tribute to Mai Cramer's Blues After Hours
featuring Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Delanie Pickering, Monster Mike Welch, and Sugar Ray & the Bluetones! 

Proceeds to benefit the Ellie Fund for women diagnosed with breast cancer and their families. 

In 1978 Mai Cramer moved to Boston, joined WGBH Radio and created Blues After Hours. Mai Cramer made things happen. Cramer’s wide-ranging musical appetite — from Acoustic Blues to Jump Blues, Urban Blues and some R&B, with a little Delta Blues and a lot of South Side Chicago Blues mixed in — won her millions of ardent fans. 

Cambridge-based blues performer Annie Raines once said of Cramer, “Mai was a reliable and constant warm presence on the air. If you needed your blues fix, that’s where you could get it on the radio.” 

Mai usually leaned toward artists on the Chess or Alligator labels. So her twice-weekly listeners were practically guaranteed to hear Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Luther Allison, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Magic Slim and other legends. 

The always upbeat Cramer brought a great sense of humor and an encyclopedic knowledge of the blues to the WGBH Radio airwaves until her passing in 2002. We will remember her well…don’t miss this, the “…blues event of the year!”