Blues News is a bi-monthly Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 and roots music magazine

Magazine

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. The magazine was founded in 1968, which makes it one of the oldest blues magazine still in print in the world.

The magazine is published by Finnish Blues Society (FBS ry). The name of the society changed to Suomen afroamerikkalaisen musiikin yhdistys (SAMY ry) in 1980. In 2006, the name returned to original FBS. Society has a record label Blue North Records.