house of blues

     

House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls an restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate world cultures, specifically blues music and folk art, and the inspiration of music for the soul.

Trivia about house of blues

  • In 1992 Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett jazzed things up with the opening of this music club
  • A gospel brunch is an attraction at the various branches of this "house" that started in Cambridge, Mass.
  • For the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta this chain of music clubs ran a temporary venue in a Baptist tabernacle
  • "Praise the Lord and pass the biscuits" at a Sunday gospel brunch at one of these clubs nicknamed HOB