Michael Roach[1] (born March 18, 1955, Washington, D.C., United States) is an American blues performer and educator based in England, who has released six albums on the independent Stella Records label.

He conducts workshops on African American musical/cultural heritage internationally,[2] and is a founder of the European Blues Association.

[3] In 1941, Roach's parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C., where the twenty-seven-year-old Roach later heard regional musicians John Jackson, John Cephas and Archie Edwards, who became his mentors in traditional Piedmont blues guitar.

The European Blues Association became a registered charity in 2002, and Roach currently serves as its director.

Roach's tours as an educator and performer have taken him to the Augusta Heritage Center (US), Centrum Piedmont Blues Intensive[9] (US), The Ironworks[10] (UK) and the Smithsonian Institution (US).