EUROPEAN BLUES CHALLENGE 2012. Ben Poole, the winner in the BM Writers’ Poll 2011 is to represent the UK at the 2nd European Blues Challenge
Published January 19, 2012 |
2nd EUROPEAN BLUES CHALLENGE
Friday, 16th March 2012
Saturday, 17th March 2012
location: Kesselhaus at Kulturbrauerei, Knaackstr. 97, 10435 Berlin
entrance: entrance: pre-selling: 19 € // box office: 22 € (partial provided with seats)
showtime: 20:00 Uhr
contact:Tom: tom@rufrecords.de
band coordination: Nassos: anastasilakis@yahoo.de
EUROPEAN BLUES UNION present the 2nd EUROPEAN BLUES CHALLANGE in Berlin
The European Blues Union (EBU), a non-profit organization launched by a handful of European blues professionals in 2010, is registered in Brussels, Belgium.
Festival and tour promoters, clubs, agents, specialist magazines, radio deejays, journalists, researchers, photographers, blues musicians and communities, independent record companies and distributors represent a dynamic scene characterized by idealism, personal commitment and a passion for honest, handmade music.
Few music genres may call on such a loyal fan base. To achieve our common purpose of bringing the blues into the public limelight, the European Blues Union has started a various activities. The annual European Blues Challenge (EBC) represents one of the organization’s main networking tool for an annual meeting of the European blues community.
On 16th and 17th March 2012 blues artists from nineteen different European countries, each of them winners of their respective national blues contests, will compete at the 2nd European Blues Challenge, which will be held once again at Kesselhaus in Berlin’s Kulturbrauerei, an industrial-style venue in a beautiful late 19th century brick stone building in the heart of Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district. At the end of a two-day blues marathon, the winner of this year’s competition will be announced.
For further information:
http://www.bluesoul.de/news.html
The winner of the challenge will have the chance to play on following festivals:
•Lucerne Blues Festival, Switzerland
•Blues Sur Seine, France
•Notodden Bluesfestival, Norway
•Vienna Blues Spring, Austria
•Roots & Blues Parma, Italy
Line-Up – Friday, 16th March 2012:
Ismo Haavisto Band (FI)
The Downstrokes (HR)
John F. Klaver Band (NL)
Lubos Bena (SK)
Roland Tchakounte (FR)
Marco Marchi & The Mojo Workers (CH)
Chehols (LV)
slavek wierzcholski i nocna zmiana bluesa (PL)
Lightnin` Guy & The Mighty Gators (B)
Line-Up – Saturday, 17th March 2012:
Vasko The Patch (BG)The Downstrokes (HR)
Dago Red (IT)
Slindin`Slim (SE)
Norbert Schneider (AT)
Rita Engedalen & Backbone (NO)
Mingo & the Blues Intruders (ES)
Ben Poole (UK)
The Blues Express (DK)
Michael van Merwyk (DE)
T. Blues Mob (GE)
afterwards:
announcement of the winner
show of the winner
Jam-Session of all artists
pre-selling link: http://www.rufrecords.de/catalogue/2nd-european-blues-challenge-2nd-european-blues-challenge.c2703.html
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AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY BLUES SPECIAL AT ABBEY FEST!
Published August 20, 2011 |
The forecast for August Bank Holiday is good and the music promises to be even better. The ever popular Abbey Fest at Merton Abbey MIlls in London SW19 has a great line up of classic blues & R&B, running from Friday 27th to Monday 29th August. Some of the finest up and coming acts in the UK will grace the stages of the bandstand and the lovely Colorhouse Theatre.
The Line-up includes -The Robin Bibi Band with guitar master Robin Bib, Bad Influence featuring the wonderful blonde bombshell Val Cowell, Crosstown Traffic with Charles Shar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith, Elephant Shelf featuring the boogie piano and red-hot fiddle of Diana Stone, Roadhouse with the elementally powerful guitar of Danny Gwylim, Incredible Blues Puppies with harmonica virtuoso Alan Glen, the Dave Raphael band with (yes you got it) Dave Raphael, B’Mused, and others.
Bandstand events are free Colorhouse Theatre events incurr a door charge – BOX Office is 0208 542 5511 and a full list of events is on www.abbeyfest.co.uk
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New Brunswick Battle of the Blues finds regional crème-de-la-crème for London final
Published February 1, 2011 |
New Brunswick Battle of the Blues finds regional crème-de-la-crème for London final
Five Battle of the Bands-style heats of the New Brunswick Battle of the Blues competition have now produced 5 of the best unsigned and original blues acts in the country. They will go head-to-head at the competition’s London final at the 100 Club in Oxford Street on 29 March and the winning act will be taken to New Brunswick’s Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival to perform on a world stage. The final acts are The Dan Sowerby Band from Salisbury, Chris James from Carlisle, The River Devils from Edinburgh, 24 Pesos from London and Cherry Lee Mewis from Bedford.
The Canadian Province of New Brunswick has been looking to the UK to provide new performers for its world-renowned Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival. The Festival celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2011. For the province’s tourism department this was also a unique opportunity to raise the profile of the Canadian ‘maritime’. The search for original talent started in October 2010, with an initial entry stage via YouTube. Six bands were subsequently chosen to battle it out at each of five regional heats in Glasgow, Southampton, Chorley, Billericay and Beeston, Nottingham.
Says competition organiser, Lee George; “The five heats have been an incredible success, with some brilliant blues talent coming forward and huge audiences at each event. It’s also been a wonderful opportunity to introduce New Brunswick to a new audience.’
There is also a public vote for the last place in the final, the general public can go to www.tourismnewbrunswick.co.uk to hear the two runners up from each of the 5 heats – and rate all of them. The ‘winning’ runner up will then join the other finalists in London.
The winner of the final will get an all-expenses paid trip to the beautiful maritime province of New Brunswick to play on one of the main stages at the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in the provinces’ capital Fredericton in September.
Lee George again; “New Brunswick is not only a wonderful part of Canada, but it has a musical heartbeat like nowhere else in the world. Travelling to the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival could be a life-changing opportunity to perform amongst the very best and to sample ‘the jewel of Atlantic Canada’ and all that the Province has to offer.”
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For more information about the competition and the province of New Brunswick, visit www.tourismnewbrunswick.co.uk All proceeds from the evening’s ticket sales will go to Veterans Aid: http://www.veterans-aid.net/
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Another Harvest of the best of British Blues
Following the resounding success of this year’s UK-wide search for Britain’s best emerging Blues talent, the world-renowned Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in New Brunswick, Canada, is launching, for the second year running, its ‘New Brunswick Battle of the Blues’. The competition is looking for unsigned bands and artists creating original, quality music and the winner will be showcased on a world stage at the Festival in September 2012.
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