Schedule & Performers
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Gloucester Rhythm and Blues Festival 2011 – Confirmed Shows To Date
Saturday 23th July
Maxwell Street, New County Hotel,
Southgate Street, 9pm
Maxwell Street are local blues legends who went national. Together for nearly 30 years and still fronted by Mark Cole they’ve now grown from the four piece who hosted Blues on the Barge Semington in Gloucester Docks into a seven piece blues and soul band doing mainly private functions for the famous. This is your chance to see them for free at their first public gig in Gloucester in what seems like a life time.
D B Smith Band,
Pig Inn the City, 9pm
Rocking blues outfit
Clair Le Brocq and the Bordellos,
Dick Whittington, 9pm
A blend of musicians coming to the blues from different directions and backgrounds. www.clairlebrocqband.com
Sunday 24th July
Tom McNair (2pm),
Steve Kent (4pm)
Jack the Biscuit (6.30pm),
Pig Inn the City
My Name is Earl + Guests: Gloucester Blues Club Launch, Tree Tops Bar, New Inn, 8pm
Gloucester’s brand new Blues Club launches itself on the first Sunday of the 2011 blues festival. My Name is Earl (Stuart Earl – of European Blues Association fame & Lyndon Webb of multiple band fame) do the first gig ever for the new blues club in the fabulous setting of the Tree Tops Bar at The New Inn.
Monday 25th July
Blues Benefit for the Pied Piper Appeal
Built For Comfort, The Lodge Club, 7pm
Blistering Chicago rhythm and blues with groove and real bite!
www.builtforcomfortbluesband.co.uk
Mike Sanchez, Cafe Rene, 9pm
The most authentic rhythm and blues, boogie keyboard player in the UK,
if not on the planet. One definitely not to miss.
Slide Boy Roy,
Pig Inn the City, 9pm
www.myspace.com/slideboyroyblues
Keith Thompson & Friends,
New County Hotel, 9pm
Local bluesman and guitar maestro Keith Thompson takes his brand of blues abroad regularly wowing audiences in clubs, theatres and festivals in Eastern Europe but he’s home for the festival. www.densitymusic.com
Tuesday 26th July
Steve Browning Band,
Cross Keys Inn, 9pm
Steve Browning brings the whole band to The Cross Keys again and will provide another one of the great blues nights the festival is known for.
Steve Walwyn and Friends,
Cafe Rene, 9pm
Coolhand, Dick Whittington, 9pm
Return of classy Gloucestershire based duo with eclectic set.
Wednesday 27th July
Michael Roach: Vocals Workshop
European Blues Association, First Floor,
Gloucester Library, Brunswick Road, 1pm
Blues Festival Open Mic, Cross Keys Inn, 8.30pm
A highlight of the Gloucester Rhythm & Blues Festival calendar, this is your chance to bring your instrument and play the blues solo or with The Sons of the Delta band to back you.
Otis Mack and the Tubby Bluesters,
Pig Inn the City, 9pm
Honeyboy Hickling Band,
Cafe Rene, 9pm
Thursday 28th July
Stuart Earl and Mark Cole
European Blues Association, First Floor,
Gloucester Library, Brunswick Road, 1pm
In Association with Gloucester Blues Club
Early Evening Blues – the Solo Artists!,
The New Inn, 7pm – 9pm
An early event for those that can’t do the later ones or want to enjoy a full night of music! Early Evening Blues will offer you some of the finest solo blues talent around!
Perry Foster, Cafe Rene, 9pm
Return of the irrepressible ‘Big Daddy of British Blues’.
Steve Browning Band,
Pig Inn the City,
9pm
Babajack, Cross Keys Inn, 9pm
Babajack’s sound is powerful, original and contemporary: slide guitar, harmonica, wine box guitar, vocals, African drums and foot stomping bass. This infectious blues/folk band is one to watch. www.babajack.com
Friday 29th July
Abie Budgen: Abie’s Miracle Tonic
European Blues Association, First Floor,
Gloucester Library, Brunswick Road, 1pm
In Association with Gloucester Blues Club
More Early Evening Blues featuring Kevin Brown!
The New Inn, 7pm – 9pm
An early event for those that can’t do the later ones or want to enjoy a full night of music! Early Evening Blues will offer you some of the finest solo blues talent around!
Sian and Ray,
Dick Whittington, 9pm
Blues Benefit for Cancer Research:
D B Smith and Guests, Pig Inn the City, 9pm
The RTA – Blues Collision Band
New County Hotel, 9pm
Come and have a collision with the blues provide by The RTA. Outstanding blues lead
guitar, sax, blues-harp and a fresh back line make up this 5 piece band once
you’ve dropped in some original vocals alongside some classic numbers – and you’ve got a great time to slam into.
Jay Tamkin Band, Cafe Rene, 9pm
Kevin Thompson,
The Cross Keys Inn, 9pm
Saturday 30th July
European Blues Association presents
Blues Festival Special: Paul Oliver’s ‘Story of the Blues’
Exhibition: a Talk by Paul Oliver
First Floor, Gloucester Library, Brunswick Road, open 11am to 4pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, info tel 01452 503775 or www.euroblues.org
Foremost blues researcher, writer and archivist Paul Oliver presents a talk about his fabulous exhibition, ‘Story of the Blues’. Originally commissioned in 1964 by the American Embassy in London and covering the building’s entire ground floor, the exhibition was displayed for two months and was then put into storage – it finally sees the light of day again in Gloucester some 47 years later!
The original exhibition is now on display at the European Blues Association’s base, on the first floor in Gloucester Library. The exhibition has 18 sections; From Africa to America; From Work Songs to Blues; The Negro Migration; The Country Blues; Blues Guitarists; Piano Blues; Jug and Washboard Bands; The Blues They Played; They Sand the Blues; The Blues They Sang; The Classic Blues; Blues and Entertainment; Jump Jackson and His Band; South Side Blues; Blues on Record; Post War Blues; The Folk Blues Today and “R ‘n B”.
The EBA will be showing the exhibition in parts (changing every three months due to space limitation) starting with ‘From Africa to America’ and ‘From Work Songs to Blues’. Don’t miss this definitive story of the history of the blues, and this exclusive talk by its creator.
(PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS)
Sons of The Delta Acoustic Duo,
The Cross Keys Inn, 2pm
Cafe Rene Outdoor Stage, including pig roast, BBQ,
real ale and cider festival and more (times tbc)
Dirty Ray
Jukebox Gypsy
www.myspace.com/jukeboxgypsymusic
Black Canvas
The Roving Crows
The Outcast Band
Babajack
Miss Fusion
Beer and Blues at the Pig Inn
Worried Men (1pm)
Jamie Thyer and crew with straight down the line rockin’ blues.
www.theworriedmen.com
Luke Doherty Band (4pm)
Blues and classic rock.
www.lukedoherty.com
Sons of the Delta (9pm)
Mark Cole and Rick Edwards with their harmonica slide guitar driven acoustic and electric blues.
www.sonsofthedelta.co.uk
In Association with Gloucester Blues Club
More Early Evening Blues – the Solo Artists!
The New Inn, 7pm – 9pm
An early event for those that can’t do the later ones or want to enjoy a full night of music! Early Evening Blues will offer you some of the finest solo blues talent around!
Freewheeling Blues Band,
The Pig Inn The City, 7pm
Alexander John, New County Hotel,
Southgate Street, 9pm
Blues, Country, Gospel, slide guitar, stomping stompers and then there’s the voice…..the tone, the depth, the gravel! Like the ‘Son of Seasick Steve’ they say, surely he should have been born in the Delta. www.myspace.com/alexanderjohnblues
Sunday 31th July
Cafe Rene Outdoor Stage, including pig roast, BBQ,
real ale and cider festival and more (times tbc)
The Rikshaw Brides
www.gigall.co.uk/RikshawBrides
Brett McLaughlan Band
www.myspace.com/brettmclaughlan
Oliver Darling
Innes Sibun
Wille and the Bandits
The Larry Miller Band
Papa Burgundy
www.myspace.com/papaburgundymusic
Beer and Blues at the Pig Inn
Dan James Duo (4pm)
Mandocello player and 7-string guitarist from Blaenavon, Wales.
Patsy Gamble Duo (6.30pm)
Return to Festival of ‘World class saxophonist’.
www.patsygamble.co.uk
End of Festival Blues Jam: My Name is Earl +
Guests, Tree Tops Bar, New Inn, 8pm
Celebrate the end of the Gloucester Rhythm and Blues Festival 2011 with local great players, including Sons of the Delta, Maxwell Street and The RTA, and some of the solo acts too. Final blast of the Blues Festival at the newly opened Gloucester Blues Club!
