British Blues Awards

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British Blues AwardsReaders who know their UK Blues can
VOTE HERE for favourite musicians in this years British Blues Awards.

Many of this years nominees have appeared in the Bonn/Cologne area, so will be familiar to fans here – (Walter Trout, Oli Brown, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Will Wilde, Roger Inniss, Wayne Procter).   There is also an International Artist Award where once again  Joe Bonamassa is amongst the choices  (a strange omission is Seasick Steve).

Other nominees include Cherry Lee Mewis and Clare Free, two talented ladies who have appeared on this site even though they have yet to visit the area.  Hopefully that will change!

The Awards will be presented on 9 Sept at the Newark Castle Blues Festival

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS OF THE BRITISH BLUES AWARDS

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Enroute to the Rheinaue for a Jazz evening I squeezed in time to check out the Jazz Tube.

When I arrived, the Tram Station Museumsmeile/Heussallee was hosting a young lady named Maya Fadeeva and her backing duo – collectively the Maya Trio.  Tim Haenelt on guitar kept it simple but excellently effective, with a solid rhythm underpinning  courtesy of Dutchman Roy Louis.  Star of the show was of course Maya herself.  Hailing from St Petersburg before moving to Bonn via time in New York and at the Music Conservatory in Maastricht, this young lady certainly has a lot of star quality.  She cites Diana Krall as an influence, and maybe it was her hairstyle, but I kept seeing and hearing Cleo Lane – which is itself no bad thing.  Her version of Mose Allison’s ‘Nothings gonna be Alright’ seemed well taylored to her young vibrant style, and ‘Georgia On My Mind’ is the sort of classic that can sound dated in the wrong hands – here though again it had an edge of youth keeping it sounding fresh.

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