Clare Free is amongst the bright newcomers on the current UK Blues scene. Those quick enough to pre-order her new CD ‘Dust & Bones’ can collect a free T-shirt along with it by clicking HERE. But hurry, stocks are almost gone! (TWO shirts left!!!)
Award winners…
Congratulations to Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi (Revelator) and Greg Allman (Low Country Blues) for taking first and second places in the recent Grammy Awards ‘Blues Album’ section.
If you were lucky enough to be there you’ll remember a magical concert at Bonn’s Museumsplatz in Bonn featuring these gifted musicians last year.
The making of… with Oli Brown
If you’re wondering when the next Oli Brown CD is coming out then this video will help pass the time until I can tell you…
Patti Smith at Kunst!Rasen
Latest addition to the new open-air venue in Bonn ‘Kunst!Rasen’ is Patti Smith, appearing on 9 July. The ‘Godmother of Punk’ as Smith has been labelled currently has just three concerts listed on her website so this one is likely to be popular!
Patti Smith joins Zaz, Jan Delay, Finnish Pop Band Sunrise Avenue, and Lou Reed amongst the top acts appearing at Bonn’s all new Concert venue on the Rhine.
More details about concerts coming as soon as more details are announced!
Beware – Karneval is Back!
Well, there’s enough music in a German Carnival procession to qualify it for 3SongsBonn I think… and anyway, for all you readers outside of Germany, here is a glimpse of what locals call ‘The fifth Season of the Year’ – Karneval!
Jimmy Bowskill Interview 2012
Jug-bands, trumpets and dinner with Billy Gibbons. Not things I expected to crop up when I assembled my notes for the continuation of my interview with Jimmy Bowskill. Whilst a lot has changed since Museumsplatz 2010 though, one thing hasn’t – Jimmy is still a thoroughly nice bloke with a huge musical future ahead of him.
Jimmy Bowskill brings Summertime to Bonn
A crisp cold winter evening with – 7 o C but fortunately it’s so dry that the roads aren‘t at all slippy. The weather at the moment in central west Germany is a bit like northern Canada, blue cloudless skies during the day, it’s sunny but as cold as hell! At night the skies are star-dusted and crystal clear. A young star has just alighted in Bonn again, this time at the Harmonie in the suburb of Endenich.
Dr Feelgood – Step in, Feel Good
When Dr Feelgood’s eponymous live ‚Stupidity’ album topped the British charts Canadian Jimmy Bowskill was fourteen years away from even being born. Isn’t it just possible that the young Canadian tiger could steal the thunder from Canvey Islands old lions? I went down to the Harmonie on Sunday prepared to see a showdown and to hear the guitars roar.
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