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Dates for 2010 27th march - 1th april Headlines tba around the new year In keeping with tradition, the Blues Festival will continue to spotlight new and upcoming Blues talent. These young musicians will be performing at Blues Festival club and at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica. Concerts will be held at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings at 8pm.. The Reykjavík Blues Festival will continue each evening from 9:00pm at Rosenberg club, Looking for an interesting event around Easter break? Are you a fan of blues ? Be a part of the annual Blues Festival in Reykjavik, a spring tradition in Iceland. Watch blues artists from Europe, Iceland and North America perform together in some of the most unique jam sessions in the Northern Hemisphere. Also catch performances from young and promising blues artists of the future.
The Reykjavík Blues Festival 2009 Scheduled events April 4 th- April 9 th Headlines Pinetop Perkins The Blue Ice Band, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith , Deitra Farr, Nordic All Stars Blues Band , KK , Andrea , Mugison , Finnskogen Blues Band, Devil's Train , Ragnheidur Grondal , David Thor Jonsson,
Tickets Blues in the city centre Saturday, April 4 th 13:00 – 18:00 •Nordic All Stars Blues Band visits the jailhouse at no. 9 • The Blues Festival will open with live Blues performances in the streets, cafés, and shops of the city centre between 13:00 – 17:00
• The Reykjavík Cruiser Club will showcase “Bluesmobiles” in a drive down Skólavörðustígur and Bankastræti at 14:00. The Reykjavík Cruiser Club will be Lækjartorg (city centre) between 14:00-15:00 www.kruser.is • Guitar exhibition opens at Sævar Karl Gallery - Bankastræti 15:00 • Reykjavík Blues Festival club opens at Café Rósenberg 17:00 • Blues jam session Café Rósenberg from 21:00 – 01:00, Reykjavík Blues Festival Club tba Sunday, Apríl 5th Café Rósenberg from 17:00 – 24:00, Reykjavík Blues Festival Club tba Scheduled events Monday April 6 th Café Rósenberg from 21:00 – 24:00, Reykjavík Blues Festival Club Jazzy blues tba Tuesday April 7th Concert at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica 20:00 Pinetop Perkins & the Blue Ice Band aka Vinir Dora 20 th Anniversary celebration part 1. • Nordic All Stars Blues Band, KK, Deitra Farr • Devil´s train • Davíð Þór Jónsson Café Rósenberg from 21:00 – 01:00, Reykjavík Blues Festival Club tba Wednesday, April 8th Concert at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica 20:00 • The legendary Willie "Big Eyes" Smith • Andrea Gylfadottir band •Mugison
Café Rósenberg from 20:00 – 03:00, Reykjavík Blues Festival Club tba Thursday, April 9th Concert at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica 20:00 •The Blue Ice Band 20 th Anniversary celebration part 2. • Deitra Farr, Ragnheiður Gröndal, Andrea Gylfa, and others • Finnskogen Blues Band from Norway
Café Rósenberg from 20:00 – 24:00, Reykjavík Blues Festival Club tbs Further information at www.blues.is Or contact us at bluesfest@blues.is . In keeping with tradition, the Blues Festival will continue to spotlight new and upcoming Blues talent. These young musicians will be performing at Blues Festival club and at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica. Concerts will be held at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings at 8pm.. The Reykjavík Blues Festival will continue each evening from 9:00pm at Rosenberg club, 4-9 of april Looking for an interesting event around Easter break? Are you a fan of blues ? Be a part of the annual Blues Festival in Reykjavik, a spring tradition in Iceland. Watch blues artists from Europe, Iceland and North America perform together in some of the most unique jam sessions in the Northern Hemisphere. Also catch performances from young and promising blues artists of the future. # Hilton Reykjavík Nordica, offers all guests of Reykjavík Blues Festival 2009 an mailing address info Reykjavik Blues Festival Amtmannstigur 6 101 Reykjavik Iceland email bluesfest AT blues.is Tickets sold at: www.midi.is or at the door Info: www.blues.is Flights with www.Icelandair.com Festival pass 100 $ usd for Icelandair package deal customers only. All events , email bluesfest@blues.is for festival pass hotels : www.icehotels.is Location map:Icelandair Hilton Reykjavik Nordica
The hotel provides a superb spa and fitness center accompanied by mouthwatering international cuisine in the Vox restaurant. The Hilton Reykjavik Nordica houses a total of 252 rooms furnished to the highest standard, offering you peace and comfort in modern contemporary surroundings. Reykjavik Blues Festival Club at Rosenberg club 4-9 of april 21 00 tba ________ Pinetop Perkins
Born Willie Perkins, in Belzoni , MS , in 1913, Pinetop started out playing guitar and piano at house parties and honky-tonks but dropped the guitar in the 1940s after sustaining a serious injury in his left arm. Perkins worked primarily in the Mississippi Delta throughout the thirties and forties, spending three years with Sonny Boy Williamson on the King Biscuit Time radio show on KFFA, Helena , Arkansas . Pinetop also toured extensively with slide guitar player Robert Nighthawk and backed him on an early Chess session. After briefly working with B.B. King in Memphis , Perkins barnstormed the South with Earl Hooker during the early fifties. The pair completed a session for Sam Phillips' famous Sun Records in 1953. It was at this session that he recorded his version of Pinetop Smith's Boogie Woogie. By this time, Pinetop had developed his own unmistakable sound. His right hand plays horn lines while his left kicks out bass lines and lots of bottom. It was Pinetop, along with Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, and Little Brother Montgomery, who provided the basic format and ideas from which countless swing bands derived their sound - whole horn sections playing out what Pinetop's right hand was playing. Although Pinetop never played swing, it was his brand of boogie-woogie that came to structure swing and, eventually, rock ‘n' roll. Still, with recent successes the exception, Pinetop is best known for holding down the piano chair in the great Muddy Waters Band for twelve years during the highest point of Muddy's career. Replacing the late, great Otis Spann in 1969, Pinetop helped shape the Waters sound and anchored Muddy's memorable combo throughout the seventies with his brilliant piano solos. In 1980, Pinetop and other Waters alumni decided to go out on their own and formed the Legendary Blues Band. Legendary recorded two records for Rounder and toured extensively. In 2005 he was also presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Grammy's. In 2000 he received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He has been featured in the documentary Piano Blues directed by Clint Eastwood for the Martin Scorsese PBS series, The Blues . In addition, he continued to win the Blues Music Award for best blues piano every year until 2003 when he was retired from that award, which now bears his name--the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year. In 2007, still on the road in his 94 th year, Pinetop Perkins' unique life was chronicled in Peter Carlson's biographical documentary DVD, Born In The Honey , which includes a live CD with a rare studio outtake track. Beyond his musical accomplishments Pinetop is a friendly, charming, and gentle man. He says yes to everything and goes where he's taken, but somehow, life turns out well for him. He's quick to joke and play with words and he still goes out every night. He loves people and makes everyone around him feel good. Then he plays the piano and sings his blues and brings us his special gift. Willie "Big Eyes" Smith Makes Blues History
Deitra Farr is considered one of Chicago 's top vocalists, according to Living Blues Magazine (May 1997). Fiery, energetic, and soul-stirring describes this woman, who has over the years been nominated for Traditional Female Blues artist of the year by the W.C. Handy Awards, Female Blues Artist of the year by the Living Blues Critics Awards, the British Blues Connection Awards, and the Les Trophees France Blues awards . This Chicago native began her career in 1975, singing with local soul bands, before starting her blues career in the early 1980's. From 1993 to 1996, Deitra was the lead singer with Mississippi Heat, recording two CD's with this all-star group. In 1997, Deitra resumed her own solo career, continuing to sing blues, while reaching back to her soul music roots. After recording on eight previous CD projects with others, she recorded her first solo CD, “The Search is Over”, for the London-based JSP records. In 2005, Deitra released her second JSP CD “Let it Go!” The multi-talented Deitra Farr is also a published writer, poet, songwriter, and painter. A graduate of Columbia College (Bachelor of Arts in Journalism), Deitra has recorded many of her own compositions and has written articles for the Chicago Daily Defender, The Chicago Blues Annual, and the Italian blues magazine il Blues. Currently she has a column “Artist to Artist” in Living Blues Magazine. info www.deitrafarr.com ------------------------
Andrea Gylfadóttir
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Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
The nominees for the 30th Annual Blues Music Awards were announced on Dec 16, 2008. Not only did Willie "Big Eyes" Smith garner two nominations but in doing so he made blues history. His nominations for Best Instrumentalist in the categories of drums and harmonica marks the first time an artist has been recognized for two instruments, let alone in the same year. 
The Blue Ice band They have performed at hundreds of concerts and have always offered Blues at its best. Guðmundur Petursson is one of the finest guitar players there is and to hear him play the blues is pure pleasure. Bandleader Halldor "Blue Ice" Bragason is the artistic director of the Reykjavik Blues Festival. He played with Zora Young and her all stars band on the mainstage at the Chicago Blues Festival in 2007 one of the members was the legendary sax player Abb Locke. The Blue Ice band is will be playing behind Zora Young headlining festivals in Europe in 2007.In 1993 the Blue Ice band recorded a CD with the Blues master Pinetop Perkins,"My favorate cd "he says, it is out of print and used copies have been sold on the internet for more then 100$. Pinetop recently received a Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award" for his contribution to music. The Blue Ice Band played the Chicago Blues Festival in 1993 at Pinetops 80 th. birthday bash. The Blue Ice Band has also worked with other legends of the blues: Jimmy Dawkins cd "Blue Ice " and tours , Zora Young, Deitra Farr, Grana´ Louise , Billy Boy Arnold, and many many more.Festvals:Chicago Blues Festival, Reykjavik Blues festival, Rocce Rossi á Sardigna ,South by South-West in Austin, Texas. to name a few. Clubs from SRV hometurf Antone's Nightclub in Austin Texas to the far east Singapore 
Andrea is amongst the best and most respected vocalists in the 
Finnskogen Blues Band (Forest Blues Band) plays mainly electric blues from the “golden age of the guitar”, 1967-1972. The group's repertoire features self-composed music as well as tunes by the Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, Muddy Waters, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and others.