Featured Artists
Nuno Mindelis
Nuno’s own life journey embodies the Blues. Mindelis became a guitar enthusiast at the age of 5. By the age of 9 he began building and playing self-made guitars. His family was forced to flee the war in Angola, and for safety Nuno was sent to live apart from his family in Canada for several years. Continuing to refine his unique fingerstyle electric Blues technique, Nuno was finally reunited with his family in Brazil.
Bob Salmieri
Bob Salmieri is a Italian composer, musician and writer. He plays tenor and soprano sax, ney and Turkish baglama. Coming from a Sicilian family who emigrated to Tunisia in the early 1900s, he has always been interested in Middle Eastern culture, infusing all his projects with it’s atmospheres and sounds, mixing the jazz language with that of Arab culture.
Roberto Lessa
Born in Crato-CE, Brazil, Roberto Lessa is a blues guitarist influenced by BB King, Lightinin’ Hopkins, and Albert Collins, and has been the frontman of bands such as Blues Label and Gumbo Blues for 22 years. Roberto Lessa is an artist who researches the blues in its various aspects and he also hosts and produces the radio show “Encontro com O Blues”.
Rosedale Junction
Rosedale Junction is the crossroads of traditional American born and raised blues, country, R&B and good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. Founded by Boston based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Toby Soriero, the band released their debut album, Stompin’ on the Front Porch, in 2021
Alber Solo
An incredible live artist, Alber Solo has a unique and distinctive style, his guitar sound is distorted, while his vocal style is gritty and intense. “Absolute junkie of vintage music and sound”. This is how this guitar virtuoso declares himself, maker of bluesy melodies mixed with soul and rock n’ roll.
Jonah Carden
Jonah Carden is an American singer/songwriter from Southern West Virginia. He has written, recorded, and independently released 3 solo albums to date. The only true consistency through each of his genre-defying releases are his powerful baritone, intricate guitar playing, and a knack for creating a “vibe”. Everything from somber acoustic ballads to hard-hitting metal tunes are allowed in his sandbox.
Jessica Born & Georg Crostewitz
Jessica Born & Georg Crostewitz play bluesy ballads, rock and soul and rhythm ‘n’ blues from the 1960s to the present day. Without being unfaithful to the blues, they always play their own ideas into their concerts and draw from a variety of different musical styles. A pleasure for the audience: So familiar and yet so different.
Rob Europe
Rob Europe Is a Blues and Americana artist from Long Island, NY. He also acts as the singer/guitarist of the rock band “Foster Europe Band”. “My style is very much a rootsy one, I do soft solo acoustic stuff in one place and then you can see me elsewhere with a full band playing my electric entirely too loud,” Europe said. “Anything in between is also possible, but the one constant is that I will more than likely be playing fingerstyle.
The Gumbo Kings
The Gumbo Kings are a five-headed Soul Monster that combines the groove of New Orleans Funk with the grittiness of Delta Blues and the melodies of Memphis Soul. The five Gumbo Kings are young but seasoned heavy cats who already performed the world over, from the USA and Italy to the tiny Azores Islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Magnum Opus
Magnum Opus is a blues singer-songwriter from the Netherlands known for his creative & deep guitar tone and dark, raw vocals. His latest independently produced track “The Blues in Me” – a heartfelt slow blues piece is available now for streaming & download.
Cassie Taylor
Cassie Taylor is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and blues musician. She started her career in the early 2000s as a bassist for her father Otis Taylor, the critically acclaimed trance blues musician. Her formative years as a touring artist led her to share the stage and record with blues and rock legends including Joe Cocker, John Oates, Gary Moore, and Keb’ Mo’.
Peter Struijk
Peter works as musician, teacher and producer. For his debut solo album “Human Ways” from 2009, he recorded with his longtime friend the legendary Chicago blues singer Tail Dragger. Peter was also nominated for “Best Dutch Blues Guitarist” in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Chris Wragg and Greg Copeland
Chris Wragg and Greg Copeland released their debut Album “Deep in the Blood” on June 29th 2019. The Album is released on Honey Bee Blues Records and is be available on all major online distributes. The Album includes guests such as Greg Guy (Son of Buddy Guy) on Guitar, Shirley King (Daughter of B B King) on Vocals, Master Harmonica player Marcos Coll and Joel White on Hammond Organ.
Zorita
Zorita is a band formed around the songs of Belgian/Spanish singer and songwriter Carlos Zorita Diaz. The core of the music is inspired by stories, poems and thoughts. Somewhat like the songs of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, they take you somewhere.
Steven Heighton
Heighton began his creative life as an aspiring songwriter, in high school in Toronto. He kept at it into his early twenties, busking his way around Australia and Europe, playing a few small gigs, but before long he was devoting himself to writing books—poetry, at first, his lyrics morphing and learning to accompany themselves, to make their own music, as the words of a poem must do. Soon he was producing books of short stories, then novels, and then the rest. A long apprenticeship.