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Big Wheel Blues Festival
2010 Launch Gig.
The Boyd Small Band
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The band are
flying over from Holland to play at our launch gig on Saturday
March 13th, 2010 at 8pm (doors 7.30pm). The
support act will be legendary local bluesmakers, The Big Wheel
Blues Band. Tickets for the launch gig will go on sale from
the Centenary Centre website on January 22nd at £10.00 each –
hard copy tickets will be available from usual outlets* and
there’s no booking fee!
Musical
phenomenon Boyd Small was a local hero in the Portland area as
singer/drummer of the Terraplanes for 11 years. His musical
expertise earned him a Cascade Blues Association "Hall of
Fame" induction in 1993 after winning the award for best
drummer 3 years in a row. His presence is still felt in the
Portland music scene through the musicians he influenced both as
an instrumentalist and as a song writer.
http://www.cascadeblues.org/NWBlues/BoydSmall/BoydSmall.htm
Boyd
Small’s international performance credits while living in the
USA included tours with Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Jimmy Rogers,
Hubert Sumlin, Guitar Shorty and Pinetop Perkins. Since
relocating to Europe, besides fronting several successful projects
under his own name, Boyd has toured with Black and Tan* recording
artists Byther Smith (Chicago, Ill.), Big George Jackson (Chicago,
Ill.) and Billy Jones (Arks.) as a consummate side-man.
As
an active member of Europe's roots music scene, Boyd co-founded
the Amsterdam-based alternative roots and modern blues label
"Cool Buzz". During his tenure there, he co-
produced several CDs for American and Dutch artists including
Monti Amundson, Jim Wallace, Drippin' Honey and The Cuban Heels.
The
other members of the Boyd Small Band are:
Roelof
Meijeringh. Brilliant blues guitarist
discovered in a local music joint by Boyd himself. He’s
shared the stage with Michael Burks, Monti Amundson and Dutch
blues singer Harrie Muskee, to name a few. Was a part-time
member of Dutch blues band The Cuban Heels.
Ronald
de Jong An all-round double-bass and
bass guitar player, who played with the infamous Shane McGowan on
his "Crock of Gold" CD launch in Germany and has worked
and toured Europe with many eminent bluesmakers.
TEE
a.k.a. Marc Thijs, TEE has been playing around the European
blues scene since 1986. He started out playing harmonica and
singing and after switching to guitar he formed “The Electric
Kings”, a major influence on many European blues bands.
Meanwhile TEE has worked with many international touring acts on
both European and American ground. He recorded his first album
under his own name “ this is… TEE” produced by PALADINS bass
player THOMAS YEARSLEY and featuring one of California’s finest
blues musicians JEFF TURMES.
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The
Big Wheel Blues Festival is very pleased to be able to announce
that we have a new partner sponsor – our good friends from Peter
Norris Music in Douglas. Ken Mitchell and all at the
shop have always been a huge support to the festival and it is
great to see them becoming even more closely involved as sponsors.
Despite the welcome and continued support from Cains, the Isle
of Man Arts Council and Visit Isle of Man, overall the
level of sponsorship and support we are receiving is significantly
lower than in recent years. In spite of this, we have an
amazingly talented and truly international line-up for you.
Our
headline acts for the 2010 Festival are:
Larry
Garner with the Norman Beaker Band –
Saturday 1st May
http://www.myspace.com/larrygarnerblues
Ana
Popovic – Sunday 2nd May
http://www.anapopovic.com/
We
will be announcing the supporting acts next week as Blues Festival
tickets go on sale from Thursday 28th January 2010.
HTTP://WWW.BIGWHEELBLUES.COM
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