DUNDEE BLUES BONANZA 15
FRI 26th SAT 27th & SUN 28th JUNE 2009

JUNIOR BONANZA
The junior workshop this year is a co-ordinated effort between several factions and is hosted by Dick Wardell.  It will be held in Dexters, Castle Street on Sunday 28th June, where there are all the facilities for youngsters along and to be involved.
Dick Wardell is well known on the festival circuit throughout Europe and in fact took part in the very first Blues Bonanza 15 years ago.

PHOTO EXHIBITION
Internationally renowned photographer Dave Peabody’s exhibition is scheduled to be held in The Chambers of Commerce, Panmure Street, Dave’s theme will be blues festivals around Britain, and he is calling it UK Blues Now.  It is hoped that we can expect many of the photos he took last year in Dundee to be included.

BLUES WORKSHOP (11am Sat 27th, Social South Tay St)
Every year we choose a different location for the workshop. This year social in South Tay St is the host and as always we try to include some of our international musicians in the mix.

BIG BONANZA PARTY LAUNCH
Friday 26th June in Dexters, Castle St, 7.30pm till late
Due to the extreme financial difficulties experienced by everyone this year we have been forced to forgo our traditional policy of having an international headline act to open the Bonanza on Friday.
Instead, we are amalgating the usual Friday extravaganza with the Sunday party.
It will be held courtesy of Dexters in Castle St, where we can all enjoy the music of some of our international friends, including Jimmy C (Canada) and The Blue Dragons, The Blue Stripes, who are Australian, singer Kitto with her American drummer Bill Bryant, The Flaming Stratmen, fronted by Werner (Germany) and one man band Nikolaj Andersen from Denmark plus Australian Boogie Piano Jan Preston.
There will be the unavoidable cover charge, which includes a Free Blues Bonanza Programme.

ACOUSTIC SUMMITS
By Popular demand this year, there will be not one, but 2 Acoustic Summit venues where all Acoustic players can play together. It has been decided that the Venues most suitable are Ogstons in North Lindsay St and Deacon Brodies down Ward Rd, where a vocal pa plus 2 boom stands and mikes will be available in both venues. Have Fun!

I played friday night and had a great evening- and a late(very late night) together with other One Man Bands from: Italy, Germany, England, Scotland and USA

See the pics here Great pics thanks to photographer Rolf Schoellkopf  

A great gig and many new friendships where established during this event.

These where the gigs

Thursday, May 21 - Illegaard, Tartu, w/ Bullfrog Brown
Friday, May 22 - SEE Theatre, Haapsalu
Saturday, May 23 - Clazz, Tallinn
Sunday, May 24 - Glass Hall, Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, w/ T探nis M辰gi, Jaak Johanson etc.

Yeahh I guess The Ol..Missisippi River now runs through Denmark and aaall the way to Estonia.
Never saw it comming and just got carried away and washed up on the shores of Estonia along with my three stringers and e-fiddle, gigs and a OMB-workshop
Thanks to my distinguished bluesbrother Andres Roots aka Bukka I am still alive and well

Andres Roots aka Bukka wrote this about the thursday together with me:

Great night last night/late night last night :lol: Nikolaj sure had everybody going - and he does such a mean 3-string cigarbox version of "Black Magic Woman"! ,

We also dragged him to a studio before the show and he played some killer 5-string violin for the next Bullfrog CD

And the story goes on.....

After having done my One Hour One Man Band/Cigar box guitar slide .. Workshop from 18-19 wich went really well ending up with two of my "students" on Guitars and me on E-fiddle for a jam in order to make sure they learned their lessons well I Got on stage around 21:00 and left the stage at around 01:20

Yeahh my One Man Band members were tired but extremely happy as was Rommy and the rest of the Audience .. As usual the show included beautifull (this time Estonian) girls dancing on stage on each side of the One Man Band, and thus even more animating the crowd ... sold enough cd..s and may actually allow myself to call it one more gig well done

From Thursday night in Illegaard - pics by Merle Madisson & Rando Kruus.


preachin' the blues...


And the jam


w/ Bullfrog & a Finnish guitarist...


on violin


one more...

and so the end came to my Estonian Blues Odyssee.

I played Clazz in Talinn three sets of One Man Band drums and Winebox guitar around 1:00 am the crowd hardly wanted to let me go - the usual sporting of innocent (well maybe NOT so innocent) young girls found the One Man Band crowded with entusiastic dancers (truth be told most of these girls danced with some other men - leaving me do my job - Play my heart out ;gu; ) went home around 2 am and slept until 9 Then went of to the Festival Ground Halls where I played as a participant in a charity concert for handicapped Estonian kids wich was arranged for me by the Danish Estonian Culture office in Talinn. So now I can say I have opened for some of the most well known Estonian pop artists

Anyway now I am back to gigs in Denmark, Bremen and later Dundee.

Ivar (journalist and bluesfan from Haapsalu) posted some nice pics of me showing the gig and workshop in Haapsalu go see for yourselves here Ivars Blog about blues and other stuff

Anyone who will please help me out on the Estonian language?

I found that even after 4 days in this country I still can..t speak, write or read anything - in Estonian....

Enjoy
NA

Kjell Andreassen who has been the host for more than 10 years on a weekly blues show for Radio Holstebro aired my song "Bad Boy" the other night from the new cd Shout & Scream (see the full playlist below)

RADIO HOLSTEBRO 97,4 MHZ
CABLE 89,0 MHZ
Kjell Andreassen
April 28, 2009
www.RadioHolstebro.dk

ARTIST/SONG/LABEL

Jose Louis Pardo & The Mojo Workers/Walking blues/Gaztelupeko Hotsak
Melody Makers/Nothing is easy/RockHattleMusic
Nikolaj Andersen/Bad boy/Own
Mia Vermillion feat rville Johnson/When I`ve been drinking/Own
Michael Katon/Motor cycle blues/Provogue
Wayne Lavellee/Trail of tears/DixieFrog Records
Gordon Smith/One dime/Note Records
Joe Price/Too little too late/Blues Acres Productions
Washboard Jo/Delta sugar daddy/Own
Uncle Don`s Bullet Proof Blues Band/Red house/Bitedabullet Records
Walter Trout/So sad to be lonely/Provogue
Roger Cotton/Real world/Note Records
HOUR TWO
Keith Secola/Wailing blues/DixieFrog Records
Steve Hill/Sinner`s prayer/Own
NRBQ/If I don`t have you/Rounder
Astro Zombies/Women I know/Drunkabilly Records
Snowy White Blues Project/Good morning blues/Own
Jens Filsker Blues Band/Don`t fight the feeling/Valve Records
Roy Rogers/River of tears/Blind Pig Records
Enrico Crivellaro/Last night in Atlanta/Electro-Fi Records
Derek Miller/Shot o`cocaine/DixieFrog Records
Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas/Too much wine/Rounder
Nighthawks/Why why baby/RUF Records
Frantic Flinstones/Cheatin` heart/Drunkabilly Records

Thanks Kjell !!! I really appreciate it -

Just recieved this as a result of an online interview with Dave King of "Cross Harp Chronicles"

Nikolaj Andersen Danish One Man Blues Band

Pretty good work if I may say so 

Willie King - Bluesman, Alabama. 1943-2009

My songs are getting a Californian tan  

David Tanney played three of my songs from the upcomming cd  
click here and take show #0060 he plays my song "Boogie" as the first song of the show. Then go to show #0062 He features me with "I can move your lawn" as the song right after episode 004 of "police on the scene", and finally go to show #0063 where my song "Shout & Scream" is the second song of the show.
.....Playlists ...here:
* Dave's Music Notes #0060
* Featuring music that's interesting, cool, and listenable.
* Date: Jan 22, 2009
* Listen at http://www.gcast.com/u/davidtanny/davesmusicnotes
* Some of the music is provided from
* The Podsafe Music Network at http://www.podsafemusicnetwork.com
* and at Ariel Publicity at http://www.arielpublicity.com
* and introducing http://www.dsnmusic.com

** Boogie - Nikolaj Andersen ()
* http://myspace.com/nikolaj1manband
** American Dream - Tom Spingler and Northfield ()
* Police on the Scene with a Crime Prevention Lean
* Focus on crime prevention, scam alerts, safety tips and, to lighten the mood
* from time to time, stupid criminal stories.
* http://policeonthescene.libsyn.com/
** ep053-Be Your Own Security Guard - Police on the Scene ()
** Strawberry Jam - Jerry Bradley ()
** Minima - Chrus Rusu ()


* Dave's Music Notes #0062
* Featuring music that's interesting, cool, and listenable.
* Date: Jan 22, 2009
* Listen at http://www.gcast.com/u/davidtanny/davesmusicnotes
* Some of the music is provided from
* The Podsafe Music Network at http://www.podsafemusicnetwork.com
* and at Ariel Publicity at http://www.arielpublicity.com
* and introducing http://www.dsnmusic.com

** Prime Rib Blues - Eddie Biggins ()
** Too Late to Make a Long Story Short - Jerry Bradley ()
* Police on the Scene with a Crime Prevention Lean
* Focus on crime prevention, scam alerts, safety tips and, to lighten the mood
* from time to time, stupid criminal stories.
* http://policeonthescene.libsyn.com/
** ep004-Check Overpayment Scam - Police on the Scene ()
** I Can Move Your Lawn Baby - Nikolaj Andersen ()
* http://myspace.com/nikolaj1manband
** Transitions - Pixieguts with EI and Crimson Death ()


* Dave's Music Notes #0063
* Featuring music that's interesting, cool, and listenable.
* Date: Jan 22, 2009
* Listen at http://www.gcast.com/u/davidtanny/davesmusicnotes
* Some of the music is provided from
* The Podsafe Music Network at http://www.podsafemusicnetwork.com
* and at Ariel Publicity at http://www.arielpublicity.com
* and introducing http://www.dsnmusic.com

** What The Hell - Lee Douglas ()
** Shout and Scream - Nikolaj Andersen ()
* http://myspace.com/nikolaj1manband
* Police on the Scene with a Crime Prevention Lean
* Focus on crime prevention, scam alerts, safety tips and, to lighten the mood
* from time to time, stupid criminal stories.
* http://policeonthescene.libsyn.com/
** ep007-ATM Safety Tips - Police on the Scene ()
** Every Girl I Love - Bluesman Tom Malafarina ()
* http://www.tommalafarina.com/bmt.html
** Glowing - John Voorhees ()

Man my songs are getting a Californian tan for sure  Thankyou Dave.