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

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