News / Are you ready for the blues?
THE PROGRAMME for Shetland’s ninth blues festival at the weekend of the 14 to 16 September has just been announced.
Most concerts will take place in the new music venue Mareel, but also at the Ness Boating Club, on the Friday, and the usual pub trail in Lerwick on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
The headline act this year is the Jon Amor Blues Group which has been taking the UK and European blues scene by storm.
Other acts are Anglo-Norwegian blues rock player Krissy Matthews, the acoustic duo Babajack, from the English Midlands, as well as this year’s international acts, Tim Lothar from Denmark and Lincoln Durham from Austin, in Texas.
Visiting from Scotland are Papa Mojo and Jed Potts and the Hillman Hunters.
Chairman of the Shetland Blues Festival, Jimmy Carlyle, said that Sunday’s closing gig would again feature a host of local bands including No Sweat, Mackie and Friends, Sore Finger, Blue Melt and the Orange Whips, as well as new band Muddy Bay and the Deep Sea Rollers.
Tickets are available from the Shetland Box office at www.shetlandboxoffice.org, including an early bird ticket (available until 31 August) for all three nights at £30, one of the cheapest festival tickets in the UK, according to Carlyle.
More info at: www.shetlandblues.info
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