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ACOUSTIC STAGE
The "Acoustic Stage" (in reality an eclectic mix of music from Delta Blues to
flat out rock) at The Shore Hotel has it's own website which is now updated
with new pictures and info..
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generous people?
ISLE OF MAN BLUES CLUB
The Manx Blues Club; where the Festival sprang from
venue, dates, history etc..
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Stage: MAIN STAGE GIG REPORT 2003
Photo's and Report on the
Charterhouse International Blues Pavilion
Main Stage
Stage: ACOUSTIC STAGE
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Bushy's Big Wheel Blues Festival 2003 is
a fund raising event for the British Red
Cross. Please give generously.
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Smiling Jack's Back - in the Studio
13th October 2005
Smiling Jack Smith, a Festival favourite of mine from 2004,
has been in touch to tell the Fest about his new CD. Jack says:
"Hi Chris
Long time between e-mails, I've been very busy. Hope all is well with
you, and all the folks there.
I am working on the new CD, which will be a real
departure for me. First of all, the band is bigger. There will be two guitars,
keyboard, upright bass, and a horn section! A friend of mine from Canada,
Pat
Coleman
, a fantastic guitarist and musician in general, is doing the horn
arrangements, and I will be going to Canada in December to record with my own
drummer and musicians that Pat works with all the time. It will be released
through Pat's record company,
Roadhouse Records
, and distributed in North
America by SONY. Everything will be done with complete charts for all the band
so I can take it anywhere that I can find players capable of the job. The new
band here in Spain has been rehearsing the material so I can tour here and in
the rest of Europe with them. Busy, busy, busy.
Best, Jack."
The Festival wishes all it's friends well and never more than when they are
playing, recording and living the Blues - Jack does them all.
More on
Smiling Jack Smith
here
Smiling Jack Smith's very good website
here
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