Rodney at the Blues: Sunday 28th August 2011

1.30pm – 3.00pm: Lil’ Ian Goodsman

"...an excellent guitarist in the old style...I was seriously impressed with your playing."    - Bruce Iglauer, CEO, Alligator Records, USA.

"...Kiwi slide guitarist extraodinaire"    - Radio Hauraki, New Zealand.

"The real deal"   - Terry Iredale, HotFM, Australia

“One of the best country blues guitarists we've heard in years"   -  GoodTime Blues Review, Argentina

official site

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3.30pm – 5.00pm: Last Gasp Spasm Band

“The Last Gasp Spasm Band is the only authentic Jug Band in the UK. The band features some of finest Blues and Roots performers around, consisting of Jim Murray and Peter Mason, better known as The Hokum Hotshots, alongside Lee Bates and Billy Newton; another excellent Blues duo from the Northeast. Joining them on Jug is the wonderful Michael ‘Fruit-Lips’ Watson.”

- from their website, which includes video: and there's more video of them here 

5.30pm – 7.00pm: Zacc Rogers

“I like to play as many different styles as I can get away with, at the moment I think my music is a mixture of rock’n’roll ska, bluesy soul with a good amount of foot stomping thrown in for good measure. I like to use quite a few open tunings to add different textures to my music I sometimes use a sampling pedal so that for some songs I can record live beat box type rhythms and lay down bass lines and guitar to incorporate in songs / I write a lot of my own songs but have just recently started incorporating covers into my set so that depending on the audience I can play a set of my own material, a set of covers or quite often a mixture of them both.” – read more at his own website

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7.30pm – 9.00pm: Dan Burnett

Expect some great blues / boogie piano...

“Dan began learning about music and started playing the keyboards at three years old, with the help and encouragement of his dad, and played his first gig just after his ninth birthday. From then on his passion for music, and desire to learn grew enormously.... Over the last few years, Dan has been involved in various musical projects such as co-writing and recording blues albums for TV & Film, session work, and of course lots of live performances. He’s warmed up audiences for fantastic acts including: Aynsley Lister, Sherman Robertson, The Animals & friends, The Nimmo Brothers, Matt Schofield, Nine Below Zero and Paul Jones & Dave Kelly.” – read the rest

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