Prismen partakes in the festival for the first time, and welcomes you to their ‘music brunch’ concept.
Steve Grahn and Mathias Malm from Malmo contribute to the festivities with their laid-back acoustic blues - music, food and drink - what more can you ask for.

The Swedish roots'n'blues duo plays at a very high musical level, and in
2009 they won 1st place in the Baltic Blues Challenge, and were invited
to Memphis to defend the Scandinavian blues colors.
Grahn & Malm have visited this festival several times with great success,
so look forward to this mid-day event.

Prismen serves a wonderful organic brunch buffet, to be enjoyed with
coffee, tea and juice - and of course - with some great blues.
Note: half price for kids under 10 !


reservation
You need to make reservations for the brunch.
Please call +45 82 334520 or e-mail: morten.bolvinkel@kff.kk.dk

With this duo you can experience Mike Andersen play his blues and soul
in venues, that don’t have room for the full Mike Andersen Band.
Mike explains: "I love my fabulous live-band, but I also want to play in a
smaller, more intimate set-up".

Mike's duo partner is the band's drummer, Jens Kristian Dam, who is also
a fabulous piano player. For years these two guys have cultivated their
common passion for Ray Charles in random sessions in their private
living rooms and kitchens - and finally took the step to share the passion
and the intimacy with their audience.

Mike sings and plays his guitar, and Jens Kristian plays the piano, while
simultaniously playing his hi-hat and floor drum with his feet!

Sherman and Wendell Holmes were born and raised in Christchurch, Virginia.
Their parents fostered the boys' early interest in music as they listened to traditional Baptist hymns, anthems and spirituals, as well as blues music by Jimmy Reed, Junior Parker and B.B. King.

Both brothers sang in the church choir, Sherman studied the clarinet and piano before taking up the bass, while Wendell learned the trumpet, organ and guitar. The older brother, Sherman, studied
composition and music theory at Virginia State University, but in 1959, he dropped out and headed to New York for a promising job with a singer named Jimmy Jones. Wendell joined him after high school,
and the two brothers played in a several bands, backing artists like The Impressions, John Lee Hooker and Jerry Butler.

Later Sherman, Wendell and a fellow Virginian, drummer Popsy Dixon, played in a variety of Top 40 bar bands, until in 1979 the three of them formed The Holmes Brothers band.

Ever since this incredible trio has been feeding soul and mind of their devoted and ever-growing fan base with a joyous and moving blend of blues, gospel, soul, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and country.

Over the years the trio has performed and recorded with artists like Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Willie Nelson, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Merle Haggard,
Keith Richards, Al Green, Ben Harper, Steve Earle, Levon Helm, Rosanne Cash, Odetta, and many others.

Their latest CD, "Feed My Soul", came out in 2010 on Alligator Records, and even if Sherman, Wendell and Popsy are all close to 70 years old, they continue to tour all across the globe,
and never fail to win over their audiences where ever they play around the globe.

We are very proud to present this icon of American roots, blues and gospel music at this years Copenhagen Blues Festival
- Saturday afternoon at Roedovre Centrum, and Sunday afternoon in Christian's Church.

The Blues Overdrive and The Fried Okra Band have joined forces for this concert
at Mentronomen on Frederiksberg - previously ‘Byggeriets Hus’ on Godthåbsvej.
The two bands have previously been in in-fight in their popular Band Battles,
but this time their friendly musical combat takes place in broad daylight, when
The mysterious, Dylan-inspired universe of The Blues Overdrive meet the
swampy, primitive Mississippi Hill Country Blues grooves of The Fried Okra.

The Fried Okra Band have released two CD’s, "This is your Chance, Baby!",
nominated for a 'Danish Music Award - Folk' in 2008, and "Black Cherry",
released in 2009.

After an EP in 2009, The Blues Overdrive is going to release their first ‘real’
CD this autumn - one of the surprises being a never before released song by
cult-icon J.J. Cale, another a salute to the departed blues legend Peter Thorup.

Both bands are part of the alternative blues and roots scene, and musical labels
are not really relevant - they themselves call this Saturday afternoon show:
'Blues... and you name it!'
Frederiksberg will never be the same again!

With this duo you can experience Mike Andersen play his blues and soul
in venues, that don’t have room for the full Mike Andersen Band.
Mike explains: "I love my fabulous live-band, but I also want to play in a
smaller, more intimate set-up".

Mike's duo partner is the band's drummer, Jens Kristian Dam, who is also
a fabulous piano player. For years these two guys have cultivated their
common passion for Ray Charles in random sessions in their private
living rooms and kitchens - and finally took the step to share the passion
and the intimacy with their audience.

Mike sings and plays his guitar, and Jens Kristian plays the piano, while
simultaniously playing his hi-hat and floor drum with his feet!

Fronting Reverend Shine Snake Oil Co is the bubbling showman, Claudius Pratt.
With his musical kindred spirit, the guitarist Justin Moses Gunn, he migrated from
New York, his hometown, to an artistic exile here in Copenhagen.

Withe musicians from Jutlans, Funen and from eastern Germany this semi-global
band draws musical lines all over the map.
Since 2007 the band has shaken up domestic and foreign music venues with their
mind blowing, spiritual symbiosis of rythm’n’blues, rock’n’roll.
Reverend Shine's musical salvation, cunningly balancing between the angelic and
the diabolic, has also been met with enthusiasm in England and Germany.

If you say McKinley Morganfield a lot of people pay attention, but if you say Muddy Waters, the attention will grow considerably. Muddy Waters, the"Hoochie Coochie Man", the father of the electric blues,
who died all too young in 1983. But his legacy lives on, a legacy which was previously taken up by one of Muddy Waters' sons, Big Bill Morganfield, and now also by the oldest son,
Mud Morganfield, born in 1954, under the name Larry Williams.

Mud Morganfield - "Eldest Son of Muddy Waters", as he likes to be announced, started singing not so many years ago, primarely to honour his father’s music,
but also to add his own profile and musical contribution to the Blues.

He has a big, charismatic voice with definite similarities to Muddy’s, and even his looks and attitudes are very much like his father’s,
so much so, that one of Muddy Water's old musicians has said: “It’s like seeing a ghost !”


Mud played at the festival in 2009, and now, two years later, we welcome him back, this time with a regular Chicago style club gig this Saturday night at Huset,
and a short matiné concert at Roedovre Centrum Sunday afternoon.

Also this time around Mud gets solid and competent backing by Peter Nande Band. They have established a successful tour-cooperation
and have both received appraisal wherever they have played at Scandinavian clubs and festivals.

Peter Nande Band is well known to the festivals audience - not least because the band has two members, who have received the festival's blues award
- Nande himself in 2007, and in 2008, his drummer and duo partner, Tim Lothar.

This concert is sponsored by DMF - the Danish Musicians' Union
in celebration of the Union's 100th anniversary

To celebrate the anniversary, DMF wants to bring concerts to all parts of Denmark.
This is marked at the Copenhagen Blues Festival under the slogan
“The Worlds Biggest Band”
to tell, that DMF is fighting for all Danish musicians, union members or not.

The Raahus at Vesterbro takes the first steps to introduce a festival stage for the
up-and-coming bands from the the blues undergrowth.
This first time around the festival and Raahuset present three nights with two bands
every night - and we hope, that the project will live and grow.



Kristian Hofmann Band saw the light of day at Mojo in 2005, and since then has delivered numerous concerts as a trio or quartet.
Kristian works with personal interpretations of old blues songs in a new, exciting ways.
The music sounds of blues, rock, experimental chords, improvised, free style and trashy punk.


The dynamic duo Beat & Stomp operates with a modern blues sound and a large sound format like Ry Cooder, and a rhythmic foundation like Satan and Adam.
The duo is Per ”A” Andersen, vocal and guitar, and Lars ”Ringo” Ringgaard, vocal, harp, stompbox etc.
They work with a mix of old traditional blues and rag songs, wrapped in new, experimenting effects,
creating live loops of mouth beat and mouth harp into a unique, personal expression quite their own.

Danish blues’ Grand Old Man' and one of Swedish Blues biggest young talents
are realising an old Southern blues concept - the Master and his Apprentice.

And Troels is a master - of all trades in the blues - he simply does it all.
- plays solo with just his voice and his blues guitar or his 'Boogie Man' piano
- plays duo, trio, quartet, quintet, all the formats up to his 9-piece Healers.
Counting his first musical efforts on the cornet, he has played for 50 years.
No wonder he was the first one to receive thefestival's award
’Danish Blues Musician of the Year’ in 2002.


Svante Sjöblom is a young, brilliant guitarist and singer, who exercises his
Southern blues, old time country, ragtime and gospel, with a conviction and
integrity way beyond his years.
He has received several Swedish music awards, and is well on his way to
being recognized as one of Scandinavia’s greatest blues talents.

A return of two of our most virtuoso guitarists, Banks and Jacoby, both stylists,
each in their own musical area. Paul tells: Aske and I take turns singing a song.
Aske is a wonderful guitarist, an excellent vocalist and a pleasure to play with.

He is also a member of the octet Paul Banks & The Love Bombs.
An evening with Paul Banks, (Danish Blues Musician of the Year 2006) and Aske
Jacoby, (The Kenn Gudman Price 2004) is a guaranty of top class musical
entertainment.

Since 2002 Franck White and Christian Frank have worked together playing their
traditional Chicago blues at numerous events across the country, including several
performances at this blues festival.
Next year they can celebrate 10 years of collaboration under the motto:
"10 Years, 2 Friend & a burning love for the Blues".

They keep the classic blues format of vocal-harp-guitar alive, a format that seems
to suit them well. But then and again they venture into other formats, playing on
a regular basis with guitarist Ronni Boysen as a trio, or as a quartet with Kresten
Osgood and Hugo Rasmussen.

Rock it plays boogie, blues and rockabilly the old traditional way
- they'll rock the house!
The trio consist of tree experienced gentlemen, all with a solid
back ground in the blues and rock'n'roll scene:

Morten Wittrock, lead vocals and piano,
Carsten Olsen, aka The bald chef, on upright bass,
and Frank Rothstein on drums and vocal.

Keith Dunn Band are suppliers of what the Americans call ”Hardcore Blues”
- a modern band, playing in the tradition of Howlin’ Wolf, spiced up with the
festive mood of Hound Dog Taylor, the swamp boogie beat of Slim Harpo,
and style and attitude of the Junior Wells and Buddy Guy period.

Keith Dunn has a good musical background, and a career, which has led
to co-operation with artists like Billy Boy Arnold, Jimmy Rogers, Hubert
Sumlin, Lurrie Bell, Curtis Knight, Big Mama Thornton, Walter Horton,
Jan Akkerman, Big Jack Johnson, John Packer and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

At the 2003 festival, he filled Mojo to the limit, and now he’s back with his
bass-less EU orchestra. A tight rhythm guitar keep the band going -
on top of that, a playful lead guitar, a drummer and not least,
up in front on harp and vocal - Mr. Keith Dunn himself

Every year La Fontaine sets up a special jazz-blues programme in honour of
the blues festival, offering something for both the jazz- and the blues audience.

Michael Blicher is in charge of Saturday and has created the evenings Allstar
band with a handful of musicians from some of Denmark’s best bands.

As front man of Astro Buddha Agogo and Radiostar, Michael is no stranger
to the Blues, and this evening he builds his repertoire around Ray Charles,
BB King, Mingus and Cannonball.
So, it will be a fabulous evening for all lovers of ….good music !