Two genuine blues musicians with a common past. Jorgen was a guest on Troels' famous
Delta record "No overdubs", which also featured Billy Cross as a guest, before he settled
in with the Delta Cross Band.
Later Troels and Jorgen toured the country as an acoustic duo, earning the nickname
'the Katzenjammer Kids', which they kind of liked themselves.
Soon they expanded into a full band - The Katzenjammer Kids, and now, years later,
Troels and Jorgen are back together, Jorgen even as a permanent member of the now
revived Delta Blues Band.

Ana Popovic is one of the most promising young Blues talents of today.
She was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1976. Her father’s extensive record
collection and music sessions at home introduced Ana to the blues.
She took to the guitar and founded her first band at age nineteen, and
within a year, she went to play outside of Yugoslavia, incl. opening shows
for American blues icons like Junior Wells.
She relocated to the Netherlands in 1999 to study jazz guitar, and quickly
became a fixture on the Dutch blues scene and has now reached enormous
popularity all over Europe, even in the United States, and has played all the
major music festivals of Europe.
Beside a busy tour schedule she has released a CD every second year,
incl. a live-CD in 2005.
On her latest CD, “Blind for Love”, released this summer, Ana offers a blend
of blues, rock, jazz, funk and gospel.
Her live performance is a winning mixture of traditional blues with elements of
R&B and soul, and the blues rock of the 21st century, guaranteed to thrill any
blues crowd !
On this visit to Copenhagen she brings her highly competent, internationally
composed live and studio band - from The Netherlands, Italy and the US.

A duo-collaboration is a demanding discipline,
which never lets either participant off the hook
for very long.
It is also an art form in which simplicity is a keyword.
Paul Banks is a true one-man-band, and his guitar is
the lyrical and grooving engine of this duo.
Jakob Dinesen’s tenor goes from slender translucency
to raspy, growling swing. It is a perfect fit.

Troels Skovgaard turned up on the Copenhagen music scene in the '80ies as a guitarist and singer
with the Bamboo Brothers, who released 2 albums and toured from 1985 to ’95.
Troels wrote the radio hit "Johnny customs Susie" as a soloist and has had several songs
in rotation on Danish Radio P4.
As a sideman has Troels played live, in studio and on TV with a vareity of Danish and
foreign stars - Hannel Boel, Savage Rose, Julie, Palsdottir, Andrew Strong, Alex Acuna,
Sko & Torp and many others.
Troels perceive blues 'as his mother tongue, albeit with accents of pop, jazz and R'n'B.
Now he has assembled a tanned, sweaty blues team, which play both Troels' own songs
and interpretations of the good old bluesclassics.

Ana Popovic is one of the most promising young Blues talents of today.
She was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1976. Her father’s extensive record
collection and music sessions at home introduced Ana to the blues.
She took to the guitar and founded her first band at age nineteen, and
within a year, she went to play outside of Yugoslavia, incl. opening shows
for American blues icons like Junior Wells.
She relocated to the Netherlands in 1999 to study jazz guitar, and quickly
became a fixture on the Dutch blues scene and has now reached enormous
popularity all over Europe, even in the United States, and has played all the
major music festivals of Europe.
Beside a busy tour schedule she has released a CD every second year,
incl. a live-CD in 2005.
On her latest CD, “Blind for Love”, released this summer, Ana offers a blend
of blues, rock, jazz, funk and gospel.
Her live performance is a winning mixture of traditional blues with elements of
R&B and soul, and the blues rock of the 21st century, guaranteed to thrill any
blues crowd !
On this visit to Copenhagen she brings her highly competent, internationally
composed live and studio band - from The Netherlands, Italy and the US.

Jonas Vincent Quartet plays dynamic and original jazz based original compositions and invites the more jazz-interested audience to a great jazzy experience at Pilegaarden this evening.

One of Denmark's finest guitarists and one of the industry's hardest working figures in the last
30 years in one person! Peter Brander has been audioguru for a myriad of Danish rock and
Pop icons - as a studio producer, sound engineer, guitarist and choir on recordings and live
on stage. He has put his unmistakable fingerprint on dozens of the most famous Danish
rock classics. In between studio and session work there has also been time to take care of
his own music, and now he returns to his blues rock roots with a super band and a new
blues CD to be released prior to the festival.

Jimmy Johnson belongs at the absolute top of Chicago blues artists, along with Buddy Guy
and Otis Rush and a few others. He’s one of the modern Chicago blues idiom’s most impressive
singers and guitarists, who combines his searing, gospel-influenced vocal and progressive and
sophisticated jazz-inspired guitar playing into a very unique and original style.
And as a songwriter, he has renewed the genre, taking up current or controvecial issues
- a far way away from traditional blues clichés.
He was born 1928 in Holly Springs, Miss., baptized James Thompson, later changed to Johnson
like his famous soul-singing brother, Syl Johnson. Jimmy lived and worked in Miss. as a welder,
singing a bit of gospel, which has kept his interest to this day, before in 1950 following in his brother's
footsteps he moved to Chicago to pursue a musical career. For the next 20 years he played soul
and R & B as the guitar player with Magic Sam, Freddie King, Slim Willis, Otis Clay, Denise LaSalle a.o.

From the mid-70'es he returned to his blues roots, becoming a full-time blues man, playing all
over the world as a sideman for Jimmy Dawkins and Otis Rush, before, in 1978, at the age of 50,
he began recording his own music. His unique style caught on, and since then he has issued a
series of albums, including the excellent "Johnson's Whacks", 1979, "Bar Room Preacher", 1983,
and "North/South", 1982. In 2002 he recorded "Two Johnsons are Better than One" with brother Syl.

25 years has passed since Johnson's last visit here, but even today, at 81 years of age, he looks,
plays and sings, as he always has - no old-man blues there ! - check it out yourself on YouTube!
It is with pride and honor that Copenhagen Blues Festival and Pumpehuset present Jimmy Johnson,
backed by our very own soul-blues man No. 1, Mike Andersen.
This is The Blues Scoop of the year
- and perhaps one of the last chances to meet this all times great Chicago blues artist in Copenhagen.

Mike Andersen, with two albums out, and hundreds of concerts throughout Europe
under his belt, has found his own style of contemporary influencies and classic soul and blues
- without being weighed down by tradition.
His strong vocal and guitar playing, his compositions, the glowing commitment and
showmanship in his performances attracts a widely growing audience at home and abroad,
and lately the band has delivered convincing performances including support for The Fabulous
Thunderbirds and B.B. King on several occasions.
Mike says: "We do not distinguish between genres, but draws from all elements of the
Afro-American music that we love so much".
There is a new album on it's way, and Mike's many fans in Copenhagen may rejoice
to hear the new tracks on this great evening at Pumpehuset.

Rattlers began their power blues band in the early 90s, a good era for this genre on the club scene.
The band interprets the songs in their own way, far from a traditional cover band.
Bartof serves this festival tonight with sweaty rock blues with the Rattlers versions of Stevie Ray,
ZZ Top, Hendrix and Nine Below Zero.

This swinging blues band plays evocative roots music and have placed their style after New Orleans,
West Coast, Chicago and Caribbean Music. This lineup has performed at venues and events since
2006, and in 2008 they released the live album "Center of the Universe", recorded at Café Elvira,
Storm's Østerbro.

The 2 singers and guitarists Jacques Darville and Henrik Schwiecke have worked together in different
bands before they in 2008 formed the Darville Duo. With a background in traditional blues and rock,
they have created a sound and a "fire" which is entirely their own.
This accomplished Danish/American blues duo exudes energy, musicality and entertainment.

Dirty fifthies R & B, Texas blues and West Coast are the musical stepping stones for Tutwieler's music
that exudes cool cocktails, fast cars, cold beer and crispy ladies. The repertoire consist of both original
songs and cover versions of a.o. Johnny Guitar Watson, Fab. T. Bird, James Harman, Kid Andersen,
Nick Curran, Magic Sam and Hollywood Fats! -
All served with great energy and authenticity. As Jimmie Vaughan of the Fabulous Thunderbirds said
"We're all 27, handsome motherfuckers that dress cool and our music makes the girls run wild."
Well, we're not Jimme Vaughan ... but we'l do our best !

Nisse Thorbjorn - CPH Slim - proves with his debut CD what his fan crowd has known all along:
Here is a trulu skilled and talented genuine Bluesman! "CPH Slim" gives you the essence of the
great musical development, that he has undergone since the blues festival audience met him
for the first time in 2001.
As a solo performer, Nisse sounds like an entire band with his relentless, world class voice,
brilliant guitar and harmonica. But with his band, authenticity, originality and musical intensity
gets a whole new meaning.
The band's repertoire includes respectful interpretations of heroes like Blind Lemon Jefferson and
Howlin 'Wolf, but also Nisse's own material, played in an unmistakable, tight Chicago Blues style.

Nisse has invited several guest-artists to join him on the debut CD, who all contributes to the quality
and versatility of the songs - the late Peter Thorup (his last recording), Kira Skov, Paul Banks, Rune
Kjeldsen and Rasmus Dissing.
"I believe, we got something good here." Peter Thorup.br> The CD has been under way for some time, but it certainly has been worth the wait.
To join him on stage for this evening's festival concert, Nisse has invited Danish top-ace guitarist,
Ronni Boysen - they'll have a ball, and so will you - be there!

Every year La Fontaine present a special jazz-blues program for blues festival - so there's something for anyone. Also this year you can experience unique constellations, which guarantees surprising top musical quality. Here fronted by Anders Gaardmand's growlin' R'n'B sax and Jorgen Lang's sublime voice and blues harp.

Lending/Bugge is a new duo in the Danish blues - in the best American blues tradition:
The master and his apprentice'.
Their theme is ”The Fruits meet the Roots” - a metaphor for the historic development of
the blues music, which the master and his apprentice represent, alone and together.
They first met when Kenn performed with Hans Christians band, ”Live Bleeding Fingers”
- they ”clicked” and decided to do something serious about their musical partnership.

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 rather 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
the oldes son, Mud Morganfield, born in 1954, under the name Larry Williams.
The ever touring father kept in touch with ‘Little Mud’, but even if he was always involved with
music on a personal level, it’s only recently he has stepped forward for real - primarely to
honour his father’s music, but also to add his own profile and musical contribution.
He has a big, charismatic voice which definitely has similarities to Muddy’s.
His looks are also very close to his father’s, and one of Muddy’s old musicians has said:
“It’s like seeing a ghost !”
Mud has released two CD’s, “Fall Waters Fall” in 2008, and later the same year, the live CD
”With the Dirty Aces Live”, and Mud was nominated for best blues act in the 2008 by Chicago
Music Awards.
Earlier this year, Mud was on tour with Peter Nande Band, and this is the reason, why the festival,
through Peter, has invited Mud for these two Saturday concerts at Roedovre Centrum and at Mojo.
With this year’s festival theme, the Chicago Blues, it hardly gets any better, and everything is set
for a really big blues experience.

L.P. Simonsen, one of Denmark's best and most original vocalists and guitarists, has assembled
a new roots'n'blues trio, which, based on Chicago-blues and other types of roots-music,
perform L.P.'s songs, mixed with interpretations of classic standard blues songs.
Blues with soul, originality and power !
The Trio regularly appears in Mojo’s programme, but can now even be heard here,
in L.P’s own part of town, Oesterbro.

Lending/Bugge is a new duo in the Danish blues - in the best American blues tradition:
The master and his apprentice'.
Their theme is ”The Fruits meet the Roots” - a metaphor for the historic development of
the blues music, which the master and his apprentice represent, alone and together.
They first met when Kenn performed with Hans Christians band, ”Live Bleeding Fingers”
- they ”clicked” and decided to do something serious about their musical partnership.

After the comeback at last year’s festival Delta is still going strong. As one of the most important founders of the blues scene in Denmark back in -68, the band started as Delta Blues & Boogie Band. In a later version, as Delta Cross Band, they had a major success in the eighties, and last year's comeback showed that the audience is still there. The centre person through the bands 41 years history, is still vocalist, guitarist and piano player Troels Jensen, the 'grand old man' of Danish blues – backed by his faithful crew, who been part of the band, on and off since the beginning. Delta is about to release a new CD, "Checkin' In", where the band, now with Jørgen Lang as a permanent fifth band member, explores new roads, but it’s still hand played first-rate blues.

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 rather 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
the oldes son, Mud Morganfield, born in 1954, under the name Larry Williams.
The ever touring father kept in touch with ‘Little Mud’, but even if he was always involved with
music on a personal level, it’s only recently he has stepped forward for real - primarely to
honour his father’s music, but also to add his own profile and musical contribution.
He has a big, charismatic voice which definitely has similarities to Muddy’s.
His looks are also very close to his father’s, and one of Muddy’s old musicians has said:
“It’s like seeing a ghost !”
Mud has released two CD’s, “Fall Waters Fall” in 2008, and later the same year, the live CD
”With the Dirty Aces Live”, and Mud was nominated for best blues act in the 2008 by Chicago
Music Awards.
Earlier this year, Mud was on tour with Peter Nande Band, and this is the reason, why the festival,
through Peter, has invited Mud for these two Saturday concerts at Roedovre Centrum and at Mojo.
With this year’s festival theme, the Chicago Blues, it hardly gets any better, and everything is set
for a really big blues experience.

Piano player Hans Knudsen is devoted to jump music., and played it for many years,
amongst others with the New Orleans singer Lilian Boutté. He’s endowed with all the
good elements associated with New Orleans music, and the relationship to Fats Domino
is obvious. Solo, as well as with his Jumpband, he serves a swinging, blues saturated
gumbo of jazz, jump, rhythm'n'blues, boogie-woogie, soul and his very own ingredients.

New Orleans jazz with inspirations from the Dance Hall music, with its subtle mixture of foxtrot,
jive, blues, gospel and Caribbean music. In the repertoire are also newer songs from amongst
others Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Prince.
The band this evening is reinforced by the saxophone player Niels ”Flipper” Stuart,
and special guest, the blues singer Miriam Mandipira from Zimbabwe.
Before moving to Denmark, she earned herself the honorable title "South Africa’s Queen of the blues",
and with her powerful voice and her broad musical orientation she's well on the way to make a name
for herself on the Danish blues scene.

Anders Montin gives a thorough reading of the many elements of the blues - from old school B.B. King
to the present’s John Mayer. He’s joined by two capable men - Jakob Christensen, (Zapp Zapp,
Erann D.D. and others), who contributes with a pleasant funky base, and Henrik Askou, (Billy Cross,
Jacob Andersen and others), who, with good grasp and experience, controls the rhythm.

Hefty swing or peace and quiet - 2 voices, 2 guitars and various harps play blues and jazz
- always with a blues feeling, some scat song and lots of guitar solos.

Nobody says the blues should be played ordinarily and predictably. The Blues Overdrive plays a modern and new thinking blues, but still with roots ingredients.
In 2003 ‘TBO’ won Mojo's prestigious jubilee competition. The praise was almost endless and
the media used words like ”New shooting star in Danish blues”, and ”One of the country’s most
promising blues bands”. Since then, there have had jobs at Skanderborg Festival and Copenhagen
Jazz Festival, and in July 2009 the band released the CD ‘EP09’ with three original songs as a
forerunner of a full album next year.
With his team of promising blues talents, band-leader Martin Olsen promises a musical experience
out of the ordinary at Råhuset.

Not many bands in this country play the special Hill Country blues from Northern Mississippi,
for which R.L. Burnside was particularly famous. Fried Okra has had a lot of inspiration from
playing with Burnside’s guitarist, Kenny Brown, and has started to master this style, which is
usually reserved for American musicians, and primarely released on the Mississippi record
company Fat Possum.
It’s a modern, primitive, often one chord, trashy type of blues, for which they received a lot of
praise on the debut CD, "This is your Chance, Baby!" The CD was nominated for a Danish
Music Awards Folk, and they’re now ready with the next one, "Black Cherry".
The crossroads to the foreign blues scene is about to open up ahead.

Every year La Fontaine present a special jazz-blues program for blues festival - so there's something for anyone. Also this year you can experience unique constellations, which guarantees surprising top musical quality. Here with a solid, Hammond-sax-guitar driven jazz-blues, well suited for the wee-wee hours.

For 6-7 years, Frank White & Christian Frank have performed as a dou, now and again enhanced with Hugo Rasmussen’s buzzing basss and Kresten Osgood’s boiling drums. At this special Sunday treat at Pilegården, Ronni Boysen, the guitarist with Peter Nande Band, sits in with duo. Ronni is a versatile and creative musician, with a strong blues feeling and a very personal style. Ronni will fit in very well in the dou's uncompromising, traditional Chicago blues style, with songs by a.o. Ray Charles, B B King and John Lee Hooker are on the set-list.
Note the time: Pilegården serves delicious blues brunch with the music from 11 am.

Poorboy Poul is a unique singer and lap-style guitarist.
With a love of traditional countryblues, Poorboy Poul
interprets this style’s songs with nerve and presence
- an outstanding young acoustic bluesman.

With the release of his fourth CD in only five years, Thorbjørn Risager can take stock of a career, which in record-breaking time has brought him and his band to the forefront of the European blues scene. Over the last few years, 38 years old Risager has established a name for himself as a vocalist, guitar player and composer of international class.
From nature he is equipped with an extraordinary powerful and expressive voice and a charismatic and outgoing performance. Always impeccably suited up, soft hat on his head, a well-played guitar over his shoulder, a tight, top-tuned band behind him, he has definitely made his mark. The style is still mainly Rhythm’n’Blues, but as the new CD clearly demonstrates, the band competently masters a broad and varied blues menu of traditional Chicago, soul, funk and jazz along with some spicy New Orleans rhythms.
The influence from some of Thorbjorn’s great idols, like Ray Charles and B B King, can’t be dismissed, but with his unmistakable talent as a composer, he has developed his very own personal and unique style ever since he started the band in 2001.
Thorbjorn has received lots of praise along the way: great international CD and concert reviews, the award ”Blues Artist of the Year” at Copenhagen Blues Festival in 2005, and a Danish Music Award nomination in 2008. The two previous releases play regularly at more than 60 radio stations worldwide.
All of this is obliging, and on ”Live at Victoria”, as well as at any live performance, the band does it’s very best to live up to the high expectations.
The new live CD was recorded over two great concert nights at Victoria in Malmö, Sweden, in October, 2008. The 11 tracks have been hand-picked from the concerts and carefully put together, condensing the two nights into one super concert, that will capture the listener ’till the last note has faded out.

Rev. Palle Kongsgård will host a blues service with the theme ”The Devil in the Blues”
as part of this year’s festival.
'As badman and trickster, the black blues musician was seen as the personification of evil.
In a nocturnal meeting with the devil at 'the Crossroad', the singer received the blues magic
power (in exchange for his soul).
On one hand, the blues therefore was feared as “The Devils music”, on the other, the blues
singer was seen as a hero with supernatural powers to settle with the white’s oppression.
In the showdown with the sacred, the blues itself became sacred'.
Palle, himself a musician, touches this side of the blues mythology in Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson a.o. After the service there's a concert with three major capacities in southern blues.

This Sunday afternoon Copenhagen’s three blues mama's
- better known as 'Ladies Sing The Blues'
- will fire up their gospel boiler.
Blues and gospel are close in styles, the lyrics a bit different, but the expression and the power is the same.
'The Ladies' are amongst the festivals regular staff - the story, in short, is that back in 2001 the festival committee
asked Ane, Lene and Lea to join forces for a festival soul & gospel concert.
It went so well, that the cooperation has lasted ever since.
Last year, The Ladies released their long awaited CD, ”Uh Oh Yeah !”, showing the bands broad musical spectre
- ”Uh” for the sensual, ”Oh” for the sensitive and ”YEAH!” for the powerful.
This afternoon’s church concert presents gospel from "the old school" traditionals and spirituals to the more modern, funky stuff with songs by a. o. Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Keb' Mo'.

Duck & Cover plays southern country, hillbilly, blues & western swing
as if they came from the area.
Their first CD is recorded in Los Angeles, with one of USA’s leading
producers, and you can look forward to hearing all the new songs
- so check them out, while they still tour in Denmark!

Sunday evening at Mojo, by tradition, is acoustic blues night,
and the blues festival’s closing consert.
Once again, Mojo provides the stage and the atmosphere
for this event, and again this year the control of the stage
is in the skilled hands.of H.P. Lange.