Two strong guitar aces meet in Copenhagen:
The young JW Jones, Canada and the older veteran, Charlie Baty, USA.
They started collaborating in 2008 with a swinging rockin’n'rollin’ jump
and Chicago blues CD, both delivering virtuous top class guitar playing.
Baty’s love of Django Reinhardt's gypsy style and elegant swing-jump guitar
is combined with Jones' more raw, youthful and energetic style and sound.

Charlie Baty is primarily known for his many years with the west coast band
'Little Charlie & the Nightcats, an established name at blues festivals and
clubs all over the world, but after their 2008 tour, Baty went into semi-.
retirement. The band carries on under the name Rick Estrin & the Nightcats,
but Baty still joins the band for the odd tour, festival and one-off show.
Charlie Baty may have partly retired from the touring life, but when JW
calls, he’s there!

The 30 year old JW Jones is a busy man - he's constantly touring Canada,
USA, Australia, Brasil and Europe, which he last visited this spring.
He has performed with some of the biggest names in blues today, The
Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Nightcats, Junior Watson, Rusty Zinn, Rod
Piazza & The Mighty Flyers, Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets, Mannish
Boys, Hubert Sumlin and others.
He has won numerous prices in the US and Canada, and has released
several CDs in his own name, produced by Kim Wilson.
He has also appeared on about 10 other CDs in the last 10 years, a. o.
with Ray Charles' legendary saxophone player David "Fathead" Newman.
The buzz this band has created over the last few years has earned them a
national award for Electric Act of the Year at Toronto's Maple Blues Awards
and rave reviews throughout the globe.
'Blues Brother' Dan Akroyd says about JW: "This is an amazing blues band,
and I've played with the best!"
So, come and join us for a rare treat of swingin' blues, when two guitar
generations let go.
Also, don't miss the full concert at Huset, Saturday evening.

Lillian Boutté represents the best of the afro-American music culture,
in a wide specter of jazz, blues, soul and not least gospel. She is however,
first of all an exponent for the music of New Orleans, which she brings out
to the audience all over the world. She has lived in Europe for 25 years, but
regularly travels home to New Orleans, where she is as popular as ever, and
where she in 1986 was nominated “New Orleans Musical Ambassador”, an
honorary title that she shares with Louis Armstrong only.
Besides her great musical talent, she also has a great organizational talent,
which she put to good use in the relief action after the hurricane Katrina in 2005.
She has performed concerts and recorded albums with countless colleagues,
among others James Booker, Henry Butler, Denny Barker, Neville Brothers, Allen
Toussaint and Dr. John, yes even Professor Longhair, and critics compare her to
Bessie Smith, Aretha Franklin and Mahalia Jackson.

Lillian has visited Copenhagen several times, and has delivered some tremendous
blues and gospel concerts at the blues festival, latest in 2007, where she performed
in Roedovre Centrum and in Christian's Church.
Now we are repeating the success in occasion of the anniversary, and We know, that a whole lot of people will be very happy to see this warmhearted and
charismatic singer Lillian back in town for this year's festival anniversary.

Kenn Lending has performed numerous concerts with Lillian all over Europe,
from small club-gigs to big international gospel-shows, and once again, you'll
find him side by the side with Lillian, together with a star-team, mastering both
Lillian's dynamic New Orleans Blues as well as her beautiful Gospel-music.

You can hear Lillian Boutte at three concerts in Copenhagen this time:
Saturday afternoon at Roedovre Centrum, at Mojo in the evening,
and at the gospel concert Sunday afternoon.

The Ladies are among the festival’s regular ‘staff’.
The story, in short,is, that in 2001 the festival asked Ane Kramme Abildtoft,
Lene Strøyer and Lea Thorlann to create a soul-gospel programme for a
festival concert, and it went tremendously well.
The partnership lasted and they’ve played a concert at every edition of the
festival since then. Two years ago, they released their brilliant first CD: ”Uh Oh Yeah !” - ”Uh” for the sensual, ”Oh” for the emotional and ”YEAH!”
for the powerful.
And that’s exactly, what can be expected on this Saturday afternoon at the
city’s new and rather different venue Qualityworld at Frederiksberg.

Before the concert with Ladies Sing the Blues Qualityworld offers an Armagnac tasting.
From noon until the the concert starts at 3 pm, it’s possible to taste 3 different Bas-Armagnac's,
with explanations about Armagnac production, areas, grapes, taste and history.
The price for the Armagnac theme is an adfditional 100 DKR.

Advance booking for the concert and tasting via the two links below.

Klaus B is a mature and serene blues man in control of his musical expression, roots, blues,
rag and folk from the archive and his own new songs. He has, for years, travelled the country
with his interpretations of the genre, which can also be heard on his solo CD: ”Hometown Blues”.

This time, he has started a co-operation with Hans Knudsen, New Orleans inspired jumpin' and
jivin' piano player and vocalist, Denmark’s answer to Fats Domino.

Hans can be heard with his band later Saturday evening at Pilegaarden.

Frederiksberg opens a new “house of culture” in “Byggeriets Hus” with entertainment all day
and at 7 o’clock in the evening, with folk-blues on the program.
Matt and MC met in Texas, and to the joy of folk-fans at Frederiksberg, they meet again in
a transatlantic musical exchange, supported by MC’s regular timekeeper, Jacob Chano.

Jes Holtsø - from the Olsen Banden movies – became famous again, after presenting his blues
songs on DR’s show “Talent 2009”. Jes Holtsø, with Morten Wittrock, recently released a CD,
and he’s now ready to give the audience a musical experience of blues and soul, delivered
with soul and charm. Café 5-Oeren will be one of the hottest places this Saturday evening. www.jesh.dk www.mortenwittrock.dk www.jesh.dk   www.mortenwittrock.dk  

Lillian Boutté repræsenterer det bedste af den afro-amerikanske
musikkultur i et bredt spekter af jazz, blues, soul, og ikke mindst
gospel. Men hun er først og fremmest eksponent for New Orleans
musikken, som hun bringer ud til publikum over hele verden.
Hun har boet i Europa i 25 år, men rejser jævnligt hjem til New
Orleans, hvor hun stadig er lige populær, og hvor hun i 1986
blev udnævnt til ”New Orleans Musical Ambassador", en titel,
hun kun deler med Louis Armstrong.
Foruden sit store musiske talent har hun også politiske og
organisatoriske evner, som hun bl.a. har anvendt i hjælpearbejdet
efter orkanen Katrina i 2005.
Hun har spillet koncerter og lavet plader med utallige kolleger, bl.a.
James Booker, Henry Butler, Denny Barker, Neville Brothers, Allen
Toussaint, Dr. John,og selv Professor Longhair, og kritikere sammen-
ligner hende med Bessie Smith, Aretha Franklin og Mahalia Jackson.
Lillian har besøgt København mange gange, og hun har leveret nogle
forrygende blues og gospel koncerter på blues festivalen, senest i
2007 i Rødovre Centrum og i Christians Kirke.
Nu gentager vi succes'en i anledning af festivalens jubilæum, og vi
ved, at rigtigt mange mennesker vil være glade for et gensyn og et
genhør med denne hjertevarme og karismatiske sangerinde.
Kenn Lending har spillet et utal af koncerter med Lillian over
hele Europa - fra små club-gigs til store internationale gospelshows,
og også denne gang er han at finde ved Lillians side, sammen med
et stjernehold, der mestrer både Lillians dynamiske New Orleans
Blues og hendes smukke Gospelmusik.
Lillian Boutte kan í år opleves på hele tre koncerter:
2 blues koncerter lørdag, og gospel koncert søndag.

Two strong guitar aces meet in Copenhagen:
The young JW Jones, Canada and the older veteran, Charlie Baty, USA.
They started collaborating in 2008 with a swinging rockin’n'rollin’ jump
and Chicago blues CD, both delivering virtuous top class guitar playing.
Baty’s love of Django Reinhardt's gypsy style and elegant swing-jump guitar
is combined with Jones' more raw, youthful and energetic style and sound.

Charlie Baty is primarily known for his many years with the west coast band
'Little Charlie & the Nightcats, an established name at blues festivals and
clubs all over the world, but after their 2008 tour, Baty went into semi-.
retirement. The band carries on under the name Rick Estrin & the Nightcats,
but Baty still joins the band for the odd tour, festival and one-off show.
Charlie Baty may have partly retired from the touring life, but when JW
calls, he’s there!

The 30 year old JW Jones is a busy man - he's constantly touring Canada,
USA, Australia, Brasil and Europe, which he last visited this spring.
He has performed with some of the biggest names in blues today, The
Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Nightcats, Junior Watson, Rusty Zinn, Rod
Piazza & The Mighty Flyers, Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets, Mannish
Boys, Hubert Sumlin and others.
He has won numerous prices in the US and Canada, and has released
several CDs in his own name, produced by Kim Wilson.
He has also appeared on about 10 other CDs in the last 10 years, a. o.
with Ray Charles' legendary saxophone player David "Fathead" Newman.
The buzz this band has created over the last few years has earned them a
national award for Electric Act of the Year at Toronto's Maple Blues Awards
and rave reviews throughout the globe.
'Blues Brother' Dan Akroyd says about JW: "This is an amazing blues band,
and I've played with the best!"
So, come and join us for a rare treat of swingin' blues, when two guitar
generations let go.

At Roedovre Centrum Saturday afternoon and at Huset, Saturday evening.

Hans Knudsen celebrates his fifteenth anniversary with his swinging jump band, and
the festival congratulates! Hans has been a frequent guest at the festival since 2002,
both solo and with his band, and it works every time: a swinging, varied style, a
personal sound and a tight and humorous interaction with the crowd.

Hans has whole-heartedly adapted the jump and the New Orleans style as his musical
expression, and for years and years he was Lillian Boutté's regular piano player.

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.

Last year Nisse Thorbjoern, AKA “CPH Slim”, received the festival
award “Danish Blues Name of the Year”, as the serious and original
musician and songwriter, that he is. He proved that with his debut CD,
“CPH Slim”, and he proves it every time that he performs. Nisse solo
equals a whole band with his raw, merciless voice, eminent guitar and
not least world class harp.
When a band is added, the intensity, authenticity, originality and empathy
in the music, gets a whole new meaning.
The repertoire includes respectful interpretations of ideals as Blind Lemon
Jefferson and Howlin' Wolf, but also own material in an unmistakable,
steady and tight Chicago Blues style.
Hear Nisse play solo ati Roedovre Centrum on Sunday afternoon.

”Blues” is the title of jazz guitarist Jacob Fischer's new CD, recorded live at La Fontaine in May 2010.
With the organ virtuoso Martin Schack's sweaty, dirty Hammond organ in Jimmi Smith style, and the
explosive Caspar Mikkelsen's creative and funky drums,Fischer explores all the different shades and
shapes of jazzy blues, from a corrosive blue distorted slide blues, over an light blue jazz-waltz or a
lazy Summer blue bossa nova, to a hot-tempered equilibristic bebop blues, performed by three of the
country's finest jazz musicians.
They see absolutely no reason to hide the fact, that they just love to play.
Formidable jazz-blues for this year's anniversary festival.

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. Their second CD, "Black Cherry", was released at their gig at last year's festival.

The Young Comets started out in 1998at Mojo Blues Bar in Copenhagen, where they played
every Monday for the next two years. The guys' common ground is the roots of blues, folk,
and some plain old rock music, from which they have developed a mature sound and sense
of their musical relationship.
The members of the band have performed in many other relations over the years, a.o. Sort Sol,
Savage Rose, Jens Unmack and Benny Holst, Hanne Boel etc..They have now gathered again,
because they love to play together, and also to promote their latest CD, “It All Comes Back”,
a collection of beautiful and authentic all-American blues and oltime folk songs, a statement
on the band members personal musical influences through the years. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE...

Global Cph takes part in the blues festival for the first time with a double-concert,
focusing on the origin of the blues - Africa.

Amar Sundy in his childhood moved from the desert of Algiers to Paris,
and was admitted among the Parisian street musicians. His special “Desert Blues”
blends music from Sahara with traditional French music and American blues.

For a number of years he played in the US with legends like Albert Collins, B.B.
and Albert King and Screaming Jay Hawkins.
The inspiration from these legends is obvious, but it is still the desert-blues and
his native African roots, that makes Amar Sundy a unique blow of fresh air at
the international blues scene.

Roland Tchakounte from Cameroun is also living in Paris. His early inspirations
were Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, at least until he discovered John
Lee hooker, and African and American blues formed a synthesis: "…the music have the
same roots - it showed me the way".

Roland Tchakounte still often sings in his native language Bamileke, but the American
ideals are unmistakably present. But then again, as Tchakounte says: “What's the difference ? Blues and Africa are two sides of the same matter”.

Also on this second of two blues festival nights La Fontaine has organized a
special jazz-blues program to present some good blues and jazz based music
for jazz and blues fans alike.
These guys know each other very well, and personalities, the instrumentation and
the musical outcome will catch everyone's attention from beat one.

Mama's Blues Joint was formed in 2002 by Lene Strøyer, who is in
front as an extraordinary soulful singer, with a deep love for the Blues”
and an intense live performance. The debut CD, “Mama's Blues Joint”
from 2005, was played on radios the world over, and the song “Missing You”
won awards at international songwriter contests.
The title on the band's latest CD, “Blues In Many Colors”, is very significant
for the band's style of blues, soul, funk, rock and country, with weight on a
good groove. Lene writes most of the songs herself, but the band also
performs well arranged songs by B.B. King, Albert Collins, Etta James,
Delbert McClinton and more.
You can hear Mamas in full concert at Mojo Saturday night.

Blues party in The Faeroe Islands House in Copenhagen.
The headliner of the night is the blues band Crawling Blue from Thorshavn,
formed in 2007 by singer and guitarist Uni Reinert Debess. With his former band
GoGo Blues, Uni won the Faroe Music Grand Prix in 2005,
The band played the Copenhagen Blues Festival later the same year, also then
at the Faroe House.
Crawling Blue plays their own music and have lots of gigs at home, but also at
clubs and festivals abroad.
In 2009 the band released the CD “The Well”, which was given 5 stars in the
newspapers of the Faeroe Islands.
The band: Uni Reinert Debess - vocals/guitar/harp, Óli Olsen - keyb., Eyðun Johannesen - bass, Brandur Jacobsen - drums

The evening offers two additional acts, folk-blues singer Sámal Rávnsfjall from Vagar,
and David Kampmann, blues guitarist and singer from Copenhagen, who has also
played the festival before, with his equlibristic finger-picking and slide on resonator-guitar.