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Festival Office
The Bude Visitor Centre, The Crescent Bude, Cornwall EX23 8LE telephone 01288 356360 information@budejazzfestival.co.uk |
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THE BLUES BAND featuring Paul Jones, Tom McGuiness, Dave Kelly, Gary Fletcher and Rob Townsend
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In addition to the main Jazz Festival we run a number of special events, either during the festival week or at other times of the year. These events are ticketed separately and are used to promote the festival and to encourage interest and involvement in live music, especially amongst younger people. The events are also used to raise money for Children's Hospice South West.
Tickets £15 Available NOW from our Tickets page THE BLUES BAND The individual members of The Blues Band were already held in admiration by generations of rhythm & blues fans when they formed back in 1979. Almost two and a half decades and over 16 albums later they continue to add to their growing army of followers, and it’s not unheard of to find three generations from the same family at a gig. |
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The band are today acknowledged throughout Europe and beyond as being amongst the very finest purveyors of rhythm & blues. They have inspired numerous other blues bands, many of which have come and gone …The Blues Band have remained a constant, increasingly popular fixture, however, and all with only a modicum of help from the record business – as Gary’s oft quoted comment states "the music industry doesn’t bother us and we don’t bother them."
Such successful musical mavericks are fairly rare and are borne more from word-of-mouth than promotional hype. Either way they still have to cut the mustard. These boys have real feel – for their music, for their audience and for each other. Playing with maturity and passion is second nature to all of them .... Paul Jones has devoted much of a creative career spanning almost 40 years to this eternal, inspiring form - the very base and roots of rock & roll ..... Dave Kelly, with his late, great sister, Jo-Ann, introduced a whole generation to the works of Memphis Minnie, Son House, Robert Johnson and Mississippi Fred McDowell ...... the blues bit Tom McGuinness in the late '50s and has never let go - the same sharp, tight grip which still holds Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher within its spell. So here they are, as enthusiastic as ever - Britain's finest, most skilled practitioners in the art of the blues. The Blues Band. |
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