Autumn Blues Bash Taichung

Date : Saturday & Sunday, October 29th , 30th ; 1 ~ 9 pm Location: the plaza of ‘Tiger City Mall’, Taichung Artists Contacted for Blues Bash 2 (*indicates verbal commitment) John Primer (Muddy Waters alumnus) Willie "Big Eyes" Smith (Muddy Waters alum, Handy Award winner) Robben Ford *Hazel Payne & band (Grammy Award Winner) *Shun Kikuta (lead guitarist w/Koko Taylor) *Joey Gilmore - BSoT nominee for 2005 IBC *Richard Johnston – IBC winner 2001 *Peter ‘Bonzo’ Radvanyi (from Slovakia) *Joanna Connor Band *Gabriel Gratzer & Adriana Mercurio (from Argentina) Thai Janis Joplin & the ‘Snowman’ Fabio Treves (harmonica player from Italy) Hans Theessink (Dutch guitarist) Magda Piskorczyk (Polish singer/guitarist) Sweet Willie ‘D’ – Boston bluesman Forty Four – Peter Parcek (IBC contact) Hep Cat Boo Daddies (IBC contact) plus 6 or 7 local bands: Dino’s band (China Blue) Boogie Chillin’ David Chen & MBR BoPoMoFo Chicken Rice Black Sheep Corbet Wall’s band Kenyatta Trio Activities: • Performances by International Blues artists plus local Blues bands • Food and drink to fit the Blues theme • Distribution of hand-outs on the Blues (short over-view, recommended discography, short bios of essential Blues Masters, web sites, Blues societies, etc) • Lucky Drawings for prizes • Blues Trivia Quiz - correct answers sent by text messaging win a Blues CD • Open Blues Jam – members of audience invited to join event performers to play the Blues. • Musician workshops