Blues

100 years of blues, 90 minutes to play it. From early delta blues to modern artists such as Jack White and Seasick Steve, Blues! plays the songs and tells the stories of the artists that have defined today’s music. Featuring award-winning rhythm and blues band The Blueswater, the show was ...

Bruce James and Bella Black joined musical forces in Austin, Texas in 2011 and have been on a mission spreading the word of “Guerrilla Soul” ever since. The roots of their music spring from the tradition of the Southern Soul from Texas, New Orleans and Memphis, yet they are not ...

The Cafe is open this evening, last orders at 6.30pm Amy Mayes is a vocal powerhouse who has risen slowly but surely to esteemed accolade. Amy has since not only recorded on Ben Waters' album 'Live in Moscow' but has followed that up by touring with him throughout Europe with ...

The Cafe is open this evening, last orders at 6.30pm Widely regarded as one of Europe's finest ever soul/blues fuelled voices, JO HARMAN remains a genre-defying, independently minded artist of rare credibility, who makes sincere and heartfelt music, often compared to that of the 'golden age of music'. Jo recently ...

The Cafe is open this evening, last orders at 6.30pm Kent was born in Wyzata a town in Minnesota & was taught to play ukulele, guitar & clarinet by his father by the age of 11. He later learned to play piano & electric guitar at school. He played in ...

The Cafe is open this evening, last orders at 6.30pm "No Barricades" is a seriously good album by some of the best - and I mean best - musicians in the UK. Or anywhere, come to that" Paul Jones, BBC Radio 2 Sam Kelly is a professional musician with more ...

The Cafe is open this evening, last orders at 6.30pm Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra are one of the hardest working bands in the UK roots circuit. With thousands of touring miles under their belts, they have earned themselves a sizeable fan base in the UK, Europe and ...

Martin Harley is a supremely talented acoustic roots and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter with a burgeoning global reputation. Live at Southern Ground, his eagerly anticipated new album was recorded in Nashville in collaboration with Daniel Kimbro (Jerry Douglas, Larkin Poe) on upright bass. As Martin explains “I wanted to ...

The Cafe is open this evening, last orders at 6.30pm This is a standing event with seating down both sides Tankus the Henge is the London based, five wheeled, funk fuelled, open top, custom paint job, rock ‘n’ roll jalopy that comes careering round the corner on a tranquil Summer’s ...

At the crossroads of blues and American roots music you’ll find Brooks Williams. “Setting new standards and a fresh direction for the blues,” says Blues In Britain, and creating a “beautiful fusion” (Keys And Chords). Just when you think he can’t sing a blues-ier note, he sings it. Just when ...