Minsk Blues Festival

Venue for Minsk Blues Festival '09 chosen

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:31:41 GMT

The venue for Minsk Blues Festival 2009 will be the Minsk Concert Hall (5 Oktyabrskaya Street) with a capacity of about 1230.

Band line-up for Minsk Blues Festival '09

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:56:19 GMT

We’ve identified the bands that will play at Minsk Blues Festival this year.

Here's the line-up for the fest:

· Sonny Landreth (USA) http://www.sonnylandreth.com/tour-frame.html performance at the festival + a masterclass at the Belarusian Academy of Music on November 15th

· Hendrix Cousins (Switzerland) http://www.hendrixcousins.com/ performance at the festival + a concert in Gomel, Vitebsk and Minsk

· Blackmailers Blues Band (Vladimir, Russia) http://www.blackmailers.ru/

· Vladimir Rusinov & The Jumping Cats (Moscow, Russia) http://www.bluescats.ru/

· Twins Peek (Riga, Latvia) www.myspace.com/thetwinspeek

· Miss Silence (Gomel, Belarus) http://vkontakte.ru/club9907941

· Sergei Kurek Quartet (Gomel, Belarus) http://www.kurek.nm.ru/

· Александр Цыганок (Gomel, Belarus)

· The Road Dogs (Minsk, Belarus)

Preparations for Minsk Blues Festival '09 under way

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:38:52 GMT

We have begun preparations for Minsk Blues Festival 2009. This year’s line-up features bands from Russia, Switzerland, Latvia, and Belarus, among others. We are also proud and honored to have one of the world’s best blues slide-guitarists, Mr. Sonnny Landreth, at our fest this year by courtesy of the Embassy of the United States in Minsk.

Here’s the line-up for Minsk Blues Festival 2009: Sonny Landreth (USA), Hendrix Cousins (Switzerland), Blackmailers Blues Band (Russia), Twins Peek (Latvia), Vladimir Rusinov & The Jumping Cats (Russia), Sergei Kurek Quartet (Belarus), Miss Silence (Belarus), Alexander Tsyganok & his band (Belarus), The Road Dogs (Belarus).