Eleanor Ellis
Blues musician Eleanor Ellis (guitar/vocals), a native of Louisiana. Her musical influences include the blues musicians she has known personally as well as early blues greats such as Memphis Minnie and Mississippi John Hurt. She has developed a distinctive and personal approach to the music.Ellis distils the elements of the originals and transmits them, intact, in her own expressive way. She was recently nominated by the Washington Area Music Association for Best Female Blues Vocalist...
Harsh Guitar Mark
(Marek Wojtowicz) bluesman playing and moaning gospel and blues on an acoustic guitar for over 30 years in three guitar stylies. Graduate of cultural - educational faculty at Wroclaw University. He worked on Radio Vanessa in Raciborz - is the creator of program (broadcast), "Hobo Blues" He was associated with weekly - Racibórz News, collaborated musically with theater Kana in Szczecin, published in the magazine Your Blues. He founded the Association of Gospel Blues Son House Society, is its president. The originator of blues festival as Motives Of Blues. Founder of the first rural (downhome) blues school in Poland, the organizer of the blues workshop away. Animator of many cultural activities on the canvas of gospel and blues, performed at many festivals in Poland. In 2010 received the award of President of Racibórz for achievement in musical animation of cultural life in town.
Jacek Herzberg
guitarist and vocalist, working actively on the Polish blues scene since the early 90's. Founder and leader of several musical formations: Green Grass, Double Six, Doctor Blues, performing at major festivals in Poland (Rawa Blues-Katowice, Bluesada-Szczecin, Olsztyn Blues Nights, Music Camp, Allahabad, Torun Blues Meeting, Blues & Jazz Meeting-Katowice, Blues Express-Zakrzewo, Ostrow Wlkp-Jimiway, Suwalki Blues Festival, et al.)...
Shrimp City Slim
(Gary Erwin) Blues pianist/singer/songwriter now based in Charleston, South Carolina where he has lived since the early 1980s. His many activities include performance, recordings, and production of events and festivals. SCS has released eight (8) albums to date and does 150+ concerts annually throughout the Southeast USA and overseas...