18 - 19 July 2008

/20.06.2008/
We invite you to visit Suwałki on 18-19.06.2008 – at this time we’ll be welcoming blues performers and artists from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, France, the USA and Poland. A two-day-open event will combine concerts and workshops (displays and presentations), club concerts and jam sessions. The main concerts (4:00 to 11:30 pm) will be held on tow open-air stages (a stage at the town hall and a stage in the park Konstytucji 3 Maja). Concerts will be presented interchangeably at the two stages. An admission to all open-air concerts is free.
After open-air concerts are finished we invite all people (in particular blues fans) to two festival clubs (11:00 pm Rozmarino summer garden and Na Starówce restaurant) to continue the festival in club concerts. They will be topped with a common music playing of all festival participants in a form of a jam session. On Saturday (19.06) in the morning you will be able to attend workshops, meet musicians, and see the musical equipment display as well as music CD and book editors.
Furthermore, minor musical events will be held (small open air concerts – a stage at MDK and a stage in ul. Chłodna at ROKiS) and club acoustic concerts. You will find all details on the posters.
The host: Jan Chojnacki (a journalist, Program III of the Polish Radio), Sławek Wierzcholski (a musician, journalist, RDC), Andrzej Jerzyk (Radio Centrum Kalisz – programme “Around the Blues”), Ewa Matysik (Radio Dla Ciebie, Sunday blues concerts “Lapidarium”, (Warszawa).
Altogether in all the events during the two festival days there will be over 120 performers. We expect several thousand attendants (Suwałki residents, Polish and foreign tourists).

Jeremy Spencer (legendary ex-guitarist of Fleetwood Mac) will play in Suwalki Blues Festival on 19th of July.

/29.05.2008/
We wish to inform you that media sponsorship regarding our event is held by the Polish Radio Program III.

/19.05.2008/
It is a pleasure to inform that media sponsorship regarding our event is held by the “Polityka” weekly.

/15.05.2008/
Information about accommodation can be found in “Information” bookmark.

/02.05.2008/
We wish to inform you that the General Sponsor of Suwalki Blues Festival became Bank Gospodarki Zywnosciowej. Among other sponsors one can find Kampania Piwowarska Zubr (Beer-making Campaign “Bison”) and Holiday Hotel.

General Sponsor:

Sponsors:

        
                            Hotel Holiday - Stary Folwark

/23.04.2008/
The list of honorary sponsors over our festival gets larger. We would like to inform that the honorary sponsorship over the event Suwalki Blues Festival is also held by the President of the Podlasie Voivodeship – Jaroslaw Zygmunt Dworzanski.

/04.04.2008/
It is a pleasure to inform that honorary sponsorship over our festival is also held by Mrs Lise Wiik – the mayor of the Notodden city and the Norway kingdom Embassy in Warsaw.

/12.03.2008/
The contest for Suwalki Blues Festival logotype was fought out. The winner, photographer, draftsman, Stanisław J. Wos was awarded the main prize of the amount of three thousand zloty. Hanging committee panel, which decided about the winner: Marek Buczynski – the deputy of the President of Suwalki, Alicja Andrulewicz – the Director of the Culture and Tourism Department of the Municipal Office in Suwalki, Halina Mackiewicz – visual artist, instructor in the Regional Centre of Culture and Art in Suwalki and Krzysztof Maslowski – the Director for organizing of events and promotion of the ROKiS.

/07.03.2008/
Let us introduce the performers, who confirmed their performance on the Suwalki Blues Festival 2008: JEREMY SPENCER (the fabulous founder and ex-guitar player of the band and many others.)

/28.02.2008/
All blues fans are welcome to visit Suwalki between 18-19.07.2008, when we will be hosting performers and artists from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Italy, England, France, Germany, USA and Poland. Two large outdoor stages and two smaller ones in the city centre, club concerts, acoustic concerts and night jam sessions. Apart all of that, we shall offer workshops and meetings with blues community of the Europe as well as presentations of music publishers and music equipment. All of this comes on the blues festival – SUWALKI BLUES FESTIVAL 2008. The promoters of the festival are: Municipal Office in Suwalki and Regional Centre of Culture and Art in Suwalki. The honourable sponsorship is held by the President of the Suwalki city, Mr Jozef Gajewski.