official festival website :

www.suwalkiblues.com

 15 – 17 July 2010

polska wersja

Organizers:

City Hall in Suwalki

Regional Art and
Culture Centre in Suwalki

Suwalki Blues Festival 2008

::: short video relation 2008 :::

2009.05.04

30 April 2009 at the Entertainment Theater in Chorzów held ceremonial Gala Blues Top 2008 awarding prizes nationwide survey of handing the awards magazine's "Your Blues". Suwałki Blues Festival has received a major award in the category of Event Year 2008. The award picked up president of Suwalki – Jozef Gajewski and the chairman of the city council – Wlodzimierz Marczewski. And personally promoted and invited to the festival this year during gala Bogdan Topolski – artistic director of the festival.

Among the winners in other categories were also, among others: Slawek Wierzcholski (President of the Polish Blues Association, the prize in the category – record year – Polish Blues Anthology), Nocna Zmiana Bluesa (the prize in the category – the band of the year) and Jan Chojnacki (the prize in the category – personality of the year).

More info: www.delta.art.pl

2009.04.15

We invite you to 2nd edition of Suwalki Blues Festival. It will be in 16–18 of July 2009. Bands from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Norway and USA will perform on the stage. It will be real blues day in this part of Europe. In the program concerts on two big stages and on two smaller street stages, night club concerts with jam sessions. We propose you blues breakfasts in restaurants and acoustic concerts at nights. We invite you to instrumental workshops, seminars, exhibitions of music equipment, CDs and books. The novelty of the festival will be common concert of blues band and Suwalki Chamber Orchestra.

More informations soon (short promo info)

This year on the stages will perform:

JOE BONAMASSA (USA)

Joe Bonamassa - "Bridge To Better Days"

TEN YEARS  AFTER (UK)

Ten Years After - "Hear Me Calling"

TSA (PL)
NOCNA ZMIANA BLUESA (PL)
JARLE BERNHOFT & KNUT REIERSRUD BAND (NO)
Jesus Volt (F)
WANDA JOHNSON & THE SHRIMP CITY BLUES BAND (USA/PL)   
ANDY EGERT BLUES BAND (CH/PL) 
STEVE LURY (GB) & BULLFROG BROWN (EST) 
THE ROAD BAND (LT)
SPOONFUL OF BLUES (NO)       
STAŘÍ PSI (CZ)

VIRGIS JUTAS (LT) & VOODOO SOUP (PL)       DEVIL BLUES (PL)
LOS AGENTOS  (PL)    OUTSIDER BLUES (PL)     SIODMA W NOCY (PL)
BLUES DOCTORS  (PL)    PAWEL SZYMANSKI (PL)     MAREK WOJTOWICZ (PL)

 
PRZYTULA & KRUK (PL)    SUWALSKA ORKIESTRA KAMERALNA (PL)

and many others

More info as soon as.

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2009.04.03

We are pleased to inform that the Suwałki Blues Festival in 2008 was recognized in the prestigious competition “Podlaska Marka Roku”, organized by the Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodship. Our festival has been nominated for awards in the category of 'project', competing with 34 other area events province. The festival was an honorable mention in the category of Project 2008.

Suwalki Blues Festival in 2008 - event of the year

Suwalki Blues Festival in 2008 was elected nationwide survey of readers Your Blues magazine event of the year. Festival defeated Eric Clapton concert in Gdynia and other Blues festivals and events in Poland.

And these are the top five winners with a score:

1. Suwalki Blues Festival – 598
2. Eric Clapton in Gdynia – 303

3. Olsztyn Blues Nights – 251

4. Rawa Blues Festival – 245

5. Harmonica Bridge – 239

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Contact:
SUWALKI BLUES FESTIVAL, Biuro Organizacyjne, Regionalny Osrodek Kultury i Sztuki, ul. Noniewicza 71, 16 - 400 Suwalki, tel. (087) 566 42 11
fax (087) 566 49 34, e-mail: festival@suwalkiblues.com  www.suwalkiblues.com  www.rokis.suwalki.pl