Blues Connection
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Saturday, 29 September 2012 09:54
Laurence Jones Band on The Blues Connection Featured
Laurence Jones and his Band play a blend of Blues and Rock with a groovy and catchy modern edge. Laurence is being talked as of one of the New up and coming UK Blues Guitarists.
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Saturday, 29 September 2012 09:38
Mitch Laddie on The Blues Connection Featured
Mitch Laddie was born in the North East of England on 24th September 1990. Drawn to music from an early age, Mitch listened to Country greats with his late maternal Grandfather. Hypnotised by the sounds he began building his own record collection at the early age of 3 years old, moving from Country into Blues, Motown, Soul & R&B.
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Friday, 28 September 2012 18:11
Gruhak on The Blues Connection Featured
Gruhak are a Coratian based rock band rooted in the supreme musicianship of the Classic Rock era, Gruhak is a seriously talented, tight, live band and brilliantly manage to reproduce their punchy, distinctive live sound into their recordings. With influences ranging from early black blues, early rock 'n' roll, UK blues rock and American southern rock they also cover a wide range of classic tracks from the likes of Zeppelin and The Who.
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Friday, 28 September 2012 18:02
Frank Cosentino on The Blues Connection Featured
Guitar has been in Frank Cosentino’s life sine the age of five. Everything changed after seeing Jimi Hendrix live at his infamous 1968 Toronto Show! For Frank, it was the sound coming from this larger than life guitarist’s hands, that some would say was a religious awakening musically for Frank.
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Friday, 28 September 2012 17:24
Chantel McGregor on The Blues Connection Featured
Realising at an early age that if I picked up a guitar I got attention, especially from my dad whose guitar it was, it was inevitable that I’d get one of my own. So at the ripe old age of three, I got my first guitar, a half size acoustic.
At seven, I started lessons but soon noticed that not only did dad’s electric guitars have smaller necks, making them ideal for little hands, but they could also make a lot more noise. After more lessons and a lot more noise, aged eight, I became the youngest person in the country to pass a Rockschool grade. More lessons followed,and with them came the realisation that if you want people to listen, you need to sing!
So, aged 12, I started playing and singing at local jam sessions, and two years later, the head of A&R from a major label sat in our lounge and told me "great voice, but girls don't play guitar like that!" His advice, “change styles because boys would be intimidated”.
Singing and playing on national television and radio soon followed.
Then came a change of direction, I wanted to become an English teacher, so I went away from live performance and concentrated on my studies. Having got the qualifications to enrol to do an English degree, I changed my mind, and went back to the music. Now qualified at Rockschool Grade Eight, and with the qualifications to do an English degree rather than a music degree, I enrolled at the world renowned Leeds College of Music to do a Btec in Popular Music, where I became the first student in the college’s history to achieve a 100% pass mark, with 18 distinctions. Progressing onto the degree course, I became the holder of the College’s prize for outstanding musicianship for 2006/7, on the way to achieving a First Class Honours Degree in Popular Music in July 2009 and at the same time the award for guitar.
At seven, I started lessons but soon noticed that not only did dad’s electric guitars have smaller necks, making them ideal for little hands, but they could also make a lot more noise. After more lessons and a lot more noise, aged eight, I became the youngest person in the country to pass a Rockschool grade. More lessons followed,and with them came the realisation that if you want people to listen, you need to sing!
So, aged 12, I started playing and singing at local jam sessions, and two years later, the head of A&R from a major label sat in our lounge and told me "great voice, but girls don't play guitar like that!" His advice, “change styles because boys would be intimidated”.
Singing and playing on national television and radio soon followed.
Then came a change of direction, I wanted to become an English teacher, so I went away from live performance and concentrated on my studies. Having got the qualifications to enrol to do an English degree, I changed my mind, and went back to the music. Now qualified at Rockschool Grade Eight, and with the qualifications to do an English degree rather than a music degree, I enrolled at the world renowned Leeds College of Music to do a Btec in Popular Music, where I became the first student in the college’s history to achieve a 100% pass mark, with 18 distinctions. Progressing onto the degree course, I became the holder of the College’s prize for outstanding musicianship for 2006/7, on the way to achieving a First Class Honours Degree in Popular Music in July 2009 and at the same time the award for guitar.
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Sunday, 01 April 2012 01:32
Blues Caravan on the Blues Connection Featured
Ruf Records Blues Caravan 2012: More Girls with Guitars In 2011, three of the hottest female musicians on the contemporary blues scene embarked on a tour calling themselves "Girls with Guitars."
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