Blues in town 2009

Year of novelty and experimentation for the Blues in Town ’09 Festival and for La Mela di Odessa. The International Blues Music Festival in 2009 anticipated its programming and changed the location.

Performances by internationally renowned artists enlivened the central Piazza Heraclea from 16 to 19 July 2009. A move aimed at restoring the importance it deserves to the local and non-local public to the old town, now lacking its historical aggregating function. alone, the ancestral warmth and the welcome of its square.

The big news of the sixth edition was the Blues in Town preview. To encourage the rediscovery of the historic center, the musical offer was made in four different areas of commercial and cultural interest (Villa Comunale, Piazza Ripoli, Borgata Casalini, Via Siris). Over 30 hours of music and live events that preceded the international guests during the four days. More than 12 blues bands took turns on the various stages of the city. Policoro was filled with music from 7pm to 10pm, preceding the main concert in Piazza Heraclea, and then resumed after midnight. Among the leading bands of the musical marathon: Giò Vescovi, Max Gaudio Trio, Rainbow Bridge, The Blackie, Mimmo Massafra and the Modern Youth Orchestra, Marco Smile, Joe Cover, 20th Century Band, Slow Drags.

In an edition characterized by the ability to transform an entire city into a large musical stage, the classic appointment with free musical seminars could not be missing, afternoon spaces dedicated to workshops, set up from 6 pm inside the municipal villa in via Siris . The entire training area has been structured to promote and spread the culture of different types of musical instruments: guitar, electric bass, drums, voice, trumpet, saxophone, piano, harmonica, entrusted to the professionalism and competence of teachers. of music from all over Italy.

July 16th

It was a great diva of blues and R&B, the artist with a warm and seductive voice, who grew up in Oakland, California: E.C. Scott. To her the burden and the honor of opening Blues in Town ’09 on the stage in Piazza Heraclea.

E.C.Scott

July 17th

Basilicata Blues Connection | Dipinto di Blues | Blue Cat Blues | ResPubblica

Blues signed Basilicata for the second evening of the festival with Basilicata Blues Connection, that is a reunion of three great bands from Basilicata; these are:

Painted by Blues di Matera a versatile group that ranges from blues, to funk, to rock;

Power Blue Cat Blues. Band with an absolutely original sound and look;

ResPubblica di Policoro a musical project born in 2007 and recently established with a thematic production: “ResPubblica experience: a journey into the history of the Blues”.

Accompanying the band is a great artist: Arthur Miles bluesman with an extraordinary experience who also collaborated in the creation of Zucchero’s album “Blues”.

Arthur Miles

July 18th

Still excellent international music with Larry Ray on the stage of the BiT ’09 for the third evening of the festival.

July 19th

To conclude the last evening of this edition was the exhilarating performance of the British singer, pianist and guitarist Mike Sanchez, one of the most charismatic Rhythm & Blues and Rock’n’Roll performers in the world. this edition was the exhilarating performance by British singer, pianist and guitarist Mike Sanchez, one of the most charismatic Rhythm & Blues and Rock’n’Roll performers in the world.

BLUES IN TOWN

The Blues in Town is popular poetry, the manifestation of a feeling, the story of a people that transforms itself into the history of all times, wearing the clothes of a universal language, that of emotions in music notes.
So “La Mela di Odessa” wants to pay homage to this refined, soft and velvety music, born from the intimate relationship between man and life!