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Festival Fever Spreads To Lymington

Riverside Blues Band will be taking part in the Lymington Arts and Music Festival which starts on Monday 29th June.The Festival continues throughout the week, with a plethora of exhibitions, recitals, open mics, jams, plays, workshops, taster sessions, poetry, belly dancing, sculpture, buskers, and many Live Music gigs from local bands, culminating in an open air Music Festival in Grove Park,(just off the High Street) on Saturday 4th July. More details and a programme can be found here... www.lymingtonartsfestival.org.uk

Riverside supported Jay Tamkin

Riverside Blues Band supported The Jay Tamkin Band at Champions, Bournemouth on Sunday 7th June. Jay Tamkin is a young and very talented guitarist and singer who is making quite a name for himself on the blues circuit, having already played with many of the big names, most recently The Fabulous Thunderbirds in London. He had one of the tracks from his new album played by Paul Jones on BBC Radio 2 recently. Definitely a name to look out for.

Champions Jam

Sadly we have had to cancel the Blue Boar Jam due to issues regarding the noise level meter that the council have forced on the venue. It's a great place with a very supportive landlord but running the jam was just impractical.

However....

Never being the sort to let the grass grow under our feet, we bring you...

To be run on the same day, last Tuesday of the month, same time, 8.30pm and with all the usual guidelines to ensure that jammers get a fair shake and that audience get a good varied selection of entertaining blues music.

Champions
Norwich Avenue West
Bournemouth
BH2 6AJ

Click here for the Champions Jam Myspace

Swanage Blues Festival

Riverside Blues Band booked for October 2009!

We will be returning to Swanage to play as many gigs, jams and open mics as humanly possible - see below for our adventures last time or click on the logo to get more information.

We had a great weekend at Swanage Blues Festival in March - we played 2 gigs, 2 acoustic open mics and 2 blues jams (one in the break of our gig up the road!) The hardest working band in blues? Certainly the most shagged out.... and that was before the nudists...

The Bourne Beat Blues Jam

Given the well known jamming proclivities of most of the band members, it was probably inevitable that we would end up running a jam - well here, at last, it is...

Held at the Bourne Beat Hotel in Priory Road, Bournemouth (near the BIC), home of a remarkable collection of music memorabilia, this jam will set out to be fun and entertaining for participants and audience alike.

It will provide a real opportunity for local musicians to meet up, find new band members, chew the fat and who knows what else?

Good equipment will be provided so just bring your guitar, bass, sticks, harp or whatever.

We'll be taking pictures, recording and videoing what goes on and will post it on the jam's own myspace page.

The important thing for us is to get players along to enjoy the night... see you there!

Radio Exposure!

Phonic FM Bluesmeister Ian McKenzie has now played several of the tracks from our CD (see below) on his show on Wednesdays on Phonic FM. Excellent blues radio by the way, 6 - 8pm on Wednesdays, hosted by either Ian McKenzie or Julian Piper.

check it out at www.phonic.fm

Still Available...

We are pleased to say that our first ever CD can now be bought from us at any gig. Recorded in 2008 at Shelter Studios in Southampton and released on our very own Tar Barrel Records label, it contains 13 tracks and sounds fantastic to our ears!

Better yet, it's only £5 - bargain! Get it soon!

The Riverside Blues Band, based in the New Forest evolved from family connections and local jamming.

Playing blues and r'n'b from a variety of sources, currently the band is a 4-piece We play in the New Forest, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole, Romsey and elsewhere in both Hampshire and Dorset, UK - we are quite happy to travel for the right gig.

Want to know more? Want to book us? To contact us by email... click below.... We are ready to play the blues for you...

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