Blues Live! 2012 winter/spring events at Poppari Bar:
January Sat 28th: Mr Slideman 5€
February Sat 25th: Tyly Kohtalo 5€
March Sat 17th: TBA
April Sat 21th: TBA
May Sat 19th: Springtime Blues Event
31st BLUES LIVE! Festival was held on OCTOBER 6th - 9th 2011. Festival organization wants to thank our international artists for outstanding contributions to our festival. We hope you all the best for your future careers as touring Blues Musicians.
The festival performers were:
Mud Morganfield Band (USA, UK, DEN),
John Primer Band (USA, SWE, FIN),
Little Boogie Boy (NL),
Johnny Spence (UK) & Doctor´s Order,
Knucklebone Oscar,
Jo´ Buddy & Down Home King II,
J.Leino & Bluestroyers,
No Sweat,
Hessu "Howlin" Heinonen & Juke "Boy" Nousiainen
Blues Live! Festival (Jyväskylä,Finland) is an annual (first week of october) indoor festival. The first Blues Live! festival took place back in 1981, check out our history (Historia) page. There are also some club dates during the year. Our regular club venue is the famous "Poppari Bar" (former Jazz Bar), located in Jyväskylä city center. In May every year we organize our "Springtime Blues" club happening. The annual (every august) S/S Suomi Steamboat Blues Cruise on Lake Päijänne is a very popular event.
Blues Live! Association membership fee for the year 2012 is 12€ and you can pay it to our account IBAN: FI46 8000 1870 0523 63. BIC: DABAFIHH. Members have lower entrance fees for concerts
Contact information:
Blues Live!
president Hessu Heinonen
Keskustie 17 B 26
40100 Jyväskylä
tel: +358-44-580 1369 (cell,sms)
Blues Live! e-mail: blueslive@hotmail.com
Our former artist line-ups