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The Blues Bash 5 is coming! November 15th, at the Dream Community in Xizhi (just east of Taipei, see below). This year, we'll have two outdoor stages (from 3 to 6pm) and two indoor stages (from 6 to 12 midnight). As usual, the entertainment will be top notch and drawn from all over the globe. Keep your eye on this site for additional performer announcements as they come in.

This year, the outdoor concerts are free (3 to 6pm) but the indoor concerts will be ticketed. Very cheap of course. Here's the run down:

A ticket for the music--a baker's dozen of bands playing on two stages from 6 to 12--is NT$200
A music ticket for the music and a limited edition BB5 T-shirt is NT$400.
A music ticket, T-shirt and a lottery ticket to win fabulous prizes from Casio, Cadeson drums, guitars, CDs, Ts, etc is NT$500.
More lottery tickets can be purchased additionally.
Also, the outdoor/indoor migration will be led by a Blues Dream Parade with floats, samba drum orchestra, giant puppets, scantily-clad beauties, etc.

Interested sponsors who would like to be a part of the Blues Bash are invited to contact DC at dcr.bsot (at) gmail (dot) com.

Also, this year we'll be having a Warm-up Party Friday, November 14 at Cosmopolitan Grill in Taipei. Munashino Minne & Small Package are playing and it's gonna be a blast!



International performers appearing at the Blues Bash 5:

 

Musashino Minnie and Small Package

Musashino Minnie and Small Package bring alive the sound of pre-war acoustic Blues. Last year, Fumi and Naoto riveted the BB4 audiences with their soulful artistic sensitivity, authenticity and boundless spirit and love of the Blues. This year, they will surely weave a spell that will get our Mojo working and return us to the more laid-back days of 78s, gramophones and Beale Street Juke Joints.

The lineup features Musashino Minnie on vocals & guitar, Naoto Takeshita on guitar, and Natsuko Tamura on bass.

 

Nacomi

Nacomi grew up in Kyoto where the first Blues scene came to Japan in '70s. Her father likes country music and Dixie Land Jazz Music very much, so she was raised in a good musical environment. Everyday little Nacomi listened to Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Fats Domino and so on. She started to play guitar at the age of 13 and formed her first band when she was 17. At Doshisha University(a very famous university in Japan) she formed a girls' Band and participated in a famous band contest '8.8 ROCK DAY'. The band won fame and started to play at many clubs and music festivals.

After graduation, Nacomi left her music life for almost twenty years to work and get married and raise two children. She returned in 2001 to the music scene. Since then she started playing Blues, Jazz-Blues Music. She started donation activity for Hurricane Katrina victims right after it hit Texas and Louisiana and still keeps gathering and sending donations to Musicares, her works spread all over Japan. Newspapers and TV programs have reported on her many times.

Nacomi will be appearing with her band, including Y. Ochiai on guitar, Sweet Harp Kimura on harmonica, S. Nagai on bass, and S.Nakayama on drums.

 

Lance Reegan-Diehl Band

Possibly the biggest and best well-known rock/blues act in South Korea, this multi-national foursome includes the exceptional Lance Reegan-Diehl (Canada) on guitar and vocals, the soulful Megan Kim (Canadian/Korean) on vocals, and the faultless David Dauberman (U.S.A.) on bass. While comparisons and debates over similarities of style and influences are best left to seeing their show, they have been described as ‘Yngwie Malmsteen meets Pink Floyd and Stevie Ray-Vaughan.’ If you hear them play live, be it their own storming fresh material or a cover song, you’ll find that the influences stretch from the hardest rock right up to the deepest blues. The band themselves have been playing together all over Korea for two years, and are also quite familiar among the members of the U.S. Armed Forces in Asia for their numerous and frequent performances to the troops on base.

The L.R.D. Band’s latest two albums are The Monday Night Blues, an all-blues recording with 14 tracks and Internal Construction, with 12 tracks mixing hard rock, blues, soulful lyrics and L.R.D.’s own distinctive sound. They can be found on lrdband.com.


 

Jamsbee

Featuring Shinsuke Kado on lead guitar and backing vocals, Makoto Uehara on vocals, guitar and blues harp, and Seinosuke Ikezaki on bass, Jamsbee is a 3-piece Acoustic Rock Band from Tokyo, infused with Blues, Funk and Rock. Enjoy their drumless funky acoustic sound!!

 

Shun Kikuta - 菊田"Shun"俊介

Returning for a second time to the Blues Bash, legendary guitarist Shun Kikuta! Shunsuke "Shun" Kikuta was born in Utsunomiya City, a Tokyo suburb, in 1966. Over the years he has produced and collaborated on many blues recordings, in addition to his own leading albums "They call me Shun" (later released as "Me and my guitar" on Bluesox in the USA)," and Chicago Midnight" in 1995 and 96. In 1996, when Shun attended "The Park Tower Blues Festival '96" in Tokyo with his own band, the two shows at Park Tower were recorded live and released as "Live! The 3rd Park Tower Blues Festival '96" Shun Kikuta & J.W. Williams (later released as "Live and Kickin'" also on Bluesox).

這些年來他製作並參與了許多藍調唱片的錄音，包括他自己在1995與1996年的的專輯「They Call Me Shun」(後來在Bluesox唱片以「Me And My Guitar」 之名在美國發行)以及「Chicago Midnight」。另外他與他的樂團在1996年參加了Park Tower藍調音樂節。那兩場表演被錄音收錄於 「Live! The 3rd Park Tower Blues Festival '96」，以菊田俊介與J.W. Williams的名義發行(在美國由Bluesox唱片發行為「Live and Kickin」)。

Now, while Shun still resides in Chicago, he is an internationally renowned musician traveling around the world entertaining audiences with his soulful, explosive, and heart-wrenching music. He crosses the globe several times each year touring with Koko Taylor, "The Queen of Blues". Shun is also currently working on a new CD, which he plans to release in 2005.

現在菊田俊介仍然居住在芝加哥，但已成為了聞名世界各地的藍調樂手。並不斷奔波於世界各地，對樂迷們演奏他熱情、 充滿爆發力而扣人心弦的藍調。同時也作為藍調之后 – Koko Taylor樂團的吉他手巡迴世界各地。 Shun目前正在製作他的新專輯，計劃於2005年內發行。

Shun Kikuta's website


Taiwan-based artists performing at the 5th Blues Bash include:

以下樂手已接受了台灣藍調協會的邀請，將在Blues Bash 3演出:



 

ㄅㄆㄇㄈ (BoPoMoFo)

ㄅㄆㄇㄈ is steeped in the history of the Blues. Formed by DC Rapier, a Chicago native and the former host of ‘The Blues Power Hour,’ the band is dedicated to bringing the power of the Blues to Taiwan audiences. Joining him in the quest for mo’ better Blues is Japanese virtuoso Aki "The Flame" Ikeda on guitar , Dafu Daisuke Neishi on drums, Canadian Michael Tennant on bass, Klaus Tseng on keys and DC on vocals, harmonica and tenor sax. The band plays Chicago-style Blues with an infectious passion that sets feet to tapping and booties boogying.

ㄅㄆㄇㄈ是個長年浸淫於藍調深遠的歷史之中的樂團。由前The Blues Power Hour主持人的正港芝加哥人DC Rapier組成，並以讓台灣聽眾感受藍調音樂的熱力為目標。在他追尋更精純的藍調表演的路程中的夥伴是日本籍的吉他手Aki Ikeda以及鼓手根石大輔、加拿大籍的貝斯手Michael Tennant、鍵盤手的Klause Tseng以及身兼主唱、高音薩克斯風跟口琴的DC。演奏風格以芝加哥藍調為主，加上令人搥胸頓足的火熱情感。



 

Stevie Ray & Black Sheep

Black Sheep were formed in 2004 and are dedicated to playing Blues music. Stevie Ray, the band’s leader and guitarist is a Taiwan aborigine who was inspired by the music of the great Texas Blues guitarist, Stevie Ray Vaughn. Stevie Ray feels that the Blues and the music of the Taiwan aborigine people have much in common. Dafu, the band’s drummer taught percussion at MI Music Academy in Japan. Hefu, the bass player, studied music theory in the USA before coming to Taiwan. Black Sheep are determined to play the Blues and will not submit to playing pop music.

Black Sheep成軍於2004年並持續致力於藍調音樂的演奏。團長兼吉他手的Stevie Ray深受偉大的德州藍調吉他手－Stevie Ray Vaughn啟發、並認為藍調與台灣的原住民音樂有很多的共通之處。鼓手根石大輔曾於日本MI音樂學院任教。貝斯手Hefu在來台灣前則是在美國研習音樂理論。 他們決心為藍調奉獻音樂生活，絕不對演奏流行音樂的誘惑投降。


 

David Chen & the Muddy Basin Ramblers

Some call it blues, some call it jazz, some call it country, some call it hillybilly swing -- the Muddy Basin Ramblers love to it play it all. They perform the music of the jug bands that emerged in the American south in the 1920s and 30s, which is traditionally a mixture of styles including country blues, ragtime and jazz.

The band members entertain and make noise (mostly musical!) using a variety of string, brass, and "homemade" instruments, which include kazoos, a ceramic jug, a washboard and a washtub bass. Their music will keep people singing along, dancing or tapping their feet, with some friendly help from the band's tap dancer...

For the Muddy Basin Ramblers, it's all about having fun and doing what they enjoy most -- learning and performing material from a treasure chest of early American music, as well as some of their own songs. They've played on a variety of stages --- festivals, pubs, parties -- and their favorite place to play is in the mountains around Taipei.

The band was started in 2002 by vocalist and guitarist David Chen, who started to learn country blues and fingerpicking on the guitar when he moved to Taiwan. The members of the band are: Tim Hogan on washboard and percussion; TC Lin on washtub bass, baritone, and trumpet; Sandy Murray on ukulele and tenor and soprano saxophones, Conor Prunty on harmonica and ukulele; and Will Thelin on tap shoes, kazoos, and vocals. "Muddy Basin" refers to the Taipei Basin.

David Chen & the Muddy Basin Ramblers已在台北活動了數年，並以他們的精湛的經典藍調演奏贏得了許多聽眾的心。另外也在2004年的台北Moving Music Festival演出，為台灣聽眾呈現了具有深厚傳統根基、同時充滿活力的藍調音樂。



Event Schedule

Saturday 本週六

Main Stage, outdoors

3:00~3:10 – Welcome statements; intros (DCR, MCs)
3:10~3:25 – (Tree Café Stage - 15 min)
3:25~3:30 – MCs raffle 1
3:30~3:40 – Jamsbee (10 min)
3:40~3:45 – MCs raffle 2
3:45~4:00 – (Tree Café Stage- 15 min)
4:00~4:05 – MCs raffle 3
4:05~4:15 – MUSASHINO MINNIE & SMALL PACKAGE(10 min)
4:15~4:20 – MCs raffle 4
4:20~4:35 – (Tree Café Stage - 15 min)
4:35~4:40 – MCs raffle 5
4:40~4:50 – Lance Reegan-Diehl Band
4:50~4:55 – MCs raffle 6
4:55~5:10 – (Tree Café Stage - 15 min)
5:10~5:15 - MCs raffle 7
5:15~5:25 – Nacomi (10 min)
5:25~5:30 - MCs raffle 8
5:30~5:45 - (Tree Café Stage - 15 min)
5:45~5:50 - MCs raffle 9
5:50~6:00 - Shun Kikuta (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ)(10 min)

Tree Café Stage

3:00~3:10 – Welcome statements; intros (DCR, MCs)
3:10~3:25 – MoneyShot Horns (15 min)
3:25~3:30 – MCs raffle 1
3:30~3:40 – Main Stage; (10 min)
3:40~3:45 – MCs raffle 2
3:45~4:00 – Blues Vibrations (15 min)
4:00~4:05 – MCs raffle 3
4:05~4:15 – Main Stage (10 min)
4:15~4:20 – MCs raffle 4
4:20~4:35 – Black Sheep (15 min)
4:35~4:40 – MCs raffle 5
4:40~4:50 – Main Stage; (10 min)
4:50~4:55 – MCs raffle 6
4:55~5:10 – Muddy Basin Ramblers (15 min)
5:10~5:15 - MCs raffle 7
5:15~5:25 – Main Stage;(10 min)
5:25~5:30 - MCs raffle 8
5:30~5:45 – Rising Hedons (15 min)
5:45~5:50 - MCs raffle 9
5:50~6:00 – Main Stage (10 min)

Indoor/Theater

6:30~6:35 – MCs raffle 10 Greetings
6:35~7:20 – BoPoMoFo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ)(45 min)
7:20~7:25 – MCs raffle 11
7:25~8:10 – Jamsbee (45 min)
8:10~8:15 – MCs raffle 12
8:15~9:00 – Musashino Minnie & Small Package (45 min)
9:00~9:05 – MCs raffle 13
9:05~9:50 – Lance Reegan-Diehl Band (45 min)
9:50~9:55 – MCs raffle 14
9:55~10:40 – Nacomi (45 min)
10:40~10:45 - MCs raffle 15
10:45~11:30 – Shun Kikuta band (45 min)
11:30~ ?? – Jamm Session

Coffee Shop Stage

6:10~6:15 – MCs raffle 16 Greetings
6:15~7:00 – MoneyShot Horns (45 min)
7:00~7:05 – MCs raffle 17
7:05~7:50 – Blues Vibrations (45 min)
7:50~7:55 – MCs raffle 18
7:55~8:40 – Muddy Basin Ramblers (45 min)
8:40~8:45 – MCs raffle 19
8:45~9:30 – Ah-yi (45 min)
9:30~9:35 – MCs raffle 20
9:35~10:20 – Black Sheep (45 min)
10:20~10:25 – MCs raffle 21
10:25~11:10 – Rising Hedons (45 min)
11:10~11:15 – MCs raffle 22


GETTING THERE:

The Blues Bash 3 will be taking place in the spacious outdoor courtyard of the Dream Community in Xizhi (Shijhih), just east of Taipei

Address: No. 95, Minzu 2nd Street, Sijhih City, Taipei County
Tel: 886-2-2695-9393





Suggestions for those who drive:

1. Jhongshan Freeway, down the “Sijhih” Junction entrance, turn right to “Section 2 of Datong Rd.”→Turn right to “Section 1 of Siwan Rd.”→Turn right to “Kangning Street”→Turn right to “Hucian street”→Reach the “Dream Community”-Parking lot in TREE CAFE.

2. 2nd North freeway, down the “Sijhih‧Nangang” Junction entrance, take the “Nangang” entrance, turn left to “Sintai 5th Road”→Tturn right to “Section 1 of Datong Rd.”→Turn left to “Jhongsing Road”→turn right to “Kangning Street”→Turn left to “Hucian Street”→ Reach the “Dream Community”-Parking lot in TREE CAFE.

Suggestions for those taking train/MRT/bus:

1. Get off at MRT stop “Kunyang”, then take bus “Blue 36”, then take off at stop “Beifong Li” of Sijhih, and then walk for about 5 minutes to reach the Dream Community

2. Get off at MRT stop “Kunyang”, then take bus “817”, then take off at stop “Jinlong Li” or “Jinlong Elementary School” of Sijhih, and the walk for about 3 minutes to reach the Dream Community

3. Get off at MRT stop “Yuanshan”, then take bus “Red 2”, then take off at stop “Beifong Li” of Sijhih, and then walk for about 5 minutes to reach the Dream Community

4. Get off at “Sijhih Train Station”, then take bus “629”, then take off at stop “Jinlong Elementary School”, and then walk for about 5 minutes to reach the Dream Community

5. Other buses passing stop “Beifong Li”: 247、267、51、311

There will be volunteers waiting at the Kunyang MRT station and the bus stops in Shijih to assist festival goers

Suggestions for those taking taxi:

Besides detailed address, it is recommended to tell the taxi driver the following information:
“Dream Community-TREE CAFE” at the exits of “Kangning Street” and “Hucian Street” of Sijhih.










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