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💥 Isn't that the best way to end this great month full of gigs?! We'll be playing at Tidaholm Blues Festival in Sweden 🇸🇪 on May 31st 🎯 You'll find us on stage at 21:15. A special treat is that we will have our friend Michael Johansson on drums with us! We are so looking forward to it ❤️ Make sure to check out the full lineup for the whole two days 😲🫶 all excellent bands! 📸 This great photo is made by Stephan Nord @stephannord 👏 Oh boy, we are so lucky to be snapped by so many talented photographers along our way... Thank you, you guys are great! #muddywhat #newblues #fromgermany🇩🇪 #ontour #sweden🇸🇪 #tidaholm #blues #bluesfestival #keepthebluesalive #keepingthebluesalive #bluesnews #touringband #inaspang #fabianspang #michaeljohansson #dpagency

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Ken Wallis And there’s a lot more going on. Larry Kurtz There’s a lot more going on. On Saturday we have a stage downtown and to kick off the day we have a New Orleans style jazz march. This year the band that’s doing the march is The Ghost Town Blues Band, which is going to be great. We have been trying to get Ghost Town for a while. I actually had them booked when Covid hit and due to scheduling conflicts, they were never able to make it until now. We’re so happy they’re going to be here and that’s on Saturday. We also have a farmers market if you get there early. We have bands on the street, but we also have activities for families, so there’s some children’s activities. You can go up and down the street, not just face painting, but there’s art and there’s entertainment for kids as well. All that is free on the street. And then on Sunday, we switch over to our motorcycle event. Again, we have bands on the street. Last year we had almost 1000 motorcycles on Sunday on the street. That really adds to the excitement when you see all these beauty bikes. It’s a show and shine. There’s a lot beyond that. There’s workshops in the library which happy to say that you are part of this year so. Folks come out and see Ken is hosting a Women In Blues Workshop. Maybe you can tell them a little bit about it. Ken Wallis I’m really looking forward to that and we’ve got a pretty killer panel so far and I I’m adding some extra people, so it’s going to be very exciting and we’re basically going to talk about what it’s like to be a female in the Blues world. And I’m not talking, just challenges. I’m talking the success stories because there are huge success stories. Larry walk us through some of the big bands. I know we can’t cover them all. How many bands are gonna be there that week? Larry Kurtz We hire just under 50 acts for the festival. And then you add to that we have in restaurants and bars participating with music in the bars as well. So that brings us up to about 75 acts over the weekend. I always like to say if you’re looking at an act and maybe it’s not your cup of tea, just go down the street and you’re going to find something else, it all happens simultaneously.

Ken Wallis It’s the start of festival season in Ontario and first up is the Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival, May 31st through June 2nd, and joining us to tell us all about it is Larry Kurtz, the founder and the artistic director of the Festival. Larry great seeing you. Larry Kurtz Yeah. Great to see you too, Ken. Excited to be here. Ken Wallis Well now there’s an awful lot we got to talk about music-wise, but there’s a lot of other things happening around this festival. Tell us about some of the other exciting events that are going on and then we’ll talk music. Larry Kurtz Yeah, it all starts on Friday. We have our classic cars on the street. The whole downtown is shut to traffic and we have like 300 classic cars on the street, bands on the streets, you get to see people like Voodoo Pawn Shop and Son Roberts playing on the street as part of that event, so that usually attracts a lot of people. We get close to 10,000 people on the street just for that event, and that’s all free.

Ken Wallis Chats With Larry Kurtz, Founder & Artistic Director Of The Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival . This year marks the 20th anniversary of the award-winning Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival as it runs from May 31st to June 2nd. The festival features a spectacular line-up of Canadian and International artists, but music is only part of the special event on the streets of Orangeville. Larry Kurtz, founder and Artistic Director of the festival dropped by to outline all the special events the festival has to offer. Ken Wallis interviewed Larry Kurtz for the radio show BluesSource Canada. The following are excerpts from that interview, amended and edited for brevity and clarity.

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