Blues festival "Bridges" Automatic translate

In St. Petersburg, world-class blues will sound again. On August 4, in the Sevkabel Port space, right on the shore, in the open air, the second blues festival “Bridges” will be held.

This year, the best American bands will perform as headliners of the festival: Rick Estrin & The Nightcats and John Nemeth & The Blue Dreamers. Rick Estrin & The Nightcats is the titled band of the legendary Rick Estrin, a charismatic mod whose attractive vocals have lifted any audience to their feet for more than forty years. A couple on stage he will be a virtuoso guitarist and composer-arranger Norwegian Christoffer "Kid" Andersen. John Nemeth & The Blue Dreamers is no less beloved by blues connoisseurs led by one of the most outstanding soul singers of our time, John Nemeth, a harmonica master who began his career by performing gospels in a church choir and then plowing through stuffy bars for more than ten years Idaho’s home state before achieving worldwide fame.

Unusual motifs will be added by Indian vocalist and harmonian Aki Kumar, who lives in the USA, known for his eccentric mix of Chicago blues traditions and Bollywood melodies. A graduate of the Scandinavian school, a triumphant of the Norwegian analogue Grammy, Spellemannsprisen and International Blues, master of slide guitar Daniel Eriksen will perform the root blues in its best form today. The Finn Emilia Sisco & Helge Tallqvist Band and the Yekaterinburg-inspired Blues Doctors will play the electric wave between themselves. On the acoustic stage, the Southern Comfort local favorites and the elegant metropolitan ensemble Tamara Ogen & Magnet Vox will traditionally meet.

In addition to music, guests of the event will get acquainted with the best examples of bar culture and local street food, a vinyl fair, open-air dance workshops and thematic DJ sets devoted to the variety of blues.

The harbor of Vasilyevsky Island, the refreshing breeze from the Gulf of Finland and a lot of exquisite blues are the perfect combination for a summer day.