"JP Soars and the Redhots are performing"
 
The 5th Annual Bonita Blues Festival will be held on -
March 11th and March 12, 2011 at Riverside Park in Bonita Springs...

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Joanne Shaw Taylor
Joanne Shaw Taylor

Friday 6pm

Joanne Shaw Taylor has played with all sorts of blues musicians all over the world, she even made a film Deep Blues where she went to Mississippi and recorded with some legendary players such as R.L Burnside and Jesse-Mae Hemphill.

"Last year I heard something I thought I would never hear... a British White Girl playing blues guitar so deep and passionately it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!" (Dave Stewart/Eurythmics)

When Dave Stewart had his big experience, Joanne Shaw Taylor was only 16. Her skills at the Telecaster were so perfect that the blues fan and Eurythmics-frontman asked her to join his supergroup D.U.P. to tour Europe in 2002. She was also offered a record contract but the label went bust. Today Joanne is 23 and happy about the fact that she took her time with the recording debut: "I wanted to take time out to really work on my craft and make sure that when I did an album it was the best that I could do."

Joanne Shaw Taylor
For White Sugar Joanne took a plane to Memphis where her label RUF had booked Jim Gaines' studio. Jim had worked with some of Joanne's idols like Albert Collins and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He brought in the experienced sessionmen Steve Potts (drums) and Dave Smith (bass). "Working with these guys was totally easy. I knew of them because of Luther Allison and Jonny Lang's albums. They didn't know the tracks until five minutes before we recorded them. I made them listen to the songs once and then play them. It was fantastic. They got so much feeling and soul. They are amazing guys to work with."

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2011 Festival Fast Facts

imageWhen
Friday March 11th,
Saturday, March 12th


imageTime
Friday, ~ 2pm - 9pm
Saturday, ~ 11am - 9pm


imageWhere
Riverside Park - Bonita
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2011 - Friday Line Up

Marty Stokes and the Captiva BandMarty Stokes and the Captiva Band
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Tommy Lee Cook and the Boys from BuckinghamTommy Lee Cook
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Joanne Shaw TaylorJoanne Shaw Taylor
6:00pm - 7:15pm
Victor WainwrightVictor Wainwright
7:45pm - 9:00pm

2011 - Saturday Line Up

The Certified BandThe Certified Band
12noon - 1:15pm
JP SoarsJP Soars
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Josh Garrett BandJosh Garrett Band
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Hamilton LoomisHamilton Loomis
5:15pm - 6:30pm
Eddie Shaw and the WolfgangEddie Shaw and the Wolfgang
7:00pm - 8:15pm
All Star Jam Session
until 9pm