Andres Roots (EST) @ Mardi Blues Club
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Estonian blues at the Mardi Blues Club at Bournemouth Brewery!
"The Estonian king of (mainly) acoustic blues instrumentals Andres Roots has re-established his following since Covid as a regular and welcome visitor to these shores," writes Norman Darwen in the May issue of Blues in Britain. A guitarist/songwriter whose recordings have received airplay on five continents and who has toured throughout Europe and in the USA, Roots has also composed music for theatre, films and TV, while his Golden Disc-earning 2016 LP "Roots Music" remains the only blues album ever to top the sales charts in the Baltics.
His current album "Royal Spa Blues - Live from Temperance" was recorded in Leamington Spa in July 2024, right after performing at the 40th anniversary edition of the Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival and the award-winning Upton Blues Festival. Launched with a string of dates in Wales and England in March 2025, the CD was voted 'Album Pick of the Month' by the UK's Independent Blues Broadcasters Association and reached #2 in the IBBA monthly airplay chart for February.
"Estonian guitar-picker Andres Roots offers a hardcore reshaping of the blues," suggests Martin Longley in his Songlines magazine coverage of Roots' March 2025 set at the East Riding Theatre. "Roots has a modernised appeal, but one that rears up from a pallet of vintage down-home US blues."
https://www.andresroots.com/
https://andresroots.bandcamp.com/
"The Estonian king of (mainly) acoustic blues instrumentals Andres Roots has re-established his following since Covid as a regular and welcome visitor to these shores," writes Norman Darwen in the May issue of Blues in Britain. A guitarist/songwriter whose recordings have received airplay on five continents and who has toured throughout Europe and in the USA, Roots has also composed music for theatre, films and TV, while his Golden Disc-earning 2016 LP "Roots Music" remains the only blues album ever to top the sales charts in the Baltics.
His current album "Royal Spa Blues - Live from Temperance" was recorded in Leamington Spa in July 2024, right after performing at the 40th anniversary edition of the Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival and the award-winning Upton Blues Festival. Launched with a string of dates in Wales and England in March 2025, the CD was voted 'Album Pick of the Month' by the UK's Independent Blues Broadcasters Association and reached #2 in the IBBA monthly airplay chart for February.
"Estonian guitar-picker Andres Roots offers a hardcore reshaping of the blues," suggests Martin Longley in his Songlines magazine coverage of Roots' March 2025 set at the East Riding Theatre. "Roots has a modernised appeal, but one that rears up from a pallet of vintage down-home US blues."
https://www.andresroots.com/
https://andresroots.bandcamp.com/
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