** Movinmusic Newsletter Number 34 February/March 2007 ** 

Hello everyone, and welcome to the thirty-fourth Movinmusic Blues Agency Newsletter. You're receiving this e-mail because you have either entered your e-mail address into Movinmusic's mailing list or have requested information about our acts in the past. If you don't want to receive this Newsletter please visit http://www.movinmusic.co.uk/blues_mailing_list.htm where there is a form into which you can type your e-mail and then choose the unsubscribe button to be permanently removed from this list. This newsletter contains information about: 

New Essex Blues Club First Gig - Ian Siegal Band 25th Feb
Ian Siegal @ the Maltings in St Albans
Marcus Malone Band @ the Spitz, London
Steve Arvey and BluesMove UK Mini Tour Feb - March
Sherman Robertson and BluesMove French Tour
Mike Sanchez March Dates
Maryport Festival

** New Essex Blues Club First Gig - Ian Siegal Band 25th Feb **
The aim is to book only the very best in UK or International touring BLUES artists and place them in the intimate setting of THE BASSMENT CLUB. Chelmsford used to be the bastion for supereb Live Blues music and that must be re-established.  
Ideally, artist availability permitting, the LAST SUNDAY of each month will be earmarked as BASSMENT BLUES night.  
The launch night event will be:-
Ian Siegal Band
Rated as UK's premier Blues man Ian comes with a full band to open proceedings. See http://www.iansiegal.com or http://www.myspace.com/iansiegal where you can also view videos of the great man. 
The Support couldn't get much better.  Essex's own STEVE CURTIS one of the UK's best flat top Country Guitar pickers who plays a very mean delta Blues. A singer-songwriter of the highest calibre. See http://www.stevejcurtis.com  
The Alter States Club @ The Bassment Club, 
Chelmsford, 
Essex 
Club Website: http://www.alterstates.com/
Sunday, 25/02/2007
DOORS open 7:30pm
TICKETS are £10 on the door but only £8 in adv via the website  http://www.wegottickets.com/location/449 

** Ian Siegal @ the Maltings in St Albans 
Maltings Arts Theatre,  St Albans, Herts AL1 3HL 01727 844222 **
Saturday 17 March – 8.30pm
Whether sitting on a stool with an old resonator guitar, or fronting his band with Telecaster in hand, Ian Siegal is power and emotion personified. Ian Siegal has the top possible ranking in the new Penguin Book of Blues recordings (for his new CD ‘ Meat and Potatoes’). Having supported Bill Wyman on two national tours he is by far the most exciting and vibrant blues talent on the scene today.
SHADES OF BLUES 
TICKETS £12.50
Lightnin' Willie and the Pooboys will also be appearing at the Maltings on the 19th May.

Ian Siegal Gigs - March 07
Friday 02/03 Warrington Blues Club, Warrington   

Saturday 03/03 Penrith Blues Club, Penrith          

Sunday 04/03 Penrith Blues Club, Lunchtime, Penrith  

Friday 09/03 Britannia Boat Club, Nottingham       
Saturday 10/03 Banbury Mini-Blues Festival, Banbury   

Saturday 17/03 Maltings Arts Centre, St.Albans         

Saturday 24/03 Blues Europe Express, Chalons en Champagne, France  

Friday 30/03 Dusty Road Blues, Tidalholm, Sweden          

Saturday 31/03 Linkoping Jazz & Blues Festival, Linkoping, Sweden      

** Marcus Malone Band  + DJ John Evans
Saturday 24th February, 19:30 - 01:00 **
Curry for the Soul. Detroit bluesman and seasoned soul performer Marcus Malone hits the Spitz for a night of smooth, smoky grooves.  http://www.marcusmalone.com
Upstairs @ The Spitz, 109 Commercial St, Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 6BG.  Nearest tubes: Liverpool St. or Aldgate, free parking outside the venue and nearby.  Venue website: http://www.spitz.co.uk/
Hot Indian Buffet by Geetanjali, the finest Indian restaurant in London
Tickets £25 including buffet, £15 without
Advance tickets from:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/16059
All proceeds will be donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust
http://www.teenagecancertrust.org
Promoted by SunExtras
http://www.sunextras.com

** Steve Arvey and BluesMove UK Mini Tour **
One more last minute date has been added to the Steve Arvey and BluesMove mini UK tour at the Cellars in Eastney (near Portsmouth) on Wednesday the 28th March.  The tour now has the following dates:
Gig Dates
New Date:  Wednesday, 28/02/2007, The Cellars at Eastney, 56 Cromwell Road, Southsea, Hamps PO4 9PN 023 92826249.  
http://www.thecellars.co.uk 
Friday, 02/03/2007, The Roadhouse, Stirchley, Birmingham, West Midlands 0121 624 2920.
http://www.roadhousevenue.co.uk/
Saturday, 03/03/2007, WI Hall, Great Ayton, Middlesbrough SOLD OUT
Take the A168 from the A1 at Dishforth, This road becomes the A19. Follow this until Cleveland Tontine and take the A172 to Stokesley. At the roundabout take the A173 to Great Ayton. Travel through Great Ayton until you come to a mini roundabout next to a Filling Station. Turn right there and the WI Hall is about 150 yards on the right.
Tickets are £12.50 each and are available from

Denise Bell 07930 308342
Stuart Bell 07890040260
Sunday, 04/03/2007, Spalding Blues Club, Red Lion Hotel, Market Place, Spalding, Lincs 01775 640535. 
http://www.spaldingnet.com/blues-club.html 
Monday, 05/03/2007, The Famous Monday Blues Club, the Bullingdon, 162, Cowley Road, Oxford, Oxon 01865 557849. 
http://www.oxfordblues.info/
YouTube video of Steve Arvey and BluesMove in action can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS5d05OV1CA
For more info on Steve Arvey and BluesMove: 
http://www.movinmusic.co.uk/steve_arvey.htm or http://www.stevearvey.com or http://www.myspace.com/stevearvey

** Sherman Robertson and BluesMove French Tour **

Sherman Robertson and BluesMove will be touring Europe at the end of March.  This will be their first dates in France together and Sherman's first return in several years.
Friday, 23/03/2007, Blues Festival, PASSAGE, France.    
http://www.bluesstation.fr/
Saturday, 24/03/2007, Blues Nights Festival, ABBEVILLE, France.    
Monday, 26/03/2007, New Morning (co-billing with Tom PRINCIPATO), PARIS, France.   
http://www.newmorning.com/fr/accueil.asp
Wednesday, 28/03/2007, Ziquodrome (80 kms north of Paris), COMPIEGNE, France.    
Thursday, 29/03/2007, Rouge Gorge, AVIGNON, France.     
http://www.lerougegorge.fr/
Friday, 30/03/2007, Blues Festival, SALAISE, France.    
Saturday, 31/03/2007, Eden Blues Club, ORAISON, France. 
Click below for more info on Sherman Robertson and BluesMove:
http://www.movinmusic.co.uk/sherman_robertson.htm

** Mike Sanchez March Dates ** 
Mike Sanchez will be appearing in London at both ends of March.  The 3rd of March sees his and the Portions' very first date at the Pigalle Club in Piccadilly.  Tickets are £10 before 10pm and £15 after.  Catch him after that at the following shows:
Gig Dates
Saturday 03/03 The Pigalle, 215 Piccadilly, London W1J 9HN 020 7734 8142
http://www.vpmg.net/pigalle/
Saturday 10/03 Warrington R&B Club,  Warrington 
http://www.wrbcblues.co.uk/
Tuesday 20/03 The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth 
http://www.thecellars.co.uk
Friday 23/03 Montgomery Town Hall, Powys. 
Saturday 24/03  The Irish Centre, Leeds 
http://www.theleedsirishcentre.co.uk/ 
Saturday 31/03 100 Club, Oxford Street, London
http://www.the100club.co.uk/

** Maryport Festival **
Movinmusic is now programming the Maryport Blues Festival between the 27th - 29th July  http://www.maryportblues.com/  March will see the announcement of the line-up.  More to follow in next months news letter.  We hope you enjoyed our newsletter and that you found it useful. If you do, however, want to unsubscribe please visit http://www.movinmusic.co.uk/blues_mailing_list.htm where there is a form into which you can type your e-mail and then choose the unsubscribe button to be permanently removed. 

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