Simply Blues – Festival de Blues de Viana do Castelo - Portugal
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[PT]Festival de Blues que desde 2000 se realiza todos os anos no Teatro Municipal Sá de Miranda na cidade de Viana Do Castelo.[EN]Blues Festival since 2000 is held every year at the Teatro Municipal Sá de Miranda in the city of Viana do Castelo.
Waymark Code: WMC7QD
Location: Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Date Posted: 08/05/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member iJEEP
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[PT]
Festival de Blues que desde 2000 se realiza todos os anos no Teatro Municipal Sá de Miranda na cidade de Viana Do Castelo e é organizado pela Camara Minucipal.

O Festival é considerado pelos especialistas um dos melhores do género da Península Ibérica, como o demonstra a grande afluência de público, nomeadamente galego, que cada vez chega ao Festival em maior número.
Desde 2000, ano da sua 1ª edição, que este Festival apresenta programas de grande qualidade, juntando algumas lendas dos Blues Americanos e Europeus.
A magia única dos Blues num cenário de eleição como é o Teatro Municipal Sá de Miranda, um Teatro de estilo Italiano do Século XIX, proporcionará, seguramente, noites inesquecíveis.
Por este Festival já passaram as melhores figuras do Blues internacional como os americanos John Lee Hooker Jr, Brian Kramer & Couch Lizards, The Holmes Brothers, Lazy Lester, Ângela Brown, Shery Williams, Popa Chubby, Sherman Robertson, Louisiana Red entre muitos outros, os britânicos Alvim Lee, Mike Taylor, Doctor Feelgood, Connie Lush, Mick Clarke e Dana Gillespie além dos melhores representantes da actualidade dos Blues de Portugal e Espanha, como os Blues Hotel, Alex Alvarez ou os Red House.

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[EN]
Blues Festival since 2000 is held every year at the Teatro Municipal Sá de Miranda in the city of Viana do Castelo, and is organized by City Hall.

The Festival is considered by experts one of the best of its kind in the Iberian Peninsula, as shown by the large turnout of audience, including Galician, which increasingly comes to the Festival in greater numbers.
Since 2000, the year of its first edition, this festival presents high quality programs, adding some blues legends of Americans and Europeans.
The unique magic of the blues in a setting of choice as is the Teatro Municipal Sá de Miranda, an Italian-style theater of the nineteenth century, provide surely unforgettable nights.
Through this Festival has have passed the best figures in the international Blues, as the Americans John Lee Hooker Jr, Brian Kramer & Couch Lizards, The Holmes Brothers, Lazy Lester, Angela Brown, Sheree Williams, Popa Chubby, Sherman Robertson, Louisiana Red and many others, as the British Alvin Lee, Mike Taylor, Doctor Feelgood, Connie Lush, Mick Clarke and Dana Gillespie, beyond today's best representatives of the blues from Portugal and Spain, as the Blues Hotel, Alex Alvarez or the Red House.


From the City Hall Web Site.


2009 Festival page in the City Hall Website: (visit link)
2010 Festival page in the City Hall Website: (visit link)
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