This year’s festival will run from August 6 to 14. Blues nad Bobrem is primarily the Wojtek Seweryn Music Workshops and the Tadeusz Nalepa Blues Band Review. For workshop participants, the organizers have prepared several surprises, including two new classes: sound engineering and photography. The sessions will be led by:
- vocals: Krystyna Prońko, Jacek Siciarek, Aleksandra Sozańska-Kut, Roman Puchowski (consultations)
- electric guitar: Artur Lesicki, Leszek Cichoński, Jacek Jaguś, Katarzyna Maliszewska, Krzysztof „Puma” Piasecki, Jerzy Styczyński (consultations), Piotr Nalepa (consultations)
- acoustic guitar: Roman Puchowski
- harmonica: Bartosz Łęczycki, Roman Badeński, Sławek Wierzcholski (consultations)
- keyboards: Paweł Serafiński
- bass guitar: Wojciech Pilichowski, Tomasz Grabowy
- drums: Zbigniew Lewandowski
- photography: Grzegorz Matoryn, Grzegorz Sidorowicz, Andrzej Pytliński
- sound engineering: Jacek Mastykarz
- saxophone: Adam Wendt.
There will be no final concert this year. Instead, the organizers are offering blues fans concerts by performers including the trio Riedel, Styczyński, Miarka, JJ Band, Romek Puchowski & Keith Dunn and Obstawa Prezydenta. The performances will take place daily from August 10 to 14 on the stage in Bolesławiec’s market square. Another new feature of this year’s BnB edition will be the Music Film Festival, which will run from August 6 to 8.
A regular feature of the festival is a blues-service mass, which every year draws crowds of worshippers to the church in the Kwiatowe housing estate. This year, the service will take place on August 9 at 7:00 p.m.
On Saturday, August 15, young blues groups will perform on the stage in the market square. For two years, the Review has borne the name of Tadeusz Nalepa—each competing band will present the audience with one song from the repertoire of the father of Polish blues. The star of the evening will be Sławek Wierzcholski i Nocna Zmiana Bluesa.
The festival club will be Piwnica Paryska. More information can be found on the BnB website.
(KR/ii information)