King Biscuit Blues Festival in October!!Geir Bertheussen Blues Express is scheduled to play at one of the most respected Blues Festivals in the US.
To be specific -King Biscuit Blues Festival- in West Helena, Arkansas.
The King Biscuit Blues Festival, is one of the nation’s foremost showcases of blues music. Held for three days annually in October, tens of thousands of blues enthusiasts converge on historic downtown Helena, Arkansas to hear stirring and uplifting performances of an American art form on the banks of the Mississippi River.
As the home of “King Biscuit Time,” the longest running radio show ever, Helena became legendary in the Delta. Sonny Boy Williamson and other musicians played live on KFFA every weekday, pausing for King Biscuit Flour commercials and announcements of their next nighttime performances.
Jim O’Neal, the editor of Living Blues Magazine at the time and an authority on blues history, said, “The King Biscuit hour was the thing that really crystallized blues music in this area”. Muddy Waters and B.B. King would come home from working in the fields every day just to listen to the King Biscuit hour.
The band is thrilled about this, and of course proud, to be counted among such other great artists.
More information regarding King Biscuit Blues Festival is to be found here:
www.kingbiscuitfestival.com