Headline Acts for 2009
Here are some short biographies of our headline acts for the 2009 Bonanza. All of the acts will be appearing at our Friday Night Launch Party in Dexter’s in Castle Street from 7.30pm (see our Special Events page). We hope you will all turn out in force as usual for what is always a great night.
 

Jimmy C and the Blues Dragons
Canadian Blues/Rocker Jimmy C hails from Vancouver, Canada, before he moved to Japan, and is now based in London. He has played along with many greats such as George Thorogood, Otis Rush, John Mayall and the many great Japanese players (Tada, High Tide Harris, among a few).

Invited to move to London to play with Mississippi John L Watson and his big band. He realised that fronting his own band was the best way to promote his style of the British Blues of the late sixties/early seventies. Jimmy C and the Blues Dragons capture the essence of that great period of Electric Blues.

Kitto (aka Miss Noise)
Australian female singer-songwriter Kitto struts the stage barefoot, belting out intense songs developed during a career that’s seen her touring in 34 countries around the world. She has performed on stages from Tasmania to the North Pole alongside acts as diverse as Megadeth and Wilson Pickett. She joined Eskobar and Dionne Warwick on the Swedish TV gala ‘Abba The Tribute’ (2004), and toured as lead vocalist for Janis Joplin’s original band Big Brother & The Holding Company.
Her third album, Over Sensitive (2007), features musicians like bassist Johnny Griparic and guitarist Dean Pleasants. Earlier albums include Precious Junk (2004) and Princess Of Tragedy (2002).

This year at Dundee Blues Bonanza, she has teamed up with drummer Bil Bryant from Boston, Massachusetts, who has shared the stage with Joan Osbourne, Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Thunders, and many more.

 

Nikolaj Andersen
Nikolaj Andersen from Denmark is a classically trained viola player having finished at the Music Conservatory and has played in several classical ensembles and orchestras. Nikolaj now specialises in playing and performing roots music as a solo performer, mostly as a "One Man Band" playing foot drums along with his two string instruments which are his own homemade electric 3 string guitars, and an electric 5 string violin.

He plays Danish folk music, and american roots and blues music, and has performed in this genre in numerous festivals all over Europe and in the USA.

Nikolaj Andersen has recorded two CD`s, 2007's "Cranium of a One Man Band” and "Shout and Scream" released 1 March 2009.
 

The Flaming Stratmen
German bluesman Werner “Flamingstratman” fell in love with both the guitar and the blues at a very early age. He was influenced by the Yardbirds and other British groups. This year he was invited to the annual Muddy Waters Blues Tribute in London by Savoy Brown´s John O`Leary whom he backed in Dundee last year.