FANTASTIC BLUES BAND BASED IN BRISTOL
Rhythm & Blues Band is a Bristol based 1960’s covers band specialising in Blues, Soul and Funk, with notes of Jazz and Hip Hop. They play covers by Little Richard, Otis Reading, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Green to name a few, plus a few modern covers made retro by bands like the Arctic Monkeys. Their line up is generally as a trio, but can also accommodate Tenor Sax, Organ, Female Vocalist or 2nd Male Vocalist/ Guitarist.
Rhythm & Blues Band is fronted by Adam Holgate, who performs internationally as a guitarist and songwriter with Hannah Williams and the Affirmations (sampled by Jay Z on the title track of his last album ‘4.44’ in 2017) and a bassist with Ephemerals.
Adam has played hundreds of club and festival gigs across Europe (14 countries) and the UK, and further afield like at Montreal Jazz Festival Main Stage in Canada; New York Central Park Summer Stage USA; Blue Note in Japan. UK and European festivals include North Sea Jazz Festival, Orangefest and Down the Rabbit Hole in the Nederlands; Pori Jazz in Finland; Waves in Austria; Fusion Festival in Germany; Nancy Jazz and Marsailles Jazz de Cinq Continents in France; Glastonbury, Boomtown, Shambala, How the Light Gets in, Bestival, Green Man, Colne Blues Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival and many many others.
Music Genre
Blues, Soul, Rock, RnB, Jazz
Current Playlist
- Need Your Love so Bad – Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac
- Merry Go Round
- Black Magic Woman
- Albatross
- Ramblin Pony
- Jumping at Shadows
- Although the Sun is Shining
- Albatross
- Worried Mind
- Lucille – Little Richard
- Mr Pitiful – Otis Reading
- Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
- Can’t buy me Love – The Beatles
- Think – James Brown and the Famous Flames
- Fever –
- Lonely Boy – The Black Keys
- Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
- Have love, will travel – The Sonics
- Bad Bad Whiskey – Amos Milburn
- You Need to Fall in Love – Little Jimmy Ray
- New Shoes – Paulo Nutini
- Learning to fly –
- In the Pines – Leadbelly
- Cissy Strut – The Meters
- Beggin’ – Frankie Vallie and the 4 Seasons
- Do I wanna Know – Artic monkeys
- Red House – Jimi Hendrix
- Who Knows
- With a Little Help from my friends – Joe Cocker
- Express Yourself – Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Band
- Who Knows – Marion Black
- Let the good times Roll – Earl King
- Mercy Mercy Mercy – Cannonball Adderly
- Chitlins Con Carne – Kenny Burrell
- Wade in the Water – Ramsey Lewis Trio
- The In Crowd
- Shu Shu – Ike Quebec
- Midnight Creeper – Lou Donaldson
- Snake Bone
- One Cylander
- Everything I play goin’ be funky (from now on…)
- Aw Shucks
- It’s Your Thing
- C.R.E.A.M. – El Michales Affair
- 7 am to Seville – Hannah Williams and the Affimrations
- Get out my life woman – Lee Dorsey
- I shall be released – Bob Dylan
Testimonials
Rhythm & Blues Band played again at Stanton Calling 2022, How The Light Gets in 2022 and Shambala 2022 as part of the People’s Front Room. They are a regular band who perform with us. Brilliant as ever, professional and the crowd loved it! – Sarah Gaiger, 5/5
Great solo and band performances of Blues, Soul and Jazz over a successful 2 year residency in the busy venue The Stable at Bristol Harbourside. Highly recommended! – Steven Rigg, 5/5
Good choice of music covered well by a strong band of talented local musicians. They have played a number of shows at the LeftBank Bar on a Friday or Saturday, Cheltenham road in Bristol. – Tom Egan, 5/5
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