Boxstock 2012 September 8, 2012

Think outside the box! Boxstock 2012, the cigar box guitar festival, is a day-long extravaganza of making workshops, instrumental tuition, film and live performances from some of the world's leading performers in this home grown-music scene that features these live performances on these incredible instruments. You can even make your own guitar and cajon to take home on the day!

This is music stripped back to the bare bones, raw and full of soul, using the simplest of home-made instruments, music with fire and passion. Performers on Saturday night (as part of Band on the Wall's Beer n Blues Festival which also features rare beers all night!) include Dave Acari from the UK, Blackriver Bluesman and Bad Mood Hudson from Finland, and all the away from USA for his first time in the UK - Mike Snowden.

Mike Snowden knows how to work a live show and has opened for legends such as The Indigo Girls, Joe Cocker, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, the Dave Matthews Band, and is one of the scenes most influential writers and performer.

Dave Arcari is perhaps more well known to a lot of regular blues afficiandos, but his leftfield approach is right in the home-grown music zone. Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues. One of the hardest gigging live artists on the circuit.

Jukka 'Black River Bluesman' Juhola & Andy 'Bad Mood' Hudson play their blues in the deep woods and frozen swamps of the muddy Black River Delta, way up North in cold Finland. Their unrefined, electric blues have been compared to the rough sounds of the Mississippi Hill Country artists as well as to anything between Deltahead and Black Keys. Expect a masterful set tonight.

Official Website: http://crd.fm/1MI