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NAME: Latvian Blues Band
PROFILE: The Latvian Blues Band is great, awarded blues music band from Latvia. The Latvian Blues Band has appeared in Lithuania, Estonia Poland, Croatia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Greece, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Russia,Belarus, the United States, Canada and Egypt.
It has taken part in major European blues festivals such as Euro Jazz 2004 in Athens, Sierre Blues 2011 in Switzerland, Narcao Blues 2014 in Sardinia, and countless other ones. In 2004, the legendary guitarist and blues expert Bob Margolin published an article about the LBB as a European blues phenomenon in the world’s leading blues magazine, Blues Revue. In 2005, the LBB received the Thropees France Blues nomination as the best blues band in Europe.
A particular honour was the invitation to appear at the Chicago Blues Festival, where the LBB was the first European - based band in the festival’s history. During the Chicago Blues Festival in 2008, the LBB toured a number of blues clubs in Chicago.
2009, the LBB won the Baltic Blues Challenge in the German town of Eutin, thus winning a spot at the International Blues Challenge 2010 finals in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2013, the Latvian Blues Band released Latvian Blues Band & Friends Live at the Dream Factory 2013.
In January 2015, the LBB once again took part in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, gaining much attention and recognition from organisers, representatives of major US blues associations, as well as audiences.
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