3. All is Blues Festival Würzburg - The See See Riders / Al Jones & Band

In the organizer's words:

The See See Riders

The See See Riders are a young band from Bamberg that has already celebrated numerous successes in recent years. In 2024, they won the German Blues Challenge with their string band blues and reached the final of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2025. They came third in the European Blues Challenge 2025. They have now released three longplayers and are a welcome guest at many festivals. They have not yet performed in Würzburg. They interpret songs from the 1920s and 1930s in such a way that you could be forgiven for thinking they were written only recently. Urban blues from the US southern states, ragtime and swing are their musical trademarks, into which their own songs fit naturally. The name of their current CD says it all: "Have Fun with the See See Riders!"

SSR are playing in Würzburg for the first time.

Rebekka Wagner (violin)
Armano Persau (guitar, lead vocals)
Stephan Goldbach (double bass)
Benjamin Lojak (resonator guitar, vocals)

Al Jones & Band

Al Jones and his band were guests at the legendary "Omnibus" in Würzburg several times in the 1980s and 90s. Back then, Al Jones was one of the first to present live blues on German stages. "We went to the Omnibus once a year," recalls Jones. "It was always packed and we had a lot of fun there. Back then, we played a style that didn't actually exist," he recalls. April 2009 was the last time Al Jones was a guest at the "Bus". He is all the more looking forward to this year's appearance at the All is Blues Festival. Born in 1951, the German-American singer and guitarist learned the blues as a self-taught musician and founded his blues band at the end of the 1970s, playing a key role in popularizing the blues in Germany. Al Jones has remained true to the classic blues to this day, but has constantly developed his style over the years. This can be heard on his last album "Still in Charge", released in 2025. On it, he interprets favorite songs by great blues artists such as Albert King, Sonny Boy Williamson, B.B. King and T-Bone Walker, as well as several new songs he composed himself. The result is a blues album full of power and energy that shows that the blues is "still alive and well". By the way: next year, the Al Jones Band will be celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Al Jones (guitar, vocals)
Christoph Böhm (guitar)
Tom Peschel (bass)
Michael Alf (piano)
Peter Oscar Kraus (drums)