The 24th Rauma Blues festival will take place July 10-11, 2009 in Rauma, Finland.

The main concert will take place at Rooster Arena and again we are proud to offer a huge variety of blues and roots music.

On main stage at Rooster Arena on Saturday, July 11th: Dr. John & The Lower 911, Janiva Magness, Little Freddie King, Sue Foley, Tokela & Hoedown !

Friday Clubs July 10th presents Tokela & Hoedown at Buena Vista Club and Little Freddie King and Big Yellow at Poselli Club.

Welcome!

Rauma Blues 2009 line-up:

Dr. John & Lower 911 Malcolm John Rabennack Jr was born on November 21, 1940, in New Orleans. Today he is the most significant living musician in the New Orleans scene. He started his career as a session musician in the 1950s.

Janiva Magness Chosen as the best female contemporary artist by the Blues Foundation this year, Janiva Magness carries a typically rough background for a blues musician. His parents committed suicide when Janiva was 16, and she became an alcoholic before her 20th birthday. She was saved from a total destruction by the blues, giving her a profession and a way to purifify herself.

Little Freddie King Born in McComb, Mississippi, in 1940, Fread E. Martin learned how to play guitar from his father. He moved to New Orleans in the beginning of 1950s and got to know Poka Dot Slim and Boogie Bill Webb, among other South-Louisianan blues dudes, sucking plenty of influences into his own music. He gigged and jammed ofen in the New Orleans' joints and made it to the same stage with Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker.