Marcus Bonfanti

Thankyou so much to everyone who voted for me in the British Blues Awards, they will announce the results at The Newark Blues Festival on 11th September so here’s hoping…
If i win it will be all down to you lovely people but it was an honour just to be nominated and mentioned alongside some real great musicians.

There is another award that can be voted for too and i would very much appreciate it if you’d do this also. My band Saint Jude have been nominated for this years Classic Rock Magazine Best New Band Award. It takes only a few minutes to vote here’s a link to the band and also a link to the voting form so you can watch us give it some and then if you like it VOTE!!!!

Saint Jude

Classic Rock Awards

Also i am very happy to announce that i am going to be supporting the great Danny & The Champions of the World on their September UK Tour.
It kicks off in Oxford on the 19th September & finishes in Manchester on the 29th. The full list if dates can be found on my gig listing page to the right…

I will be announcing all the dates for my first UK headline tour very soon so keep watching this space…

Until then brothers and sisters

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Hello everybody

Its coming to the end of July and with that brings the voting for the British Blues Awards to a close too.

The last date to vote is 31st July so if this is news to you or you havent got round to it yet and you’d like to help me out in a massive way please tell your friends and visit www.britishbluesawards.co.uk/vote.htm and vote for me in the Best Male Vocals & Best Guitar Categories it only takes a few minutes. Also my good friend and long time musical collaborator Paddy Milner is nominated for best Piano so give him a listen & then give him a vote!

On another voting note my band Saint Jude have been nominated in the Classic Rock Magazine Awards in the Best New Band category so please go to awards2011.classicrockmagazine.com and please vote for us, it could be a really great end to really great year for us all…

So plenty to vote for and while you’re busy voting i’ll be busy in the studio working on my 3rd record which will be out by the end of the year.
Also watch this space for my first ever UK headline tour in November. We do 16 dates in 16 days and we’ll come see you all!
It’ll all be announced on this website real soon…

Check out the gig listings on the site for where i’ll be over the next few moths and please come along, enjoy the music & join me for a whisky afterwards…

Marcus
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Wow, i got no handle on time at the moment, i look away for 5mins and here i am 2months later wonderin where the time went…

Well its been a great couple of months, first off thankyou to everyone who came down to the BluesFest gig at Bush Hall last month. It was a great night and we had a great time playin for you all and i’m still blown away by how many people came out… Thankyou so much

Also i wanna say hello to all my new friends that i met at Blues on the Farm & Glastonbury festivals, we had some good times there didnt we… didn’t we? i dont really remember but i got the mystery scars to suggest i did…

Last Year I joined Saint Jude as a permanent member, if you havent heard us before but you like what i do then you’ll love this band, check us out at – www.saintjudemusic.com we are playin a load of festivals this summer so come down and have some fun with us.

I’ve also had the pleasure of playing guitar with the fantastic PP Arnold over the last few months and will be continuing to play with her throughout the year, you can see all her gigs listed at – www.pparnold.com she sounds as good as she did back in the 60′s and the band is killin so get along to a gig if you can.

The British Blues awards are still being voted for and it all closes on 31st July (THIS MONTH) so if you enjoy what i do then please vote for me in the Best Male Vocals & Best Guitar category i would greatly appreciate it…
Also my good friend and long time musical collaborator Paddy Milner is up for Best Piano so i would love it if you could support him too…
We will be hitting the road together again real soon.
The link to vote at is here, its reall quick and painless to do honest – www.britishbluesawards.co.uk

So i’m still constantly on tour and have a load of dates coming up this month as well as my first UK headline tour at the end of the year… More on that later…

Oh yeh and the new album is on its way too and will be out before the tour…
I been pretty busy to be honest, may have to sleep at some point in September tho…

Hope to see you at a gig sometime soon…

Marcus
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