JT Lauritsen & The Buckshot Hunters feat. Deanna Bogart & Jimmy Carpenter (NO/US)

JT Lauritsen & The Buckshot Hunters have several times been a very popular act at The Dark Season Blues .

Lauritsen received The Blues Award at Notodden Blues Festival in 2014, and the following year he and the band got a nice third place in The European Blues Challenge. The band also came to the semifinals at The International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2017.

This year, they have two American guests. Many festival guests will remember the saxophone player Jimmy Carpenter from the Mike Zito’s band, who has visited Dark Season Blues twice. Carpenter is perhaps best known as sideman, but he has also released two albums in the blues changer on his own. In 2014 he was nominated for best saxophone during the Blues Music Awards.

Saxophonist, pianist and singer Deanna Bogart visits Norway for the first time. She is known for her virtuosity on several instruments, and also she is solo artist with several albums releases. Do not be surprised if there will be a lesson in the boogie woogie piano from the Detroit woman.

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