Mariëlla Tirotto & the Blues Federation flirts with the boundaries of Blues and are carrying the traditional form into the future.
An authentic band that plays adventurous and exciting blues of the new millennium.
They win new fans at every next concert, and they are certainly not just blues-lovers.
The musicians form an unprecedentedly tight group, but at the same time they are - each and every one of them – virtuoso soloists, the guitar player as well as the blues harp player as also the bass player/ pianist, the drummer and the guest-percussionist. Furthermore the evident pleasure that the band exudes, keeps the audience entranced from beginning to end. During a show you are swept off your feet by the extremely variable emotions, brought in a mixture of original material and adapted songs.
In the more than three years of their existence they have played a lot of successful gigs during blues- and jazz festivals in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, as well as numerous club gigs and a few theatre concerts. For 2010, concerts are scheduled in clubs and for festivals in the Netherlands and Germany. In addition, other European countries are in the pipeline.
Highlight up to now was the booking by the programmers of the “Rother Bluestage”, a 9 day festival where bands like Ten Years After, Mothers Finest, Popa Chubby, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore and many others have performed in the course of years.
In 2010 besides Mariëlla Tirotto & the Blues Federation o.a. Joan Armatrading, Mick Taylor, Snowy White Blues Project, Ana Popovic, Eric Bibb, Blues Caravan 2010, Big Daddy Wilson Trio, The Brew en Julian Sas:
http://www.bluestage.de/bluestage2010/index2.html
CD
Their first CD “Somewhere down the road”, for the greater part containing original material, was released by the end of November, 2008. It is received very well and has gotten many great reviews in the Netherlands as well as in Germany, Belgium and England; it also has been chosen CD of the week/month in several radio shows and on various internet sites.
Currently the band is busy writing new songs for the second CD that will be released in the spring of 2011.
