FrançaisIn October of this year (2011) we played at a festival in the beautiful Luxembourg town of Vianden. We were delighted and honoured when John Lee Hooker`s daughter Zakiya came up on stage with us and performed Leadbelly`s traditional blues “In the Pines” . She left the stage and danced to the next tune whereupon [...]
Article in La Depeche du Midi 24/08/11 http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2011/08/24/1152284-leobard-abbaye-nouvelle-soiree-jazz-et-blues.html Gary Brooker and his group supported by the duo Rag Mama Rag Saturday, August 20, the Association for the Protection of the Abbaye Nouvelle in Leobard, France, chaired by Paul Barrière, offered an evening of Jazz and Blues, with the opening act, the duo “Rag Mama Rag” followed by Gary Brooker and Judy Blair. The first part of the evening was superb. The duo, Ashley and Deborah Dow, using several instruments each (Acoustic [...]
Exciting news folks.! Yesterday, to our total delight we discovered that our song ”Final Hour Blues” from our Rag Mama Rag album “Struttin` and Strollin` has been used in the American action movie “Drive Angry” http://www.driveangry3d.com/ The film, released earlier this year, stars Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard and was directed by Patrick Lussier. The film was shot in [...]
We would like to say thanks to everyone at The Bellingham All Acoustic festival for a great welcome and a excellent sunny weekend in Northumria. We loved the amosphere and the enthusiastic audience. Long may you run!
Hi Folks, We recently arrived back from our UK/Spain tour. We were away for almost 5 weeks and clocked up around 4000 kilometres on our camping car. Unfortunately the Rag Mama Rag mobile broke down on us in Kent, leaving us without home and transport for 8 days. Needless to say we had to hire [...]
The weekend of the 7,8 of May 2010, Rag Mama Rag performed at the Festival “My Blues Berry Nights”. Held in Bourges in the Berry region of France the evenings were a great success for all of the musicians and the organisers “L`Association des Tons Tons”. Before the concert on the 8/05 Rag Mama Rag [...]
We have just returned from a two week stay in Benin in west Africa. We were there to play at The Sekanami festival which was a week long event in the town of Adjarra. http://sekanami.org/ The festival took place nearby to a local school. We played to a vast crowd of enthusiastic Beninois who joined [...]
Hello to everyone, We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who came to the Concert SOS Haiti on the evening of the 9th of February 2010. We felt that the event was a great success with a wonderful atmosphere between all of the musicians and all of you who were [...]
On the 9th of february Rag Mama Rag will participate in a concert with 6 other groups to raise money to help the earthquake victims in Haiti. The concert starts at 8pm and will be taking place at L`Espace valentre in Cahors. The musicians performing are Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) Judy Blair Quartet Rag Mama [...]
During their recent UK tour Rag Mama Rag were joined on stage by Gary Brooker on accordian. Gary is of course the singer/pianist of the famous group Procol Harum. They played a couple of tunes together including a rendition of the well known Leadbelly song “Goodnight Irene”. It was a big hit with the audience [...]
