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Rick Bryant

The Blues - in New Zealand

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World class Blues and Gospel artists are attracting a growing audience in New Zealand. Witness the growth and development of some of New Zealand's interesting artists in this Blues renaissance that seems now a most potent force in the New Zealand Music industry - witness emerging gospel star Hollie Smith who was recently picked up by Blue Note and spent many many weeks at No 1 on the charts with Bathe in the River. This site has evolved around filmings of New Zealand Blues singer Rick Bryant. He has been called the biggest voice in soul music and has been producing recordings for the past forty years.

Many current musical styles owe their roots to the origins of Blues music over a hundred years ago, and those traditions continued. Artists like Rick Bryant, Darren Watson, Hollie Smith, Jubilation, Don McGlashen, Dave Dobbyn and The Windy City Strugglers all create fine original Blues music right here in New Zealand. Add your name to this list by sending NZBlues.com photos and your songs if you make blues music in New Zealand.

This site features unique and genuine behind the scenes video and photography plus our exclusive clips from gigs. Plus our selection of online blues videos we have encountered.

NZBlues may attend and video a few gigs* - if you think your band/performance should have its own page on NZBlues.com - send me some of your video links for a start.

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Upcoming events and items of note are featured in a News page and more randomly, less accurately perhaps, in weblogs.

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Auckland Gigs

The Rick Bryant Trio played The Dogs Bollix with a selection from 30+ new songs with special guest artists on Thursday July 19th.

Rick Bryant and The Jive Bombers perform Morning at the London Bar last June.

Rick Bryant's co-writer and guitarist in the Rick Bryant Trio, Gordon Spittle, published a remarkable piece of Kiwi history.

Eminent Wellington Blues showman Darren Watson. We have linked his myspace page so you can have a listen.

DVD RELEASE: Struggle No More Costa Botes has crafted this wonderful story of the Windy City Strugglers - where they came from - their music - their thoughts - why they do it and how they have managed to break into Europe four decades on.

It is not just an extremely good film. It's the music. 30 minutes of exclusive concert footage of the Strugglers.

External Content
External content page lists - keep sending them in! External lists
Newly released video on the new YouTube tracking page. YouTube movies work using Quicktime and are best on broadband.

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Gallery - linked images from this site
Read our weblog - the ongoing story of how we make the site, previews of material, contributors welcome.
Blog Review - Big Day Out - our first for many years!

NZBlues.com is a documetary website about the various bands of Auckland/Wellington singer songwriter Rick Bryant, including Jubilation, The Jive Bombers and The Windy City Strugglers. We have film, photography and news of gigs to bring you, plus run an opt in mailing list to let you know when an event is coming up.

We let you know in advance so if tickets are available you can get them for these shows that so often sell-out!