This year the Trois Rivieres en Blues festival organisation held a competition for up and coming musicians called Concours de la relève, Nouvelles génération Trois-Rivièeres en Blues! We were not part of the contest but we were invited guests to perform after the contest winners were announced.
Other invited guests during this contest, which took part over a series of dates included; Bharath and his Rythm four, Trevor Finlay. John Campbelljohn and Jack de Keyzer.
The show was held at a huge restaurant called l'oriflamme Salon de jeux, which was right over a casino. The whole complex must be pretty new because it wasn't even on the GPS. It took us an extra hour just to find the place.
The competition had some very talented artists ranging from singers, blues guitarist and bands. It was quite entertaining and we got to meet some interesting people. The house band was led by Mo Blues whom we got to chat for a while before the show. Check out his site to know more about him.
We performed for about 80 minutes including a mixed bag of our original tunes and some classic covers. We had to quickly leave by the end of set because we still had a couple of hours of driving to get back home.
Runaway Slide will be back in Trois Rivieres on Sunday August 29 for another performance during the second edition of the Trois Rivieres en Blues festival. Also performing that day is Jim Zeller and Carl Tremblay, Layla Zoe, Monkey Junk and Dawn Tyler Watson Blues Project.
Until our next blog,
Justin, Adam and Matthew
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