"Django" - Live from Temperance!

Here's "Django", live from Temperance: combined footage from the 2024 and 2025 shows, with audio from the first one - as it appears on both the 2025 CD "Royal Spa Blues" and the upcoming 10" vinyl "LIVE". Recorded and filmed by Adrian Gains, mixed, masterred and video edited by Asko-Romé Altsoo.

The LP launch gig is in Tallinn on Monday, March 23rd at Esmaspäeva Jazz - TICKETS HERE! Andres Roots will be back at Temperance in Royal Leamington Spa on Monday, July 20th - RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE! 

Other confirmed shows on the July UK tour include the Eesti Kodu Estonian Club in Bradford on July 18th, The Garibaldi in Northampton on July 19th (matinee!), the NUR Restaurant and Lounge in Hastings on July 24th, The Royal Oak in Tunbridge Wells on July 25th, and The Station Arms in Southminster with Sofie Reed (USA/SWE).

Blues in Britain Interview

The September issue of Blues in Britain comes with a story that's introduced on their website as follows: "It’s pre-show at Temperance, the basement venue tucked away in Leamington Spa, the delightful spa town in Warwickshire, where a sold-out audience tonight will witness the combined acoustic double-bill of Scotland’s finest paddle-boarding bluesman, Dave Arcari and Estonia’s Andres Roots. Their performance styles are very different but they make a formidable pairing and they’ve been friends for over twenty years as they tell Blues In Britain..." Check out the mag HERE!

 

Live from Temperance - Video!

This summer's Temperance gig was also filmed, so here's two tracks from the upcoming "Royal Spa Blues" live album: "Tango Walk" and "Springtime Blues"!

Live from Temperance!

Recorded on July 22, 2024 at Temperance in Royal Leamington Spa, England, the acoustic live album "Royal Spa Blues" will arrive on CD on February 25, 2025 in time for the next UK tour! Recorded by Adrian Gains, mastered by Asko-Romé Altsoo, cover photo & design by Siret Roots - watch this space for updates!

UK Tour Pics

The July shows in the UK and Germany were a blast - here are some pics from the UK leg of the tour: the Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival gigs at Fair Deal Music and at The Wellington, the Upton Blues Festival Acoustic Roots Stage, and Temperance in Leamington Spa. Photos by Siret Roots, Alison Ashcroft-Gent, and Christine Moore. 

More pics coming soon - and don't forget: the remaining copies of the "Solo Pieces" compilation CD are now available from Bandcamp: just click HERE!

 

Solo Pieces Tour & CD!

On July 11th, Andres Roots’ “Solo Pieces” tour will kick off at the Pirita Bluus Festival in Tallinn, Estonia and continue with gigs in Finland, England and Germany, including two shows at the 40th anniversary edition of the Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival and a set at the Upton Blues Festival that has once again been voted “Blues Based Festival of the Year” in the 2024 UK Blues Awards. For the duration of the tour, the Estonian guitarist’s 14-track compilation “Solo Pieces” will only be available at gigs, going online in August.

The tour schedule is as follows:

July 11 ESTONIA Pirita Bluus Festival, Tallinn
July 12 FINLAND Kulttuurikellari, Savonlinna (+ Jantso Jokelin)
July 13 FINLAND Roihuvuoren Rio, Helsinki (+ Jantso Jokelin)
July 14 FINLAND Villa Hakasalmi, Helsinki (14:00)
July 20 UK Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival/Fair Deal Music (13:30)
July 20 UK Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival/The Wellington (20:00)
July 21 UK Upton Blues Festival/Acoustic Roots Stage (15:00)
July 22 UK Temperance, Leamington Spa
July 24 GERMANY ARTliners, Berlin
July 25 GERMANY Revolte Bar, Berlin
July 26 GERMANY Die alte Garage, Potsdam
July 27 GERMANY Madame Claude, Berlin (+ Pan Salmenhaara)
July 28 GERMANY SonntagsMusikCafé Alte Kita, Berlin (16:00)

And here's the CD tracklist:

1. Cruisin' with the Rev - previously unavailable on CD
2. Django (alt. take) - previously unreleased
3. Lockdown Special - from “Tartu Lockdown”
4. Jook Jones - from “Breakfast in September”
5. Sunstroke - from “Vol. 12”
6. Hawk's Out with His Axe - from “Vol. 12”
7. Fretless Wonder - from “Tartu Lockdown”
8. The Sheik of Hawaii (live) - from “Mississippi to Loch Lomond”
9. Blues for Halvo (stereo) - previously available in mono, on “Mono”
10. Starbuck Theme - from “Vol. 12”
11. So It Is, Subhuti - from “Vol. 12”
12. 4 AM Hot Dog - from “Breakfast in September”
13. Sherwood - from “Vol. 12”
14. Legacy Blues (live) - from “Mississippi to Loch Lomond”

All tunes written & performed by Andres Roots. Recorded 2016-2024 by Jaan Tamm, Andres Roots, Asko-Romé Altsoo & Dave Arcari. Mixed & mastered by Asko-Romé Altsoo. Photo by Jüri Vlassov II. Design by Siret Roots. 

Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival Programme

The Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival has published their 40th anniversary programme - you can download it as a .pdf file HERE, with a few very special pages below :)

Thus, Andres Roots' UK gigs this summer are as follows:

Sat 20 July Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival:
- 1:30 pm Fair Deal Music
- 8:00 pm The Wellington

Sun 21 July Upton Blues Festival:
- 3:00 pm Acoustic Roots Stage

Mon 22 July Leamington Spa:
- 7:00 pm Temperance

Upton Blues Festival

Just announced: on July 21st, Andres Roots will be appearing at the Upton Blues Festival in Upton upon Severn - the festival that's once again been voted "festival of the year" in the UK Blues Awards!

On July 20th, Roots will also be performing at the Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival, and on July 22nd at the Temperance in Royal Leamington Spa.

Meanwhile, next week's Scottish tour with Dave Arcari will proceed as follows:

 

• Tues 14 May (5.30pm) - Scottish Music Centre, Glasgow – Making connections: Dave Arcari/Andres Roots – International touring panel session followed by live sets from us both

• Wed 15 May – Tolbooth Stirling – Dave Arcari wsg Andres Roots: Stirling

• Thur 16 May – Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine – Dave Arcari wsg Andres Roots: Irvine HAC

• Fri 17 May – The Kings Kirkcaldy – Dave Arcari wsg Andres Roots: Kirkcaldy

• Sat 18 May – Glassel Hall, Banchory – Dave Arcari wsg Andres Roots: parkinsons UK fundraiser at Glassel Hall