Last Concert This Year

Andres Roots will play his last concert this year on Thursday, December 14th at Kultuuriklubi Salong in Tartu - the concert starts at 6 p.m. For the Facebook event, click HERE - and for the Piletilevi ticket service, click HERE!

Photo by Leif Laaksonen. 

Video below from Martin Markkinat in Helsinki, Finland on Nov. 19th by Juhani Väätäinen.

Helsinki Pics & BBC Radio Leeds

Ahead of the upcoming UK tour, Andres Roots will be chatting to Gayle Lofthouse on BBC Radio Leeds' Daytime Show on Monday, November 27, 11:40 AM UK time. 

Meanwhile, here are a few photos by Leif Laaksonen from last Sunday at Helsinki's Martin Markkinat, with Finland's own Jantso Jokelin on hamonica.

Helsinki Clips

On Sunday, Andres Roots played his 24th gig in Finland this year, appearing at the 39th annual Martin Markkinat fair and culture festival, held at the Cable Factory in Helsinki. For two sets, he was joined by the Finnish harmonica ace Jantso Jokelin; the third, uncheduled set he played solo - a joint panel by the Estonian and Finnish Ministers of Culture had to be cancelled due to illness and Roots brought in to cover.

Photo by Jari Ojanen, video footage by Leif Laaksonen. 

Martin Markkinat in Helsinki This Sunday

This Sunday, November 19th, Andres Roots will appear with special guest Jantso Jokelin at Martin Markkinat - the annual Estonian fair and culture festival in Helsinki, Finland. Roots and Jokelin will play two sets in the Koidula Hall at Kaapelitehdas: 10:30 AM and 1 PM, both streamed live via the festival website: https://martinmarkkinat.fi/

Photo by Leif Laaksonen. 

 

New Single out with Jantso Jokelin!

 

Estonian guitarist Andres Roots and Finnish harpist Jantso Jokelin have just released a duo reworking of the Roots tune "Django" - see Bandcamp link above or YouTube HERE. In 2023, Roots and Jokelin have played a number of duo shows in Finland and Estonia, and on November 19th, Jokelin will appear as Roots' very special guest at the Estonian culture festival Martin Markkinat in Helsinki, Finland for both shows that Roots is set to play there.

Jantso Jokelin is a Finnish harmonica player, guitarist and vocalist who has won the Finnish street music championship with the Ataturk Band and in 2009 came third in the world's biggest harmonica competition in Trossingen, Germany. Jokelin's first solo EP "Silver Lining" was released earlier this year.

Andres Roots is an official Ambassador for the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 - a slide guitarist and a songwriter whose music has received airplay on five continents and whose 2016 LP “Roots Music” remains the only blues album ever to top the sales charts in the Baltics. Later this month, Roots will be heading to the UK for four solo concerts:

Nov. 30 – Honey Bee Blues Club @ The Lescar, Sheffield;
Dec. 1 – Didsbury Baptist Church, Manchester;
Dec. 2 – Leeds Blues Club @ The Cross Keys, Leeds;
Dec. 3 – Sunday Blues Train @ Marsden Mechanics, Marsden.

Photos by Leif Laaksonen.