Guy Verlinde

GUY VERLINDE (B)
High Intensity Blues Slide Guitar & Harmonica
Voted "Best Live Act" - 4th Place European Blues Challenge - Winner Belgian Blues Award

Guy Verlinde
After years of hard work, Guy is now the pride of the Belgian blues scene. Although it may sound like a dusty cliché, he is by far "the hardest working performer". Today, also the European blues scene has discovered and embraced his warm, genuine and energetic performances with his Mighty Gators, Houserockers, One Man band or Blues in Schools project. His authentic and soulful slide guitar and blues harp styles bring high energy to every show he plays. He is a real crowd pleaser who always totally surrenders to his audience.

Guy Verlinde & the Mighty Gators
is Belgium's most popular blues band, consistently delivering high-energy shows with genuine foot stompin' blues music. This band carries on the traditions of American blues masters from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago’s Southside. Guy Verlinde & the Mighty Gators always succeed in bringing the crowd to the dance floor with their tight, groovy, honest riffs and licks. He says: „In a world of plastic and virtuality, people want real things." Guy is not only an excellent musician and singer, but also an all-round entertainer, backed by his solid band “The Mighty Gators”. It does not matter for whom he plays or where he performs, people always start shaking their asses and having a mighty good time, when Guy Verlinde & The Mighty Gators are on stage. Laissez le Bon Ton Rouler!!!

Guy Verlinde & The Houserockers
In 2011 Guy Verlinde recorded his Hound Dog Taylor tribute album, in which he honored the Chicago slide guitar legend by playing his music in the same setting and style as the master himself. Today, the band sounds tighter than ever and over the years it has acquired its own identity and sound. In 2017 they release their album "How How How", original songs within the same tradition, the sound and energy of Hound Dog Taylor. With Guy and his Houserockers on the stage, people always take part in a wild blues party with a mix of old school Chicago style and contemporary sounds you can hear with artists like The Black Keys, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Seasick Steve, ... All songs are played in the key of C, with 2 fat soundin’ guitars and a quirky drum.

Guy Verlinde One Man Band
It all started for Guy Verlinde with an acoustic guitar & a blues harp. Although he never picked cotton on the fields, he surely had his share of bad luck and trouble. You can hear these feelings and thoughts in his original contemporary acoustic blues songs, with deep roots ranging from Flanders' clay, over the Mississippi Delta to the swamps of Louisiana. During his One Man Band shows Guy Verlinde takes his audience back to the roots of his musical career and plays a variety of resonator guitars, a Weissenborn guitar, some harmonicas, while using an old suitcase as a kick drum.

Blues In Schools
The "Blues in Schools" project is a music education program developed by Guy Verlinde that gives young people an overview of the different styles of blues (Delta Blues, Chicago Blues, …), the most influential musicians (Muddy Waters, BB King, ...) and the most important instruments (guitar, harmonica, ...) and also highlights the sociocultural background of the blues with stories and anecdotes. Each story is illustrated by musical examples, performed live.

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