Blues Hondarribia Award

2010. PINETOP PERKINS

Pinetop Perkins, one of the biggest bluesmen from Mississipi, gave one of his last concerts in Hondarribia along with some other big legends of the blues as Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bob Margolin, Sugar Blue and Bob Stronger. He was 97 years old. He started playing blues around 1927 and had been considered as one of the best blues piano players untill his very end. Perkins created his own style and had been a source of inspiration for three generations of blues piano players and is still considered a huge master and a model for blues piano players.

2011 JOHNNY WINTER

John Dawson "Johnny Winter" (Beaumont, February the 23rd, 1944) became a star of the electric blues guitar at the end of the sixties; he was already a legend when he played at Woodstock Festival. And he also produced the last three CDs of Muddy Waters at the end of Muddy's career. Johnny Winter is now coming to Hondarribia not only to introduce us his last album but also to receive the 2011 Blues Hondarribia Award