August 2019
Here we are again with some great news for all you music lovers & fans.
Summer is at full force and so are we and all our touring bands.
Events in the pipeline: Buskerfestival, Rootstown Cinema, Rootstown Tribute Night
& of course Roots In De Herfst, Rootstown Winter Rumble, …. more info soon
We also took our time to listen to all the great bands who sent us their music and info. We already know 2019 & 2020 will be a blast.
New additions for 2019 & 2020:
Dead Bronco (USA): black folk, dark roots
Trixie & the Trainwrecks (UK/GER): Voodoo Rhythm Trainwreck Blues
Van Goat (usa): ragtime swing jazz surf punk rock&roll, will be touring August 2019.
Everyone Is Guilty (b): alt. country/dark western, recorded their album with Slim Cessna & Dwight Pentacost, the short film about their visit to USA got invited for Festival De Cannes.
Matt Woods & The Natural Disasters (usa): Americana roots: October 2019
Jim Bows & The Flycatchers: bluegrass, Americana, folk will be on the EU roads in December.
2020 Is getting scheduled now too:
MULE: thanks for 2019, see y’all in 2020.
Shovelin Stone (usa): Indie-Folk with an Old-Timey Bluegrass touch.
Fog Holler (usa): Mysteriously lonesome, hard driving bluegrass from the San Francisco Bay Area, touring Europe in January/February 2020.
Reverend Red (usa): Americana, Folk-Rock, Cowpunk, Alt. Outlaw Country will be on the road in January/February 2020.
Shotgun Sawyer (usa): deep blues with a stoner twist, ready to release their new album on Ripple Music, touring Europe (2nd tour) in 2020.
Heathen Apostles (usa): Southern Gothic Country with members of The Cramps, Kings of Nuthin’…. & many more
Dead Bronco (usa): Black Folk, Dark Roots
Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls (uk): Combines the voodoo rhythms of 1930’s ska and the blues with old timey vaudeville cabaret!
The Freeborn Brothers: gipsy-hobo-trash-grass
+ more bands & tours will be added to our roster soon.
2019:
Summer tours have started and are doing great. Thanks for all the support.
Sinners & Saints, Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy, Heathen Apostles, Serious sam Barret, James Hunnicutt & Philip Bradatsch all had a great tour again. We are looking forward to bring’em all back in 2020.
The Jet-Sons kick ass rock&roll/roots are teaming up again for a weekender in August.
Also Hymn For Her teamed up with team Rootstown for Summer 2019 & Van Goat will brighten up your Summer (August 2019) with their gipsy swing ragtime jazz punk all over Europe.
Jt Lawrence (frontman Pine Street Ramblers) is teaming up with a drummer and bass player for the 1st EU tour with his new band, Sicky Betts (September 2019). Matt Woods & The Natural Disasters as well as Everyone Is Guilty will be touring Europe again in October.
The Freeborn Brothers are available in September for a few days, so don’t hesitate to book these fine young gipsy-roots lads.
Winter 2019 will bring Willy Tea Taylor (Nov) and J. Aubertin (Sept & Nov) and Jim Bows & The Flycatchers (Dec), The Big Swamp (Nov) on the EU roads…. and of course we keep on working for all our others bands/musicians too.
Bookings for all these tours & bands are open.
Cheers, team Rootstown
Rootstown Bookings – www.rootstownbookings.com – bookings@rootstown.be – +32 495 53 53 08
Cheers, team Rootstown
