THE complete line-up for the 10th Tenby Blues Festival in November has just been released and it looks to be shaping up to be another cracker.

In 2014 the festival, winner of Pembrokeshire Tourism’s Event of the Year Award, witnessed record crowds and sell-out audiences for the ticketed events.

For three days, from November 13 to 15, Tenby will rock all the way through to the sounds of blues and blues related music.

One of the highlights of the festival, a free trail all day on Saturday and Sunday around the pubs, hotels, and restaurants, has been expanded to cater to the increased numbers.

A new event, Roots ‘n’ Shoots, has been added to the bill which will feature artists influenced by the blues and will include rockabilly legend John Lewis, the goodtime Cajun/Zydeco band Whiskey River, plus Matt Woosey, who has been voted Acoustic Artist of the Year 2015 by Blues and Soul magazine.

Once again the De Valence will feature the headline acts.

They include American Blind Boy Paxton who is the living embodiment of the true blues in the 21st Century, and he plays it all in the true songster tradition: ragtime, hokum, old-time, French reels, Appalachian mountain music, blues and more –whatever he plays sounds great. He’s witty, fast rhyming, poetic, fun, exciting, wonderfully skilled as a musician, and a fine singer. He’s not just the real deal, he may be the most sensational newcomer in the blues in many years. He was outstanding on Reginald D Hunter’s Songs of the South on BBC4. When Blind Boy Paxton gets on stage he breaks into a natural smile that carries through the entire performance. He exudes total happiness as someone who so evidently loves what he is doing. There is a warm intimacy, a natural hearted love, for what he is doing that simply engages the audience and creates a connection.

Plus Jo Harman, recently voted ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ at the British Blues Awards, who is widely regarded as the most exciting and acclaimed artist to emerge in the European soul/blues scene in decades. The singer-songwriter/bandleader’s work is broadly influenced by blues, gospel, soul, country, rock and other ‘roots’ sensibilities, and her live shows have been described as ‘stunning’ by the Mail On Sunday and ‘brilliant’ by The Daily Express.

Jo remarkably secured over 100 UK and European festival gigs in the first two years of her career, including prestigious slots at the likes of Cheltenham and Edinburgh Jazz Festivals.

Jo recently released a new album, ‘Jo Harman and Company – Live At The Royal Albert Hall’.

With an increasingly international touring schedule, she and her band have just received no less than four nominations for the recent British Blues Awards, including best singer and best songwriter.

Expect not just blues though, from Jo and her world class band, but a wide range of styles including song based soul, ballads, rock and more which take audiences on a roller coaster of emotions, with her unique mix of original, well known and personal favourite song choices.

For full details of the mouth-watering bill, and to purchase tickets, go to www.tenbyblues.co.uk. But hurry, last year many missed out by trying to order tickets after they had sold out.