Koko Taylor - 3 Awards:
The best Traditional Blues Female Artist
The best Song - “Gonna Buy Me a Mule”
The best Traditional Blues Album - "Old School".
Boby Rush - 3 Awards:
The best Acoustic Artist
The best Acoustic Album - "Raw"
The best Soul Blues Male Artist.
Tommy Castro - 2 Awards:
The best Contemporary Blues Album - "Painkiller"
B.B. King Entertainer of the year.
Tab Benoit - The best Contemporary Blues Male Artist.
Bob Margolin - The best Instrumentalist - Guitar.
Bettye LaVette - The best Contemporary Blues Female Artist.
Bob Stroger - The best Instrumentalist - Bass.
Diunna Greenleaf - The Best New Artist Debut - "Cotton Field to Coffee House".
More pictures from Blues Awards 2008 You can find here .
Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne at Rhythm Riot, November 23, 2007 Pete Anderson (Latvia) at Rhythm Riot, November 24, 2007 Dennis Binder at Rhythm Riot, November 24, 2007 Roddy Jackson at Rhythm Riot, November 25, 2007 Plymouth 1947.
Chick Corea un Bela Fleck at Arena Riga, October 31, 2007
Ser Elton John at Arena Riga, September 14, 2007
CAZORLA (SPAIN) BLUES FESTIVAL-2007, July
Popa Chubby at Cazorla blues festival, July 27, 2007 Bob Margolin at Cazorla blues festival, July 27, 2007
Chicago piano master Pinetop Perkins (94) at Cazorla blues festival, July 26, 2007 Willie "Big Eyes" Smith at Cazorla blues festival, July 27, 2007 Jerry Portnoy at Cazorla blues festival, July 27, 2007 Billy Branch at Cazorla blues festival, July 27, 2007 KokoTaylor at Cazorla blues festival, July 27, 2007 Chicago blues revue at Cazorla blues festival, July 27, 2007
Rauma blues festival, July 13-14, 2007
Larry Garner
Erja Lyytinen
Joe Louis Walker
Irma Thomas
North Mississippi Allstars
Aerosmith at Skonto stadion in Riga, July 3, 2007
Joe Cocker at Vilnius Utenos Arena, June 22, 2007
Mississippi blues boat festival, June 9, 2007; Helsinki
Macy Gray concert in Riga, June 4, 2007
Warm up - Linda Leen and Keksi
2007 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell
14th Lillehammer Blues Festival, 29th-31th March 2007
Full gallery at Festival home page
19th Burnley National Blues Festival, 6th-8th April 2007
18th Burnley National Blues Festival, 14-16 April 2006
About me:
I'm blues portrait photographer and I will cooperate with artists, other photographers, publishers for blues support.
I have several publication and photo illustration in Latvian and international music press and internet.
I have voluminous blues portraits anthology from live performances. Part of pictures please find in my website:
www.aigarsphoto.com
In my active is music festivals and events:
Blues Music Awards 2008, 2009
Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise 2009Jan
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Chicago blues festival 2005
Notodden blues festival 2006,
2007,
2008,
2009
Lucerne blues festival 2004, 2005,
2006,
2007,
2008,
2009
Lillehammer blues weekend 2006, 2007, 2008
Burnley National Blues Festival
2006, 2007
Augusti blues festival (Estonia) 2004, 2005
Bliuzo naktys (Lithuania) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009
Cazorla blues festival (Spain) 2007
Hondarribia blues festival (Spain) 2009
Rauma blues festival (Finland) 2007
Djurs Bluesland (Denmark) 2008, 2009
Frederikshavn blues festival (Denmark) 2008, 2009
Color Blues Cruise (Norway) 2008, 2009
International Bluesfest Eutin (Germany) - BluesBaltica 2009
Odense (Denmark) Blues festival 2009
1950s Rhythm & Blues and Roots Rock'n'Roll Festival Rhythm Riot 2007
Pelican blues festival (Latvia) 2006
All photos on www.myspace.com/aigarsl are copyrighted by Aigars Lapsa and may not be used without permission. Please e-mail me if you have any questions.
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Who I'd like to meet: Some Blues Greats in my photographies
Hey Aigars! Hope your Christmas will be nice and cozy. It's freezing here in Sweden right now, but looking out the window sure is a view for angels... Mike
Thanx for the friends request - nice and very good pictures - Have you ever been to Aamaal blues festival in Sweden?
Here is one for you - from Frederikshavn Blues Festival 2009 - Michael "IronMan" Burks I hope he will at the next Aalborg Blues Festival. greetings Thorkild Mosbaek Denmark
Thank you for accepting the request! The pictures on your page are really great!!! I wish you a wonderful rest of the week and hope that you will come by now and then.
Appreciate your support! Look us up and honor us with a membership, it's $20 a year and goes to help us promote local Blues artist here in Austin/Central Texas.
Aigar... aus English :) I just found a message from you that by now probably is veeery old ... that ... I never saw ... and - never replied either... Sorry for that - just, the amount of mail that comes in... I can't get to it all, I think I need an assistant haha.
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