{"id":145736,"date":"2025-04-23T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=145736"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:19:27","slug":"spring-blues-part-of-the-popular-august-blues-festival-opens-in-viimsi-artium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/spring-blues-part-of-the-popular-august-blues-festival-opens-in-viimsi-artium\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Blues, Part of the Popular August Blues Festival, Opens in Viimsi Artium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">Viimsi Artium will be filled with the blues on Saturday, 26 April, when top musicians will perform at the spring opening of the August Blues Festival 2025 (Augustibluus). The evening&#8217;s programme will entertain die-hard blues fans and music-lovers alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">The festival&#8217;s highlight is \u201cMihkel Raud Goes ZZ\u201d, an ambitious tribute to <b>ZZ Top<\/b>. <b>Mihkel Raud<\/b>, a well-known journalist, writer, and politician, but above all musician, brings a gritty Texas vibe to the stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">The evening&#8217;s headliner, Tommy Castro &amp; The Painkillers (USA), is known for their energetic and soulful live performances. Award-winning guitarist and singer <b>Tommy Castro<\/b> has performed over 6000 shows at the world&#8217;s biggest festivals.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCastro is one of the brightest stars in the blues\u2013soul genre. Greedy blues energy and ultimate soul power&#8230;passionate vocals and pure inventiveness in his stunning guitar solos.\u201d \u2014<i>Blues Music Magazine<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Finland is represented by Knucklebone Oscar, a charismatic blues\u2013rock showman whose explosive stage energy leaves no one unmoved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">The most intimate section of the evening is provided by father\u2013son duo Raul &amp; Carlos Ukareda. <b>Raul Ukareda<\/b> is one of Estonia&#8217;s most famous blues guitarists. He is a founding member of the band Compromise Blue, and has participated in many musical projects during his long career. <b>Carlos Ukareda<\/b> is a young singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Carlos became more widely known as one of the finalists of the \u201cEstonian Idol\u201d show. His versatile voice lends itself to many genres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Doors open at 17:00 and the concert starts at 18:00. Tickets for the Spring Blues opening concert of the August Blues Festival can be purchased <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.piletilevi.ee\/eng\/tickets\/muusika\/augustibluus-2025-hooaja-avafestival-kevadbluus-459697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Viimsi Artium will be filled with the blues on Saturday, 26 April, when top musicians will perform at the &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":145738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,64],"tags":[283,291,19394,19758,21890,25125,25163,25164],"class_list":["post-145736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-viro","tag-music","tag-events","tag-festivals","tag-concerts","tag-events-in-haapsalu","tag-events-in-viimsi","tag-spring-blues","tag-august-blues-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145743,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145736\/revisions\/145743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}