Let’s keep the blues young is the motto of the seventh consecutive Thrill Blues Festival, which will take place on the fifth, sixth and seventh of July in the city park in Trilj.

How much the program is adapted to that motto can be seen from the headliner, the nineteen-year-old British guitarist Toby Lee. “The future superstar of the blues”, that’s what Joe Bonamassa called Toby who, with 500 million views on the networks and sharing the stage with Buddy Guy,. Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa and Slash, it already is. The best young blues musician in 2023 already has 100 arranged concerts and will arrive in Trilj directly from the Jools Holand show.

The headliner of the acoustic evening is Kyla Brox, daughter of the British blues legend Victor Brox, winner of the European Blues Challenge and an award-winning blues singer who has been touring since she was 12 years old.

The young colors of Italian blues are defended by Matt Pascale, a passionate guitarist and composer. Mathis and Benoit arrive from France and experienced old masters Jolly Jumper and Big Moe from Norway. There is also the Czech-Slovak blues family Petra Bornerova Trio. 

The band Cat Squirrel, led by Mike Vernon, a famous British blues producer and a guest of Trilj two years ago, arrives from Spain. Attractive Bad Week from Novi Sad are known to the Croatian public because they were finalists of the Supertalent show on Tv Nova, and from Croatia there are Valerija Nikolovska & Big Company, Beatles Revival Blues Band and Jeremiah’s, winners of the 9th Croatian Blues Challenge.

This year’s Welcome Jam is led by The Voice Blues Jam composed of representatives of this year’s Voice with Martin Kosovec at the helm. There will also be an exhibition of blues portraits of the Rijeka painter Nikša Čorić, broadcasts of blues film classics, video promotions and other multimedia programs.

This year, too, there will be three days at the Thrill Blues School in Trill with local and foreign blues mentors and students.

The Thrill Isn’t Gone.

Official website: https://thrillbluesfestival.com/