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Fred & Val

Fred & Val – One Guitar, One Voice

About Me

What happens if you take a passionate blues guitarist from Germany and a spirited French singer and lock them up over months in a basement? Well, spending hours and hours during the cold winter in an uncomfortable smallish room just gave us even more blues. It seems that the frosty temperature just opened our mind and breathing fresh air inspired us to many new blues songs. We just want to go back to the Essential of the Blues and to go deep into the blues.

„Fred & Val“, our acoustic blues duo, provides plenty of own songs and some classic blues arranged in a new way, e.g. „Mojo Working“ or „It's all over now“. We're using acoustic and slide guitar, and from time to time the electric one. It's just depending on the moods. We love the blues, enjoy playing and singing it, with all its colors.
Most of you know us from the „Red Bananas Blues Band“ where we're still performing and creating new songs (www.myspace.com/redbananasbluesband)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/21/2008
Band Members: Voc: Valérie Nicolas
Guitars: Manfred Herr

Influences: All around the blues, from Garry Moore, Rolling Stones, Robert Johnson, Nina Simone, Candye Kane, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton and many more.... but we can't remember all.

Sounds Like: Fred & Val or Val & Fred or maybe like Vred & Fal :-)

Record Label: own production
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New CD

Winter has gone and spring is now everywhere. We're enjoying the great weather, the magical colors, and are using the nature's energy for recording our first new CD!! It's a lot of work (as alway...
Posted by Fred & Val on Tue, 13 May 2008 02:28:00 PST

Looking for gigs

Hi music friends, it’s still winter in Germany and we’re working hard on new songs and finding new arrangements. It’s a lot of work but we’re enjoying it so much. We’re s...
Posted by Fred & Val on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:05:00 PST