Guy Verlinde & The Artisans Of Solace - Live At Minard (2022)

Over the past decade, Guy Verlinde (Gent, °1976) has dominated the Belgian blues scene, toured Europe non-stop with his bands The Mighty Gators & The Houserockers and has won several music awards. He recorded 13 albums in 12 years for Parisfal & Dixiefrog Records, and has played at numerous prestigious clubs & international festivals where he shared the bill with greats such as: B.B. King, John Fogerty, Tony Joe White, Santana, John Hiatt, Canned Heat, Jeff Beck … He is often referred to as the hardest working man of the Belgian blues scene.

In recent years Guy Verlinde has been a founding member of the new Ghent Blues scene and developed several educational concerts & projects for schools. But most of all, Guy keeps on touring as a duo with the young harmonica player Olivier Vander Bauwede, performing his acoustic listening songs and showing that besides the blues, he also is at home in the Americana & Singer-Songwriter genre.

With his new album Standing in the Light of a Brand New Day, Guy takes a next step in his musical and lyrical evolution. And to reproduce the bigger sound and arrangements of the album, he now tours with his new band The Artisans of Solace. They deliver intense high-quality concerts, coloring Guy’s musical stories about love, loss, hope, resurrection & the positive power of music with sound.