{"id":15273,"date":"2021-05-11T21:13:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=15273"},"modified":"2021-05-11T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:13:28","slug":"blues-rockers-when-rivers-meet-win-four-awards-at-the-2021-uk-blues-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/blues-rockers-when-rivers-meet-win-four-awards-at-the-2021-uk-blues-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues rockers When Rivers Meet Win Four Awards At the 2021 UK Blues Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British Blues Rock husband and wife duo,&nbsp;<strong>Aaron&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Grace Bond<\/strong>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<strong>When Rivers Meet<\/strong>, are the first British Blues band to win four awards in the same year at the&nbsp;<strong>UK Blues Awards<\/strong>&nbsp;in London last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hosted by the legendary Blues musician\u00a0<strong>Paul Jones<\/strong>, the band won\u00a0<strong>\u201cBest Blues Album Of The Year\u201d<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>\u201cBlues Band Of The Year\u201d<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>\u201cEmerging Blues Artist Of The<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Year\u201d,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>\u201cMost Inspirational Online Performance Of The Year\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2021 UKBlues Awards\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SvnzvGCi_98?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When Rivers Meet<\/strong>&nbsp;first caught the public eye when they released their debut album,&nbsp;<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noblepr.co.uk\/press-releases\/when-rivers-meet\/we-fly-free.htm\">We Fly Free<\/a><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;in November 2020.&nbsp; Since then, their weekly Saturday night livestream concerts, rave reviews in the music press, and radio airplay on Planet Rock, BBC Radio 2, Radio Caroline, plus many more radio stations and shows, have seen them develop into one of the most sought-after Blues rock bands in the past 12 months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They recently invited to perform a live stream performance of their single&nbsp;<strong><em>Did I Break The Law<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<strong>Joe Bonamassa\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Keeping the Blues Alive Stream-A-Thon<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;which where proceeds were raised to aid blues musicians affected by the pandemic. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month they were confirmed as special guests on\u00a0<strong>King King\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noblepr.co.uk\/press-releases\/king-king\/uk-tours-21-22.htm\">February 2021 UK tour<\/a>. The band are also in the process of organising their first headline tour of the UK in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re totally blown away to have won these awards,\u201d says WRM\u2019s lead singer, mandolin and fiddle player,&nbsp;<strong>Grace Bond<\/strong>. \u201cWe started playing music together over ten years ago, and when we started out, we didn\u2019t really know what direction we were going in until two years ago when we realised that Blues Rock was not only the music we listen to the most, but it\u2019s also the music we love the most.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continues Grace \u201cAaron\u2019s very first album was John Lee Hooker. He was hooked on the Blues from an early age. It was inevitable that we would want to play the blues. I just can\u2019t believe it took us as long as it did, but so glad we did and to receive such a prestigious award as the&nbsp;<strong>\u201cEmerging Blues Artist of the Year\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong>is just amazing. We\u2019re pleased that people like our sound and what we are doing.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen lockdown started, we didn\u2019t know what we were going to do,\u201d reflects Aaron. \u201cLike everyone else our live shows were cancelled, and we were unsure when music would start up again. We noticed other people jumping online so we thought, let\u2019s give it a go. We started doing live stream performances through our iPhone, but looking back, we can honestly say it was the best thing we could have done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNot only have we reached a bigger audience all over the world, but it also gave us something to strive for. Playing a gig every Saturday night to an amazing audience of people who have been so supportive over this last year, we just can\u2019t even put it into words. To win the&nbsp;<strong>\u201cMost Inspirational<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Online Performance Of The Year\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong>award is a thank you to all the people who have supported us every single week. They not only got us through a hard year, but it also showed us that during the hardest times, people can come together and even just for an hour a week can enjoy themselves. We feel eternally grateful for the love and support that we have been shown on so many levels.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen we started recording our new sound that we had discovered a couple of years ago we were so excited for people to hear it,\u201d says Grace. \u201cWe had discovered our amazing producer Adam Bowers at Boat House Studios, Suffolk. We took our songs to him and he was so open to our ideas that it just felt like a perfect fit for us. We recorded two EPs with him and when it came to recording our debut album, we knew he was the only person we wanted to work with. At the end of recording, we were nervous because it was going to be the first time that we were going to release an album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To receive the&nbsp;<strong>\u201cBlues Album<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Of The Year\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;award is incredible. We have been blown away by all the support not only in the industry by all the Radio DJ\u2019s who have played our music and the magazines who have published reviews and written about us throughout the year, but also family and friends and all the fans who have given us such massive support.&nbsp; A huge shout out goes out to our awesome fans, The Rapids, for their belief and support.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo receive the<strong>\u00a0\u201cBlues Band Of The Year\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0award is really heart-warming. We can\u2019t thank people enough for their continued support of not only our music but of us. We love music, and we love the music we create and for other people to love our music and want to see hear and us play live is just awesome. We want to thank our families and friends for their continued support through the years and all our fans who are now known as the Rapids. Without them we wouldn\u2019t have anybody to play to, so again this award is very much for all our Rapids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Rives Meet are currently recording their sophomore album that will be released in November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get your free download of&nbsp;<strong>Blues Rock Review\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Album Sampler Volume 12<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;featuring When River\u2019s latest single&nbsp;<strong><em>Walking On The Wire<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluesrockreview.com\/2021\/04\/blues-rock-review-album-sampler-vol-12-out-april-23.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=blues-rock-review-album-sampler-vol-12-out-april-23\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visit WRM\u2019s official website&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenriversmeet.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.whenriversmeet.co.uk<\/a>&nbsp;for all the latest news and music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Blues Rock husband and wife duo,&nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;and&nbsp;Grace Bond&nbsp;of&nbsp;When Rivers Meet, are the first British Blues&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[323,1630],"class_list":["post-15273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-blues","tag-when-rivers-meet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15275,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions\/15275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}