Bex Marshall (UK) + The Zilla Project

This coming Thursday Cyprus welcomes for the first time UK British Blues Award winner Bex Marshall! She will be joined on stage by local blues-rockers The Zilla Project for a unique one-off performance. Fans of Blues, Rock, Bluegrass, Country and Rock n Roll…don't miss this!

Thursday 28 July, 21:30
Downtown Live, Nicosia
€7 entrance
Info: 99810011, 99018527

BEX MARSHALL (UK)

Bex Marshall is a UK British Blues Award winner, having won an award at the UKs Blues Awards 2013 for Best British Blues Vocalist and Album, and recently nominated to top three in Best Solo Acoustic Artist in Europe in the European Blues Awards 2015. ‘The House Of Mercy’ (2012) received stunning reviews and won 3rd Best British Blues Album of the year Award 2013 and is featured in Downbeat Magazine Best Album of the Year list 2013 with a rare 4-star review.

Bex has developed her own unique combined technique of slide, blues rock, ragtime and roots pickin’, with splashes of swamp blues, gospel and bluegrass, all with a lyrically British twist. She is a musical adventuress, compared by the world press to the likes of Memphis Minnie, Joan Armatrading, JJ Cale and Derek Trucks.

She is now sponsored by both Ozark Guitars and legendary guitar maker Chris Eccleshall who has built for Clapton, Gallagher and Bowie to name a few. She now plays the ‘Electric Lady Guitar’ an ‘Ozark 3515E’ Electro Acoustic Biscuit resonator, wood body with a lipstick pickup with cutaway and an ‘Ozark 3515BETC’ Resonator Guitar thin metal body with cutaway.

THE ZILLA PROJECT (CY)

The Zilla Project is a 7-year old, 4-piece band based in Cyprus, playing its version of the Blues with allusions to all styles of American music. The band performs their own songs from their debut album "This One's for The President" (2014), plus electrified versions of Blues & Rock classics in an energetic, super-charged two-hour set. Available at www.zillaproject.com, their album received great reviews from prestigious Blues and Rock publications abroad.

The band has built a wide and loyal following having performed on every corner of the island from the major festivals to the smallest bars. Last December they travelled to London UK for two performances at Nambucca and Proud Camden, and also headlined the August Full Moon Festival in Crete, Greece in 2014. They have also successfully backed a number of international artists including Adam Levy (US) (of Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman and Annie DiFranco fame), Gil Edwards (NOR), Foko (GR), The BluesWire (GR) and Panos Mouzourakis (GR).

The Zilla Project are Emmanuel “Big Mo” Vourakis on vocals and guitars, Nikolas “Honeyman” Melis on keys, Loizos “Lou” Pafitis on bass and Stefanos “Medicine Man” Meletiou on drums.