Mississippi Blues Band

"Mississippi Blues" was founded in 1991 by Marek Kedzia (harp) and Miroslaw "Miras" Stanislawowicz (guit, voc). Shortly afterwards, violinist Mikolaj Kraszewski joined the band. It became an anecdote that "Mississippi Blues" played their first concert in a whorehouse, thus maintaining infamous traditions of American musicians who used to play in saloons. "Mississippi Blues" have since concentrated on Chicago and Delta Mississippi Blues. During the past several years the band cooperated with a row of acclaimed Polish blues musicians, to name just Zbigniew "Oliver" Laski (Mietek Blues Band) or Igor Lojko (Good Morning Blues). At present, the band’s leader Mirek Stanislawowicz is flanked by two founder members of a blues-rock band "Debesters" - Roman Badenski (harp) and Krzysztof Pomierski (bass, guit). "Debesters" performed on the most of blues festivals in Poland and supported Ten Years After, Ana Popovic, Michael Hill & Blues Mob and Hey. Harmonica player Roman Badenski was awarded first prize at the All-Polish Review - Harmonica Bridge Bydgoszcz-Torun. He studied harp under Carlos del Junco in Trossingen and Bartek Leczycki in Poland. So far, "Mississippi Blues" gave nearly 900 concerts in clubs and on biggest stages in Poland and also in Germany and Sweden.