HarmoActive Funky Blues Challenge in A on G harmonica

12 Track 11

09 I'm In The Mood

08 Baby Please Come Home

01 St. Louis Blues

Give Me Your Hand Irish tune (rehearsal)

English translator by profession, harmonica player “by passion”. He learnt the secrets of this insignificant-looking instrument first on his own and then from Sławek Wierzcholski (leader of the legendary Polish blues band Nocna Zmiana Bluesa)and Bartosz Łęczycki, a world-class harmonica virtuoso, as well as at various blues workshops. In 2002, he won first prize at the Bydgoszcz Harmonica Meeting Festival. In a duo with Łukasz Jemioła, he appeared at various festivals such as Harmonica Bridge in Toruń or Chatka Blues Festival in Lublin. In 2006, he had a guest appearance at the concert of a French harmonica virtuoso – Jean Jacques Milteau – at the Lublin Philharmonic. In the years 2011-2012, he took part in Magda Piskorczyk Masterclass workshops conducted by a leading Polish blues-gospel singer in Poland and crowned with the recording of an album under the same title. HarpSlav’s harmonica can be heard in recordings of several artists such as Łukasz Jemioła or Ania Rusowicz. On Tuesdays, he regularly plays at Harenda Blues Session, a weekly meeting of the best blues musicians from Warsaw and other parts of the world.