Mike Sanchez and his Band

Dereham Blues Festival has earned a proud reputation for delivering wonderful nights of the very best live music. Years on, we’re still talking about when Paul Jones, Georgie Fame and Andy Fairweather Low played Dereham Memorial Hall! Some of the very best concerts of all featured musicians very few of the audience had even heard of – will there ever be nights to top Hamilton Loomis or Toby Lee?

Introducing Mike Sanchez! Once described as “the finest, most exciting, most entertaining artist in British rhythm and blues”, and “bloody brilliant”, “ part Latin gigolo, part rockabilly hellcat” Sanchez left Britain for Spain and the continental festival circuit years ago His pulsating boogie-woogie piano has taken him round and round the world. Mike’s high energy, theatrical personality, characterised by big hair and flamboyant stage suits earned him the title  ‘Bossman of Boogie’, whilst his supreme technique made him three times British Blues Keyboard Player of the Year.