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Jewels from Europ
C
ongratulations Nico! We heard
that you’ve won the Belgian
Blues Challenge and 2nd place
at the European Blues Challen-
ge 2017. We want to know about it!
Well it was an honour for us to win the Belgian
Blues Challenge and represent our country on
the European Edition where you compete with
21 countries who all send their winners of there
national Blues Challenge. And then coming
in second after the UK with a Band from little
Belgium was above expectations! And the most
fun part was after the challenge in the backsta-
ge Mike Vernon (Famous producer who worked
with David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Peter Green,
Fleetwood Mac,…………) came to us to tell us
how he liked our music and that he was amazed
by our performance and told us if we had won
it would be deserved also. Well I can tell you if
Mike Vernon tells you this face to face, I was a
little star struck and only could say thank you sir,
Thank you sir 
GZ:Tell us, how did the BluesBo-
nes’ story start? Have you ever
dreamt about this present?
Well it started out at the end of
2011 when my former band
split and I wanted to start a
new band and found people
to start the BluesBones. And
we played our first show I think
April 2012 and from that point
on we never expected it to go so
fast. The same year we got invited
to the Belgian Blues Challenge and
finished 3rd and also won the public
favourite price for a band that only existed 6