H
ello Alfie. How are you?
I am fine, I’m very fine.
We would like to ask you
some questions about your
job at The Smokie Blues Organisation?
Yes, that is not a problem.
What is the Smokie Blues like?
The Smokie Blues Organization is an
organization which was setup in 2003 and
it’s a nonprofit organization. Nonprofit
organization means it that the people who
run it don’t make any money out of it. So
in a nonprofit organization everything is
voluntary and it’s all about blues music.
What do you do at Smokie
Blues?
At the Smokie Blues, with me
being the chairman of the
Smokie Blues Organization, I
oversee and organize festivals,
concerts and gigs locally.
Do you travel in Scotland?
I do travel all over Europe,
travel in Scotland, England,
Holland, Sweden, Denmark,
France all to do with the blues.
Do you do festivals?
I do, yes. Smokie Blues was the
first organization to bring blues music to
Arbroath and in 2004 we had the first
festival and we started off with 6 venues
and we had 8 bands. That was the first
festival in 2004.