MFP Concerts GmbH & CoKG

Message from Jon:
August 9, 2011

I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers
to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore
be taking a break from performing while getting the
treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to
write music - in my world it just has to be part of the
therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.

God bless and see you soon

Jon                                                               

May we also, at Jon's request, ask if everyone could
please respect his need for privacy so that he can spend time with his family (and his music).

Thank you

Biografie:

In 2010, Pete York called a couple of friends, one of them Jon Lord, to do a gig at Lahnstein Festival, Germany.

He called the project in short „Rhythm‚n‘Blues Allstars“.
Everybody involved enjoyed himself so much that it was decided to repeat this, place and time – unknown.

In the same year, German promoter Thorsten Sohn of MFP-Concerts did a „Rock Meets Classic“ show in Munich, and during the one-week preparations it happened that topics moved to the Blues Project and Thorsten Sohn recognised a resulting possibility that Jon was willing to play in a Rhythm’n’Blues band for the first time again since his departure from Deep Purple.
Out of the internal use of ‘this bluesband of yours’ emerged the JON LORD BLUES PROJECT.

Quote Jon:
Although my name may be on the poster, I’m not “primus inter pares”. When
we’re on stage I’m just a member. It’s just wonderful for me to be able to
relax into a group of musicians of this caliber. We’re all equal in the
way we play, and all of them are equally capable of fronting this band.
It’s very much like the Three Musketeers thing, it’s, “All for one and one
for all.”

Sohn created the band logo and wasn’t very surprised how many promoters wanted to see this band live, after he had announced that there were a couple of performances planned for 2011.
The band did a couple of successful, sold out festivals in Germany and a tour across Austria, as well as a festival in Hungary.

Out of the recording of their performance at Rottweil festival and in cooperation with Jon’s manager, Sohn produced the first official live-CD since Jon’s departure from Deep Purple.
There is a world-wide release via MFP Music Productions. The CD got only positive reviews in all relevant music magazines and represents this band in a perfect way.
In July 2011 the bad news about Jon’s falling ill of cancer was released, and that he couldn’t play live in 2011 and 2012 any more.

After the first shock was stomached, everybody involved decided to play the remaining dates in November with Brian Auger as organ player.
Out of JON LORD BLUES PROJECT became BLUES PROJECT feat. Brian Auger.
For the first time, the band played in September 2011 on the festival in Kaiserslautern.
After this, for all parties concerned, very successful test run, they began playing the remaining tour dates in November.

In 2012, this band will feature two line ups:

Tickets unter www.eventim.de

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