Saturday january 28th, at Les 4 saisons, Saint Martin en Haut in the mountains near Lyon.

In this pretty village, Jean-Luc spent the summer holidays of his youth. It's there he heard for the first time "Honky Tonk Woman". That's also the place he wrote his firsts songs.

Here are some pics of this friendly and nostalgic concert. Jean-Luc met some old friends, and since winter was outside, we were inside eating some choucroute and playins some appalachian ballads. Thanks Tom, the cooker, and all the staff.

We drove back to Brittany under the snow. It's winter ...

Vagabondage (Rambling)

It is the title of the new album of the Hoboes.

Jean-Luc has just done the mix, Mary and Jocelyn have finished the booklet.

13 titles including "Miss The Mississippi and You", "San Francisco Bay Blues", "Between the Devil and The Deep Blue Sea"...

The cd will be available the 21st of June 2011.

Here's a sample of one of the songs of Vagabondage : Strawberry Jam, a song written by Michelle Shocked.

Like this record, simple and warm.

Strawberry_Jam

10€ (+ 3€ shipping)

Musicians don't allways play in smoky dirty places. They happen to to meet VIP in wonderful places !

We spent three days in the Golfe du Morbihan, for the "Week of the Gulf". The weather was very fine. We had a warm welcome by the team of the Recouvrance ship as the Crédit Agricole du Morbihan, the bank that put on this party.

We invite you to follow us on board by opening the picture book.

Tuesday december 22th, our friend Arvid Smith of the Tammerlin band was in our studio for a long day of music.

In the afternoon, he gave a wonderful master class to some lucky Jean-Luc's students.

Concert then, solo first, some blues with Jean-Luc, with the band Mary-Lou, and jam with many guests like Cristine, Marion Thebault, Jean-Paul Raffin of the Lonesome Day band, our piano player, Stéphane Dhondt who sung 2 songs of his new piano solo show, and many others.

Arvid, after a few days of private holidays, left Europe on december 28th. We will keep wonderful memories of that day. THANK YOU ARVID !

You can see the pictures here.

Thanks to Jacques Goascoz for the pictures.

           The Mary-Lou band

                     Mary

                   Jean-Luc

                   Stéphane

and all the staff of Louise Bell Productions

wish you

A HAPPY NEW YEAR

PEACE LOVE MUSIC

Some gigs in Brittany at the beginning of august with our friend and drummer Benoît Perset (the one who plays on our cds). In Benodet (29) and at the  "Combourg's (35) Festival de la Lanterne".

(photos Marie Perset)

(photos Jacques Goascoz)

Thanks to the Tourism Office. We heared many bands in a friendly atmosphere. Thanks to the many many people of the Place Albert Parent.

Now we're back home. The summer tour is almost over. It has been very hard this year. Some pics from our last gigs in the south. Nîmes first, "the town with an accent" had invited us for the second time this summer, thursday 08/19. "Buffalo" played some harmonica with us and he kindly sent some pictures. Thanks to him. If you made pics or videos at a concert, please send them to us.

The day after,, gig in Lacanau (private campground),  then Charente, near Nanteuil en Vallée, A very cute place where we were playing for a private party. We were glad to meet again many friends, and, despite of the very high temperature (a Florida feeling) we, and the hundred of people there, will keep wonderful memories of that night : music, love and friendship under the stars. The real thing ! Thanks to Francine and Claude ! Happy Trails !

We played last saturday in St Ségal (Finistère). This small town near Châteaulin had invited The Hoboes to play their "Country Tales and Train Songs" in the St Sébastien Chapel. A hundred of people were there. You can visit that extraordinary building for free untill the end of August.

A lovely audience and a great night.

Thanks to the town and to Virginie Foutel who is in charge of the booking.

You know we like to play music with friends in France, Europe, and USA as well. We are working on a new show with Marion (voice, harmonica, dobro, lap steel) and Jean-Paul (voice, mandolin, guitar) from the Lonesome Day band of Brittany. Acoustic country, bluegrass, folk, new songs and covers, that we love to play together.
We will play a couple of gigs together each year.

Some pics of our concert in Courcouronnes, november 2009
All the pictures are available here.