Widely regarded as one of worlds very best female guitar-players, Ana’s career has been meteoric, and shows no signs of slowing down! The most impressive aspect of Ana’s music is her diversity of techniques and styles. Her blend of smoking electric funk slide guitar, jazzy instrumentals, tight blues groove, soulful feminine vocals and her incredible
Widely regarded as one of worlds very best female guitar-players, Ana’s career has been meteoric, and shows no signs of slowing down! The most impressive aspect of Ana’s music is her diversity of techniques and styles. Her blend of smoking electric funk slide guitar, jazzy instrumentals, tight blues groove, soulful feminine vocals and her incredible stage presence makes her an irresistible force in the music world.
Line-up:
– Ana Popovic: guitar + vocals
– Michele Papadia (IT): keys + b-vocals
– Kirk Smothers (USA): sax
– Ewing Dyce (USA): trumpet + b-vocals
– Carlton Armstrong (USA): bass + b-vocals
– Stephane Avellaneda (FR): drums
In 2014, Ana Popovic was nominated ‘Contemporary Blues Female Artist’ of the year. It’s her 5th Blues Music Award nomination. She was invited for the Experience Hendrix Tour ’14, a concert series celebrating the music & Legacy of Jimi Hendrix, featuring an ‘all star’ line-up that includes Buddy Guy, Zakk Wylde, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Bootsy Collins. Ana is invited for a show in Sao Paulo, Brazil where she plays with Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy, Joss Stone, Jonny Lang & Trombone Shorty. Back in the US Ana tours with Jonny Lang, Buddy Guy and Robert Randolph. She brings her six-piece band over for two extended European tours and records a new studio album that is set to release in May ’15.
Popović was born in 1976 in Belgrade. Her father introduced her to the blues, and she started to play the guitar when she was fifteen.
In 1995, she formed the band Hush with Rade Popović (guitar, vocals), Milan Sarić (bass guitar) and Bojan Ivković (drums). Hush performed rhythm and blues, but also incorporated elements of funk and soul into their sound. During 1998, Hush had over 100 performances, playing in blues clubs and blues festivals. During the same year, they released their debut album, Hometown. In 1998, Popović went to Netherlands to study jazz guitar, and Hush disbanded.
In 1999, Popović formed Ana Popović Band in The Netherlands. In 2000, she appeared, alongside Eric Burdon, Taj Mahal, Buddy Miles, Double Trouble, Eric Gales and others, on Jimi Hendrix tribute album Blue Haze: Songs of Jimi Hendrix with a cover of the song “Belly Button Window”. In 2001, she released her solo debut, Hush!, through the German label Ruf Records. The album was recorded in Memphis, with the members of Ana Popović Band, as well as studio musicians. It was produced by Jim Gaines, who previously worked with Carlos Santana, John Lee Hooker, Alexis Korner and others. The album featured Bernard Allison as guest. The album saw large success, so Popović left her guitar studies, and dedicated herself to performing.
Popović’s ninth full-length album, entitled Can You Stand the Heat, was released in April 2013 through ArtisteXclusive records. The album, produced by Tony Coleman, was recorded with John Williams on bass guitar, Harold Smith on rhythm guitar, Frank Ray Jr. on organ and Tony Coleman on drums. Popović performed at the 2013 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, where she introduced a new project: a nine-piece band under the name Ana Popovic & Mo’ Better Love. In September 2013, Popović signed with Monterey International booking agency.
In 2014, Ana was nominated ‘Contemporary Blues Female Artist’ of the year. It’s her 5th Blues Music Award nomination. She was invited for the Experience Hendrix Tour ’14, a concert series celebrating the music & Legacy of Jimi Hendrix, featuring an ‘all star’ line-up that includes Buddy Guy, Zakk Wylde, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Bootsy Collins. Ana is invited for a show in Sao Paulo, Brazil where she plays with Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy, Joss Stone, Jonny Lang & Trombone Shorty. Back in the US Ana tours with Jonny Lang, Buddy Guy and Robert Randolph. She brings her six-piece band over for two extended European tours and records a new studio album that is set to release in May ’15.
Prismojeni Profesorji Bluesa, a band of four, play energetic blues that can happen to turn into psychedelic rock or rhythmic funk. Their specific sound originates in the distorted harmonica, taking the happy and energetic music to true sensory ecstasy. The length of tracks, and consequentially of the gig usually depends on the mood of the evening. Although having a certain duration, the length of the track can grow up to three times longer in case of adequate energy, but it can never be shortened. Their repertoire consists of original music, but every now and then an adaptation might be thrown in; a track taken from their idols, such as the legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix or the greats of blues like Freddie King and Muddy Waters.
Zlatko Đogič: drums
Miha Ribarič: bass
Julijan Erič: guitar, vocals
Miha Erič: harmonica, vocals
