With great pleasure we can reveal the last names: this year Grolloo will also welcome Margo Price, Robert Finley, Hans La Faille Plays C+B, JD Clayton, The Heavy Heavy, Jesper Lindell, and Jerron Paxton to the festival. This completes the lineup for the upcoming edition.
Country singer and songwriter Margo Price hails from Illinois but has been calling Nashville home for many years. The year 2016 was a big one in her career: not only did she release her debut album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, but Price also performed on Saturday Night Live as well as on Later… With Jools Holland, and toured the UK, where her album reached no. 1 on the UK Country Albums Chart. In 2018, she was nominated for a Grammy as Best New Artist. To date, she has released five albums, with 2023’s Strays and Strays II as the most recent.
Robert Finley broke through later in life with his 2016 debut album, Age Don’t Mean A Thing. He then struck up a working relationship with Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and they have since made four albums together. The latest was 2023’s Black Bayou, whichcontains elements of gospel, blues, soul, and rock and serves as a tribute to Finley’s home state of Louisiana.
Drummer Hans La Faille joined Cuby and the Blizzards in 1969 until 1972, and then again from 1996 until its end in 2011. Now he is back in Grolloo to open the festival with Cuby songs and fellow band members, such as bassist Feico Nijdam and the original brass section, as well as singer Ralph de Jongh, who was discovered by Harry Muskee himself.
While attending university, American singer-songwriter JD Clayton started a band with another student, played at the campus and in local bars, discovered songwriting and released his first EP. He spent time in Nashville, creating his debut album, 2023’s Long Way From Home, which was well-received. His music has been described as infectious, down-to-earth country rock. This month his second album, Blue Sky Sundays, will be released.
Retro-inspired rock band The Heavy Heavy was formed in 2019 by singer Georgie Fuller and multi-instrumentalist Will Turner. Together, they decided to make music that sounded like their ‘favourite records ever’ and so far, that has worked out amazingly: after a successful EP and sold-out concerts in the UK and abroad, 2024 saw the release of their long-awaited debut album, One Of A Kind.
Swedish singer-songwriter Jesper Lindell has three albums to his name; the latest, Before The Sun, was released in 2024. With influences such as The Band and Van Morrison, Lindell’s music contains elements of soul, folk, country, bluegrass, honky-tonk and more. His music has also been called Swedish Americana.
Jerrod “Blind Boy” Paxton, a 36-year-old singer and multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles, takes his influences from the blues and jazz from before World War II, citing Fats Waller and “Blind” Lemon Jefferson as his influences. Transforming traditional jazz, blues, folk, and country into the here and now, Paxton has a unique sound. His latest album, Things Done Changed, was released in 2024.