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The Robbert Duijf Band from the Netherlands wins 1st place at the 2024 European Blues Challenge. Photo by Aigars Lapsa

as the Blues Market. The EBU’s Blues Market features 30- professionals, artists, media and enthusiasts from all over
60+ exhibitors from across Europe. The Blues Market is an Europe (as well as attendees from overseas), and keep
exclusively tailored, unique and free opportunity for all EBU updated on the latest in the blues industry.
members to present their activities in an informal setting, as The EBU also coordinates the Blues Expo. Through
well as to meet, interact and communicate with other blues photo exhibitions by international photographers, audiovisual
material, film footage of past EBCs and information hosted
by EBU members, the Blues Expo aims to support, illustrate
and advertise the activities of the EBU such as the European
Blues Challenge, the Blues Market and other cultural events
associated with today’s lively European blues scene. Since
2013, the Expo has visited different cities in Spain, Norway,
Belgium, France, Italy and Denmark, and is now hosted online.
In 2015, the EBU created the Blues Behind The
Scenes Awards (BBS Awards) to recognize European
individuals and organizations that have worked tirelessly
and made significant contributions to advance and support
the blues in Europe. These awards highlight and honor
those individuals, associations, organizations, record labels,
Portugal’s Kiko & The Blues Refugees win 3rd place at the 2024 EBC. magazines, radio stations, journalists, promoters, managers,
Photo by Christophe Losberger writers, blues researchers and others who are not usually known

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