Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes News Archive

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October 2006
Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes will be back in Europe for Oktober and November 06
Find out how we offset our tour pollution!!!!
The new CD "Live at Gruetli" will be released in Europe on October28th!
Andi has founded Green Light New Orleans Green Light New Orleans is an environmental organization. They provide low and middle income families, individuals and businesses with compact fluorescent light bulbs. This is a way to help New Orleans!!
We are close to signing a deal with a local record company for a new album to be recorded early 2007.
We are currently working on a plan to offset the polution we create through touring (airplane,van). We keep you ujpdated and will post the plan on the website before leaving for Europe.
August 2006
Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes will be back in Europe for Oktober and November 06
Find out how we offset our tour pollution!!!!
Dave McNair (Dante Street) is currently mixing tapes that we recorded last November. Official release date is October 23rd
Andi has founded Green Light New Orleans Green Light New Orleans is an environmental organization. They provide low and middle income families, individuals and businesses with compact fluorescent light bulbs. This is a way to help New Orleans!!
We are close to signing a deal with a local record company for a new album to be recorded early 2007.
We are currently working on a plan to offset the polution we create through touring (airplane,van). We keep you ujpdated and will post the plan on the website before leaving for Europe.

May 2006

2 Reviews from the Blues Tage Roth

Hinreissend eingaengig und vor allem unwiderstehlich entspannt. Hier wird klar, was Amerikaner mit “laid back feeling” meinen, denn der Wohlfuehlfaktor ist bei diesem internationalen Quartett wirklich extrem hoch.
- Roth Volkszeitung-- Hans von Draminski - Blues Tage Roth 2006

Eine wunderbar verspielte Truppe aus New Orleans. Da wurde mit viel Liebe Cajun, Zydecco, Reggae, Folk, Rock und Soul gemischt. Bassist Thomas MacDonald scattet wie einst Al Jarreau, Andi Hoffmann packte das Accordion aus und Robert Mache streichelt die Mandoline. Dazu kommt, dass man die ganze Zeit das Gefuehl hatte, Hoffmann waere Arlo Guthries kleiner Bruder.
- Hilpoltsteiner Kurier- Rainer Messingschlager 2006

April 2006

Swiss TV will broadcast Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes music night live at Muehle Hunziken on April 29. The DVD of this show will be released in October 2006. This will also be the planned release of the "Live at the Gruetli" volume 1. It is a pleasure to announce that Dave McNair (Dante Street) will mix the album in May. Thanks to everyone for making our spring tour a success. Thanks to Klaus Steigmeier from the Blues Tage Roth and The Blues Band for their support. Andi would also like to thank SUISA , the Buergi Willert Stiftung and countless friends for their support during the hard times right after the hurricane! You all made a difference in our lives!

March 2006

We are on tour in Europe! Check out a song from our special tour CD. The Live CD is available at gigs only !

January 2006

We wish you a happy new year! Andi and his family will return to New Orleans on January 10th. Thanks to all the friends in Santa Fe for their help and support!

Check the tour schedule for updates on our New Orleans and European dates!

November 2005

The B-Goes are back in the US. Thanks to all our fans and friends in Germany and Switzerland! We have been welcomed with generosity and enjoyed playing your great clubs. Thanks to all the clubs and agents for booking the B-Goes and to all the fans who came out to see us. We plan to go back in March for another tour. I stayed in New Orleans for ten days until after Thanksgiving. Uptown New Orleans and areas close to the Mississippi River are slowly coming back to some kind of normal life. Restaurants, Coffee Shops and grocery stores are open. So is my local Music Bar Carrollton Station and The Maple Leaf. In EuropeI have realized that those few reports of normal life tend to create an image, that New Orleans is back on it's feet. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. NEW ORLEANS IS NOT OK and still needs a lot of help. Large parts of the city is still without power and not habitable. Those parts of the city, which got flooded are mostly deserted. And this is 80% of the city. There are a few signs of hope though. One of those is the Banks Street Bar in Mid City. Maria Guth has opened the bar even though there is no power. She and her bartender run the bar every day by candle light (see photo to right). Maria has lost everything in her house in Lakeview and the bar got several feet of water. She lost the contents of the bar including the sound system. By operating the bar under these conditions she brings back life to an area where the streets are empty and dark at night. On Novemebr 1st 2005 we played a fundraiser event in Samedan, Switzerland. The show was organised by the music club and Hotel Palazzo Mysanos and supported by th office of tourism of Samedan. We were happy to present Maria a check on behalf of the people of Samedan. It will cover a part of the replacement of her sound system, which is deperately needed to keep life music going at her club as soon as she has power restored. We thank Maria for keeping the spirit alive in Mid City.

October 2005

We are currently on tour in Europe playing clubs from Bern, Switzerland all the way to Berlin, Germany. Mid November Robert and Lehman will return to Memphis, Elisabeth to Austin, Andi to Santa Fe, Adele to Mandeville and Thomas to New Orleans. There are more and more B-Goes fans in europe and we will tour there twice a year. Contact Andi or Adele if you want to see us in your favorite club! (photo of Andi by Adele Dauphine)

September 2005

All B-Goes members got displaced due to hurricane Katrina. I am speechless about the destruction of New Orleans. The city needs help, money and most of all its people back!

Andi

March 2005

Hey B-Goes Fans, Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes have been invited to showcase at South By Southwest in Austin, TX. This is a great opportunity for us and it's something we're really excited about. We'll be playing Wednesday, March 16th, 11:00 pm, at Mother Egan's Irish Pub on 6th Street. Our showcase night is being presented by the State of Louisiana and includes Amanda Shaw, Jeff & Vida, Papa Mali and the Bluerunners. We will also perform Thursday, March 17th 2:00 pm, at the State of Louisiana's first official party. location: BrushSquarePark(400 block ofEast Fourth Street, one block from the Convention Center) More info here: http://2005.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/14240.html http://www.bgoes.com If you're in the area, we'd love to see you there; also, please tell your Austin friends and family to stop by and say hello. 2005 has been very busy for us, and we should be playing a show near you soon. Check http://www.bgoes.com for tour updates and the latest band news. We're also hard at work on a new CD, tentatively slated for a Fall '05 release. All the best to you and yours,

February 2005

Andi Hoffmann and B-Goes are invited for a showcase at the SXSW conference in Austin. Exact time and date will be announced. We will also be in Europe in October and November 2005

January 2005

Buffalo Records in Japan anounced the release of a compilation album with a lot of great New Orleans music. The B-Goes cut "Living in the big wide world" will be part of the compilation. We will keep you updated about the exact track listing and where to get it.

June 2004

Call any of these radio stations and request a song of the new album "Living in the big wide world":

February 2004

There are currently over 35 Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes songs available at the

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January 2004

The fundraiser for Hungry for Music (hungryformusic.com) was a great success. Jeff Campbell (founder of HFM) was able to raise a significant amount of money and was able to provide local kids with music instruments. Laura Freeman, Peter Holsapple and Chris Thomas King and Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes shared the bill.

Robert Mache, Elisabeth Gill, Andi Hoffmann, Thomas McDonald and Carlo Nuccio on drums

November 2003

Check out the Jazz Fest photos © by Scott Saltzman on the photo pages!

September 2003

Glad to hear that radio airplay at WWOZ has picked up

The dates for our European Tour are set. We will be over there between March 9th and March 27th 2004. Robert Mache joined the band on guitar for our most recent dates. He will also travel to Europe with us. He is known for his extensive touring and recording with Steve Wynn, the Continental Drifters and Theresa Anderson.

TIPITINAS SEPTEMBER 2003

Robert Mache

May 2003

Thank you for making Jazz Fest 2003 a success!Morephotos will be up soon!
Andi

ltr: Tom Marron, Trevor Brooks, Thomas McDonald, Kevin Oday, Andi Hoffmann, Roberto Luti,Elisabeth Gill special guest:Anders Osborne

Hoffmann and Luti- Jazz Fest 2003

April 2003

We are excited to perform on the Acura Stage at this years Jazz & Heritage Festival. Come and see us on Saturday April 26th

Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes Living in the Big Wide World (BTW Records) I first saw Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes play the Neutral Ground a couple years ago and was completely charmed by their quirky songs and on-stage rapport. Basil for Nino, their last full-length album, enthralled me with a mix of French and English melodies and vivid musical and lyrical imagery. Swiss-born Andi Hoffmann's newest release, Living in the Big Wide World, picks up right where the last left off. Overall, Big Wide World is a much tighter album, and the slightly pop-y sound makes the album work in any listening situation. The songs are complex musically, but maintain a loose and light sound that keeps you involved without having to work very hard. What always brings a smile to my face is the slightly odd phrasing of simple ideas that seems to make them new again - even the album title is a little unusual. On the last track of the album, the most prominent lyric is, "I'm riding down to New Orleans to kiss my girl into the night," which seems just a slightly off way of expressing the usual sentiment, but brings to mind something quite different. Andi Hoffmann rarely relies on basic rhyme schemes to make his lyrics work, and they do work, leaving you to marvel at the seeming impossibility. Most of the songs revolve around the theme of coming back home to New Orleans for good livin' and good lovin'. From the sound that they're creating, Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes all seem to be happy to be living in the big wide world; if you need an album to make you feel the same, Big Wide World is the perfect spring-in-New Orleans listen.

­Jes Burns Where Y'At April 2003

Experience colors Hoffmann''s 'World' Friday April 11, 2003 By Keith Spera Music writer Swiss singer-songwriter Andi Hoffmann first visited New Orleans a decade ago, and the city left an indelible impression on him. Soon he had moved here and the city's exotica started to seep into his music and lyrics. That influence informs Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes'' eclectic new "Living In the Big Wide World," his latest take on Americana rock as filtered through a European living in New Orleans. Hoffmann''s spoken approach on the mid-tempo opener, "See It In Your Eyes," recalls "Walk On the Wild Side"-era Lou Reed with a Swiss accent. An accordion heaves in the background of the Swiss "I Liebe di Fuer Immer." A cheery chime pattern through "Exit 20" gives way to a Hammond organ and slide guitar. The title track is built around a sample of a Martin Luther King Jr. speech. As a producer, Hoffmann knows the value of empty space. The shimmering, ghostly guitars of "Kangaroo Cafe" recall the Daniel Lanois-esque moments of Hoffmann's 1999 album "Basil for Nino." "Travel Till I Die" is a standard musician's road song made more compelling by the unusual sonics of the guitar solos. The B-Goes crew is perfectly in the pocket in the quietly percolating "Crystal Waters." Guest star Jimmy Robinson flashes his acoustic guitar chops on the calypso "You Are the Sunshine In My World." Anders Osborne, a Swede now settled in New Orleans, stamps his distinct guitar on four tracks, including the final "Riding To New Orleans." "I'm riding down to New Orleans," Hoffmann sings in a song that yearns to be played at Jazzfest, "and give myself another chance." He's making good use of it. Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes host a CD release party at Carrollton Station tonight. Andi Hoffmann's new 'Living In the Big Wide World' bears the imprint of his time in New Orleans.

The first CD reviews are in:

January 2003

I am shocked how close we are to another war!

You see me kissing in a boat on the Mississippi river
you'll see me downstream where the river's getting wider
you'll see me on the sea heading for the big wide world

I don't care what the government is saying
I don't care how many wars you are winning
I ain't gonna give up living in the big wide world .

I got you you got me that's enough to make a living
we made it before though we didn't make a killing
Paris is waiting I'm heading for the big wide world.

You got me rolling around I'll enjoy it while I can
I will hold on to your hand and kiss you all night long
since the day that we met the movie didn't end
I wish it to all you folks you will experience the same.

Living in the big wide world (Hoffmann October 2001)
FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE SONG-CLICK HERE

If you oppose the current war plans of Bush and Blair please click here

December 2002
I wish everybody a happy new year!2003 looks good so far. We will perform the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on April 26th and plan to tour Europe in fall.
Rob Owen's film A HAPPY PLACE is available now. His movie reminds me of early Jim Jarmush material and is really cool. Rob has used almost every song of the "937 Dante street" album and the "Basil for Nino" album for his sound track. Contact Andi if you would like to get a copy and visit his web site www.begoodrocks.com

August 2002

The new CD is done and a pre-release copy in a wonderful wooden box is available in the web site store.

The CD is called "LIVING IN THE BIG WIDE WORLD" and includes the current B-Goes band plus special guests Trevor Brooks, Anders Osborne and Jimmy Robinson. I am very happy about the CD and hope you will like it. Get one of the boxes before they are gone!

Laura Davis film is also in the box and is a wonderful peace of art! I just watched it the other night and was blown away by it. I will keep you posted where it is screened and how you can get copies.

Our Colorado/New Mexico tour was great. We will take it easy for a few weeks and hatch plans for promoting the new CD.

May 2002

New Orleans film maker Rob Owen currently work on a wonderful movie called "a happy place". Songs from "Dante Street" and "Basil for Nino" will be used for the sound track.

New York film maker Laura Davis will include "Reno" in her latest movie"thin air".

We will keep you updated on the release dates of these projects.

Here is a review of a wonderful Jazz Fest event:

It was the Living Legends Hour as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival drew to a close Thursday, featuring the Blind Boys of Alabama in the Gospel Tent and Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys at the Sprint Stage. The three principal Blind Boys -- Clarence Fountain, Jimmy Carter and George Scott -- have bound together their voices in praise for more than 50 years. That bond showed in the deep-bottom harmonies that resonated with the power and authority of a higher purpose.

For their 40-minute set, the Boys showcased material from their Grammy-winning 2001 album, "Spirit of the Century," backed by two electric guitarists, a bassist and a drummer. From the opening "Nobody's Fault But Mine," they moved to the undulating bass and huffed vocals of "Run On for a Long Time," a "Spirit of the Century" highlight. They grafted the lyrics of "Amazing Grace" to the chord progression of "House of the Rising Sun"; Scott rose from his chair and wailed.

The double-time "Solider" signaled that it was time for the spirit, and Carter, to be released. Carter allowed himself to be hoisted off the front of the stage, then plunged directly into the center aisle of the packed tent, just another soldier in the army of the Lord. He immediately disappeared into a swarm of would-be recruits, singing the whole way. Safely deposited back on stage, he joined Fountain and Scott for a final "The Last Time," a deep, rich a cappella benediction for a powerfully moving set.

Ralph Stanley

The "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" juggernaut rolls on. Ralph Stanley, a star of the multimillion-selling roots music soundtrack, and his Clinch Mountain Boys headlined Jazzfest's Sprint PCS/LG Mobile Phone Stage instead of the much smaller Sheraton Fais Do-Do Stage, the usual province of traditional bluegrass acts. The crowd wasn't as big as it was for, say, Cowboy Mouth on Sunday, but several thousand people stood quietly and listened as a 70-something man in a cowboy hat warbled a haunted a cappella number about "flesh falling off the frame."

Stanley rendered that song, "O Death," midway through the set; its impact was not diminished by his reading the lyrics off a sheet of paper. The Clinch Mountain Boys, a collection of acoustic guitars, fiddle, mandolin, banjo and string bass, are the mountain music equivalent of a classical string sextet, and a particularly nimble one at that. Before "O Death," they teamed with Stanley on "Man of Constant Sorrow," the other big "Brother" hit. Their harmonies, skewed much higher than those of the Blind Boys, satisfied in their own way.

Stanley presided over a well-paced set that showcased variations on the bluegrass theme. "A Robin Built a Nest on Daddy's Grave" edged toward the gospel side of the mountain music spectrum. He dusted off "Angel Bound," which he first recorded with his late brother Carter Stanley "in 19-and-54." Strains of Celtic music, a bluegrass taproot, could be detected in the fiddle of "The Girl From the Green Briar Shore." "I've always sung old-time stuff," Stanley said by way of introduction, "but this goes back even further."

"O Death" aside, the genial Stanley is not one to take himself too seriously. He reeled off a couple of polished one-liners and anecdotes like a country Sam Butera. As part of the Clinch Mountain revue, mandolinist John Rigsby made a lickety-split run and fiddler James Price delivered spot-on impersonations of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. After their set, the Boys hustled back to their shiny new tour bus parked behind the stage, a deluxe aquamarine beauty emblazoned with Ralph Stanley's name. Bluegrass -- it's not just for Appalachians any more.

We will be back for another Colorado tour in August 2002

March 2002

in memoriam Jim Charbonnet March 10th

July 2001

July5th

It's Jazz Fest time!

Snooks Eaglin & John Cleary

Wallflowers

Superreal

March 2001

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Check our tour diary and a Scott Saltzman's Jazz Fest Photo.

WE ARE ON THE ROAD IN COLORADO & NEW MEXICO - CHECK THE TOUR DATES

it's election time........check out how many choices the Swiss have!

October 22nd

all FOLK fest

Anders Osborne,Thomas McDonald,Andi Hoffmann,Cori Walthers,Elisabeth Gill,Tom Marron

October 18th

we added a listening station , videos and new links to the

INTERNATIONAL JAZZ AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2000, May 7th

Brandon Graving's art during the B-Goes show(photo:Swartz)

Andi Hoffmann @ Jazz Fest
(photo:Swartz)

January 2000

Swiss photographer RETO CAMENISCH visited Andi in December. Check out his great work on our photo page

UPDATED1/10/2000

we wish you all a happy new year!....so glad that Andi's MTV debut happened before the year 2000...........unfortunately not with B-Goes...but check out the the new Kid Rock video...and who is sitting in the streetcar...guess who....anyway,hope you will all have a successful new year full of happyness!

• UPDATED 12/14/99

• again, we are very fortunate! We will be able to perform at the Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans on May 7th! Thank you Jazz Fest!

  UPDATED 12/6/99

• WE ARE VERY PROUD TO BE NOMINATED FOR AN OFF BEAT AWARD! PLEASE VOTE @ http://www.insideneworleans.com/cgi-bin/offbeat/bestofthebeat.cgi (FOLK SECTION)!THANKS!

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  UPDATED:11/7/99

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• Check out a few new reviews we brought back from touring

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