Hans Theessink
(solo and with his band)

‘Hans Theessink, the Dutch-born and Austrian-based singer and guitarist, has long been one of our finest blues revivalists. His latest, Songs from the Southland, is one of the best albums of traditional, acoustic blues that I've heard from anyone in years’...SING OUT (USA)Fall 2003

‘Hans Theessink is an international blues treasure. He is one of the world’s pre-eminent country pickers and his warm baritone expresses blues. Hans does this not as a curiosity or just as a copy of his predecessors but as living, breathing Delta man himself. It may be that there is a different perspective from a man born 3000 miles away but these blues swing, soar and challenge you to find them done any better’...  Dr.Blues - Long Island Blues Society News, August 2003

Hans Theessink is available solo; with his six piece band;  and as a four piece with the band’s three vocalists, Insingizi.  Insingizi are an a-cappella trio from Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.  They won many musical contests in Zimbabwe and became known outside their native country when they released their hit record "Bantu-Nonke-Sugar-Daddy" that soon became a big anti aids hymn. On stage they offer soulful a-cappella singing, percussion and some wonderful choreography.

Hans Theessink is one of the busiest people on the international blues-circuit today. He plays around 200 concerts a year - and with "Songs from the Southlands" he released yet another CD (his 16th) in 2003.  His latest CD, “Bridges", with the Hans Theessink Band was released in 2004.  ‘If the groove is right you can’t go wrong’.