Jan Gerfast info

Jan Gerfast, guitarist, singer and composer, 

has been on the international blues and rock scene for a long time. 

He has developed his own unique style and sound. 

If you enjoy listening to the guitar improvising over groovy bluesriffs, 
this is it ! 


He has toured, recorded or jammed with international artists like : 

"Uncle" John Turner, "Big" Joe Turner, Angela Brown, 

Junior Wells, Willie "The Touch" Hayes, Erin Jaimes and many more. 


Jan Gerfast Blues Band has played more than two thousand gigs in Europe 

and has performed at festivals like : 


Bluesfest Eutin  Blues In Lehrte 

Breminale  Cave 54 in Heidelberg - 50 Jahre 

Bluesfestival Dresden  Fehmarn Open Air 

Gronau Jazzfest  Grosses Festival Hamburg  Herzberg Open Air 

Neubrandenburger Jazz Frühling  Nordhausen Jazzfestival 

Open Air - GrossLindow  Osnabrück Stadtfest 


Big Barrel Blues  Blues Aan Zee 

Oosterhout Blues & Roots Festival 

Blues´n Jazz Rallye  Festival  Blues & Jazz Um Haff 

Jazz & Blues Festival - Castle Vianden 

Blues In Chedigny 

Olsztyn Blues Night´s Festival 


Eksjö Stadsfest  Eslövs Blues Festival  Järfälla Jazz & Blues 

Kalottjazz & Blues Festival  Landskronakarnevalen 

Ludvika Rock & Blues  Malmoe-Copenhagen Blues Connexion 

Nordic Jazz & Blues Festival  Sommarblues i Finspång 

Säljeryds Festivalen 


Brønshøj Bluesfestival  Djurs Bluesland 

Langelands Festival  Midtfyns Festival 

Rosenholm Festival  Roskilde Jazz Days 

Skagen Festival  Tunø Festival 

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Jan Gerfast - short bio

Jan Gerfast was born in - 54.
He was raised in Osby, a little town in Sweden.
He started to play the blues guitar in the end of the 60s.
Living as a vagabond in the 70s.
Stayed among other places in Paris, France as a street musician 
and later on playing in a jazzclub there.

Came home again and started a band called "Blue Night".
This band played experimental rock music.
At this time Jan lived a kind of hippie life in the woods !

In the beginning of the 80s Jan was backing up other swedish artists
live and on records.

In the end of the 80s he formed his blues band and started to play 
a lot live in sweden.
Later on the rest of Scandinavia, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg,
France, Poland etc

He has released 6 albums in his own name.

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