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Huib als gastartiest met de Collins Kids en Wanda Jackson.
Greenbay 2007

The incredible finale to the Collins Kids performance at Green Bay featured a surprise guest appearance by Wanda Jackson. The Kids sang Hoy Hoy, and then Wanda's "Let's Have a Party".
After a quiet period -a.o. looking for a new acoustic lead / rhytm guitarist and working (and writing) on a large extention of their repertoire; The Stringpickers are back and looking for some action.

For 2003 their agenda is getting busier and busier, besides the gigs in Holland also the Skjak Festival in Norway and some gigs in the U.K. are already booked.

The new member of the band is Jelle, better known as Joe Sixpack.
Joe also plays the lead guitar with The Ranch Girls and the Ragtime Wranglers.
With Joe the band has a second lead guitarist, which gives an extra dimension on stage.
In July 2002 Huib and Joe Sixpack performed with Marvin Rainwater at the biggest Rockabilly Festival ever held in Greenbay U.S.

Three European topbands on Rock ‘n’ Roll DVD

Recording a DVD in the Autotron

Once a year (this year on Octobre 6 and 7th) The Jukebox Fanaat organises the international jukebox and record fair ‘Rock Around The Jukebox’ in the Autotron Motor Museum in Rosmalen (near
‘s Hertogenbosch) Holland. (appr. 40.000 visitors)
Since they started in 1988 the biggest Jukebox Fair in the world.
Again -in 2001- ‘The Jukebox fanaat’ functioned as a trendsetter.
Probably the world first Rockabilly DVD ever was recorded during the 14th edition of this event. 
Three bands recorded (Oktobre 7th) live on stage.; The Hillbilly Stringpickers, The Firebirds (UK) and Chris Watson (B).

The expected release date from this unique DVD will be mid november and can be obtained from 

Dealers enquiries are welcome.

The Hillbilly Stringpickers played on the Skjak Country Festival (Norway).

The organisation and the audiance aggreed about one thing; This was absolutely the best band on the festival.

The band was invited to play on some other festival in Sweden and Norway next year and enquiries were make for a record distribution deal for Scandinavia.

The CD 'Go Honky Tonkin' with' was wel recieved as well in the Country & Western scene as in the Rockabilly scene.
From all over Euope people showed interest.

Invitations to perform followed from many festival all over Europe.
Besides the Dutch magazines, also American, Spanish, French, German and British magazines showed interest in the band.

The Hillbilly Stringpickers CD contains 13 tracks of 'American Roots Music'.
The CD is available on the 'Sweet Lake'label (from main distributer Hit Sound Records in Rotterdam).

Curious, listen to some tracks here.