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Above: The new long awaited album, 'Under the Covers' has just been released August Bank holiday weekend at Belfast City Blues Festival. CD's will be available from each of the gigs listed here below.

AUGUST

Thurs 2nd - Sat 4th BLUES CONCERT, NICE, FRANCE (along with world class saxophonist Stevie Rice)
Friday 10th The Kitchen Bar, Belfast 9-12
Saturday 11th Dunfanaghy Blues Festival, McColgans Bar, 10-1, Dunfanaghy, Donegal
Sunday 12th Dunfanaghy Blues Festival, (afternoon session) McColgans Bar, 3-5, Dunfanaghy, Donegal
Friday 17th The Kitchen Bar, Belfast 9-12
Sat 18th Enler Delta Blues Club, Comber Rec Football Club, Comber 10.30 to late
Sun 19th Lee & Lou Acoustic Set, Horatio Todds, Ballyhackamore, Belfast 4-6.30
Fri 24th Quay Vipers Biker rally, Benone, Co Antrim, The opening gig from 4-6pm
Sat 25th Ards Guitar Fringe Festival, Ivy Bar, Ards 10-12.30

Lee's health

You may have noticed Lee abscent from a few gigs recently. To clarify from all the rumours going round the situation with Lee's health remains a 'grey area' for now. Lee has battled with a crippling disease for about 20 years, unknown to all but a few close friends and colleagues and spends most of the time riddled with constant pain and fatigue and highly dependent on the heavy painkillers and other medication to 'get him through'. He has started specialist treatment now for the foreseeable future and eagerly awaits approval for funding, for a new miracle drug that's been developed (Anti Tumor Necrosis Factor drug) and it has had groundbreaking help in other A.S. sufferers. The very expensive new Anti-TNF drugs costs £15000 a year for life so Lee is now awaiting word to see if he has been accepted for the funding. He is receiving the best care and medicine available to him at the moment and he will (as always) put on a show when at all possible. Unless otherwise noted on the website, Lee will still be fronting the band as per normal throughout the treatment.

The above picture was taken during the Lee Hedley Band's world breaking concert in Libya in early October 2008. This is the band posing for fun in the ancient Roman city of Sabratha, about 20 clicks east of Tripoli.

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