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On sunday afternoon we have a special event; Album presentation of our new album ” People Talk ” . We found Marc Stakenburg, radio presentator, journalist, writer, founder of Music Trails willing to do the presentation at this special event. We will play the album live and in second set some more hits of our […]
Join Us at this wonderful venue at Nijverdal with our full Americana show!! SEE YOU THERE !!
Tervetuloa! we have a great show for you at Tampere!! Join Us.
This is our tour schedule with dates, shows confirmed. We are still busy to cover other dates too so will update this schedule as soon as possible while changes can be made.
We are working from last year on our new album. and are almost ready for mastering and making all artwork ready for our release this summer. Appears on Wraf records© Walter Rootsie and his Blue Connection – People Talk ( 2025) The band is quite unique in the 20 years they play this year. The […]
On 18 September 2025 our Holland/Germany tour begins. We start at Gemert. Holland at a great place called De Bunker. Happy to see you there, folks!
On Saterday 19th of July we play at the wonderful venue in the far east of Finland at Lapinlahti. Welcome everybody and join us with a full evening of home made Americana songs and sounds
On Friday 18th of July we play at Bar Bizarre, Salo Finland. We have a special performance, while this concert will be made by the original line up of the band with Pete Bergman on Bass. Welcome everybody !!!
On saterday 14th of June we play at the great KAAVI BLUES FESTIVAL
On 31st of May we play at this Outdoor International Festival in France. Good to see some fans from France.
Hello! we all wish you a nice Xmas and a great 2025. The year we are having this awesome band 20 years together on the road. In 2025 planning of releasing our new album PEOPLE TALK and also a mini studio livealbum with unreleased songs. This new year will contain new songs and hopefully lots […]
On a dark saterday evening we drove to the west coast of Finland heading to one of the best Live music clubs in Finland: Pub Gronan at Hanko. Well it was wonderfull indeed! Good sound, good audiance, everybody happy on that dark night in Hanko where we brought some light with our songs and sounds. […]
On a sunny Sunday afternoon we had a great gig at this beautiful venue at Nijverdal. Two sets we played and people who joined us were having like us a good time. Thanks Jan and staff for your hospitality. Till next time!
An Awesome evening we had at Alte Dorfschanke at Rinkerode, Germany. Amazing audiance we had in a full house at this special venue in Germany. We played two sets and everyone enjoyed as much as we did. Thank you very much Wolfgang, Doris, Maria and all the people for your warm welcome. We will be […]
We had a great time at Maloe Melo, Amsterdam. Played allmost all our songs with a 3 hours non stop set in a full house! It was very nice and people enjoyed the show.
We are having a nice acoustic evening with the Rootsie Trio at Pub Huopis, Helsinki. We are playing acoustic versions of our songs and add some nice covers to it. Walter Rootsie- vocals, guitar, harp Jan Smedberg – Standing bass Parska Saharinen – guitars, dobro Pub Huopis is open already in the afternoon, but we […]
Welcome at our full Americana Music road show at this great venue at Hanko, Finland on saterday evening 16-11-2024.
Looking forward to play at this nice venue at Rinkerode, Germany! Herzlich Wilkommen Allen!
Welcome to this great venue on a sunny sunday afternoon to join our Americana show!! Showtime 14.30 hours
Had a really nice evening at Pikkupassi. People enjoyed it very much. Listening, dancing to our songs. Lovely evening! Kiitos Karkkila. we will be back.
We added a new concert at our tourlist 2024. Welcome at Pub Pikku Passi!!!
DUE TO CANCELLATION BY ORGANISATION THIS CONCERT IS NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE. SORRY FOR THE INCONVIENCE. WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE ON THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 2024. PEOPLE IN THE REGION OF ARNHEM CAN JOIN US ON SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER AT UNCLE SAM, NIJVERDAL 14.30 HOURS.
On a sunny sunday afternoon 21-4-2024 we played as a trio an acoustic set at Pub Huopis, Helsinki. We had made a list but everytime we adjusted songs to the list while playing as the whole set took two hours in total. Nevertheless we and the audiance present had a very good time at Pub […]
On saterday 20 April 2024 we played at the famous Bar Mendocino at Helsinki center, Finland. Friends, fans and musiclovers have joined us at this great Americana Music show we had made. All of our new songs we played together with some hits and old songs. During ‘ Motel Dakota’ and ‘ Empty Heart’ the […]
On 19 April 2024 we played at a full house at Pub Old Story at Vantaa, Finland. We played two long sets after a delay because of extra broadcasting of an important hockeygame on big screen at this big sportscafe. We started with our own songs and sounds in the first set. In the second […]
Tervetuloa!!! Welcome and join us at Hanko on 16-11-2024 at the great Pub Grönan! Looking forward seeing you all.
In April 2024 we are touring again in Finland and having some great concerts you can join. In Old Story and Mendocino we have different shows with the band and at Pub Huopis a special singer songwriter sunday afternoon with unplugged session of WALTER ROOTSIE TRIO with Jan on double bass, Parska guitars, dobro and […]
Join our special singer songwriter show with own songs and sounds and some (under) covers with the acoustic trio on a nice sunny sunday afternoon at Pub Huopis
Join us at Mendocino, Helsinki for a nice show
Welcome at Old Story, Vantaa Finland at our full Americana music show
Hello dear friends, Recently there have been added a big amount of new videos on the You Tube channel of clips from our recent Autumn Holland Tour. Please join us at You Tube and look at he se new clips.
We are planning our Holland, Suomi, Europe tours, gigs in Finland, events and more. Just keep our website, Facebook page, Instagram account under your radar to find out more were we are on the road!
We are busy making a new album. First recording session was in IJland studio, Amsterdam in between our fabulous Autum Holland tour we had. Next to this we are making additional tracks in Helsinki and Tampere. Soon the recordings in Amsterdam will start aswel. It is going to be a great album again with new […]
In October we had a blast in Holland touring at great venues, meeting new people, playing for great audience. We played a lot of our new songs which received by the people with a lot of positive feedback and applause. Thank you Holland for joining our concerts! It was really an amazing tour!
Ticket sale started! please visit website of De Schalm, Westwoud to purchae your tickets on time 🙂
Looking forward to our tour and to be on the road in Holland. Ticketsale has started so be early bird buy now!!! look at the website of the venues for easy tickets purchase. For Maloe Melo there is ticket sale at the door.
An overview of a great musical evening at a full house at Opus K, Lohja, Finland made by Pasi Rytkonen. All photos made by Pasi Rytkönen (c). Used by kind permission.
In August we had a nice photo shooting for upcoming tours, website and promo made by the famous Pop Photographer Pasi Rytkönen. and one example of the final result: Photo by Pasi Rytkönen, used by kind permission.
During Walters stay in Finland he continues writing new songs and one place is the Mokki to do that.
We had on 4 th of August 2023 a great concert at Opus K, Lohja. Full house with an awesome crowd. They really appreciated our songs and also our many new songs we played a lot by listening and lots of applause. Thanks to all who joined us at this great evening.
In August we had a few rehearsals where we could prepare for the Lohja gig and also arrange our new songs neeed for our Autumn Holland Tour in October. Hard work as always but also fun to have time of preparations with our music. Lets make our music great again.
On Monday 5th of June Walter and Parska had a performance at the nice venue Zaal 100, Amsterdam. We had a very nice evening where we played our songs and sounds. The audience was real silent and listening to every note we played and every word Walter was singing.
On Sunday afternoon Parska and Walter gave a duo performance at De Herbergier, Schoonhoven in Holland. This is a secial place/home for elderly people with dementia. Walter his father of 96 years young is living there aswell so it became for everybody a very special afternoon.
https://zaal100.nl/event/5-juni-23-goeie-zin/ More information to be found by this link. Welcome everybody at this special concert where Walter Rootsie will play his songs and sounds together unplugged with Parska Saharinen at Zaal 100, Amsterdam on moday 5-6-2023.
Just check out our Facebook Fan page Walter Rootsie and his Blue Connection, new updated Instagram account @walterrootsie or on our On Tour page on this website for all new concert , gig and event dates! SEE YOU SOON ON THE ROAD, WELCOME EVERYBODY !!
On 4 June Walter Rootsie and Parska Saharinen play together at De Herbergier, Schoonhoven at a private house concert. An intimate performance with own songs and sounds. This concert is with reserved seats and all full so reservation is not any more possible. Hope to see you at Zaal 100, Amsterdam 5 June or at […]
On 5th of June Walter Rootsie will perform with two sets of own music and some rare undercovers his SongBook with additional stories. Parska Saharinen will join him in Amsterdam. Zaal 100 is an unique venue with a special singer songwriters evening on Monday. Before the concert starts you can join a vegan dinner from […]
On friday 5-5-2023 Walter Rootsie played solo at Pub Huopis, Helsinki. Parska Saharinen joined him at few songs on guitar. It was Full house and great audience. They really appriciated all songs , old and very new ones too. Walter also surprised the audience with a few undercovers of Jerry Leger, Ryan Adams and James […]
On 30-4-2023 we had a very nice concert at Ewalds Pub & Grill for a good audience who really liked our songs and sounds. Played a few new songs awell which were received positive. Thanks everybody who joined us at Karjaa !
Helsinki – To prepare our gigs in Finland we finally could come together again and play our songs and arranged new songs too.
30-4-2023 klo. 22.00 Pub Ewald, Karjaa. Full Band concert 5-5-2023 klo. 20.00 Pub Huopis, Helsinki. Unplugged session
This year Walter is starting an unplugged tour with some special performances. These performances will be done solo or with duo ( Parska joins on guitar) or trio setting (Parska on guitar and Jan joins on bass). These performances will take place next to our band concerts. Mostly on different locations than we would play […]
This great venue will host us on our last day from our Holland October tour 2023.
This year Walter is starting an unplugged tour with some special performances. These performances will be done solo or with duo ( Parska joins on guitar) or trio setting (Parska on guitar and Jan joins on bass). These performances will take place next to our band concerts. Mostly on different locations than we would play […]
The first concert added to our gig calender 2023. More to follow.
On the moment we are working on planning of gigs, recordings, rehearsals, new songs.Hope to get more information soon. Keep you all posted.
Due to the increasing infections aswel in holland as the very high numbers in Finland the government has made more strict rules and restrictions for live music. This means we have to cancel the solo performances in Holland by Walter on the moment for his Stories from The Inside tour. In Finland we are not […]
This Holland Autumn Tour 2021 brought us a lot. We played in great venues, awesome people. We also met a lot of new people during this tour. We managed to play also a lot of new songs which we performed for the first time live. Looking at the reactions we got sounds promising for the […]
On Sunday afternoon 31-10-2021 we moved to Edam to play at The A Walk About Music roots festival. This is a very nice annual roots festival which was held on 7 different locations with all kind of singer songwriters, duo’s and bands. There was enough crowd for the festival despite the bad weather and when […]
We now were playing this Saterday evening 30-10-2021 on a very special place; De Stadshoeve at Zunderdorp. A small village near Amsterdam. De Stadshoeve is a big farm and we played in the barn. There were expected a lot of people but because of the heavy wind and rain only a few survived and found […]
Our second concert of our tour was cancelled due to Covid-19 infections at that location, so we went from Hengelo on Friday to Amsterdam back and had a performance at the legendary juke joint of Amsterdam : Maloe Melo. We played one long set from 22.00 hours till 00.20 hours. At the start of our […]
On Thursday 28-10-2021 we had our first gig at Cafe de Cactus at Hengelo, Holland. A true great small venue which is legendary amongst musicians and ofcourse the visitors of this venue. This concert was postponed due to Covid-19 for three times and now we were there! Great reception we got. Eric the sound guy […]
The first weekend of October we have been using very effective and productive. In the Studio in Helsinki, Finland we have been playing all new songs, fine tuning and practising these for three days. We also had time to play through the long playlists for our coming Holland Autumn Tour 28-10-21 till 31-10-2021. So now […]
Helsinki- In the summer we have been making progress in the Studio in Helsinki, Finland of making new songs and sounds. Some of these songs we hope to play at our Holland Tour this autumn. We will plan end of September another weekend for more rehearsals.
https://stayhappening.com/e/a-walk-about-music-2021-E2ISTXF6IRM We are very pleased after numerous times of delay and postponement due to Covid-19 that the organisation managed to go live with this edition of this great Roots festival at Edam which take place on 31-10-2021. A great line up with the finest singer songwriters and artists. Tickets for this festival are still for […]
This will be a special performance at a special venue . We will be playing one session at the Farm De Stadshoeve at Zunderdorp. Between cows and chicken we will play in the large barn. All places are seated. Please let know if you are coming by sending your name and amount of people you […]
We are very pleased to perform again in Meloe Melo, Amsterdam The legendary Juke Joint Live Music Place number #1 of Amsterdam! We are performing a full show at this great venue. Come and support your local Live Music place. Tickets are available at the entrance of Maloe Melo when the doors are open. Hope […]
Please check out the website of cafe de Cactus for more information and beware for the limited seats and tickets available! buy your ticket in the pre-sale : http://www.decactus.nl/ Hope to see you soon at our full show at Cafe de Cactus, Hengelo SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIVE MUSIC CLUB! BUY TICKETS ON TIME !
GREAT TO GO ON THE ROAD AGAIN! HOPE WE MEET SOMEWHERE IN HOLLAND AT ONE OG THE GREAT VENUES WE ARE PLAYING. LOOKING FORWARD . Walter, Jan, Anssi, Parska
We are very happy, proud and relieved that after many postponed tours we will come to Holland again to let you hear our music with lots of new songs and sounds at great venues: 28 October 2021 Cafe de Cactus Hengelo 29 October 2021 De Herbergier Schoonhoven (SOLD OUT) 29 October 2021 Maloe Melo Amsterdam […]
Our new planned tour Hollande 2021 with the international Roots Festival Edam on 17th of April and few other locations in Holland are postponed due to further severe regulations and limitations of the Dutch Government due to the actual Covid-19 crisis. The EDAM Roots Festival 2021 is now placed in the weekend of 14th November […]
on 26th of September 2020 we had a great gig at Pub Waski at Vantaa. We played this time quite some new new tunes and sounds which we had rehearsed in the days before. People enjoyed it very much, so promising songs to play anyway. It was not crowed as we normally have but that […]
Thanks everybody who came and joined us at Cafe Pesula, Fiskars 24th of July last. It was fun to play again. Due to holiday our drummer Anssi was not present and played as a trio. We played two sets of an hour because we had lots of new songs to share and ofcourse our hits […]
We are preparing our Holland Autumn Tour 2020 at the moment. 17 October 2020 Podium Engelstede, Groningen, Holland 18 October 2020 Cafe de Cactus, Hengelo, Holland 19 October 2020 De Stadshoeve, Zunderdorp, Holland
Walter Rootsie and Parska Saharinen perform 24-7-2020 at Cafe Bar Pesula, Fiskars , Finland at 20.00 hours alive and unplugged !! Tervetuloa
Update: our planned Finland Tour 2020 is canceled. we planned our tour from 26-5 / 1-6. All gigs and events are canceled due to more severe rules by Finnish Governement to this Corona crisis. We hope we can plan in near future some great gigs in Finland again. Thank you for your understanding. We wish […]
We have to cancel our great Holland Tulip Tour which was held from 16-4 till 19-4-2020. We hope to get soon new dates for a small tour in october. The Walk about music roots festival at Edam is postponed to 2021.
Due to the Corona virus we have to wait for green light for our Holland tour 17-4-2020 till 19-4-2020. We will communicate as soon we have news and more information. Thank you.
Hyvät fanit ja musiikinystävät! Corona viruksen johdosta joudumme perumaan tulevan Suomen kiertueen keikat 27. -30.3. 2020. Keikat saivat teiltä paljon huomiota ja kiinnostusta, joten pyrimme saamaan uudet päivät sovittua mahdollisimman pian. Toivottavasti jo toukokuun lopulle. Ilmoitamme niistä heti, kun varmistuvat. Toivomme kaikille voimia ja jaksamista näinä aikoina! Pidetään huolta toisistamme! T. Walter, Anssi, Jan ja […]
On Saterday 18th of April Walter Rootsie and his Blue Connection perform with a full show at a wonderful venue up in the North of Holland, close to Finland 😀. Showtime is 21.00 hours and play several sets combined with our hits and classic songs and a bunch of great new songs and sounds. Welcome […]
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After the release of the second album in October 2006 of “Get Up And Go” wrafrecords (c) released worldwide a digital download through their international distribution partner CD Baby. It is available through this link: http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/walterrootsieandhisblueconnect
Soon we start touring again in Holland! we can not wait! new songs, new bass player. All gigs are definite except for one to go on 13th of September. We give you as soon as possible more information about this date which is still in planning.
Jan ‘ Smedu’ Smedberg is joining the band in the summer of 2019. Been playing bass in performing bands since 1984. At first it was mostly rockabilly and 1950’s rock’n’roll with an upright bass but from quite early on he picked up the electric bass too. The musical repertoire also soon expanded to the blues […]
Yess, we have new merchandise available from the start of our Holland September tour 2019. We will tour from 11-9-2019 till 15-9-2019 around Holland. There we have great new merch items for you. Take a look at ROOTSIE SHOP for a preview of all items!!https://www.wrafmusic.com/on-tour-2/rootsie-shop
Hoorn- On 18th of January Walter Rootsie played with a special formed band, All Stars band for KIKA donation evening. They played 4 hours long lots of own songs combined with vary covers and undercovers. It was full house and a huge success; big donation for KIKA, a tribute for Peter Kieft by playing special […]
On the moment Walter Rootsie is busy to finalize new songs and sounds to added to the coming tours and gigs. The planning is to start end 2018 with acoustic sessions at try-out concerts. In beginning of 2019 we will have a small tour in Finland and preparations are made for another grand tour in […]
Wow what a rollercoaster it has been our Holland Springtour 2018. Amazing venues, great audience, wonderful evenings, very good feedback, compliments, enjoyable evenings. from full speed at radio& TV show at Countdown cafe to chickens and cows aside at the farm, big stages, small stages, full & sweaty gigs.Thank you all !!! we will be […]
Hello, For our gig at Maloe Melo, Amsterdam on 15th of June there is no pre-sale ticket. Please be on time and you get your ticket at the entrance of Maloe Melo. Show time 23.30 hours more information: https://www.maloemelo.com/ Our guestplayer of the evening: harp player Torsten Stahler. welcome!! -wrafmanagement-
On your request: For our special show at the farm at the Stadshoeve, Zunderdorp you can make already reservation for seats by sending email: stadshoeve@gmail.com Tickets you can pay at the entrance of the farm. Parking Free. Welcome!! -WRAF Management-
On request here the link were you can pre- order your ticket for our great show at De Nozem en de Non, Heemskerk Featuring Master harp player Ben Bouman Link: Just click on reserveren and you can get your ticket before the show. Discount pre order: €5,- Link: https://www.nozemennon.nl/site/index.php?page=180614.php
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Torsten Stahler Guest player at Maloe Melo on Friday 15th of June We are very pleased to announce that we have a special guest at our concert at Maloe Melo. Torsten is a talented harmonicaplayer from Germany and plays besides blues also rootsmusic and other tunes. He plays with various bands and artists. On this moment […]
Just to be announced! LIVE AT COUNTDOWN CAFE, live rock radio program in Holland Walter Rootsie and his Blue Connection Live on 12 June 2018 In the Radio Program the band will be perform live with their Heartland rock songs and other tunes! more information on Facebook page Countdown cafe
The Album “Dark Water” will be available again during the tour Holland 2018. We have them back in stock again!! High Definition recordings two bonus tracks artwork gatefolded de luxe package 16 page booklet Special Tour discount prices
Er zijn nog enkele kaarten te reserveren voor de unplugged Farm session op Boerderij de Stadshoeve, Zunderdorp. Graag van te voren plaatsen reserveren via : stadshoeve@gmail.com Betaling aan de kassa. Entree prijs is incl. welkomsdrankje en versnaperingen in de pauze. parkeren vrij. Wees er op tijd bij! 13 juni: schuur open 19.30 uur, showtime 20.00 […]
Ben Bouman is special guest tijdens het optreden in de Nozem en de Non op donderdag 14 juni 2018! – we mogen met trots meedelen dat we speciaal voor deze avond de Harmonica grootmeester Ben Bouman kunnen presenteren als special Guest op deze roots avond! Ben Bouman is al jaren een topspeler in Europa. Geroemd […]
Full show at this musicplace in the center of Hoorn
Home of the live Blues and Rock music in Amsterdam we play lots of Blues, rock and other songs and sounds
Unplugged session with roots, blues and storytelling songs and sounds at the farm
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