BERT DEIVERT

   

Bert Deivert - blues mandolinist

Deivert is an American blues artist living in Sweden. He has been playing professionally for 44 years and has performed in 24 countries around the world in various constellations within the folk music and blues genres. He has released 4 solo albums, 7 duo albums, and one with his most recent band Copperhead Run. He has performed on many other artists' recordings. 

Bert Deivert was born 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

In 1966 Bert saw Son House on public television and was so amazed by what he saw that he immediately broke a wine bottle to make his own bottleneck. He has been hooked on the blues and Son House ever since. 

Like many American families, his family moved around every three years or so till he was 14 years old. He lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Utah, California, and finally in Derry, New Hampshire on the East Coast of the United States. While supporting himself as a musician playing solo on the streets of San Francisco and with other street friends like Peter Case, he learned to play for an audience. He moved to Sweden in 1974 where he has worked ever since as a singer and musician. He has had several songs covered by other artists, and has done widespread radio, tv, and theatre work. Bert has played together with such diverse musicians as singer/songwriter Peter Case, blues artist Eric Bibb, Mississippi bluesmen Bill Abel, Cadillac John Nolden, T-Model Ford, New York bluesman Michael Powers, rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson, old timey legend Tom Paley, and Irish piper and singer Christy O'Leary. Bert has been visiting Mississippi the last couple of years and playing and jamming with the likes of bluesmen Sam Carr, Terry "Harmonica" Bean, and  Jimmy "Duck" Holmes as well as the above-mentioned.

Bert's repertoire consists of blues classics by the likes of Son House, Yank Rachell, Sam Chatmon, Skip James, Carl Martin, Howard Armstrong, Sleepy John Estes, the Mississippi Sheiks, RL Burnside, and some original tunes that fit right into the style of Delta and country blues. Bert's specialties are blues mandolin and slide guitar, as well as his distinctive and powerful voice.

Selected Festival performances

Australia

Motor City Music Festival, Geelong;  Mordialloc Food, Wine, and Music Festival 

USA

King Biscuit Blues Festival, Helena, Arkansas; Mother’s Best Festival, Helena, Arkansas; Juke Joint Festival, Clarksdale, Mississippi; Tommy Johnson Blues Festival, Crystal Springs, Mississippi; Bukka White Blues Festival, Aberdeen, Mississippi 

UK & Scotland

Dundee Blues Bonanza; Ashburton Blues Festival

Nepal

Himalayan Blues Festival, Kathmandu

Russia

Ural Blues Festival

Estonia

Augustibluus festival

Slovakia

Dobro Fest, Trnava 

Latvia

Sigulda Blues Festival

Lithuania

Bliuzo Naktys Festival

Italy

Rootsway Blues Festival, Parma 

Finland

Jyväskylä Blues Live Festival; Grand Blues Festival, Lahti 

Sweden

Åmål Blues Fest; Backafestivalen; Karlstad Blues Festival; Folk & Rock Festival; Västerviks Visfestival; Vaxholms Visfestival; Winter Blues Festival - Göteborg; Göteborgs Blues Party

Netherlands

Breda Jazz Festival, De Dansende Beer Folk Festival, Rotterdam Folk Festival 

Denmark

Fredrikshavn Blues Festival, Den Blå Festival, Østersö Jazz Festival

Germany

Schweinfurt Blues Festival; New Orleans Festival, Wendelstein

Thailand

Phuket International Blues Festival, Rock and Roll Comeback Festival