BLUESFEST: Chris Rea

Gravel-voiced Middlesbrough singer-songwriter Rea returns to London for this year's Bluesfest. He may be best known for his soft rock hits – 'Josephine', 'The Road to Hell', 'On the Beach' – but he's always had a place in his heart for the blues. Expect plenty of songs from his whopping 11-disc 'Blues Guitars' album, released in 2005, which explored the journey of the blues from its African roots to the gospel and soul fusions of the ’70s.