Back in October we shared the announcement about the launch of the BEL-AOR ROCKS Festival in Belfast in May (https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/local-rock-news/3915-bel-aor-rocks-the-ultimate-aor-experience-arrives-in-belfast-this-coming-may ). More bands were announced in November and further acts were announced last week. You can check out the press release below. This is definitely an event you will not want to miss!!

Missouri based band Shaman’s Harvest formed back in 1996 and have released seven albums in that period. They finally make it to the UK and Ireland this year on the aptly named ‘About Time’ tour; alongside Texan band Blacktop Mojo. The tour includes a show in The Limelight in Belfast on 19^th March, plus gigs in Dublin and Cork on the following nights.

The band’s last three albums have been released through Mascot Label Group, including the latest “Rebelator” which came out in 2022. The label put me in touch with one of the band’s founding members, guitarist Josh Hamler, and we had a chat on Zoom on 12^th February. We talked about the new single “Rock n Roll Queen”, the upcoming tour, future releases, the history of the band and plans for the rest of 2025.

You can hear that conversation as well as four tracks from Shaman’s Harvest on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 14^th February. That Show is now available from the On Demand Player - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/hosts/ni-rocks-friday-rock-show

The interview can be read below and the Show has been uploaded to our MixCloud page as well - 

https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/josh-hamler-shamans-harvest-interview-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-14th-feb-2025/

_{There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of January 2025 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 165 different artists on the Shows this month.}

_{Playlists for December were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3920-ni-rocks-playlists-for-december-2024}

_{There was a new interview with Cory Marks this month – chatting about the new album and upcoming tour. There was also a special promo feature with Mark Tremonti talking about the new Tremonti album.}

_{All of our previous interviews can be found here - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews.html and on the NI Rocks MixCloud page as well - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/  .}

_{There are also monthly Spotify playlists for the Friday NI Rocks Show which feature most of the tracks from each Show that month.}

_{The “NI Rocks Recommends” feature on the Rock Radio NI website covered new releases from Tremonti, Bonfire and The Ferrymen.}

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