Roxana Stroe is BACK! And look who she’s sharing the stage with! If you love the Blues, you’ll think you’ve gone to heaven with this line up, featuring a quartet with Catalina Beta, Catalin Rasvan and Corneliu Stroe. FOXY LADY (ROXANA STROE) & FRIENDS will play for you the best of blues such would be the songs of JAMES MARSHALL „JIMI” HENDRIX, ERIC CLAPTON, EVA KASSIDY, GARY MOORE, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, THE COMMITMENTS, SRV, BONNIE RAITT, ELMORE JAMES… AND EVEN A NAT KING COLE ROUTE 66.
Roxana Stroe aka Foxy Lady is a guitarist, harmonica player and blues singer from Romania. Playing the guitar at age 13 when she had her first child lineup in Constanta, the city where she grew up. She was influenced by the AG Weinberger. Roxana played guitar in clubs in Bucharest and all-around of country. On many occasions Roxana was invited to jam sessions alongside artist such are Clay Windham, A.G Weinberger, Harry Tavitian, Eugen Caminschi, Berti Barbera, Florin Ochescu, Nightloosers Narcisa Suciu, Garbis Dedeian, Directia 5, Nightloosers, Clay Windham, Dean Bowman, Alex Man. She was a band leader at Mike Godoroja & The Blue Spirit , Nicola, Red Cat Bone, Balcanamera Band (Corneliu Stroe’s band).
Oana Catalina Beta is the singer that makes you dream, to remember and above all, hope. She find inspiration in sounds of water drops, dancing in the air, barefoot in the grass, sun, moon, wind, bird song and early morning silence, stillness, peace, rain, water and blood, laughter and cries, smiles and frowns … The „voices” we hear, the spirits we feel are every man expirienced trough out of his life. In the past she has worked together with Jul Baldovin, Romeo Cozma, Jimmy, Ati de Chile, Harvis Padron, Andreas Aron, Luis Palomino, Lucian Maxim, Adrian Flautistu, Alex Borsan, Răzvan Cojanu, Ciprian Pop, Virgil Popovici, Mur (T-Jazz), Capriel Dedeian, Garbis Dedeian, Eugen Nichiteanu, Eldad Tarmu, Albert Tajti, Alex Man, Sorin Romanescu, Sorin Teri.
Catalin Rasvan played bass since high school. He started to play in heavy metal and new wave bands, then joined saxophone player Dan Mindrila in his jazz band. He played in jazz bands lead by artists such as: Tom SMITH, Rick CONDITT, Christian Ancher GRON, Peter WERTHAIMER, Craig BAYLEY, Stjepko GUT, Nicolas SIMION, Mircea TIBERIAN, Tudy ZAHARESCU, Garbis DEDEIAN, in rhythm and blues bands like Blue Spirit (with Mike Godoroja, Adi Manolovici and Vali Vatuiu), and also in rock bands such as Timpuri Noi (with Adrian Plesca, Dan Iliescu and Catalin Neagu). In 2004 he joined George Baicea Blues Band. At the end of 2005 George Baicea Blues Band participated at Blues Festival Bluzau, Buzau and at the International Jazz Festival Brasov. In February 2006 the band participated at International Blues Festival Sighisoara, in May 2006, at Jazz Recall Festival, Cluj Napoca and July 2006 at Garana International Jazz Festival.
Corneliu Stroe, one of the best Jazz drummers today in Romania, was a member of the band BalcanoLive ”s Ovidiu Lipan, Tandarica’, and collaborated with Mike Godoroja and Blue Spirit, Vaile Seicaru, Mircea Baniciu Mircea Vintila, Stelu Enache, Gheorghe Zamfir Alexandru Andries and many others.
He was a founding member of the first bands blues in Romania in 1986, The Transylvanian band called Blues Community, founded the band along with Weinberger, Tavitian and Rotaru
