Xime Monzøn Band - En Vivo

Xime Monzon

Ximena Monzón is a harmonica player and singer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began taking her first harmonica lessons in mid 2006, with Pablo Brotzman and Adrián Jiménez. In 2009 Gabriel Gratzer (Director of the School of Blues) invited her to participate in assemblies of School Blues (Collegium Musicum).

She played as a guest with many local musicians and did numerous recordings. Since 2011 Ximena is working on her solo project, along with / Federico Verteramo on guitar, Mauro Bonamico on bass and Rodrigo Benbassat / German Pedraza on drums.

She plays all across Argentina in clubs and festivals. She has also been traveling a lot outside her country, at Blues Festivals; Mexico, Uruguay,Brazil and Chile, along with well known Blues artists like Lurrie Bell, Vino Louden, Mike Wheeler, Flàvio Guimarães and Alamo Leal among others.
She also does workshops and teaches harmonica.

Her influences are the great masters of blues harmonica such as: Walter Horton, Sam Myers, Little Walter, Sonny Boy I and II, Billy Branch, Lazy Lester, Slim Harpo, James Cotton, Junior Wells, Carey Bell and many others.

In 2014 she recorded a CD together with other Argentinian harmonica players: “Cuatro Armónicas Argentinas” (Four harps players).  2016, she recorded her first solo album “My harp, my soul” edited by Chico Blues Records (Brazil).2018 She’s  recording a new EP with Brazilian Musicians Flávio Guimarães, Netto Rockfeller , Danilo Hansem and Mauro Bonamico.

She is endorser of  7 Pulmones microphones ( Chile ) and Harpsmith Custom ( Argentina ). 

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Xime Monzøn Band      En Vivo

0:00 I Wonder Why 2:48 Lonely Days And Nights 5:45 Scratch My Back / I Love The Life I'm Living 14:16 So Crazy About You Baby 17:13 Checkin’ On My Baby 20:36 Where Did You Go Last Night 24:21 Lonesome Child 29:18 In the Midnight Hour 32:29 Sheimy / Outro Boogie Harmonica and vocals - Xime Monzøn Guitar and vocals (tracks 4 and 6) - Frederico Verteramo Bass and vocals (tracks 4 and 5) - Mauro Bonamico Drums - Germán Pedrza Piano - Anahí Fabiani Guests Harmonica and vocals - Junior Binzugna (track 7) Vocals - Marcelo Ariño (track 8) Label: Blue Crawfish Records Year 2023