Liz Neilson: Liz is one of the founder organisers of the UK Boogie Woogie Festival, Liz is a fine blues singer, performing with The Stuff Boogie Woogie Band.

Liz grew up surrounded by music.  Her father, uncles and cousins were all traditional jazz musicians, listening to  and learning from  the wonderful recordings coming out of America. Her elder sister was a dancer, and a piano and music teacher.  Liz  had little chance of avoiding “the family business” and, by the age of five was singing on stage at The Pavilion, Bournemouth.  At the age of sixteen she was regularly appearing in concerts and clubs singing anything from the Blues to Country and Western!
On leaving school she toured with a traditional big who band  refining her craft and after two years she left form her own band, The Bonnie James Band, in which she worte and recorded original material with some success.  Thorough the 1980s she was teaching music and singing The Blues, joining The Blues Bandits for two years.  Towards the end of the 80s she met Julian Phillips and recognized the music that had formed the major part of her childhood.  With her husband, Jon, she joined forces with Julian and The Stuff Boogie Woogie Band was born!