BIOGRAPHY

He has been playing the guitar since he was fifteen. In the years 1985 – 1988 he worked in the Haron Blues Band, and then in the changed jazz-rock formation Haron. In 1991, he co-founded the band Night Come, in which he played until 2011.

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kzd6 In 1993, the Night Come band was a laureate and won the Rawa Blues Festival audience award. In the years 1998 – 2001 he performed in the blues band Kawa z Deszczem. As an employee of the Regional Center for Culture and Art in Suwałki, in the years 1997 – 2004, he was the organizer and originator of the “Wiosło Jaćwinga” music festival, which brought together young groups from Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Russia, Germany and Poland. In the period 2001 – 2005 he co-realized and co-organized the Euroregional Gospel & Jazz Meetings. In the years 2003 – 2011 he performed in the Shiver Blues Band, and then Dreszcz Blues Band. At the end of October 2003, he began cooperation with the jazz band Komitywa, which included musicians from Suwałki and Augustów. The group existed until the end of 2005. In February 2004, he participated in the demo recordings of the Olecko rock band Wniebowcięci, with which in 2010 he released an album entitled “Chwila pojednania”.

From 2004 to 2009 he was also the guitarist of the folk band Shamrock, with whom he toured extensively. At the beginning of March 2005, he began working with American guitarist and vocalist Chip Jordan. Together they created a new blues project called Chip Jordan & VooDoo Soup, which operated until 2008. In 2005, he supported the alternative music festival Fiesta Borealis in Olecko. He is the organizer of many concerts and festivals, coordinator of activities related to rock and blues music in Suwałki, and cooperates with partners from Lithuania, Russia, Latvia, Belarus, France and Norway. In July 2009, together with musicians from Ełk and Suwałki, he founded a new blues-rock band called Flesh Creep.

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flesh_creep_notodden_2010At the end of 2011, he began cooperation with Virgisen Jutas and Aleksander Belkin as part of the new project Union Of Blues (LT/PL). In 2012, the musicians released their first album independently. Since 2012, he has been permanently collaborating with Piotr Karpień (winner of the 4th edition of TVN’s Masz Talent, finalist of Irish “Idol”) as part of his solo projects Bohika and Karoosela. Together with Piotr Karpień, Rafał Lemieszko and Piotrek Mikulski, they also create the blues project Bang On! Blues for festival purposes. Blues. He played over 1,700 concerts in Poland and abroad (Russia, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Lithuania and Latvia). Since 2019, I have been performing in the Gary Moore Tribute Band feat. Jack Moore (UK/PL), which at the end of 2022 changes its name to Moore Plays Moore feat. Jack Moore, and from 2022 in the Daryl Strodes Band project (USA/PL). Currently, he works at the Suwałki Cultural Center as the head of the Suwałki Blues Festival Office – the largest outdoor blues festival in Poland, and has been the artistic director of this festival for 16 years.

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Notodden Blues Festival, NO, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2022
Helmond Bluesroute Festival 2022, NL
Kurkliosas, LT, 2000, 2001
Bourbon Street Festival, AT, 2011
Tiltas Rock Festival, Klaipeda, LT, 2009
Frontaine Festival, Liepaja, LV, 2008
Bay Car Blues Festival, Grande-Synthe, FR, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018
Sierre Blues Festival, CH, 2019
Forte Riga, LV, 199, 2000
Bliuzo Naktys, Varnai, LT, 2001, 2004, 2015, 2022
Roko Naktys, LT, 2003
Suvalku Bliuzo Aidas Lietuvoje, Sunskai, LT, 2019, 2022
Spirit Of Woodstock, Mirapuri, IT, 2001
Bella Skyway Festival, Toruń, 2017
Bluesada, Szczecin 1999, 2000
Breakout Days, Rzerszów 2021, 2022
Polish Bike Week, Karpacz 2022
Sztumska Noc Bluesowa, 2016, 2022
Noc Bluesowa, Rawa Mazowiecka 1999
Soundman Blues Folk Reggae Węgorzewo 1999
Blues nad Bobrem 1999
Blue bez barier, Ciechocinek  2012, 2021, 2022
Biała Blues Festival 2020
Lublin Blues Session 2020
Blues Reggae Ananke 1999
Blues na Kujawach 2000
Kraśnik Blues Meeting 2000
Toruń Blues Meeting 1992, 2005, 2011, 2017
Spring Blues Night 1996, 2010
Jesień z Bluesem 1996
Zaduszki Bluesowe 1997, 2008
Olsztyńskie Noce Bluesowe 1996, 2007, 2011, 2012
Przystanek Woodstock 1998
Męskie Granie 2017
Przystanek Olecko 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2018, 2020
Przystanek Gołdap 1997, 2002
Harley Davidson Warsaw Interrally 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001
Rawa Blues Festival 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2012
Rozgrzewka Rawy Blues 1992, 1993, 1994
Summer Blues Meeting, Augustów 1996
Festiwal Kapel Rockowych Węgorzewo 1992, 1993
Las, Woda i Blues, Sława 2010, 2022
Przeworsk Blues Festival 2010
Suwałki Blues Festival 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2022
Folk Blues Meeting Zamek Reszel 1995, 2011
Bydgoszcz Blues Folk Festival 2011, 2013
Galicja Blues Festival 2010, 2020
Bydgoski Festival Bluesowy 2008
Jimiway Blues Festival 2009
Harmonica Bridge 2012
Lauba Pełno Bluesa 2012
Ochota Blues Festival 2018, 2021
Blues na dołku, Ciechanów, 2021
Biała Blues, Biała Podlaska, 2020
Ażorski Amok Bluesowy, Żory, 2021
Otwockie Zaduszki Bluesowe, 2021
Chatka Blues Festival 2022
Głogowski Spotkania Jazzowe 2022

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Awards and distinctions (individual and team):

1993 – Rawa Blues Festival – festival winner and audience award for the band Night Come
1999 – Festiwal Bluesowy „Bluesada”, Szczecin – distinction for the guitar duo Walisiewicz i Topolski
1999 – Noc Bluesowa, Rawa Mazowiecka – award for the best guitarist of the festival, award from the Musicians’ Magazine „Gitara i Bas”
1999 – Soundman Blues Folk Reggae, Węgorzowe –  Grand Prix in the blues category for the Kawa z Deszczem band and an award for the best guitarist
1999 – Blues nad Bobrem, Bolesławiec – distinction for the guitarists of the band Kawy z Deszczem
1999 – Blues Reggae Ananke, Żuromin – Third place for the band Kawa z Deszczem
2000 – Kraśnik Blues Meeting – award for the best guitarist of the festival
2000 – Award of the Mayor of Suwałki for the band Night Come
2000 – Award of the Mayor of Suwałki for the band Kawa z Deszczem
2001 – Award of the Mayor of Suwałki for the band Kawa z Deszczem
2002 – Award of the Mayor of Suwałki for the band Night Come
2004 – Award of the Mayor of Suwałki „Włócznia Jaćwniga” Shamrock band in the category of cultural event of the year 2003
2007 – 1st prize at Expo 2007, Alytusie, LT, the best project – culture, IC
2007 – 1st prize at Expo 2007, Alytusie, LT, the best design, IC
2007 – Suwałki Television Award Telemachy 2007, culture, for the band Shamrock
2008 – Suwałki Television Award Telemachy 2008 Bogdan Topolski in the culture category
for the idea and organization of the Suwałki Blues Festival
2009 – Suwałki Blues Festival – event of 2008 – 1st place in the nationwide Blues Top 2008 survey of readers of the “Twój Blues” quarterly
2009 – Suwałki Blues Festival – distinction in the Enterprise of the Year 2008 category in the Podlaska Brand of the Year competition organized by the Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship
2009 – Suwałki Blues Festival – The best tourist product 2009 in the Podlaskie Voivodeship, certificate of the Podlaskie Regional Tourist Organization
2010 – Award of the Mayor of Suwałki „Włócznia Jaćwniga” Regional Center of Culture and Art in Suwałki in the cultural activities category for organizing the 2nd edition of the Suwałki Blues Festival
2010 – Suwałki Blues Festival – 2nd place (together with Rawa Blues Festival) in the nationwide Blues Top 2009 survey of readers of the “Twój Blues” quarterly in the event of the year category
2010 – Suwałki Blues Festival – The best tourist product 2010 in the Podlaskie Voivodeship, certificate of the Podlaskie Regional Tourist Organization
2010 – Suwałki Blues Festival – Honorable mention in the national competition of the Polish Tourist Organization – “Best Tourist Product 2010”
2011 – Suwałki Blues Festival – 2nd place in the event category of 2010 according to a survey of readers of the “Twój Blues” quarterly
2011 – Suwałki Blues Festival – the best blues festival in Poland in 2010 according to a survey of the largest blues forum in our country, Okolice Bluesa
2013 – Suwałki Blues Festival – event of 2012 – 1st place in the nationwide Blues Top 2012 survey of readers of the “Twój Blues” quarterly
2015 – Suwałki Blues Festival – a cultural undertaking with a recognized reputation, creating significant intellectual value of the Podlaskie Voivodeship – distinction from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Białystok
2017 – Suwałki Blues Festival – Podlaska Marka Roku -award in the Events of the Year 2016 category
2018 – Badge of honor “Meritorious for Polish culture”
2018 – Unveiling of the Bogdan Topolski plaque in Blues Avenue, Białystok
2018 – Suwałki Blues Festival – Ambassador of the East 2018 award
2019 – Suwałki Blues Festival – event of 2018 – 1st place in the nationwide Blues Top 2018 survey of readers of the “Twój Blues” quarterly
2019 – Personality of the Year 2018 in the Culture category as part of the plebiscite “Kuriera Porannego” and “Gazety Współczesnej”
2019 – Award of the Mayor of Suwałki
2020 – Suwałki Blues Festival – event of 2019 – 1st place in the nationwide Blues Top 2019 survey of readers of the “Twój Blues” quarterly

So far, he has performed on one stage alongside bands and performers such as: Ogród Wyobraźni, Perfect, De Mono, Raz Dwa Trzy, Czerwone Gitary, Golec u’Orkiestra, IRA, Lady Pank, O.N.A., Klan, Harlem, Voo Voo, John Porter, Stanisław Sojka, TSA, Artur Gadowski, Patrycja Markowska, Kombii, Shanon, De Press, Jan Borysewicz, Martyna Jakubowicz, Kinior Band, Bohema, Ewelina Flinta, Łzy, Tadeusz Nalepa, Dżem, Nocna Zmiana Bluesa, Kasa Chorych, Free Blues Band, Easy Rider, oraz Skamp (LT), Road Band (LT), Blues Makers (LT), Curtis Knight (USA), Tony McPee (UK), Lamar Chees Band (USA), Niki Buzz Band (USA), Sherman Robertson (USA), Wetherbread Johnson (USA), Earl Green (UK), Ike Cosse & Hooters Blues (USA, NO), Spoonful of Blues (NO), Trond Ytterbø (Jeremy Spencer Band, NO), Knut Reiersrud Band (NO), Jarle Bernhoft (NO), Ten Years After (UK), Lance Lopez (USA), Innes Sibun (UK), Buddy Whittington (USA), Vic Martin (Gary Moore Band, UK), Ben Poole (UK), Jack Moore (UK), Daryl Strodes (USA) and more.