2023 Show
๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ฎ started his career at an early age joining national star acts Semnal M, Compact and Rodion GA before founding his own band ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ in 1987. After three years filled with hundreds of concerts and festival appearances eventually Trans Express will immigrate to Hungary, releasing three acclaimed albums. Rares Totu won twice the Guitarist of the Year award, in 1987 in Romania and in 1992 in Hungary. He went on to play in UK, Austria, Germany and the USA for more than 10 years before returning to his homeland. In 2014 he founded ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ฎ'๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ง and enlisted Muzza Foundation Award winner ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ as the band's lead singer. Along seasoned top musicians Adrian Terade , Cosmin Farcas and Alin Neagoe ๐๐ข๐๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ง played countless festivals and concerts, appeared on national TV and in 2019 represented Romania at the European Blues Challenge in Ponta Delgada in the Azore Islands. In 2022 ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ฎ has been awarded two Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Darmanesti Blues Festival and respectively from the "Unora le place" Foundation. The group is currently working on their first album, to be released this year.
About artist
Midnight Sun was formed in 2008 as โRares Totu Blues X-perienceโ having Rareศ Totu, Cosmin Farcaศ, Paul Baciu, Hanes Radu and Irina Creangฤ as members. They had numerous appearances on television and participated in most of the local blues and jazz festivals: Sighisoara Blues Fest, Suceava Blues Confusion, Brezoi Open Air, Cluj Blues Fest, Clover Fest, Ploiesti Jazz Festival, Miercurea Ciuc Jazz, Freedom Blues Festival Tg Mureศ, Peninsula to name a few, but also at festivals in Bulgaria, Hungary or Austria. In 2019, together with vocalist Aminda from Cluj, they represented Romania at the European Blues Challenge in the Azores, ranking 4th among 28 first class bands from all over Europe.
Rareศ Totu is the only romanian guitarist who won the title of guitarist of the year in two different countries, Romania (1987) and Hungary (1992). A member or collaborator of the groups Compact, Semnal M, Rodion GA, Progresiv TM, he founded Trans Express and appeared on 3 of their albums in Hungary and Austria. He collaborated with famous artists from the country and Hungary, Germany, Austria and the USA and played in the opening of several important bands such as Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Iron Maiden, Winger, Animals.
Shows Archive
2022 Show
Rares Totu's Midnight Sun feat. Aminda