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David Sutkin is a seasoned bass player from Brooklyn, New York, with over 40 years of experience holding down the low end. He is the bassist for Apollo’s Ghost, an instrumental alt-rock trio with four albums to their name. Over the years, David has toured, recorded, and collaborated with musicians from around the world, always bringing his signature groove and deep musicality to every project.

In addition to his passion for performing, David is the founder of Bass Upfront, a thriving online community dedicated to all things bass. With over 30,000 members, including bassists, luthiers, and gear makers, it serves as a vibrant meeting place for players of all levels—from seasoned professionals to those just picking up their first bass. Through his music and community leadership, David continues to inspire and support the global bass-playing community.

He recorded his first solo album in 1994. Since then, 25 solo albums have been released, including Pilichowski Band Live
concert releases on DVD. The total circulation of all albums has exceeded 100,000 copies.

Since the beginning of his work as a musician, he very often plays in other artists’ projects. As a session musician, he has recorded over 250 albums, and their total sales amount to over 6 million copies. His sound can be heard on hundreds of albums released over the last three decades.

For many years, Wojtek has been invited around the world to all the major festivals, including Bass Player Live New York and Los Angeles, Euro Bass Days Verona, UK Bass Day, Java Jazz Festival, Open Jazz Fest, Klaipeda Jazz FesDval.

In total 16 times, he was recognized as the best Polish bass player. Winner of the Guitar Awards 2013 in the category Best Bassist category. For many years he has been giving music lectures and master classes all over the world.

Remco Hendriks is a Dutch bassist best known for his performance videos of original bass compositions, released online on Remco’s Groove Lab. With 233K subscribers on YouTube, an extensive career in trade shows, solo performances, clinics and recording sessions, Remco is a household name in the industry. His signature “Lobster Claw” fingerstyle has been acknowledged as innovative and inspiring, as well as his experimental fretless funk rock compositions.

Remco is a member of LA funk supergroup The Big Ol’ Nasty Getdown, the Groove Lab Trio, and plays and records with legendary drummer Jack Irons (RHCP/Pearl Jam). New music released this summer will be performed at BASSTIVAL, get ready for Remco’s Groove Lab!

Starting out in the mid 1970's Jonas Hellborg has played bass with and for some of the greatest guitarist and drummers of modern music. Names as John McLaughlin, Shawn Lane, Buckethead, Mattias IA Eklundh, Ginger Baker, Michael Shrieve, Billy Cobham, Tony Williams, Jeff Sipe, V. Selvaganesh, Reebop Kwaku Baah to name just a few in no particular order.

He pioneered the idea of solo performances on electric bass as early as 1977 and has performed western classical music as well as collaborated with Indian musicians in various cross over projects.

Bruno Tauzin is a passionate educator and the author of over 76 bass method books published by Play-Music. Since 2005, he has been helping bass players of all levels progress with seriousness, efficiency, and enjoyment.

His website, BasseBruno.com, features a free lesson channel that has become the #1 reference in France, with over 20 million views and 113,000 subscribers on YouTube, along with a Facebook community of over 20,000 bassists.

His method books are used daily by thousands of students, and he has led more than 17 masterclasses across France. He also teaches private lessons, both in person and online.

Since 2018, he has been collaborating with Maruszczyk to design his own signature bass models.

Also a composer, his instrumental music is available on all streaming platforms.
In 2023, he launched ProfdeBasse.com, the go-to platform for learning bass online, offering the same high-quality teaching as his private lessons.

Bo Waterschoot is a professional freelance bassist with over 30 years of experience. Her passion for the bass guitar has led her to explore and master many variations of the instrument — 4, 5, and 6 strings, both fretted and fretless.

Equally at home in a wide range of musical genres, Bo finds joy in every project as long as she gets to play her favorite instrument. Her versatile career includes folk with Kv Express, metal with Silent Utopia, and contemporary music with I.T.T.E at the Royal Opera of La Monnaie, among many others.

She is also the musical director of the French world premiere production of the hit musical Come From Away.
Recently, Bo recorded a jazz album with the Bruno Castellucci Legacy Quartet, and a genre-defying album with the Johan Dupont Trio.

Slawek Semeniuk is a versatile bassist with over 30 album credits to his name. He has toured extensively with renowned blues-rock artists like Rob Tognoni and Wolf Mail, recently joining Krissy Matthews and collaborating with a wide range of international talents like Heidi Solheim, Dani Wilde and Kim Jennett.
A longtime student of Adrian Maruszczyk, Semeniuk remains active both as a performer and session player. His solo work blends fusion, Slavic folk, and progressive influences.

Stefan Huth, a touch guitarist, has been active in the world of touchstyle instruments for over 25 years. These instruments are played with two-handed tapping.

His musical roots lie in progressive rock and heavy metal, but he has also explored Indian and other world music. He has been part of Touch Guitars since 2013 and CEO since 2020.

In addition to his musical career, in which he has collaborated with renowned artists such as Markus Reuter, Tony Levin, Eivind Aarset, Yogev Gabay, Andi Pupato, Stephan Thelen, Nina Hagen, Mars Williams, Nippy Noya, David Torn, and Andy West, he regularly gives demonstrations and courses internationally based on the Touch Guitar Circle learning concept, which was developed specifically for the instrument. As a solo artist, he prefers a quieter, acoustic style.

Mery's Key are an unlikely duo of female voice & bass guitar masquerading as pop music. Imagine how Newton Faulkner brought alternative guitar playing styles into pop music, but with a bass guitar instead and a female singer in the vein of Natalie Imbruglia or Natasha Bedingfield.

Although Kevin Reginald Cooke has been writing for bass and vocals as far back as 2007, performing with star bassists such as Seth Horan, Steve Lawson and Yolanda Charles, together with singer Mery Bertòs the duo was formed at the beginning of 2021 and debuted at the G.Modena Theatre in Palmanova, hand-picked to provide musical entertainment during the life-time career award presentation for Italian journalist Enrico Mentana, and have since begun a collaboration with producer Matthew Parisi (Shayne Ward, Luna Blue, Nobody's Wolf Child) to fulfil their vision of being able to build songs from the bass and vocals up in such a way that the music can be appreciated far beyond the audience of their niche.

The Basstival will take place at the headquarter of Public Peace/Maruszczyk Instruments.

Showroom and Headquarter Address:

Public Peace
Nikolausstr. 22
D-52457 Aldenhoven-Schleiden

Our showroom and headquarter are just 30 minutes by car from the tri-border region - Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Our location has a very good highway connection to the A4 and A44, so that you can reach us from larger cities such as Dusseldorf, Cologne or Maastricht in less than an hour by car. From the Aldenhoven highway exit it is only 2 minutes to the rural area Aldenhoven-Schleiden.

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