Andrea Marr is ready to party. And at this year’s Blues and Roots Festival, you can join her. With an extensive musical background, you can expect quite an act from the Andrea Marr Band. With [...]
In 1947 an up-and-coming guitarist from the cotton farms of Mississippi arrived in the home of blues, Tennessee’s Beale Street. The Beale Street Blues Boy, later known as BB King, made a name for himself [...]
1. Why was the Lazenby Young Blues Guitarist Award created? The award was created in memory of Phil, who was a great supporter of youth in Bendigo and a passionate muso in his younger years. [...]
Performing a song with a plea to ‘sober up’ at a pub named The Drunken Poet may not immediately endear you with patrons. But Cassie Ward and Bianca Maes, who form the talented duo ‘Cass’, [...]
Patrons at a packed Goldmines courtyard a few Fridays ago were treated to fantastic near two hour set by Lloyd Spiegel, in Bendigo at the start of a three month tour promoting his new live [...]
Bendigo’s Pete Gavin is a busy man. If he’s not working with one of the four bands he’s in you’ll find him coordinating his ukulele groups on midweek evenings or teaching guitar or blues harmonica. [...]
Geelong-based Alister Turrill has become a distinctive, familiar figure around the Bendigo music scene these past 18 months or so. “Such a beautiful, welcoming town!” says Alister, “I first came for the Blues and Roots [...]
Thanks for taking an interest in Bendigo’s burgeoning music scene. There’s a lot of news to be shared, so let’s get into it: The Blues Tram – Artists have been booked for the remaining Blues [...]
Dubbo is about as far from New York City as it’s possible to be on this planet – 16,131km exactly according to the now-ubiquitous Google Maps. So what makes a kid “from the bush near [...]
Where do you hail from originally and how did you first get into music? I grew up in a mining town in W.A called Port Hedland. It gave me such a wonderful start in life [...]