There’s a spot in Rosalind Park where I stopped briefly on a warm Saturday evening last November. It was day three of the festival. At that spot I could hear music from four venues: ROCKS [...]
Echuca’s Benny Walker has music in his blood: “My dad is a guitar player and his father, Archie was a guitar player and now plays pedal steel at the age of 86. My mum’s dad, [...]
Originally from Melbourne’s outer suburbs chanteuse Emilee South now chases the summer between St Tropez in the south of France, Hawaii and Melbourne’s inner city. She’ll be back in Bendigo on 22 February to play [...]
I caught up with Bill Barber between sets with his new band the Blackwood Shakedown at the Golden Vine recently. The addition of a bassist and saxophonist has given Bill a meatier sound. What’s also [...]
After staging a massive Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival in 2014 (in what many pundits have described as the event’s “break out year”), our volunteer committee have hit the ground running in 2015. Of [...]