The countdown to Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival #6 continues. You’d have to think hard to come up with a more evocative name than Catfish Voodoo for a high energy, low-down boogie Chicago blues [...]
It’s only a few weekends until the Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival takes over the city. Now in its sixth year (sixth! how did that happen?), we’re going to see 170 artists play at [...]
It’s been four long years since the Newy hosted a Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival Showcase. But the re-vamped and re-opened Newmarket Hotel & Bakery in Charleston Road will be home for a day [...]
Four Lions’ new album Vahland comes from some pretty dark places. You’ve Ruined All My Favourite Songs captures the overall tone. “There are songs you introduce to someone in a relationship that you can’t listen [...]
Harry Manx brings his Australian tour to Bendigo’s Capital Theatre on Wednesday, September, 14. Described as an “essential link” between western and eastern music, Harry Manx’s unique sound blends the blues and classical Indian ragas. [...]
"I wouldn’t mind being a fly on the wall in their house when there’s a jam going on,” someone once said as we watched Andrew Watts and his sons Kane and Sam onstage at a [...]
Three talented young Bendigo artists have released debut CDs in recent months. First cab off the rank in March was Bill Barber with Thanks For Your Consideration - a polished blues debut that perfectly showcases [...]
Inspired by the likes of Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix and Elmore James, Sons of The Blues were “born of a lifelong relationships with twelve bars”. Hailing from Castlemaine, Sons of The Blues comprises [...]
“I was born in Adelaide but grew up in Darwin. I now live in Beechworth,” says the much-travelled, multi-talented Marisa Quigley. “My mum taught me to read music around the age of eight. I played [...]
“Growing up I listened to anything on the radio, but the music that has influenced me most since then is north Mississippi hill country blues.” Pip Cowan’s musical journey took a life-changing turn when he [...]