Almost a late night footnote on the extensive Easter Blues Bender program is a new name on the Bendigo music scene, Highway 79. Good Friday at the Golden Vine sees the first public performance of [...]
Two of Bendigo’s finest young talents will be belting out their bluesiest, rockingest best tomorrow night, Saturday, March 19, at the Golden Vine. Young guns Bill Barber and Frank Bell will set-up camp on a [...]
The rise and rise of Bendigo-based alt country outfit Four Lions matches the city’s growing reputation as a music hub. “Bendigo, I think, could be the Seattle of Victoria,” says songwriter and front man Shann [...]
There’s a very big Sunday in store at the Rifle Brigade Hotel this weekend with the Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival’s first Showcase event of the year. The Festival, now in its sixth year, [...]
Midweek Blues, a five-piece Bendigo outfit, is starting to build some serious momentum on the local live scene. Hailing from various corners of Victoria but now all settled in Bendigo, Mick Sheahan, Jayd Ingles, John [...]
Doc White makes a (mutually) welcome return to Bendigo for the year’s first Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival showcase in late February, “the Blues & Roots Festival is astonishing and the best town festival [...]
“Just me, my guitar and sometimes a foot tambourine…” is how Steph Bitter describes herself. The young Bendigonian is getting to be a familiar face around Central Victoria, having played over 30 gigs now. You’ll [...]
Tonight see blues heavyweights Doc White and the Andy Phillips Duo at Billyroy’s Blues Bar, for an A-list double-header. Doc White, one of a very small select group of blues mandolinists in the world, kicks [...]
Singer-songwriter Abbie Cardwell takes up a residency of sorts in Bendigo this weekend. The popular performer’s unique mix of banjo, guitar, ukulele and harmonica can be experienced in four very different settings tonight and tomorrow. [...]
Pete Cornelius doesn’t look old enough to have released 11 albums but this prodigious talent from St Marys in north east Tasmania has music virtually in his DNA. As a young child Pete would “tinker [...]