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 [...]
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 [...]