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 [...]
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 [...]