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 [...]
“I like everything about Bendigo, from its step back in time feel and look to its great night life and support of live music… I have played in Bendigo many, many times.” Says Geelong native [...]
The economic impact of the Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival Economic impact statements and passionate musicians are not phrases you often see in the same sentence. However, our friends at the Greater City of [...]
As per usual, there’s a lot to be excited about on the Bendigo music scene and, for fans of Blues & Roots, Soul, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Reggae and the like, there is plenty to look [...]
The Lazenby Young Blues Guitarist Award was set-up to honour Phil Lazenby who passed away in April 2013. Cindy Lazenby sets the scene about Phil and his love of music: “I first met Philip in [...]