Celebrate this September at the most exciting festival in Southeast Queensland
Mitchell Creek Rock N BluesFest 10th Anniversary Music Festival. You will Love It!
3 DAYS & NIGHTS. 120+ ARTISTS
17-19 SEPTEMBER 2021 - OUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY!
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This year's festival marks is our 10th anniversary and...
THAT RADIO CHICK CHERYL LEE REVIEWS IAN MOSS – MATCHBOOK 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
IAN MOSS - SOLO & ACOUSTIC
A TRIP FROM ADELAIDE TO SEE IAN MOSS IN SWAN HILL VIA BYRON BAY
There’s a bit of a story on how we got to see Ian Moss perform at...
RESEARCH NOTES 5 – A CONVERSATION ABOUT AUSTRALIAN BLUES MUSIC: LIFE BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM
Building a “scene” involves lots of facets. It involves recognising that a “scene” should exist when there is no real organisation. Australian blues music has a “scene”. It began in the 1950s with musicians...
Tanya-Lee Davies – Single Launch
Melbourne songstress Tanya-Lee Davies is a heart-seeking missile, who specializes in dreamy/pop country/psychedelic folk sounds: big on melody, lush vocals and lyrics that cast spells.
Her single KISS SOMEONE was written during the long cold...
Research Notes 4 – A Conversation About Australian Blues Music: Life Beyond The Mainstream
"Scars Of The Soul"
During the 1960s and 1970s, the protest song focused mostly on Vietnam. At the time there were other little known protest songs by other little known blues singers. There were activists...
Research Notes 3 – A Conversation About Australian Blues Music: Life Beyond The Mainstream
Further research is needed for this study on the roots of Australian folk music. According to Keesing and Strathern (1998) in Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective, England had banned the slave trade to the...
Research Notes 2– A Conversation About Australian Blues Music: Life Beyond The Mainstream
The language of blues music is extemporization, a conversation between the instruments, musicians’ and audience. Adrian Keating performs electric violin with Geoff Achison on Classically Blue DVD. Adrian’s day job is Principal Violin at...
Research Notes 1- A Conversation About Australian Blues Music: Life Beyond The Mainstream
American blues music in the beginning represented the oppression and suffering felt by freed slaves and African-American people. Among other things, I suggest blues music communicates feelings of rejection on a deep emotional level...
X’s Steve Lucas to open for Hugo Race’s L.A. Woman 50th Anniversary Show.
STEVE LUCAS PLAYS 1971 ADDED TO THE BILL AS
HUGO RACE AND THE TRUE SPIRIT PLAY THE DOORS' "L.A. WOMAN" ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS RELEASE.
The ghosts of '80s St Kilda will meet the spirit of '71 when Hugo...
RESEARCH NOTES 8 – A CONVERSATION ABOUT AUSTRALIAN BLUES MUSIC: LIFE BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM
“KEEP THE FAITH”
Anon and Dutch Tilders
What does it mean to “Keep The Faith”?
My initial thoughts about the function of early blues music on the creator/musician through to the audience, was that it connotes a...
