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Adelaide Comedian Marc Ryan, better known as The Beautiful Bogan, has been performing stand up comedy for the past 10 years.
With 4 and 1/2 star reviews from The Adelaide fringe shows he has written, Marc has performed alongside Wil Anderson, Adam Hills, Dave Hughes, Fiona O’Laughlin, and toured New Zealand with American comedian Kevin Tate.
However, over the past 4 years Marc has been a mission to use his lived experience of mental illness (PTSD, Depression and Anxiety). He created his own epic tour The Beautiful Bogan vs The Black Dog which entailed 30 gigs in 30 days, from mining camps to a local church, a boxing gym, a skate ramp and many more crazy locations.
HIs aim is to normalise the conversation around mental health and especially let men know they are not alone in their struggle. In recent times Marc has delivered his message of hope to drought communities on Eyre Peninsula and fire ravaged towns on Kangaroo Island.
Marc is not afraid of get vulnerable and open up about his personal demons if it can help another person feel less alone.
His mission is to change one life at a time.
Australia’s foremost bluesman Ash Grunwald has announced a new National Tour to coincide with the release of his new single - Life Without You, a chilled groove about going the distance in a relationship and having gratitude for your loved ones.
A collaboration with Garett Kato, most well-known for producing Tones & I’s ‘Dance Monkey” and many of Ziggy Alberts most recent releases - this is a track that hits you in the feels.
Ash Grunwald has inspired a generation to hit the road in an old beat-up old van to ‘surf by day jam by night’. Throughout his career, he has supported legends James Brown, The Black Keys, Jack Johnson, Xavier Rudd, and Keith Urban, among numerous others, and played sold out festivals across Europe, Japan, and North America. With six Australian Top-50 albums to his credit, alongside five ARIA and four AIR Award Nominations, two APRA Awards, and gong for Best International Act at the LA Music Critic Awards.
Witness Australia’s most exciting blues act in action at Star Hotel Yackandandah
HIS LATEST SINGLE Life Without You Is Out Feb 2
Australias record breaking new talent ‘Aaron Pollock’ has wowed the modern blues and folk world as one of the cleanest and most entertaining singers and guitarists internationally. At only 26 years old, Aaron has ticked all of the ‘folk-poet-troubadour’ boxes, travelling the world as a singer songwriter, becoming a finalist at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2020, as well as receiving both 2021 ‘MV Best Blues Artist’ and 2020 ‘MV Best Blues Album’ nominations. Touring extensively across both the United States and Australia, Aaron has built healthy and dedicated followings of die hard folk and blues fans, who rave about Aaron’s ability to transport them back in time with authenticity and conviction. He plays a fierce guitar, writes a great song, and stands up as one of the finest young entertainers you will have the pleasure to watch in the modern era.
#3 Australian Blues and Roots Album Charts w/Live! At the MBAS House Of Blues (Current Charting)
#9 Australian Blues And Roots Album Charts w/ Troubadour Blues
2021 Music Victoria: Best Blues Act Nominee
2020 Music Victoria: Blues Album Of The Year Nominee
2020 International Blues Challenge Finalist
2019 MBAS Melbourne Blues Challenge Winner
#2 Australian Regional Charts w/ Sweet Home Chicago
#3 Australian Regional Charts w/ Love In Vain
#4 Australian Blues Album Charts w/ The Blues Tapes
#8 Australian Blues Album Charts w /Anxieux
Harmony Byrne:
Australian singer/songwriter Harmony Byrne first stunned listeners with her wide-ranging debut, Heavy Doors, produced by Spoons Jim Eno, which saw her explore folk, alt-country, blues, and gospel with a confident yet introspective tone.
2019 saw her play SXSW and a massive national tour with The Teskey Brothers, precluding a period of isolation where Byrne recorded an acoustic E.P in her home studio, entitled The Songs I Sing When No One Is Listening.
Now she’s back in action, playing solo and with her band, with the likes of Amyl & The Sniffers, Alice Skye and C.W Stoneking.
If you’re after a powerful voice that can both devastate with muscular ferocity and affirm with skilled restraint you may want to watch this cracker of a fire Byrne.
Milou Moon:Milou Moon is a Naarm-based psych rock project fronted by French-American artist Emily McGill. It is made up of Em, Sam O’Neil (Sunnyside), George DeSilva, and Jevaan Waldron. Inspired by the classic psych movement of the 60s and 70s, wistful vocal melodies and hypnotic guitar soundscapes form the essence of Milou Moon’s dreamlike approach.
Milou Moon has released several singles on dolphin love records (Matahara, Sean Heathcliff), selling out their debut single launch show, in anticipation of their debut debut EP ‘Trails to Centre’ on March 22.
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Whiskey Dram is a hard folk band, with influences ranging from traditional folk, punk, blues and bluegrass, with a penchant for sea shanties and Australian folk songs. The full line-up includes guitar, banjo, double bass, mandolin, fiddle, trumpet, concertina, flute, tin whistle and percussion.
Mitch Grainger
www.mitchgrainger.com
Mitch Grainger is a perfect paradox. A white guy from Australia, who infuses the blues & roots
genre’s traditional styling’s with a confidence, and depth of spirit, that has seen him
compared
to the likes of Robert Johnson* by American music critics.
His sound, built on a talented configuration of vocals, harmonica and guitar, has quietly been
maturing for over 25 years like a fine single malt whiskey while he’s been performing and
re
cording behind the scenes with some of Australia and the world’s greatest artists; such as
Malcolm Young (AC/DC) and Harry Vanda (The Easybeats) to name but two.
When stepping into the light with his 2015 breakout solo acoustic release ‘The Blues’, Mitch
Grainger and his high
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energy stage show burst onto the blues & roots scene, like a field holler
echoing from the deep dark south through a dusty 50’s tube amplifier.
He packed houses in the US, Australia and Scandinavia, performed at prestigious festivals
, such
as the American Folk Alliance in Kansas City, and earned standing ovations while opening for
Tommy Emmanuel across the North East of the USA.
Then, like the Sasquatch, he disappeared, turned recluse, and spent the next two years focusing
on inventi
ng and patenting a revolutionary new harmonica microphone called Dyna
-
Mic, which
subsequently was used by Bob Dylan.
Now, with a growing global fan base that includes over 120,000 subscribers on various social
media Mitch Grainger is taking his raw emotional form of Blues & Roots music up the
metaphorical Mississippi river, out of the acoustic domain, and into the voltaic with a new
double album entitled ‘Plug It In’
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*“Grainger plays pure acoustic blues with the hear
t and soul of Robert Johnson. His light
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fingered guitar and mournful
harp perfectly play up Grainger’s modern lyrics and traditional
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sounding melodies; close your eyes, and you can feel the
heat and smell the dust of Mississippi”
Suzanne Cadgène, Elmore M agazine.
“I’ve watched him search within himself for his true identity as an artist...have a listen to his music...Mitch has come of
age”
Harry Vanda.
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Dog Trumpet is spearheaded by brothers Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa, original
members of iconic Aria award winning and Hall of Fame band Mental As Anything.
Featuring Bernie Hayes on Bass and Vocals and Declan O’Doherty on Drums and Vocals.
Dog Trumpet are performing for the first @me @:
The Star Hotel Yackandandah Vic Friday 21st June 2024
to launch there brand new single.
Come along and enjoy a great night of music and entertainment.
They will be dipping into their deep catalogue of original songs and eclec@c covers and
classic Mentals songs.
Melbourne Blues artist Lloyd Spiegel has been touring the globe for 30 of his 40 years. The 14 time Australian Blues Award winner has one of the most interesting stories in music, having grown up on stage learning from, and touring with the founding fathers of modern Blues.
Spiegel is a driving force in modern Blues in this country and one of it’s most respected guitarists, recently being name in Australian Guitar Player Magazine’s list of the 50 greatest aussie guitarists of all time.
The current show features Lisa Baird on Trombone and long-time collaborator Tim Burnham on drums. Combined with Spiegel’s guitar wizardry, powerful and knack for storytelling, this trio with a twist delivers a truly unique entertainment experience that reinvents the blues and dispels the cliches associated with it.
“A revelation, the consummate performer, an Oz Blues & Roots icon.”
- Rolling Stone
“A guitarist almost without peer, Spiegel deconstructs how the blues guitar is supposed to operate, makes sweet love to it, then kicks it out the back door”
- Australian Guitar Player Magazine
“Spiegel is ALL presence, authority, rhythm and drive. He epitomizes control, soul and passion with white hot ferocity and blazing instrumental mastery dangerous enough to spark a destructive inferno.”
- The Age, Melbourne
The young virtuoso recently described as “the finest guitar player of this generation” has been selling out shows all over the globe and will be bringing his dynamite live show back home audiences this Spring!
BIOGRAPHY
Growing up in the Bega Valley on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, Australia the story goes that the young singer-songwriter and one of a kind guitar virtuoso first picked up his instrument of choice as a 5-year-old following in the footsteps of a musical father. He began writing songs at 12, training classically throughout his teens and performing wherever he could, honing his craft and developing the dynamic live show that he is renowned for today. At 18 he finished school, turned professional and hit the road without looking back.
The following 15 years have seen him independently release 7 studio albums, tour relentlessly around the globe, play some of the biggest festivals under the sun and share stages with the likes of Tommy Emmanuel, INXS, John Butler, Lucinda Williams, Ani DiFranco, Judy Collins and Rodrigo y Gabriela.
He has been described as “the finest guitar player of this generation”, “a leading light in acoustic music” and “a performer that must be seen to be believed” and through October and November he will be touring back home in Australia where it all began!
WHAT THE PRESS SAY..
“The word Prodigy seems to entirely fall short of this soft-spoken young man’s skills, he coaxes sounds and melodies out of his instrument that literally drop jaws.” The Calgary Herald, CANADA
“Today I saw the future of Folk – Festival goers flocking in the thousands towards the main stage to witness a young musical phenomenon from Australia dish out an absolute show-stopper.” The Firefly Column, USA
“Daniel Champagne is a crossroads. Fusing the strong traditions of Blues, Folk and other roots art with pop showmanship and admirable lyrical ability. I firmly believe that he will become an ambassador for roots music in a time where it desperately needs representation.” The Indie Blender, CANADA
“reinventing roots guitar” Rhythms Magazine, AUSTRALIA
“Watching Daniel Champagne perform is a once in a lifetime experience. He is a true prodigy that plays like no one else could possibly play unless they spent at least two lifetimes studying the art.” BW Review, NEW ZEALAND
“Daniel Champagne exudes a natural ease on stage, as he sings poignant lyrics and beautifully crafted melodies that invariably whisk the heart up with grand romanticism. Coupled with an exhilarating guitar talent that transcends mere acoustic playing to replicate a whole band, Champagne is just magical” Themusic.com.au, AUSTRALIA
"You feel as if he just invented the instrument yesterday and was discovering its possibilities afresh” Ted Gioia (American jazz critic and music historian)
