• Bob Brozman
• Jeff Lang
• Ray Beadle Band
• Andy Cowan Band
• Jan Preston
• Pete Cornelius Band
• Kate Meehan &
  Skip Landy
• Kerri Simpson Band
• James Southwell Band
• Marji Curran Band
• Dallas Frasca and her Gentlemen
• Steve Edmonds Band
• Mojo Webb Band
• Wards Express
• Harry Brus Band
• Phil Manning
• The Others
• Jimi Hocking

Jeff Lang

Singer-songwriter Jeff Lang has built up a reputation for startlingly original performances, working without a set list, allowing the unique energy of each night to shape the songs. While Lang will talk of his admiration for the elemental blues of Skip James, the raw gospel of Blind Willie Johnson, the devastating guitar work of Jimi Hendrix, the masterful slide guitar of Ry Cooder, and the sublime songwriting of Bob Dylan and Richard Thompson, comparisons to these artists fails to paint an adequate picture.
Jeff Lang is critically acclaimed as a truly great guitar player. The unusual thing is that the guitar playing never gets in the way of the music, nor overshadows his gift for hauntingly poetic songwriting. As a live performer Lang is only satisfied when something truly inspired takes place. This restless striving for the sublime pays great dividends for audiences that join him for the ride.

Dallas Frasca and her gentlemen

Listening to the ball wrenching vocal performance of Dallas' debut solo recording, Acoustic Slide Groove, can give you a good indication of why she is where she is today.

Dallas comes from a background of singing with roots bands. She began singing at the Saphire Coast town of Pambula, N.S.W, with some friends jamming. Re-locating back to her stomping ground, (North East Victoria), she worked rotating 12 hour shifts as a Lab. Technician for nearly 6 years on and off in her home town of Wangaratta. In almost solitary confinement for 12 hours a day, she learnt to sing by listening to vocalists on the small transitor radio in the lab.

Frasca's distinctive, gutsy, heart-felt vocal style is of uncommon strength and her finger pickin / slide guitar grooves are earning her respect from fellow musicians and been wowing crowds all over Australia in the past few months. In just six months she has achieved more than most musicians could hope for in a lifetime.

Bob Brozman Today

Redefining musical diversity worldwide, Bob Brozman is a remarkably prolific artist whose wit, energy, and musical technique combine powerfully to create an unforgettable live performance. A master of slide, fingerstyle, and percussive guitar, Bob's exhilarating show spans the global and musical spectrum, and keeps audiences enthralled, begging for more of his endearing, infectious energy.


Bob's familiarity with diverse world music cultures produces a novel blending of rhythmic and timbral influences, unparalleled in today's musical environment. His rhythmic dexterity resonates with elements of blues, jazz, Gypsy swing, calypso, sega, and even the most modern hip-hop and ska beats.

Jan Preston

Jan can best be described as Australia's "Queen of the boogie woogie piano." Her stunning ability as a boogie, honky tonk and ragtime piano player, is matched by a richly resonant voice and a joyful and communicative stage personality.

Jan is enormously popular on the festival circuit, having played more than 40 festivals throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Europe in the past 3 years.


She has won 4 Best Female Blues Artist and Blues Artist of the Year Awards, is a regular ABC and RNZ radio performer, and has sold out concerts from the tip of Australia to the very South of New Zealand in main centres and tiny regional towns.

Jan has a way of fully engaging the audience in her shows, and her mastery of the boogie woogie, barrelhouse and honky tonk piano style, leaves listeners in raptures.

Andy Cowan

When the house is rockin' with the big horn section and Cowan's soulful vocals and keyboards are right out front, this is killer stuff.
(Jeff Glorfeld - The Age Entertainment Guide)

His songs and style reach back into the very heart of Blues and Soul. Cowan shows himself to be a great songwriter and musician.
(Ed Nimmervoll - Music Australia Guide Magazine)
 
One of Australia's most experienced and talented singer/songwriter/pianists in the Soul-Blues idiom, Andy has been described justifiably as the "King of the Keys". He ripples, rolls and rocks through original compostitions with passionate and soulful vocals, wrapping the audience in his energy and weaving an emotional and spellbinding magic. Andy has evolved into a refined and sophisticated songwriter/performer, arriving at his music after a long and winding journey - the resulting confidence, maturity and taste are well earned and deeply embedded.

Andy's musical career began in Melbourne, Australia, growing up in a household surrounded by music. Following classical piano studies, he began exploring improvisation, and absorbing musical ideas from soul, blues, and folk artists developing his very own signature style that has matured over time.

In his late teens Andy played and recorded with many well-known Australian and overseas musicians, as well as piano and keyboard arrangements on many film scores - including the cult movie Stone .

James Southwell

James was asked up to play with Kevin Borich, Phil Manning and Aussie Legend rhythm section Mark Kennedy & Harry Brus when he was 13. A year later he was asked up on stage to play with Chain and Phil Manning handed the lead over for James to play the solo on Black & Blue. His first album, “DARK ANGEL”, was recorded at Kevin Borich's studio in December 2005. Mark Kennedy, Harry Brus & Kevin played on Dark Angel. Phil Emmanuel & Mal Eastick featured on the cover of Stevie Wright’s “GUITAR BAND”.
 
Since the release of Dark Angel by MGM in June 2006, the James Southwell Band has been in constant demand playing almost 200 shows all over Australia including Major Festivals, Blues Clubs, Dedicated Music Venues as well as Pubs & Clubs from the top of WA all the way down to the bottom of TAS. During 2006 James also played three shows with Angry Anderson as lead guitarist and two for Stevie Wright.
In 2007 JSB has a 70 show “ROCK’N THE BLUES” National Tour with 21 of these show in WA alone, playing Headline shows for both the Perth Blues Club & West Coast Blues Club. 2008 is looking great for JSB with an All Star line up Headlining the Entertainment at SUMMERNATS 21 in Jan. Then it's off to this festival at THREDBO.

Phil Manning

A founder and continuing member of the now legendary ‘Chain’, Phil Manning has long been regarded as the most effective blues guitarist produced in this country as well as a fine session player. (Chain are the only blues band to ever have a number one (‘Black’n’Blue’), they also had a number two (‘Judgment’). 

As well as headlining his own shows he has toured with a remarkable number of artists including Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Albert Collins, Freddie King and dozens of others to the most recent Doobie Brothers Down Under Tour this year.

Tours of Ireland, UK and New Zealand in recent years have begun to reveal his original take on blues/roots music to a much wider audience. Manning received great radio accolades from the south of the USA to the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Israel, Portugal and Italy.

Phil Manning is best witnessed in live performance. It is here the sheer artistry of his work shines through & it is for this his audience loves him. “…an Australian national treasure…can play the hell out of an acoustic instrument so good that it leaves you breathless…” – Folk Roots magazine, U.K.