Echuca-Moama Winter Blues 2011
Dates For 2011 Festival Confirmed July 29th, 30th and 31st
It's over for another year the good news is its on again next year!
We would like to thank everyone involved in the 2010 festival for making it the best so far.
We will update the website with some pictures of the 2010 festival and leave the 2010 program and artists up so you reminisce about just how good it was.
More information on the 2011 festival will start to appear as soon as its available
Once again thank you to everyone who donated their time and more importantly thanks to everyone who came, we hope you had a great time.
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2010 Information
A weekend of Blues!
Begin your blues experience on Friday at any one the venues in the Historic Port Precinct of Echuca. Dine and be entertained at one of the many award winning restaurants and hotels. More than 20 blues bands!
Saturday will bring on the biggest Blues Band performance ever seen in Echuca-Moama. Saturday morning the Blues will start in Hare and High Streets and continue throughout the day and feature blues artists, buskers and street performers providing free entertainment for the whole family.
Saturday evening will open with our headline act, Jeff Lang performing at the Echuca Workers. Jeff is an amazing blues artist but don’t take our word for it!
"Seeing Jeff Lang was like being at
church for three hours - a totally sacred event. He's the man as far as I'm
concerned." John Butler "Lang’s music is as fiercely original as
it is moving." Guitar Player Magazine "Lang is really the godfather of an
Australia-based back-to-basics blues movement that now encompasses the John
Butler Trio, Ash Grunwald and Xavier Rudd." Bruce Elder Sydney Morning
Herald
Sunday it’s Blues in the streets! Sunday- (Free Admission) Electrifying Blues
sets the old Port Precinct ablaze with music and performers in the streets,
pubs, restaurants and bars to the majestic backdrop of paddlesteamers. Children
too will be catered for with face painting, balloons and roving minstrels. Just be in the historic port precinct from
Bands
A guitarist, singer and songwriter, Jeff has built up a reputation for
startlingly original performances, working without a set list and
allowing the unique energy of each night to shape the songs. The Continental Blues Party are a band based in Sydney Australia. www.myspace.com/continentalbluesparty Geoff Achison is a musician of remarkable ability who has forged his own path and won fans all over the world. Having taught himself to play in the isolation of rural Australia, he has developed a blues/funk style all his own that can be delicate one moment and explosive the next. Unaware of how the sounds he was hearing on his limited record collection were produced, he invented some of his own techniques - without the aid of pedals or gadgets. Just watching him wrench a myriad of sounds from his simple set-up can be something of a spectacle. Ray Beadle is the genuine article. His music comes deep from the heart and soul. Ray’s music is rich with a deep history of the Blues. Rich from 20 years of experiences garnered from performing Nationally and Internationally, and rich from a deep understanding of his instrument and how to make it stir something within the listener. That’s what the Blues is about.
Jeff Lang (Headline act)
Continental Blues Party - with Continental Robert Susz
They
specialise in soul, funk and blues music, playing both original
material and covers.
Geoff Achison
Ray Beadle Band
Sarah Carroll
"..a brilliant singer and songwriter" Jeff Lang
www.sarah67comeback.com/media.html
www.myspace.com/sarahmichelecarroll
Acclaimed for their gritty, driving, down home-home
sound, Collard Greens and Gravy play a mostly original repertoire of
foot stomping country blues that would sound right at home in a
Mississippi Juke Joint. Ian Collard (Vocals ,Harmonica and Guitar) James
Bridges ( Guitar and Fiddle), Anthony Shortte (Drums) have been
together since 1995. www.collardgreensandgravy.com/ www.myspace.com/collardgreensandgravy “Continuing to grow as a creative artist, Aussie rhythm and blues queen, Andrea Marr not only pours her gospel-charged voice, but her heart and soul into her incendiary new album.” Al Hensley - Rhythms Magazine
Kelly Auty
Collard, Greens and Gravy
Andrea Marr Band
www.myspace.com/andreamarrband
George is a veteran of 45 years of finger pickin' folk, blues and jug band music. He has released an album with Peter Gelding called "try before you die". 7 piece juggernaut Blue Heat deliver world-class Rhythm and Blues.
Multiple Australian Blues Awards winners (Best band, Best albums, Best
Male Artist for Marco Goldsmith), the Age described Blue Heat's second
album 'the best RnB record since their first', and their live show as
'carving up visiting acts'. Both Members of High Speed Steel, This year playing as they combine exquisite guitar playing with J L's amazing vocals. “Benny
Walker is melodic & sings from the heart and yet when you hear his
music you either want to humm the tune under your breathe or sing the
words at the top of you lungs. His music is fresh, loving, real and is
impressing people all around Victoria. With a recent EP & Album
released on October 19th, this local Echuca Man is certainly going
places.”
www.myspace.com/bennywalkersmusic "Liz Stringer's music is bewitching. Within a minute, you find yourself
spellbound by its sparse, atmospheric charms. Her yearning vocals
offering tenderness yet commanding your attention." Scott Podmore,
Sunday Herald Sun www.myspace.com/lizstringermusician Internationally-touring, ex-Adelaide songbird Abbie Cardwell's
one helluva self-taught banjo pickin’, guitar slingin’, harmonica
totin’ chick with "the voice of a homesick angel". From the restless streets of Shoreditch, London, Beale Street, Memphis,
to Church Street, Melbourne, Mr Black & Blues aka. Michael Pollitt
travelled the world shining a light into its darkest corners with his
soul folk blues until suffering a tragic, near fatal, surfing accident
which left him with a broken neck. His long fight back to health gave
Michael the inspiration to start his record label, the aptly named
Breakneck Records, which saw him record his own material at the
legendary Toerag Studio in London and has led to a new beginning and
this debut release ‘The Morning Light’. www.myspace.com/mrblackandblues The Grizzlies are a Geelong based band in Oz, and have been playing,
recording & touring since 1993. Playing what is roughly described as
‘blues/rock’!
Band members perform & have performed with acts such as The Giants,
Strange Brew, Tinsley Waterhouse Band, Dave Steel, Rory Ellis &
Figjam.
Grizzly Bros are renowned for their highly charged live shows, with
audience participation a must! www.myspace.com/thegrizzlybrothers Kate was living in Canberra in 2003 when she met rhythm and
blues pianist Skip Landy, a former Blind Freddy alumnus. They have since
released two albums of unadorned piano and vocals, one comprising jazz
standards, the other recapping Kate’s original blues repertoire. n 2003 Brian won the "Victas Award" for "Male Artist of the Year" after
his third solo release "Finger Pickin Blues". His 2001 release "Sitting
On The Corner" was in the final nominations for Australian Album of the
Year, Song of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year, at the Australian
Chain Awards.
Brian released his debut solo acoustic album, titled Don’t Ask Me, in
1999. The album won "Australian Blues Album of the Year" at the 2000
Chain Awards. www.myspace.com/brianfrasermusic
Tinfish George
Blue Heat
John Luke and Brett Shelley Duo
Benny Walker Blues Trio
Liz Stringer
Abbie Cardwell Trio
Mr Black and Blues
Grizzly Bros.
Kate
Meehan and Skip Landy
Brian Frazer
Phil Manning
Phil Manning - guitarist, singer, songwriter, slide player, award winning recording artist and performer, founding member of legendary Australian band "Chain" has been at the top of his field for over four decades.
Wayne
Jury and Rory Millar
Experience in the music business has been plentiful for Wayne Jury but it means little unless there is genuine talent and ability to back it up. Over 30 years of living and performing in Sydney he gained much respect as a singer/songwriter and worked with some of Australia’s finest musicians and producers.
Dan Dinnen
Melbourne, Australia based singer/songwriter, guitar fingerpicker and blues harp wailer Dan Dinnen plays soulful, solo-acoustic blues with a feel and style that harks back to the 30’s and 40’s. Dan has played gigs around Australia, and in October 2009 won the prestigious MBAS Blues Performer of the Year award which saw him heading to Memphis, Tennessee to compete in the 2010 International Blues Challenge.
Wizard and Oz
"Eccentric, brilliant piano player. Incredible voice and talent on guitar, every performance they gave ended with roars and cheers for more from the crowds." Illawarra Jazz Club News
Special Buskers Stage on Sunday outside the Beechworth Bakery Blues
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