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| Phat Bottom End |
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Bass guitar takes the spotlight.
Bass players be proud, stand tall and be counted.
This concert pays tribute to... |
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| Rolling Stone Live |
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The Adelaide International Guitar Festival is teaming up with Rolling Stone magazine to select four hot merging guitarists from around Australia to play for festival... |
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| Born in Vienna, Al Slavik is regarded as one of Europe's finest electric bass and Chapman Stick players. However, his most personal work is as a singer/songwriter.... |
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| Swedish-born Andy Salvanos has worked as a session musician in Los Angeles, studied bass with renowned teachers like Jeff Berlin and Gary Willis, and performed The... |
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| Gary (Angry) Anderson first came to the attention of Australian rock music fans as the singer with Buster Brown. After touring the country with Buster Brown he joined... |
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| Sydney singer-songwriter Lior seemed to emerge from nowhere back in 2005 with his stunning debut album Autumn Flow, but it was in fact the culmination of years of hard... |
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| Ash Grunwald’s music is steeped in the Delta blues tradition of the legendary acoustic musicians who proliferated America’s deep South and the giants of electric... |
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| Australian blues group Backsliders are leaders and virtual pioneers in their own genre. As a three piece, they can lift the roof off any venue, moving from in-your-face... |
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| There is much more to Bill Chambers than “just being Kasey’s dad”. The patriarch of the Chambers clan is considered by some to be Australia’s premier alt-country... |
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| Adelaide born Graham “Buzz” Bidstrup began his involvement with the Australian music industry as a 14 year old drummer in the now legendary Fahrenheit 451. From 1976... |
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| From her self financed debut to her second release in 1999 I Don’t Think I’m Pregnant being lauded as ‘one of the best rock records of the decade’ (Revolver... |
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| Three times winner of the ‘South Australian Songwriter of the Year’ and Bank’s Music ‘Best New Music’ Award winner, Cal Williams Jr recently released his debut... |
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| Dallas Frasca and guitarist Jeff Curran are fast spreading an epidemic of down-and-dirty roots rhythms around Australia. Dallas first came to prominence in 2005, nailing... |
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| Born in Wales, Dave Evans’ family emigrated to North Queensland when he was five. Dave is the original singer and founding member of AC/DC, which he formed with... |
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| Nominated for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year in the 2007 Blues Music Awards (Memphis) for her album Lucky 13, Fiona is the first Australian blues artist to be so... |
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| Grinspoon came to prominence when in 1995 they were crowned winners of Triple J’s very first ‘Unearthed’. They quickly become favourites across the country and the... |
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| Founding members Jim Redgate and Trevor Ramsay formed GT Stringer after a request was made by Australian publisher Steve Mcparland for some earlier recorded material... |
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| Guy Pratt’s career in music took off when he was asked to join Icehouse for a world tour at the tender age of 19 (which included supporting David Bowie on his... |
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| The Derek Trucks Band has been a work in progress for over 10 years and takes a progressive approach to roots music, blending rock, blues, jazz, and world music. The... |
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| Adelaide International Guitar Festival is proud to announce Derek Trucks as our International Artist In Residence for 2008.
Derek began his musical career at the age... |
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| Adelaide International Guitar Festival is delighted to bring Jeff Lang back this year after his extensive involvement as Artist In Residence in the inaugural festival in... |
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| Jimmy Little began entertaining Australians in 1956, working as a singer and actor before his 1963 chart-topping hit Royal Telephone saw him named 1964 Australian Pop... |
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| The Tawadros Brothers is comprised of brothers Joseph Tawadros on oud, James Tawadros on req’ (Egyptian tamborine), and Ben Rodgers on bass. The trio performs... |
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| Jesse Harris makes music that can be hauntingly beautiful or catchy and hip and is always rich in musical textures. A masterful Grammy-winning songwriter, his tunes... |
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| For two and a half decades the Hoodoo Gurus have been one of the most inventive, lyrically smart and exciting rock’n’roll bands Australia has ever produced. Along... |
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| “A wizard of sonic manipulation and texture, Belew has been the guitarist of choice for the art-rock crowd, playing with Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, David Bowie,... |
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| From the first time young Gold Coast songwriter/performer Mason Rack lets loose, to the moment he relinquishes his guitar, his audience is spellbound. Whether it’s his... |
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| Mongrels of Passion are Tim Gaze and Vince Lovegrove. Both are stalwarts of Australian music and have been pivotal, intimate and pro-active associates of the following... |
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| Mia Dyson plays Jim Dyson guitars (her father is a luthier), which is not so hard to believe. What’s harder to believe – given the extraordinary depth of passion in... |
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| Roughly twelve years ago Matt Walker and Ashley Davies first met and started playing impromptu shows in Melbourne. Matt’s resonating acoustic, slide and lap steel... |
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| Australian rock band Magic Dirt has been blasting ear drums at pubs and festivals across Australia for many years. Three gigs into their budding career, Magic Dirt were... |
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| Lee Song-Ou and Oliver Fartach-Naini began playing together in 1991, when both were students of American Guitarist and Composer Laurie Randolph at the University of Arts... |
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| Rob Sawyer reflects a diverse scope of musical inspiration in his song writing from a raw organic blend of punk folk and hillbilly reggae through to foot stomping blues.... |
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| Following 10 years on the international circuit with vocal powerhouse Fruit, the fiery redhead of that superbly acclaimed group now brings Redhead to the stage. SA band... |
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| Peter Denahy is a talented multiinstrumentalist, singer and songwriter. His songs range from the serious to humorous, and transcend musical boundaries. It’s difficult... |
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| Adelaide indie kids The Shiny Brights were born in early 2008 in the scintillating environs of a riverside warehouse stocking used whitegoods. Their soon to be released... |
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| At the 2004 Tamworth country music festival Sara Storer took home a record seven Golden Guitars for her second album Beautiful Circle. The album was a hit with fans,... |
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| The Party Boys were “born” in 1982 when Mondo Rock bassist Paul Christie assembled a group of Australia’s most recognised rock players for a “fun band” that... |
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| Recognised as a mighty fine guitarist, mandolin player and pedal steel player, Rockin’ Rob Riley is perhaps best known as the guitarist from Rose Tattoo. After... |
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| SHIHAD is an alternative rock and metal band from Wellington, New Zealand. Formed in 1988 by Jon Toogood and Tom Larkin, who were still in school at the time, in 1999... |
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| John Swan (aka Swanee) is a true legend of Australian rock music who has enjoyed a string of hit singles. After arriving in Adelaide from Glasgow in 1961 with his family... |
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| Former Easybeats frontman Stevie Wright is fondly regarded as Australia's first international pop star, with The Easybeats widely recognised as the greatest Australian... |
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| Steve Hunter has been an internationally renowned electric bass virtuoso and prolific composer for many years. He has released eight albums and has played and/or... |
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| Roots/alternative country duo The Yearlings combine warm boy-girl harmonies and sparse country blues to create songs that are at once haunting and soothing: a living,... |
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| Mark Evans is the bass player from the original and classic AC/DC line up (featuring his best mate Bon Scott) that was nominated for induction to the American... |
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| A one-man-band/multi-instrumentalist who plays guitars, Yidaki’s (didgeridoos), Weissenborn slide guitars, stomp boxes, djembes, harmonica, and a bunch of different... |
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| German guitarist/composer Wulfin Lieske made his professional debut at the age of 14 and is well-known for revealing new insights into the traditional guitar repertoire... |
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| William is one of Australia’s leading didjeridu players and composers. At just 17 years of age, he played his first classical concert with the Queensland Symphony... |
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| Since entering the world of country music, Victorian singer/songwriter/truck driver Travis Sinclair has had an amazing few years. Aptly described as the “quiet... |
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| Troy Cassar-Daley has earned the reputation as one of Australia’s finest country performers honing his craft over 20 years and 6 studio albums and culminating in an... |
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