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There’s something for everyone at Bluesfest TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO Byron Bluesfest was born. A modest event with big dreams, it was seeded by a passion for blues and gospel and delta rhythms. As it turns out, that passion hit a pulse, and this unlikely event has become one of the world’s most iconic musical events. Listed yearly alongside Monterey and Glastonbury as one of the world’s best festivals, it’s no wonder why. Even my kids, avid music festival-goers, list Bluesfest as their absolute favourite festival, which was a bit of a surprise for me as I would have thought they found the hordes of ‘old people’ off-putting. Not the case. They tell me it’s the mix of people, finding musicians they’d never heard of, or watching ‘oldies’ groove along to ‘their’ music that makes it such a buzz. Music really does bring people together, and Bluesfest offers the ultimate immersive experience for the music lover. Over the decades I have virtually seen every act I ever wanted to see right here in my own
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backyard. Of course it’s not just blues any more; the bill, like the festival, has grown and diversified to encapsulate a broader audience of music lovers who aren’t bound by genre or demographic. Boomerang Festival is the pearl within the oyster at Bluesfest, showcasing some of the country’s finest Indigenous musicians, speakers and artisans in what has become the festival within a festival. While Boomerang didn’t manage to secure the funding it needed right away to be a standalone event, Bluesfest wasn’t going to see this very important event wither and die, and so Bluesfest offers festival-goers a change of pace and a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the music and culture of our First Nations peoples. And yes, it’s been raining. A lot. For seasoned festival-goers that just means pack the gumboots. There will be mud. But mud is part of the experience. Bring a change of clothes in the car. An anorak. A designated
driver. Enjoying a five-day event such as Bluesfest is about research. It’s about planning. It’s a musical expedition to another world. So you need to read up. Make your choices. Whom do you want to see? I suggest reading this guide closely. Get your texta out and get a system happening – there are the must-sees; they are the big names that have got your musical taste buds going. But also remember that festivals such as Blues are about discovery. Whom are you going to add to your musical palette? I’ve always found this part of festival-going a bit stressful. That’s when I’ve started watching something and my FOMOOAAOAS really kicks in. That’s Fear Of Missing Out On An Act On Another Stage. I have found the trick is to dig in. Sit with your choice for a while. Listen to what people are recommending. That’s how I found St Paul and the Broken Bones last year at their debut performance. Their performance was so impressive and had such a big impact that
punters petitioned for them to be back for 2017. And of course they’re back. So who is the act that I have earmarked as my must-see? Why Patti Smith of course. Horses was the first album I bought as a young adult. A true renaissance woman, an author, an artist and performer, she is gloriously botox and makeup free and still confidently at the top of her game. Byron Bay Bluesfest brings the world’s best blues and related artists to play the home ground at Tyagarah this Easter long weekend. With something for everyone. Get a ticket now. Life’s too short for regrets, especially musical ones. Cos while Spotify is great, nothing beats the LIVE experience! All 5-, 3- and 1-day festival and camping tickets are currently on sale through www. bluesfest.com.au or by phoning the Bluesfest office on 02 6685 8310, but will be taken off sale next week at the latest. – Mandy Nolan
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Bluesfest 2017 music highlights Patti Smith Patti Smith and her band come to Byron this year for their first-ever Bluesfest performance. It has been eight years since Patti Smith last came to Australia, and nearly 41 years since the release of her first and most celebrated recording Horses. She is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, recipient of the Polar Music Prize, a human-rights activist, and also holds the honour of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture. We are truly excited that she and her band, co-founder Lenny Kaye, Jay Dee Daugherty, Tony Shanahan and Andy York will perform Horses in its entirety at Bluesfest, as well as several time-honoured favourites. In November of 1975, Patti Smith and her band recorded her debut album Horses at the famous Electric Lady Studios in New York City – an album that has come to be regarded as a seminal and landmark
recording, and that continues to have resonance and relevance for succeeding generations of musicians and artists. Smith will honour the longevity and lasting influence of Horses with a special Bluesfest show centred around the album. She plays Thursday at Mojo with a very special acoustic set on Friday at the Crossroads.
The Lumineers Oscillating between sombre and upbeat foot-tapping tunes is The Lumineers, the band from Denver Colorado that the Bluesfest audience fell in love with back in 2013. After exploding onto the scene with their monster single Ho Hey (which spent a staggering 62 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #3) and its followup, Stubborn Love (recently featured on ex-president Barack Obama’s Spotify playlist), The Lumineers spent a solid three years touring six of the seven continents. During that time, The Lumineers, whose
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‘There’s more jazz, more blues, more emerging artists, more legends, more great contemporary artists, more roots artists and more female artists. I’m very satisfied with where we have come to, in what was a very challenging time a few months back when two headliners suddenly cancelled. You only need to look at the jazz component of Bluesfest to see that it is a whole festival within a festival nowadays. Artists such as Roy Ayers, current Grammy winners Snarky Puppy, the Unmissable Miles Electric Band, featuring such great artists as Darrell Jones, the bass player
from the Rolling Stones, and other brilliant Miles Davis alumni, paying tribute to the great man. Plus the incomparable current Grammy-winning vocalist Gregory Porter shows we are really developing this part of the festival. ‘There are wonderful returning artists who were revelations last year. Put the headliners on top, both legends, such as our headliner Patti Smith playing her final ever festival performances in Australia, and contemporary artists including The Lumineers – who Billboard magazine hailed as the top-grossing band in the USA in February – plus returning favourites, and you have what I believe is a very, very special Bluesfest. There’s a real vibe for 2017.’
original members Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites founded the band in Ramsey, New Jersey, back in 2002, earned a pair of Grammy nominations (Best New Artist, Best Americana Album) and sold an impressive 1.7 million albums in the US, and three million worldwide. At the Crossroads on Friday.
The Doobie Brothers Born out of northern California’s chaotic, late-1960s musical stew, The Doobie Brothers’ rugged, real and authentic approach to rock and roll made them biker-bar stalwarts. But their self-titled debut album in 1971 went beyond just leather and motorcycles, revealing even more musical layers: sweet three-part harmonies and rootsy, introspective, acoustic flavours. The Doobie Brothers’ legacy has been built upon not just hit records, but also an unrivalled commitment to musical integrity and a steadfast allegiance to their enthusiastic fanbase. The band’s ability to evolve in a constantly changing industry and connect to generations of listening audiences is a testament to their craft. The Doobie Brothers were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, have won four Grammy awards and sold more than 48 million records worldwide. Their 1976 Best of the Doobies has sold more than 12 million copies, earning rare RIAA Diamond status. Their #1 goldcertified singles Black Water and What a Fool Believes lead a catalogue of hits that includes Listen to the Music, Jesus is Just All Right, Rockin’ Down the Highway, Long Train Runnin’, China Grove, Take Me in Your Arms, Takin’ It to the Streets, Minute by Minute, You Belong to Me, and The Doctor. In all, the Doobies have tallied five Top 10 singles and 16 Top 40 hits. The Doobie Brothers headline the Mojo on Saturday.
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Madness The title says it all. Can’t Touch Us Now, the new album by the band that brought us Baggy Trousers, declare Madness with breezy confidence, and the evidence comes loud and clear. It’s there in their history, in their achievements, in their canonical pop classics. It was there on the Glastonbury Pyramid Stage this summer, when the band blew away the cobwebs and the clouds with a sparkling greatest-hits set that also shone with a couple of newies, and a lovely David Bowie tribute in the shape of a heartfelt cover of Kooks. Join these lively six lifelong friends, these six madmen at the peak of their powers when they headline the Mojo on Sunday.
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Global R&B superstar Mary J Blige will be making her Bluesfest debut. The iconic Grammy Award winner, singer/ songwriter, actress and philanthropist is a defining voice of the contemporary music era. Mary J Blige has amassed an impressive eight multi-platinum
albums, nine Grammy Awards, 32 Grammy nominations, a 2012 Golden Globe nomination and five American Music Awards. She has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and is responsible for a plethora of hit singles including: Be Without You, No More Drama, Not Gon’ Cry, Love is All We Need, Seven Days, All That I Can Say, Family Affair and Just Fine. Influenced at an early age by the music of Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan and Gladys Knight, Blige brought her own gritty, urban-rooted style – fusing hip-hop, soul and honest, frank lyrics – to the forefront on her 1992 debut album What’s the 411?. The successful debut featured hits such as You Remind Me and Real Love and went to #1 on the Billboard R&B/ Hip-Hop Album Chart. Mary J Blige headlines the Mojo on Friday.
Zac Brown Band Three-time Grammy winners and multi-platinum artists Zac Brown Band are returning to the festival after making a momentous impression at Bluesfest 2015. They will release their new album Welcome Home 12 May, the follow-up to Jekyll + Hyde, the band’s fourth consecutive #1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart. Zac Brown Band have become one of music’s most heralded acts, together with their four platinum-selling albums, Jekyll + Hyde, Uncaged, You Get What You Give, and The Foundation, and their 2013 project The Grohl Sessions Vol 1 they have sold more than eight million albums to date. The band has also earned an historic series of fifteen #1 hit radio singles and became only the second artist to top both the country and active rock formats. Zac Brown Band headline Mojo on Monday.
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Rickie Lee Jones Two-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones makes her Bluesfest debut this year. Rickie Lee Jones exploded onto the pop scene in 1979 and has made a career of fearlessly experimenting with her sound and persona over 15 critically acclaimed albums. Rickie is both a character in the songs and the songwriter singing, defying convention with her sometimes brazen sexuality and the mixed bag of jazz, rock and what has come to be known as ‘confessional’ songwriter performances. Her latest album The Other Side of Desire (2015) was written, recorded and rooted in the city of New Orleans, where Jones lives. She plays the Jambalaya on Friday and the Delta on Saturday.
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After St Paul & The Broken Bones tore the house down at their phenomenal Bluesfest debut in 2016, a campaign followed to bring them back in 2017. This year Bluesfest welcomes the return of the recently expanded Alabama soul eight-piece led by the charismatic Paul Janeway, whose vocals have been compared to the likes of Otis Redding. Since they made their roof-raising debut at Bluesfest, this year St Paul & The Broken Bones have been selling out theatres across the globe, performed on one of the main stages at Glastonbury Festival, and will be releasing their sophomore album Sea of Noise this September. Sea of Noise is a successor to their 2013 debut album Half the City. St Paul & The Broken Bones headline the Jambalaya on Thursday, the Crossroads on Saturday, and they play the Mojo on Monday.
Vintage Trouble Vintage Trouble blew away Australian audiences with their blistering shows at the festival in 2016, leaving new fans in their wake eager to see them again. Their brand-new single Knock Me Out was released in February; it’s anthemic, funky and will be electrifying live. They play the Crossroads on Saturday.
Beth Hart Vocal powerhouse Beth Hart gained a reputation as one of the ‘buzz artists’ at Bluesfest in 2014 and 2015, and returns this year for Bluesfest exclusive performances. Beth Hart is on fire. Right now, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter is riding a creative tidal wave, firing out acclaimed albums, hooking up with the biggest names in music and rocking the house each night with that celebrated burnt‐honey voice. Beth Hart plays the Crossroads on Saturday and the Mojo on Monday.
Booker T Jones It can be argued that it was Booker T Jones who set the cast for modern soul and R&B music and is largely responsible for its rise and enduring popularity. On classic Stax hits such as Green Onions, Hang ’Em High, Time Is Tight and Melting Pot the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Musicians Hall of Fame inductee, GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and winner of four GRAMMY Awards pushed the music’s boundaries, refined it to its essence and then injected it into the nation’s bloodstream. Booker T presents the Stax Revue at the Jambalaya on Sunday and Monday.
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Thursday Program Thursday 13th April
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Thursday AprilHorses Patti Smith and Her Band13th perform
Time 21.00
MOJO Courtney Barnett
22.30 19.30
Thursday AprilHorses Patti Smith and Her Band13th perform Vintage Trouble
Time 21.00 18.00
Thursday 13th April MOJO Courtney Barnett The Strumbellas
Time 22.30 19.30 16.30
MOJO Patti Smith Vintage Trouble Andrew Birdand Her Band perform Horses
22.30 21.00 18.00 15.00
Patti Smith and Her Band perform Horses Courtney Barnett The Strumbellas Trevor Hall
21.00 19.30 16.30 14.45
Courtney Barnett Vintage Trouble Andrew Bird Welcome to Country
19.30 18.00 15.00 Time
Vintage Trouble The Strumbellas Trevor Hall CROSSROADS
18.00 16.30 14.45 23.00
The Andrew Welcome to Country NAS Strumbellas withBird guests The Soul Rebels
16.30 15.00 Time 21.30
Andrew Bird Trevor CROSSROADS GallantHall
15.00 14.45 23.00 20.00
Trevor Hall Welcome to Country NAS guests The Soul Rebels Mileswith Electric Band
14.45 Time 21.30 18.30
Welcome to Country CROSSROADS Gallant Snarky Puppy
Time 23.00 20.00 17.00
CROSSROADS NAS guests The Soul Rebels Miles Electric Band Max with Jury
23.00 21.30 18.30
NAS with guests The Soul Rebels Gallant Snarky Puppy
21.30 20.00 17.00 Time
Gallant Miles Electric Band Max Jury JAMBALAYA
20.00 18.30 22.30
Miles Electric Snarky Puppy St. Paul & TheBand Broken Bones
18.30 17.00 Time 21.00
Snarky Puppy Max Jury JAMBALAYA Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
17.00 22.30 19.30
Max Jury&Bailey St. Paul The Broken Bones Corinne Rae
Time 21.00 18.00
JAMBALAYA Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Mavis Staples
Time 22.30 19.30 16.30
JAMBALAYA St. Paul &Bailey The Broken Bones Corinne Rae Rhiannon Giddens
22.30 21.00 18.00 15.00
St. Paul & The Broken Bones Avenue Trombone Shorty & Orleans Mavis Staples Davy Knowles
21.00 19.30 16.30
Trombone Shorty Corinne Bailey Rae& Orleans Avenue Rhiannon Giddens
19.30 18.00 15.00
Corinne Bailey Rae Mavis Staples Davy Knowles
18.00 16.30 Time
Mavis Rhiannon Giddens DELTAStaples
16.30 15.00 23.00 15.00 Time 21.30
Rhiannon Giddens Davy Knowles The Mountain Goats
23.00 20.00
The Mountain Goats Eric Gales
Time 21.30 18.30
DELTA Mud Nikki Morganfield Hill
Time 23.00 20.00 17.00
DELTA The Mountain Eric IrishGales Mythen Goats
23.00 21.30 18.30 15.45
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18.30 17.00 Time
Nikki Hill Irish JUKEMythen JOINT
17.00 15.45 22.30
Irish Mythen Lucy Gallant Dumpstaphunk
15.45 Time 21.00
Lucy Gallant JUKE JOINT Honeydrops The California
22.30 19.30
Dumpstaphunk The Suffers
Time 21.00 18.00
JUKE JOINT Honeydrops The JoanCalifornia Osborne
Time 22.30 19.30 16.30
JUKE JOINT Dumpstaphunk The Suffers Melody Angel
22.30 21.00 18.00 15.00
Dumpstaphunk The California Joan Osborne Devon Allman Honeydrops Band
21.00 19.30 16.30 14.00
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DUMPSTAPHUNK DEBUT AT BLUESFEST THIS YEAR WITH FOUNDER IAN NEVILLE BRINGING AN ALL-STAR BAND ALONG WITH HIS FUNKY GUITAR RIFFS TO THE DUMPSTAPHUNK GROOVE. HE IS THE SON OF ART ‘PAPA FUNK’ NEVILLE – THE KEYBOARDIST WHO FOUNDED THE METERS AND THE NEVILLE BROTHERS; IAN WAS BORN FUNKY. Ian, you’ve grown up heavily influenced by funk music, especially considering your roots – with your Dad ‘Poppa Funk’ Art Neville, of Meters and the Neville Brothers. Was performing, writing and recording always going to be part of your career and life? I’ve definitely always enjoyed the different aspects of writing, performing, and recording music and I’ve ended up being lucky enough to have music as a main component of my life. Some of the days in the studio recording our new material were a great example of why it’s so cool getting to create music, whether we are working from a band member’s idea or a soundcheck groove. We as a band end up creating a kind of funk that is like a direct translation of all our musical influences fused together. With yourself and Ivan Neville, you come from a musical background. How did Dumpstaphunk begin and can you explain the relationship both personally and professionally between band members? Have most of the band members at some point played with the Neville Brothers? Yes, most of the band has played in the Neville Brothers band at some point in life. The four guys in the band now who have always been in the band are the same who all played with the Neville Brothers plus way too many other people to list. The first Dumpsta gig was at the New Orleans Jazz Fest and at the time it was an Ivan Neville gig. Ivan called everybody together initially for that gig and, after a few more gigs and some slight adjustments, we’ve had the same core the whole time. Except drummers (currently drummer number three) – our boy Raymond Weber was the original drummer and still performs with us from time to time. Then another virtual family member, Nikki Glaspie, held it down for several years and now our young fellow New Orleans native Alvin Ford Jr is crushing it on the drums for us. Being in a band sometimes is like being married to a few other people at the same time.
Basically we’re all like family so you can imagine all the great (sometimes gory) details of that. You’ve worked with Troy Andrews on Dirty Word and performed together a bunch of times. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave are regulars at Bluesfest since 2011 and you’re both performing at Bluesfest 2017, in fact on the same night. Can we expect any super jam funk magic to happen between both bands? Any time a bunch of New Orleans artists are together in that type of setting some sort of jam, sit-in is likely if at all possible. Can you talk a bit about the new live album? The live record is compiled from some of the best and coolest shows and guest sitins throughout the years and many road adventures of Dumpstaphunk. It’s not all the time that the best nights and random guest sitins get recorded, so it’s great that we captured enough of those moments to put this together. You guys have kicked it onstage at the New Orleans Jazz Festival many times since 2003, and it’s been quoted that Dumpstaphunk goes down in history for ‘the baddest bass jams ever at Jazz Fest’. Can you break that record at Bluesfest 2017? You think it’s possible? We will definitely bring that same New Orleans fire and spirit with us all the way down there to the 2017 Bluesfest. And yes, it’s totally possible when you roll with two of the baddest bass players on the planet! I would imagine that your jams are largely freestyle and you go where the audience takes you. What can festival-goers expect this Easter at Bluesfest? We have a few songs that are way more freelance than the rest. How much time we get to play will determine how many of those songs we do or don’t get into.
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Friday Program Thursday 13th April
Experience Jimi Hendrix
Start
MOJO
Time
MOJO
Ti
22.30
Patti Smith and Her Band perform Horses
22.00
Mary J Blige
22
21.00
Courtney Barnett
20.30
Snarky Puppy
21
19.30
Vintage Trouble
19.00
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
19
18.00
The Strumbellas
17.30
Gallant
18
16.30
Andrew Bird
16.00
Michael Kiwanuka
16
14.30
Max Jury
15
13.45
Arakwal Opening Ceremony
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CROSSROADS
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22.45
The Lumineers
23
20.45
Bonnie Raitt
21
18.45
Jimmy Buffett
19
17.15
Patti Smith acoustic set
18
15.45
Mavis Staples
16
14.15
Rhiannon Giddens
15
Time
JAMBALAYA
Ti
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The Mountain Goats
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In 1954 Mud Morganfield, the eldest son of blues great Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) was born. Possessing a baritone voice very much like his father’s, and blessed Time JAMBALAYA with similar vocal phrasing and a sense of how to command stage, his teeth on the southside of 22.30 St. Paula & TheMorganfield Broken cut Bones Chicago. He soon became a popular draw on the blues club 21.00QUOTETrombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and festival circuits, mixing both original songs and Muddy #BLUES17 & RECEIVE VIP BAR Waters classics into his live sets. Regarding his performances Island Festival Weddings @ Island Vibe Festival,19.30 Corinne Bailey Rae PASSES FOR YOU of Muddy Waters songs in addition to his own material, Stradbroke Island, 26–29 October, 2017. & YOUR PARTY! 18.00 Mavis Staples Morganfield says, ‘I started to sing to show the world that Ph: 0418 192 554 www.festivalweddingsaustralia.com.au dad left me here. I love and am proud to sing his songs just 16.30 Rhiannon Giddens like I love and will always be proud of him. I’m not Muddy Waters and I’m certainly not trying to be Muddy Waters. 15.00 Davy Knowles I’m Mud Morganfield but when I’m up onstage I always feel Pops is there with me and it means so much that I can get onstage and keep his music alive around the world.’ Mud is a dynamic performer and entertainer who can command Time DELTA the stage, engage the crowd, and wow them with some of the best true Chicago blues they have ever heard. Mud 23.00 The Mountain Goats Morganfield plays the Delta on Thursday, the Juke Joint on Friday and the Delta again on Sunday. 21.30 Mud Morganfield
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The blond hair is the same, the body posture is also the same, and there are touches in the voice that have a similar Irish Mythen genetic connection, but Devon Allman has toiled long and Lucy Gallant hard to establish his own musical identity, separate from his legendary dad, Gregg Allman. In 2017 Devon Allman returns to Bluesfest on the back of his critically acclaimed new album Ride or Die. He will once again bring his first-rate guitar skills and powerful vocals to the stage at the festival. JUKE JOINT Devon Allman Band plays the Juke Joint on Thursday, Dumpstaphunk the Delta stage on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and Monday at the Juke Joint.
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blind African American male entertainers in gospel, blues, 16.30 Melody Angel soul and pop but few as unilaterally gifted as Ellis Hall. What man Band can claim to have written 3,800 songs, sung at 15.00 Devon other Allman the funeral of Helen Keller at St Patrick’s Cathedral in New 14.00 • Natural Bush Setting • Campfires AllowedBlind Boy YorkPaxton and before Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, been a • Hot Showers • Kitchen & Laundry member of Oakland soul band Tower of Power and a lead • Tents for hire • Powered Sites voice for the animated California Raisins, been nominated • Pet Friendly • Transport by Arrangement for an Ovation Theatre Award for his first stage role in The • Part of the Bluesfest experience with camping/ Gospel At Colonus (in which he sang, acted, and walked the shuttle packages at $45 p/person p/ night stage and stair props mostly unattended), and penned the Upper Main Arm, 12km from Mullumbimby official song of the city where he grew up: Claxton, Georgia? Welcome to the unprecedented greatness of Ellis Hall. Ellis Phone 6684 5211 or 6684 5058 Hall joins Vasti Jackson at the Jambalaya on Friday and the macascampingground@gmail.com Mojo on Saturday. Playing schedule is subject to change without further notice www.macascampingground.com
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Tony Joe White
Nikki Hill
Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton
Jeff Lang
Vasti Jackson
Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton
Glen Cardier
Davy Knowles
World-renowned guitarist and vocalist, Mississippi living blues legend, cultural ambassador, 2012 Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame inductee, and 2015 Albert King Lifetime Guitar Award recipient, Vasti Jackson is a powerful force in the world of music. As an artist, Vasti is known for sweat-drenched, soulripping live performances marked by some of the most stunning and innovative guitar playing today. Vasti’s stellar vocals, fiery guitar, and stage presence capture the audience, and leave a lasting impression that celebrates the triumph of the blues, and the joy of rhythm that is soul satisfying to all who are lucky enough to experience his music. Vasti plays with Ellis Hall at the Jambalaya on Friday and the Mojo on Saturday.
He won the hearts of many Bluesfest-goers in 2016, so it’s with great pleasure they welcome back Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton this year. This young musician sings and plays banjo, guitar, piano, fiddle, harmonica, Cajun accordion, and the bones (percussion). He has an eerie ability to transform traditional jazz, blues, folk, and country into the here and now, and make it real. He is also renowned for mesmerising audiences with his humour and storytelling. He’s a worldclass talent and a uniquely colourful character. Mastering many styles including country and delta swap blues, Paxton is the real deal and someone Bluesfest is proud to bring to Australia so that audiences here can discover this wonderful artist for themselves. Jerron plays the Juke Joint on Thursday, Delta on Friday, the Juke Joint on Saturday and Delta on Monday.
In the 70s, Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Glenn Cardier produced three albums of highly original folk/rock songs. He played the first two Sunbury festivals and worked with the likes of Frank Zappa, Spike Milligan, and Fairport Convention. He broke through in the tough UK folk circuit. His hard-strumming, quirky onstage persona was always at odds with his recorded work and through the 80s and 90s Cardier became increasingly reclusive. Glenn Cardier’s re-emergence in the 2000s as a songwriter/ performer of real distinction has been nothing short of extraordinary. Onstage there are the trademark flashes of dark humour in his songs of stark beauty and thumping rockabilly/blues. There’s a touch of Beefheart in his voice, a hint of Cohen in the lyrics, a pinch of Elvis here and there. But underlying it all are the songs. Happy/sad songs. Sweet/crazy songs. Cardier songs. Glen Cardier plays the Delta on Sunday and the Jambalaya on Monday.
Davy Knowles makes his Bluesfest debut; however, he is no stranger to festivals, having played Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo with his band Back Door Slam. Davy is known for his confident and distinctive guitar playing, commanding solos and tight-knit band. He is originally from the Isle of Man but moved to Chicago recently where he made his 2016 album Three Miles from Avalon. Peter Frampton has called him ‘the gunslinger guitarist of the 21st century’ so we are excited to introduce him to Australian audiences this year. Davy Knowles plays the Juke Joint on Friday and Saturday.
The Record Company Founded in Los Angeles in 2011, The Record Company immediately took their hometown by storm, hailed by LA Weekly for ‘making bluesy music that would sound more at home in a sweaty, backwoods Mississippi juke joint’. They are a band who pride themselves on writing and playing raw, sincere rock’n’roll. The Record Company play the Jambalaya on Saturday and the Delta on Monday.
Tony Joe White Tony Joe White, known to fans as The Swamp Fox, is one musician who can certainly call Bluesfest his second home, after multiple performances over many years. The American singer/songwriter and guitarist never ceases to please the Bluesfest audience with his swamp rock melodies, combining New Orleans style rhythm and blues, country and western and traditional French Louisiana musical influences. Tony Joe White plays the Jambalaya on Monday.
Nikki Hill ‘If Tina Turner and Little Richard had a daughter and raised her with the help of uncles James Brown and Chuck Berry, she’d be like Nikki Hill.’ Just a couple of years ago, Nikki Hill was a bartender with an affinity for punk and a deep love for classic R&B. At her husband (and now guitar-player) Matt Hill’s behest, she stepped out from behind the bar and onto the stage. The response has been ecstatic, and now the band tours the globe relentlessly, stunning audiences with their muscular sound, Matt’s volcanic leads, and, of course, Nikki’s inimitable charisma. Nikki Hill plays the Delta on Thursday, the Crossroads on Saturday and Sunday at the Delta stage.
Jeff Lang Australia-based musician Jeff Lang has earned worldwide acclaim as a virtuosic guitarist, a dynamic songwriter and a startlingly unique live performer. With a back catalogue of 16 studio albums, Jeff has been featured at major festivals, pubs, clubs, arts centres and venues internationally for the past decade. Blending rock, roots, folk, blues, ballads, instrumentals, improvisation and a devastatingly high level of musicality, Jeff Lang is a unique performer in our world. Jeff Lang plays the Delta stage on Saturday and Monday.
Ray Beadle Ray Beadle has ripped it up at Bluesfest in the past and he’s back to do it all again. Ray’s guitar and vocal styles evoke numerous blues legends, while concocting a breathtaking style all of his own. It is not by chance that Ray has become a favourite among Australian blues and music fans. Beadle plays the Delta with The Silver Dollars on Saturday and Monday.
Lloyd Spiegel One of Australia’s most highly lauded bluesmen Lloyd Spiegel makes his Bluesfest debut this year. Lloyd Spiegel is an award-winning solo artist on the cutting edge of the blues scene in Australia. Australian Guitar magazine recently named him as one of the 50 top Australian guitarists of all time and he recently won every prize he was eligible for at the Australian Blues Awards. Lloyd Spiegel plays the Jambalaya on Sunday and the Delta on Monday.
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Courtney Barnett Vintage Trouble
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Vintage Trouble The Strumbellas
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Corinne Gregory Bailey PorterRae
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Trombone Shorty & OrleansMelody Avenue Gallant Angel
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raised on the south side of Chicago, she began playing guitar at Time CROSSROADS the age of thirteen. Even though her mother was barely getting 14.15 Rhiannon Giddens JAMBALAYA Time JAMBALAYA 23.00 NAS with guests The Soul Rebels 22.45 The Lumineers by raising two children alone, she found a way to introduce JAMBALAYA Time JAMBALAYA St. Paul & The Broken Bones 23.00 The Mountain Goats Melody to her first Fender Stratocaster by buying the guitar out 21.30 Gallant 20.45 Bonnie Raitt of a window of a pawn shop. She has been inspired by an array of St. Paul & The Broken Bones 23.00 The Mountain Goats Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue 21.30 Playing for Change 20.00 Miles Electric Band 18.45 BuffettChuck Berry, artists such as Michael Jackson, Prince,Jimmy Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Big Mama Thornton, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Slash, Lenny Trombone Shorty 21.30 Playing for Change Corinne Bailey Rae& Orleans 20.00 Gregory Porter 18.30 Avenue Snarky Puppy 17.15 Patti Smith acoustic set Kravitz, Santana, and Jeff Buckley. In her single In this America, 17.00 Max Jury 15.45 who Mavis Corinne Bailey Rae 20.00 Gregory Porter Mavis Staples 18.30 RickietoLee Jones which is dedicated ‘the mothers have Staples lost their black sons unjustly’, she sings: ‘How do14.15 I know it’sRhiannon safe to haveGiddens a son in this Mavis Staples 18.30 Rickie Lee Jones Rhiannon Giddens 17.00 Roy America?’ and it isAyers impossible not to be moved by her powerful • Natural looking anti-wrinkle injection treatments Time JAMBALAYA Time JAMBALAYA words and heartbreaking Angel is an important Rhiannon Giddens 17.00 Roy Davy Knowles 15.30 Ellis Ayers Hall &delivery. Vasti Melody Jackson • Brazilian and Underarm $65 voice and one that deserves23.00 to be heard around the world. 22.30 St. Paul & The Broken Bones The Mountain Goats • Syneron-Candela Laser hair removal from $15 Melody Angel plays theAngel Juke JointJackson on Thursday, Saturday and Davy Knowles 15.30 Ellis Hall & Vasti 14.00 Melody 21.00 /sunspot treatments. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue 21.30 Playing for Change • Laser rejuvenation and pigment Monday and the Jambalaya on Friday.
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‘It’s silly really,’ says frontman Chris Brooker. ‘We never intended to be so successful; we just wanted to play the Bruns pub and not be destitute! Playing Bluesfest is massive for us. We are opening for Santana and Buddy Guy, and then we are going on a national tour. After that we go to the UK in August to tour with the Levellers.’
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Round Mountain Girls have just released a new album. It didn’t start out that way, but the production process along with the storyline of the album was a bit of a narrative, and in the end the boys realised that Meet You at the End was a concept album. ‘We have used just about every studio in Byron,’ says Brooker. ‘We were at 301; in fact we were the last band in there – it closed down as a commercial studio. Then we went to the Music Farm and that reopened and closed down; and then we went to Rocking Horse and that closed down to be renovated; and then we went to Pete Murray’s place which, we hope, is still open!’ This clearly wasn’t a drop and record for RMG. ‘We dragged this one out,’ says Brooker, ‘and went to a few different places, and used the different ambience of each studio. We slept at Rocking Horse; they have a resident lizard in the kitchen. We had some fires and some beers… we kept Paul Pilsneniks (the producer) with us.
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So Brooker wouldn’t necessarily call this a concept album. He says it’s a story. And it evolved like all good stories, by accident. ‘We noticed that all the songs we were recording for the album were about people we have met in the last three years, about all different people! If we stuck it in a certain order it was like one person, an old person looking back in his life, from chasing a girl and having everything and falling down from a cocktail of drink and drugs! He was, however, making his way back; we also tell this guy’s experiences at rehab! It was originally conceived as a story album – we have a story line between – because it hadn’t been written as a storyline, it was a different
take. We had a discussion with a few people, other artists, and publicists, the download situation, and the streaming… and it’s so fast now and we want people to have to sit down and listen to the whole thing and spend 40 minutes doing nothing else. You can’t just pick one song off the album. It’s coming out on vinyl as well.’
Busby Marou
Kasey Chambers’s recent number one ARIA chart debut of her 11th studio album Dragonfly proves that one of Australia’s most loved and accomplished performers is at the top of her game. This will be Kasey’s 10th performance at Bluesfest so don’t miss the chance to see live what Rolling Stone has described as ‘Australia’s foremost progenitor of and innovator in the country-roots fold. Dragonfly is the masterwork of a heart laid bare in the song.’ Casey plays the Crossroads on Monday, just before Neil Finn.
There’s a potent chemistry that drives Busby Marou, a bond struck between two mates years ago in the corner of Rockhampton’s Oxford Hotel, when they happily knocked out tunes for hours on end to anyone who would listen. From humble beginnings on the banks of the Fitzroy River in Rockhampton, folk-inspired pop outfit Busby Marou has made a serious impact on the Australian stage! Busby Marou play the Crossroads on Monday.
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True to their past works, the album oozes the signature Round Mountain Girls’ sound. Genre bending in every sense of the word, an array of instruments and styles play throughout the album. From frantic banjo and guitar riffs and snapping drums, to the sultry string lines and passionate vocal harmonies, it’s this diverse aptitude which make the dark,
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Boomtime for Boomerang Managed and programmed from an Indigenous-led perspective, Boomerang Festival offers a unique point of difference on the Australian festival landscape. Curated by respected Bundjalung woman Rhoda Roberts, Boomerang is the first of its kind. Never has an Indigenous festival of this holistic calibre been so accessible; featuring an array of music and dance along with cultural knowledge exchanges and thought provoking conversations. Hosted by the oldest living culture, it’s a time to get up close and personal. There is nothing that quite matches the exchanges our audience’s experiences. Running within Bluesfest from Friday to Sunday, The Boomerang Precinct provides a safe, family-friendly program of arts and ageold culture and rituals, along with workshops and interactive experiences. The lineup is filled with gifted artists from Canada, New Zealand, Tibet and of course some fantastic Indigenous talent from Australia.
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Leonard Sumner Anishinaabe MC/singer/ songwriter Leonard Sumner’s storytelling flows directly from the shores of Little Saskatchewan First Nation, located in the heart of the Interlake of Manitoba. Sumner’s self-determined sound is evidence of his ability to simultaneously occupy landscapes of multiple
musical genres including; hiphop, spoken word, country, and rhythm and blues. With every vibration of the strings on his guitar, Leonard rattles the dust off truths that have been buried for far too long. Onstage he poetically sings awake the consciousness of audiences who may have been unaware of their slumber. Leonard plays Boomerang on Saturday and Sunday.
OKA Embracing the future without losing sight of the past, OKA draws upon their Indigenous connection to place and country to create their signature feelgood Australian earth sound, an irresistible blend of influences spanning house, big beat, reggae-dub, roots, jazz and world music. A mashup of dance and
downtempo electro beats marinated in the mystic spiritual traditions of the Dreamtime. ‘Try to imagine Bob Marley meets Stevie Wonder via the chemical brothers, on acid, playing in a steaming rainforest with a didgeridoo and you are getting close.’ OKA plays Boomerang on Friday and Sunday.
Succulent Fusion Café – situated away from the busy street with a relaxing and breezy atmosphere. Sourcing locally fresh products, catering different healthy food-eating choices. Pet friendly. Group and functions bookings are welcomed. Fully licensed. Takeaway available. Shop 3, 8 Byron Street, Byron Bay, NSW, 2481 TEL: 02 6685 5711 Facebook: succulent café Instagram: byronbaysucculentcafe
BLUESFEST SPECIAL COMBO MEAL Homemade Bircher Muesli w/ Barambah Organic Yogurt (V,GF) + Regular Coff ee $16 Avocado w/ Barambah Feta Cheese on Organic Sourdough (V) + Regular Coff ee $15 Sausage Board + Regular Coff ee or 1 Bottled Beer $23 Dumpling Salad (VG) w/ 1 Bottled Beer $21 Kimchi Pork Belly Bun w/ 1 Bottled Beer $17
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New gen Indigenous Australian artist Yirrmal Marika, from northeast Arnhem Land, has made a refreshing entrance into the music scene. Inspired by his grandfather, Dr Yunupingu, former lead singer of Yothu Yindi, he fuses tradition and contemporary with class and passion. Yirrmal is an inspiring songwriter and guitarist with a beautiful voice, singing songs about his homeland and culture with feeling and depth beyond his years. Yirrmal plays Boomerang Friday and Saturday.
Airileke and the Rize of the Morning Star Airileke and the Rize of the Morning Star are musical pioneers and fighters for freedom traversing a timeless sonic globe without frontiers. Front man Airileke [pronounced Irie-leck-eh] is a percussionist, producer, composer, activist, recording, global events facilitator and, in the words of Britain’s Songlines magazine, a ‘cause for celebration’. Born in Australia with roots in PNG, Airileke grew up between the shores of both PNG and the Top End. He grew up learning traditional drumming from his ancestral village of Gabagaba (Drumdrum) near Port Moresby, the region’s ‘sing sing’ grounds for drums, dance and ceremony. Airi’s unique sound melds progressive ideas with beats of ancient Melanesian culture. Hip-hop production, fierce log drumming, Papuan chants, atmospheric soundscapes and samples from the frontline of the Free Papua Movement combine to evoke one of the region’s darkest stories: the illegal occupation and ongoing oppression of West Papua. Urgent, fiery and innovative, this is the new sound of urban Melanesia. Airileke and Rize of the Morning Star play Boomerang Friday and Sunday.
Emily Wurramurra Emily Wurramara is driven by passion for culture and heritage. With national airplay on ABC and Triple J, Emily has become a seasoned performer who has taken her music around the country and abroad with shows in Sweden and France, as well as appearances at major festivals across Australia, including: Gaarma Festival, Island Vibes, and Woodford Folk Festival. Add in a couple of 2016 Queensland Music
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Award nominations and Triple J Unearthed showcase at Big Sound and the picture starts to build of a young artist with a very bright tomorrow. Emily plays Boomerang Friday and Saturday.
Tenzin Choegyal In 1997, Tenzin Choegyal came to Australia with little more than a bag, his dranyen and a voice full of passion for Tibet. His raw talent soon caught the attention of the directors of that country’s largest folk festival, Woodford, where he still plays to packed audiences each year. Over the years, Tenzin has created a successful international career as a musician, playing at such prestigious events as the WOMAD festivals as well as several Concerts for Tibet at Carnegie Hall, New York. At Boomerang Precinct Tenzin will also share his knowledge in mantra singing – energybased sounds which produce vibrations within the universe. Tenzin plays Boomerang Friday and Sunday.
eXcelsior Debuting in 2014, eXcelsior Contemporary Arts was founded by a collective of aspiring performing artists and graduates from the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA), in pursuit of fusing modern art with the traditional art forms of Indigenous Australia. eXcelsior acknowledges the Indigenous and nonIndigenous elders who have paved the way, so all who follow shall prosper in excellence and prevail to transcend in mind, body and spirit. eXcelsior plays Boomerang Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Sand Circle (with a workshop).
Jannawi Dance Clan Jannawi dancers and students are predominantly from the inner western suburbs and surrounding areas of
Sydney. Jannawi recognises the enormous benefits gained through Indigenous contemporary and traditional dance. The company and its members have performed across many festivals and events such as Woggan-magule ceremony, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Woodford Folk Festival, Homeground, the Dreaming. Internationally they were one of the highlights at the opening of the Muse Du Quay Branly, Paris, The Sydney Olympics Opening and Closing ceremonies, Barangaroo opening events and more recently the Darwin Telstra Art Awards. Jana Dance Clan play Boomerang Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Sand Circle with a workshop.
Bundjalung weaving workshops Weaving gives an instant connection to country by using your local flora, hearing age-old stories and reflecting. Weaving is an important cultural practice for both men and women. Intricately woven fibre baskets were traditionally highly prized for their practicality, and are today treasured for their aesthetic excellence. At Boomerang participants in the weaving workshops will learn the basic technique of varying styles from coiling to matting while developing an understanding of cultural importance of weaving and fishing techniques used by the Aboriginal community in this region. Weave a bracelet, basket, mat, and or a simple net to catch fish.’ Open to all ages. Relax and join the weaving circle. Happening throughout the festival.
Find out more and view playing schedule at boomerangfestival.com.au. Purchase tickets at bluesfest.com.au.
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Find your way at Bluesfest Tips and tricks to have an awesome festival Get there the easy way: catch the bus! • Wear wellingtons or waterproof shoes. Don’t be fooled by sunny skies. After the rain we’ve had and after tens of thousands of people get on site it’s gonna get muddy. Don’t wear your best connies. • If it is raining don’t bring an umbrella, it will get confiscated. Take a plastic raincoat.
• Water. Make sure you have some on you at all times. Bring a refillable container. • Put some water and snacks in the car. Maybe a towel. Maybe a meditation CD. If you leave after the last act each night just accept that it takes a bit of time to get that many people out of a carpark so keep your shit together.
• Don’t bring collapsible chairs. There are seats provided in some of the tents. Yours aren’t required and just make negotiating the site more difficult.
• Bring a jacket. It might be scorching hot in the day but it gets a bit chilly at night.
• You can’t leave a scarf on a chair to bags it. If your body ain’t there, then you ain’t baggsed nothing.
• Plan how you are going to get home. Have a plan B if you think you are over the limit.
• Allow sufficient time to get onsite each day.
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Gidden’s Freedom Highway Interview
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She wowed festival-goers with her emotional range and dazzling vocal prowess last year, so this year she’s coming back. The Grammy Award-winning lead singer of AfricanAmerican folk interpreters Carolina Chocolate Drops has stepped out on her own, winning over audiences around the world with, as the New York Times put it, ‘the fervor of a spiritual, the yips of a folk holler, and the sultry insinuation of the blues’. And Giddens is certainly looking forward to Bluesfest. It’s not just that she gets to play – it’s getting to see other people play as well! ‘Often it’s the only time I get to see other people because you are always gigging when they are gigging!’ And boy, the girl sure has been gigging, with her talents taking her from centre stage at her own gigs to centre stage in Nashville. Not the town, the show! ‘It’s been a busy year,’ laughs Giddens. ‘I was hired to be to replace Audrey McDonald in a Broadway show called Shuffle Along that closed before it opened; I recorded my new record called Freedom My Way’ I received the Steve Martin prize for banjo and excellence
in bluegrass; I played for Bill Murray; and I was hired to become a new cast member for Nashville the TV show!’ These days Giddens commutes between Nashville and Ireland, her solo career away from frontwoman for
Giddens has just released Freedom Highway, and in the middle of a record populated with sexual violence, police shootings and church bombings, Rhiannon Giddens sings ‘My heart it is a shakin’ with an old, old song’.
‘The fervor of a spiritual, the yips of a folk holler, and the sultry insinuation of the blues’ the Chocolate Drops giving her the freedom to try something new. ‘I gave eight or nine years of my life to the Chocolate Drops. I feel great about that. It’s not against the force to get together again and do a tour but when people came along and gave me the solo record I thought this is what people are giving you so go for it! A lot of stuff I can do now that I couldn’t really do in a band and I am getting the chance to explore that and, obviously, this record is another step for me.’
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‘A lot of the work on the record is original material and based on historical things; you know, the history is always going to be there for me. The next stage for me as an artist is to explore what I have been saying and I’ve found great collaborators; I co-produced this record with Dirk Powell. It started off as roots and traditional music but Dirk plays everything, and then I brought my whole band into it; it was a family affair. We did it ourselves – mixed it ourselves. Dirk did the engineering in a small but very mighty studio. I am very proud of it.’
Freedom Highway was a song originally made famous by Mavis Staples and Staples Singers back in the day of Martin Luther King, and was about the transition of America. Its call to mobilise and unite is as relevant today it seems as it was then. ‘Originally the album wasn’t going to be called Freedom Highway. Until the election. Then we decided to change it. We wanted to emphasise the need to stand together and look forward. This was really ‘we are going to band together’, we are going to fight this!’ Giddens hasn’t met Mavis Staples. But this year Staples is playing exclusive Bluesfest shows, so maybe this is an opportunity for this newgeneration singer to meet the woman who stood in the history the first time round. It could well be one of those magic moments that happens only at Bluesfest. Giddens laughs: ‘It’s got to happen! It would be amazing!’ Rhiannon Giddens plays Jambalaya stage on Thursday right before Mavis Staples and again on Friday at the Crossroads. (Somehow I think that first meeting might just happen!) Giddens also plays Jambalaya on Sunday.
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