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WELCOME! Yesterday I ducked into the local disposal store and bought myself a very comfortable new pair of Wellingtons.

After years of going to the Bluesfest I know that I don’t want wet feet to detract from my enjoyment of what is each year a ‘remarkable’ lineup. It’s the kind of festival where the weather doesn’t matter. The event in itself is an experience of total musical immersion.

This year the program features many acts who have long histories, many with beyond 40 plus years of playing together. These are musical stories that have evolved and been shaped by time; some of the musicians have even shaped popular culture, like Donovan, or the politically outspoken Crosby Stills and Nash. This year Bluesfest pays homage to one of Australia’s longstanding superbands: Cold Chisel, the first Australian act to ever headline a Bluesfest bill. This will be the third time I’ve seen Buddy Guy, but he’s one of those artists that I keep wanting to return to, knowing that my life maturity is going to add even more dimension to how I enjoy his playing. Bluesfest boasts a solid five-day program that provides only one main challenge… is it best to sit in one tent all day or weave between? I’m always perplexed as how to manage a program where I want to catch everyone! The best advice to anyone attending Bluesfest is to get out your biro and mark up your program, and in the process make sure you do a little research to try to find out about acts you may not have heard of. And then take a few risks, and let yourself discover your next favourite new act.

They’re everywhere. Make sure to take the time to catch our local musos who get a run at Bluesfest, with acts like The Blackbirds, Mick McHugh and The Round Mountain Girls, winners of three Golden Fiddle Awards at Tamworth this year.

While the sun may shine all weekend, I’d say, cover thy feet and open thy heart to a five-day musically transformative experience!

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Forty years plus and going strong, Crosby Stills and Nash, the world’s first supergroup, takes the stage at Bluesfest.

The music of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash – CS&N – is a cornerstone of rock ’n’ roll. Individually these men had exceptional careers prior to CS&N. David Crosby played with folk-rock group, The Byrds, Stephen Stills with Buffalo Springfield and Graham Nash sang with the outspoken political group, The Hollies. As CS&N this Grammy Award-winning trio of legendary singer-songwriters have been actively collaborating since 1969; each one inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice! Their first two albums listed in Rolling Stone ’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. CS&N survived the turbulent times in which they existed as well as the often volatile climate of their own inner workings and personal lives to continue to make music that connected with fans around the world. In addition to making music together, Crosby, Stills and Nash have always pursued parallel solo careers; a complete list of the collaborations that would produce its own massive discography and touring history.

Throughout their incredible solo careers, these three lifelong friends keep coming back to stake their claim as one of the greatest bands – ever From Woodstock to Bluesfest – it’s a legacy of the might of music and people power!

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JOHN FOGHERTY

Bluesfest welcomes back one of its favourite headliners – John Fogherty.

Looking Out My Back Door: John Fogerty Performs Live! The Albums of Creedence Clearwater Revival will see John Fogerty perform one of two classic Creedence albums, which is either his favourite Creedence album Green River or Creedence’s biggest hit album Cosmo’s Factory in its entirety. In addition, Fogerty will perform a bonus set comprising classic songs from the extraordinary Creedence Clearwater Revival days to his solo canon of hits in a special two-hour show featuring multimedia presentations.

Now for the first time in 40 years we are going to hear, live on stage at Bluesfest,

one of the all-time greats perform the music that he has written and only he can deliver. It will be a revelation to hear the classic Swamp Pop performed again by the main man of Creedence Clearwater Revival, the band that took over from the Beatles as the biggest band in the world.

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BUDDY GUY

‘Buddy Guy plays from a place that I’ve never heard anyone play’ – Stevie Ray Vaughan.

There are great guitarists… superstar guitarists… legendary guitarists… and then there is Buddy Guy. A Bluesfest favourite and an absolute legend!

THURSDAY PROGRAM MOJO 22.00 Cold Chisel (2 hrs) 20.00 My Morning Jacket (90 mins) 18.30 Ziggy Marley (60 mins) 17.00 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (60 mins) 16.00 The Hands (30 mins)

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22.45 Lucinda Williams (75 mins) 21.15 John Hiatt & The Combo (60 mins) 19.45 Nick Lowe (60 mins) 18.15 David Bromberg Quartet (60 mins) 16.45 Alabama 3 (60 mins) 16.30 Arakwal Opening

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APRA 22.45 Benjalu (60 mins) 21.15 Kooii (60 mins) 19.45 Hat Fitz & Cara (60 mins) 18.30 Ollie Brown (45 mins) 17.15 Lachlan Bryan (45 mins) 16.00 Dallas Frasca (45 mins)

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Every major guitar player without exception gives a nod to Buddy Guy who for 50 years has blazed his trail of energetic blues and blues rock, releasing over 60 albums, mingling the deepest of blues with a creative, unpredictable and radical gumbo of the blues, rock, soul and free jazz that morphs at every performance. And there have been many performances. As one of five children raised on a plantation near the small town of Lettsworth, located some 140 miles northwest of New Orleans, he used

Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, and the Presidential to be kicked out for making a racket on National Medal of Arts. He is ranked in his first makeshift guitar – a two-string the Top 30 of Rolling Stone ’s Greatest contraption attached to a piece of wood Guitarists of All Time; and was inducted and secured with his mother’s hairpins. into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Luckily for us all… Buddy kept his faith… 2005. eventually moving to Chicago, meeting What keeps him going… driving him and being influenced by Muddy Waters, along… is best left for Buddy to explain: and later becoming session and backing ‘Blues players don’t stop, they just drop. guitarist for Muddy, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny It’s like my mother used to say about Boy Williamson, Little Walter and others. religion – I’m too far gone to turn around!’

Guy has received six Grammy Awards, 23 Jimi Hendrix once said: ‘Heaven is lying WC Handy Blues Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine at Buddy Guy’s feet while listening to him play guitar.’ You can catch some of Hendrix’s heaven at Bluesfest.

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FRIDAY PROGRAM MOJO 22.15 Earth, Wind & Fire (90 mins) 20.15 The Specials (90 mins) 18.30 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (75 mins) 17.00 Sublime with Rome (60 mins) 14.00 G3 (2.5 hrs) 12.30 Mat McHugh (60 mins) CROSSROADS

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APRA 22.15 Alabama 3 (90 mins) 20.45 Kooii (60 mins) 19.00 Seth Lakeman (75 mins) 17.30 Eilen Jewell (60 mins) 16.00 James Vincent McMorrow (60 mins) 14.30 Benjalu (60 mins) 13.00 Ollie Brown (60 mins)

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22.30 Crosby, Stills & Nash 21.00 Keb Mo (60 mins) 19.15 Buddy Guy (75 mins) 17.30 Jonny Lang (75 mins) 16.00 Backsliders (60 mins) 14.30 Steve Earle (60 mins) 13.00 Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges (60 mins) 12.00 Hat Fitz & Cara (30 mins)

CAVANBAH 22.30 Chill out time at 1.15 2 20.00 16.00 15.00 13.30 12.30

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Canned Heat (75 mins) John Hiatt & The Combo (60 mins) Candi Staton (60 mins) David Bromberg Quartet (60 mins) Harry Manx (60 mins) Bobby Alu (45 mins) Dallas Frasca (45 mins)

BUSBY MAROU

‘Glorious and genuinely original – amalgams of the very best that folkinspired pop can offer. The end result is compelling and beautiful.’ – Sydney Morning Herald Bluesfest this year features Rockhampton duo Busby Marou. Tom Busby and Jeremy Marou’s unique blend of folk-soaked pop is a shining example of the talent emerging in Australia.

The duo were approached by John O’Donnell – former EMI general manager and co-producer of He Will Have His Way album tribute to the Finn Brothers as the only unsigned act included. John O’Donnell mentioned afterwards: ‘Busby Marou were one of the real discoveries for us. Their cover of Crowded House’s Better Be Home Soon was a thing of beauty’.

Subsequently the duo signed with Warner Music Australia’s indie imprint Footstomp Records, releasing their first self-titled album that went gold within a month and debuted at #24 on the Aria Album Chart.

The duo also took out the 2009 Deadly Award for Most Promising New Talent in Music as well as a swag of nominations and awards since. Make sure to catch Tom Busby’s cheeky onstage presence and Jeremy Marou’s breathtaking musicianship this Easter.

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CANNED HEAT

Blues ’n’ Boogie… Boogie ’n’ Blues… no matter which way you phrase it, only one name rises to the top: Canned Heat. Some say they invented the genre that made them a global phenomenon 40+ years ago. For sure, not many argue against that. Canned Heat gained international

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attention and secured their niche in the pages of rock ’n’ roll history with their BUDDY GUY performances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Crossroads Friday 7.15pm Festival (along with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Who) and the headlining slot at the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. Despite losing these two founder members – and then later, that of longtime guitarist Henry Vestine in 1997 – Canned Heat has survived under the leadership of Fito de la Parra since the late 70s. Since 1967, the band has toured extensively all over the world, performing at numerous festivals including Monterey Pop, Newport Pop, the Sturgis Motorcycle Run USA, and the original Woodstock.

They have performed at world-renowned venues such as the Paris Olympia, both Fillmore Auditoriums, The Kaleidoscope, Carnegie Hall (with John Lee Hooker), Madison Square Garden and even Royal Albert Hall, and have played more biker festivals and charity events than any other band in the world. Now into their sixth decade of their seemingly endless WORLD BOOGIE TOUR, the HEAT have turned it up again and are bringing their unique blend of roadhouse electric blues, rock and boogie back to the Bluesfest stage.

COLD CHISEL Jambalaya on Thursday Mojo Thursday 10.00pm & Friday. anthemic (Down In The) Lucky Country and The Best Years of Our Lives charted his musings on the social and political Bluesfest stalwarts will remember the landscape and were the soundtrack to euphoria of Richard Clapton’s 2006 the turbulent lives of three generations appearance when he completely nailed of Australian youth. He is still heard the crowd. Clapton’s songs chart not every day on the radio with his albums a only his frame of mind – but that of the mainstay in just about every Australian nation. With his unique, surfside melodic rock, songs such as Deep Water, Girls On record collection – and a ‘must-have’ for The Avenue, Capricorn Dancer, and the backpackers and ex-pats far from

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COLD CHISEL

This year for the first time ever an Australian act headlines the iconic Bluesfest. Cold Chisel are without a doubt one of the most loved and lauded Aussie bands. Since kicking off in Adelaide back in 1973, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge. Now, almost forty years on, the band are back for the most recent chapter in Cold Chisel’s compelling story. In 2010 the band secretly started recording new material. Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Don Walker, Steve Prestwich and Phil Small got together and wrote and recorded

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chart and numerous songs hit the singles chart. In a strange twist of fate, almost 35 years after it was first released Khe Sanh hit the Australian Top 40 for the first time! Cold Chisel then announced their most extensive tour in 30 years and when tickets for the Light The Nitro tour were released in early August, the band was overwhelmed by the massive public reaction, selling over 160,000 tickets in the first day and ultimately going on to sell over 280,000 tickets across Australia and New Zealand. Don’t miss this legendary band bring the house down on Thursday.

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a handful of songs and realised that the magic was still there. With plans to continue performing and recording, the band was gutted in January 2011 when drummer Steve Prestwich passed away suddenly as a result of complications from a brain tumour. With Steve’s performances and some of his songs captured on tape, the band ultimately felt compelled to continue with the plans they had begun.

Recording continued through May and June with drummer Charley Drayton. In July 2011, the band rolled out the biggest archival release in Australian music history, remastering all of their extensive catalogue and unearthing 56 new or rare live and studio recordings. It was the first time ever that the band had released their music digitally and it saw eight of their albums hit the ARIA Top 100 Albums

DONOVAN

Legendary folk-rock-pop troubadour Donovan began his career as an itinerant folk musician in the mid 60s, but he soon became known for his rich-poetic and emotive songs like Catch The Wind and Colours and his version of Buffy Sainte Marie’s protest anthem Universal Soldier.

He then partook in the transformation

SATURDAY PROGRAM MOJO 22.00 John Fogerty (2 hrs) 20.15 Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot! (75 mins) 18.45 Ziggy Marley (60 mins) 17.00 Seasick Steve (75 mins) 15.30 Yann Tiersen (60 mins) 14.00 Dawes (60 mins) 12.30 Blitzen Trapper (60 mins)

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22.30 1814 (60 mins) 21.00 Tribali (60 mins) 19.30 Harry Manx (60 mins) 18.00 Tijuana Cartel (60 mins) 16.30 Blackbirds (60 mins) 15.00 Eagle And The Worm (60 mins) 13.30 Lachlan Bryan (60 mins) 12.00 Minnie Marks (60 mins)

JAMBALAYA

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Netherlands, Belgium and the Czech Republic. Returning home, this Brisbane nine-piece launched their brand-new single Unconditional which they took on the road throughout Australia and the received rave reviews from fans and critics alike. Live this band shines, their double trombones are simply earth shattering, their relentless high-energy stage show is just infectious and after rocking stages across the globe it’s finally our turn.

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JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE

RICHARD CLAPTON Mojo Sunday 4.00pm of the pop music landscape with a series of enigmatic and wondrous pop masterpieces that have stood the test of time and are used continuously on radio, television and film. This transition resulted in a phenomenal string of 11 Top 40 hits, including Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, Epistle To Dippy, There Is A Mountain, Wear Your Love Like Heaven, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Jennifer Juniper, Lalena, Atlantis, and Riki Tiki Tavi. This Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist’s latest recording is a double CD set entitled Ritual Groove. Prior to the album’s release, he had described Ritual Groove as a multimedia album that was waiting for videos to be applied to it, calling it a soundtrack to a movie not yet made.

His ongoing work in Transcendental Meditation has been a 40-year interest, and Donovan now heads up the musical wing of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. This year he played a major concert at Radio City, New York with musical peers Paul McCartney, Eddie Vedder and Sheryl Crow to promote

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Twenty-nine-year-old singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle has some serious musical heritage to live up to. He is the Transcendental Meditation for North son of a multi-Grammy-winning US American audiences. country singer, actor, political activist and longtime Bluesfest favourite Steve Earle, Saturday at the Crossroads. and his middle name bears tribute to his father’s musical hero, Townes Van Zandt.

After his standout show at Bluesfest 2010 it’s evident he is filling this role Sound the alarm! Australia’s highwonderfully as a masterful storyteller and powered, high-energy, dub, dancehall, undeniably compelling performer with an reggae, DnB, sub-bass vessel Dubmarine extensive catalogue of folk- and countryare making their Bluesfest debut! infused songs.

Led by the vocal gymnastics of The man is an anomaly. He’s tall as the day Indigenous superstar and Gangulu man is long, all angles and elbows and a hard D-Kazman, Dubmarine have a mission: stare, both welcoming and deadly serious. to produce bass-crunching, rhythmHe’s Nashville North, all set up in lower pounding, hip-shaking modern music Manhattan now, just like his hero Woody fusing elements of music from all around Guthrie, with twang and charm intact. His the world. The last two years have been hard-working earnestness has paid off, huge for the band with 2010 seeing the to say the least. At the 2011 Americana release of their first full-length album, Music Awards Justin took out the Song Depth of Sound, which features their of The Year award for Harlem River Blues. trademark bass-driven foundations, twin His album Harlem River Blues was also trombone blasts and thunderous synth nominated for the Album of The Year. In explosions, the band can’t help but rock 2009 at the same awards he won for the deep dancehall, reggae and dub.This Best New and Emerging Artist category. launched their highly successful European Fast becoming a festival favourite, be tour taking in shows in Germany, the warned, JT Earle has the power to seduce

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an audience with his charismatic storytelling and turn curious listeners into die-hard followers with his live performances.

Jambalaya on Saturday and the Crossroads on Monday.

STEVE EARLE

Earle, a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pretenders, Joan Baez and countless others. 1986 saw the release

Singer-songwriter, actor, author, political activist, producer – Steve Earle is one of life’s great troubadours! It’s been three grammys and three albums since Steve Earle graced Bluesfest stages with his musical tall tales and true – drawn from his life and times – and his songwriting partnerships – over a massive 14 albums.

A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Steve

EARTH, WIND & FIRE Mojo Friday 10.15pm of his debut record, Guitar Town, which shot to number one on the country charts and immediately established the term ‘New Country’.

What followed was an extremely exciting and varied array of releases including the biting-hard rock of Copperhead Road (1988), the minimalist beauty of Train A Comin’ (1995), the politically charged masterpiece Jerusalem (2002) and the three Grammy Award-winning albums The Revolution Starts…Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007) and Townes (2009).

MAMA KIN Mojo Sunday 1.00pm

‘This may be the shaggy outlaw’s most polished set’ – Rolling Stone Friday at the Crossroads and Saturday on the Jambalaya.

EARTH WIND & FIRE

Awards, as well as being inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.

Headlining the Mojo Stage on Friday.

The Bluesfest stage will transform into a boogie wonderland when soul-funk superstars and sixtime Grammy Award winners Earth, Wind & Fire hit the stage.

This band has sold 75 million records. The band had seven Top For the last 30 years the WC Handy award10 US singles and seven Top 10 winning ‘Best Blues Band’ the Fabulous albums. They are still the numberThunderbirds have been winning audiences one-selling black band and the over worldwide with their unique blend of number-seven top-selling US band Texas blues and harmonica-laced swamp of all time. Earth Wind and Fire took sounds. Now it’s our turn.This quintessential the world of music by storm with American band were instrumental in helping their infectious genre-bending kick-start the blues revival scene during the musical vision. With a foundation mid-80s and after showcasing their highin funk, they also incorporated jazz, energy, distinctive and powerful music on tour smooth soul, gospel, pop, rock and with the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, they roll, psychedelia, blues, folk, African won the masses over with hits like Tuff Enuff music and eventually a dip into and Wrap it up. Co-founder Kim Wilson, the sole disco – creating a sound destined original member, still spearheads the group as it to be imitated by many groups, evolves into its newest incarnation. In addition to Wilson, the current Thunderbirds lineup but never successfully duplicated features Jay Möller on drums, Johnny Möller by any. Beginning as a songwriting and Mike Keller on guitar, and Randy Bermudes team named The Salty Peppers in Chicago, Illinois in 1969 by brothers on bass. The late 70s saw TFT release their first self-titled album. Primarily blues influenced, it Verdine and Maurice White, the band quickly evolved; Maurice’s astrological sign, Sagittarius, became a cult classic. In subsequent releases, the band started to incorporate more Cajun, has a primary elemental quality of Fire and rock ’n’ roll and soul influences. The Fabulous seasonal qualities of Earth and Air. Based on this, and following a move to Los Angeles, he changed the band’s name to Earth, Wind & Fire and added guitars, reeds, a horn section, piano and more vocals, completing the then ten-man lineup.

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Angelique Kidjo is one of the greatest forces in African music, a creative energy with eleven international albums to her name. Her most recent release, 2010’s Oyo featuring John Legend, Bono and Dianne Reeves, is a measure of her maturity. The album is deeply introspective, reflecting on the events that have brought Kidjo to this point. Not only is she an amazing songstress and storyteller, she has an amazing story herself. Having grown up in the west African state of Benin and being forced into exile aboard to avoid imprisonment, this Grammy-awardwinning inspiration still bears witness to her African roots. Her fierce advocacy of humanitarianism and women’s rights prompted Time magazine to call her ‘Africa’s premier diva’ and The Guardian to

MONDAY PROGRAM MOJO 22.00 20.30 18.00 16.30 15.00 13.30 12.00

Yes (90 mins) CROSSROADS Zappa Plays Zappa (60 mins) John Fogerty (2 hrs) 21.30 Maceo Parker (90 Dawes (60 mins) mins) Slightly Stoopid (60 mins) 20.00 Candi Staton (60 mins) Great Big Sea (60 mins) 18.30 Kenny Wayne Blitzen Trapper (60 mins) Shepherd (60 mins) 17.00 Justin Townes Earle

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Anyone who has seen Keb Mo before will remember his mesmerising performance, his rich, distinctive, smoky voice that spins emotive and passionate stories.

This multi-Grammy-award-winning singer/songwriter/guitarist is bringing with him his highly-anticipated album The Reflection and touring for the first time with a full band. The Reflection was written and recorded over a period of three years, and is his first release since 2006. Self-produced, the 12-song set features duets with India Arie and Vince Gill, as well as performances by Dave Koz, Marcus Miller, Mindi Abair and worldrenowned studio musician David T Walker.

His music has long been regarded as a living link to the seminal Delta blues, and though his roots are in the Deep

South, his success has spread worldwide.

Keb Mo is one of those performers who have taken the blues beyond its traditional audience, with his wideranging, appealing music and infectious performances it’s no wonder he is a Bluesfest favourite!

Saturday at the Crossroads.

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Saturday & Sunday at the Crossroads.

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Time magazine have called her ‘America’s finest songwriter’. Lucinda Williams is back at Bluesfest with a swag of new songs off her latest work Blessed and we can’t wait. Writing since the age of six, playing guitar since she was 12, she has been performing for the last 37 years. It’s fair to say she has perfected the art of creating intriguing, gritty lyrics to match her distinctive, haunting voice during this time. Blessed is no exception. This alt-country songstress had Elvis Costello among the guest musicians featured on her latest album, playing some scorching electric guitar that only further offset the strength of her spine-tingling voice.

Crossroads on Thursday & Saturday.

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MACEO PARKER

His name is synonymous with funky music, his pedigree impeccable; his band – the tightest little funk orchestra on Earth. Everyone knows by now that he’s played with each and every leader of funk: his start with James Brown, which Maceo describes as ‘like being at university’; jumping aboard the mothership with George Clinton and those varied and colourful incarnations of Parliament and Funkadelic; stretching out with Bootsy’s Rubber Band. He’s the living, breathing pulse that connects the history of funk in one golden thread; the cipher that unravels dance music down to its core.

Crossroads on Sunday & Monday.

MAMA KIN

EUGENE “HIDEAWAY” BRIDGES Crossroads Friday 1.00pm ignite the spirit and make you groove.

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THE POGUES Lock up your mothers… The Pogues are coming to Bluesfest – for the very first time! The Pogues have been an indelible high watermark on the fickle tide of popular music for the last 30 years. Led by the charismatic Shane MacGowan, The Pogues command an army of die-hard fans the world over, captivated by the power and conviction of one of the last true punk rock bands. For Australian members of said legion, the 23-year wait to see The Pogues on home shores will soon to be over, with the band – including Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer, Spider Stacy, James Fearnley, Darryl Hunt, Andrew Ranken, Philip Chevron, Terry Woods – announcing their first Australian tour since 1989.

WA soulstress Mama Kin is a force to be reckoned with – armed with her unique blend of New Orleans footstomping soul and heartwrenching ballads, Mama Kin is part raconteur and all-out entertainer. As mischievous as she is charming, Mama Kin has wooed audiences from the Ottawa Blues Festival to WOMADelaide, Port Fairy and Woodford Folk festivals. She’s shared stages internationally The Crossroads on Sunday. with The Cat Empire, Ani di Franco, The John Butler Trio, FOR MORE PROGRAM Gurrumul, Xavier Rudd and INFORMATION GO TO The Waifs and continues to deliver live performances that WWW.BLUESFEST.COM.AU.

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