Tag Archives: performance If there is a single problem with the annual Easter-weekend Bluesfest music festival in Byron Bay, it is deciding what to miss out on! It is hard not have “music envy”. Every year that I attend, there are headliners that I have to forfeit. Or there are the days or years that I don’t go at […]  I’ve said it before: for a country with a small population, Australia has a disproportionate wealth of musical talent (see: The Local Lineup). I look forward to the annual Easter long-weekend Byron Bay Bluesfest: it can invariably be relied upon to serve up a range of quality musicians. It is a joy to discover new […]  (Double click for: Afro Celtic Sound System – Big Cat ) Self-billed as “Australia’s premier contemporary blues & roots music festival”, the annual five-day festival of international blue-, roots-, and any-other-kind-of-music held over the Easter long weekend on Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm – 120 hectares just north of Byron Bay in NSW Australia – has never disappointed […]  If you want a sense of a country’s diversity, you need only listen to its music. I was trying to think of ways of organising the myriad of pictures I took at this year’s Bluesfest Byron Bay 2018 – a five-day festival of international blue-, roots-, and any-kind-of-music; one category I thought of using was “World […]  Music makes everything better! The annual five-day Easter long-weekend musical feast that is Byron Bay Bluesfest always delivers up such a range and variety of wonderful talent that it is hard to know where to start. Rubbing shoulders with big names from around the world, lesser-known Australian performers proudly hold their own. I look forward to these […] |
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