Bluesfest
News: Bluesfest Byron Bay’s first artist announcement for the 2024 festival is upon us……and it’s a beauty.
The 35th iteration of Australia’s finest festival, Bluesfest Byron Bay is looking set to be one of its’ finest ever, with the announcement today of 23 artists to kick off the build-up to the Easter 2024 festival from Thursday, 28th March through to Monday, 1st April. Elvis Costello & The Imposters had previously promised that …
Live review + Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay Day 5 (the final day, Monday, 10.04.2023)
The final day of Bluesfest Byron Bay 2023 was upon us. The weather had been superb throughout the festival, with only one wet day of the six days (inclusive of the 5 day campers night) and Monday promised more of the same fine weather. The preceding 5 days had taken a reasonable toll on my …
Live Review + Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay Day 4 (Sunday 09.04.2023)
Day 4 began with a trip to catch Round Mountain Girls, a lively folk-rock band who I had only caught glimpses of in the past, and was keen to see. I certainly wasn’t disappointed, and their high-energy performance has ensured that I will almost definitely be catching them again in future. Next up was the …
Live Review + Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay Day 3 (Saturday 08.04.2023)
Day 3 of my Bluesfest marathon started with me going along to catch the 2022 Bluesfest Busking Competition winners, Loose Content, a local indie/alt rock band. Whilst not your traditional blues/roots band, they were highly entertaining, and drew quite a few of their friends, family and other supporters to the festival. My third dose of …
Live Review + Gallery: Bluesfest Byron Bay Day 2 (Friday, 07.04.2023)
Day 2 began with me excited to get back to Frank Sultana, who had played on Day 1, totally captivating me with his down and dirty Delta blues style, and who was first up at 11.30 a.m. What a great way to get the day off to a flying start. My interest had been piqued …
Live Review + Gallery: Bluesfest Byron Bay Day 1 (Thursday, 06.04.2023)
Following on from the unexpected evening’s entertainment on the day prior to the official opening of the world-famous festival, Byron Bay Bluesfest turned on the weather to see in their first day of acts. I am not going to tell you about all of the acts, just those that I had the privilege to see, …
Live Galleries + Review: …..and the fun began!! Bluesfest Byron Bay starts one day earlier with evening shows put on for early-bird 5 day campers
An exciting new innovation has been unveiled at Bluesfest Byron Bay, with an extra evening’s entertainment put on for the early-arriving, 5 day campers.These particular patrons are viewed as the backbone and, some may say, lifeblood of the Bluesfest being. As a reward, and as a way of encouraging people to arrive as early as …
News: Bluesfest Byron Bay add a further 18 artists to lineup with more to come.
Nine weeks out from the start of the 34th edition of Bluesfest Byron Bay, a further 18 acts have been added to the previously announced artists. The acts, in alphabetical order are Bobby Alu, Buttered, Clarence Bekker Band, Coterie, Dami Im, Daniel Champagne, Dog Trumpet, Electric Cadillac, Frank Sultana, Frank Turner, Hussy Hicks, Lisa Hunt’s …
News: Third Sydney show announced for Scottish superstar, Paolo Nutini.
Bluesfest Touring has announced the third, and final concert for Paolo Nutini in Sydney. There is a lot to get excited about as Paolo plays a third show at the State Theatre on Tuesday, 11 April 2023, adding to previously announced shows on the 12th and 13th of April. The tour for his 2022 album Last …
Seven further acts, including Scottish singer-songwriter, Paolo Nutini, named in fourth artist announcement for Bluesfest Byron Bay.
If there was one act Bluesfest Festival Director Peter Noble was desperate to secure, it was Paolo Nutini. It had been eight years since the Scottish singer songwriter had toured, so when word got out that Paolo may be touring, the Bluesfest booking team went into overdrive to secure him. And secure him they did! …