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2013 ARTISTS
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Joanne Shaw Taylor Joanne Shaw Taylor
When Annie Lennox paused her Diamond Jubilee Concert performance to let a white-suited, angel-winged blonde fire a soaring Les Paul solo into the sky above Buckingham Palace, uninitiated viewers all asked the same question: “Who’s that girl?” Needless to say the music fans and blues-heads in the crowd already knew the answer - it was Joanne Shaw Taylor,
the whisky-voiced singer, the midas-touch guitar heroine, the heart-on-sleeve songwriter who won ‘Best Female Vocalist’ at this year’s British Blues Awards, and one of the most exciting young blues guitarists on the planet.


Lloyd Spiegel Lloyd Spiegel
"Spiegel has stamped himself as one of the best songwriters in the country, regardless of genre, of history, of ANYTHING. It's a powerhouse of brutal honestly." 
- Rhythms Magazine

Collard Greens & Gravy
Collard Greens & Gravy
Acclaimed for their gritty, driving, down home sound, Collard Greens and Gravy play a mostly original repertoire of foot stomping country blues that would sound right at home in a Mississippi Juke Joint.

Sean Kirk
Sean Kirk
“Shaun Kirk’s youth belies the depth of his music, his soulful tone and feel draw from a tradition beyond his days. And yet, I still get the feeling that something new is happening when I hear him play."
– Jimi Hocking


Marissa Quigley
Marisa Quigley
"Possibly the blackest white women since Janis Joplin"
- Chris Lambie, Forte Magazine


Shannon Bourne 
Shannon Bourne

"One of the best guitarists in the country" - Gary Young, Daddy Cool & Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons


PLUS
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First
Tuesday
Blues Club


Brody Young


Belle & Osker


Paul Patten

And more...

Mike Elrington
Mike Elrington
With his blistering guitar playing, soulful, gut-wrenching vocals and innovative songwriting, Mike Elrington is quickly showing promise as one of the most exciting young performers in Australia today.

Archer
Archer
The illegitimate love-child of Lead Belly & Australia's yodelling sweetheart Shirley Thomas, Archer is an old time sing-song man who plays old country, gospel, blues and folk tunes.

Josh Cashman

Josh Cashman
Descrbed as "his own unique style of Australian roots", Josh plays a variety of instruments including 12-string & slide guitar, harmonica, didgeridoo and stomp box, to produce a style of music for everyone to dig.


        


2013 BRUTHEN BLUES SPONSORS


















Lew Postlethwaite

Clare Edwards


Belinda Riddler




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With the invaluable assistance and support of the Bruthen Community, local Community Groups and services, the Bruthen traders and all the volunteers



Bruthen: 2006 Regional Community of the Year Award winner for towns under 5000 people!

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