2016 Bluesfest Sideshows Announced
The 27th Annual Bluesfest is shaping up to be one of the best festivals yet, and the musical feast ranging from contemporary, blues and roots, legends and soul has tempted music lovers from near and far to make the pilgrimage to Byron Bay next Easter.
For those who love their music and can’t make the trip, Bluesfest Touring has it covered and continues to announce an impressive array of official sideshows happening around the country next March and April.
3RD BLUESFEST TOURING ANNOUNCEMENT INCLUDES
THE RESIDENTS PRESENT SHADOWLAND
LUCKY PETERSON
PLUS
BRIAN WILSON PERFORMING PET SOUNDS & HIS GREATEST HITS
TAJ MAHAL – PERFORMING SOLO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AUSTRALIA IN OVER 20 YEARS!
PLUS
LORD HURON • NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS
LUKAS NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL • JANIVA MAGNESS
PLUS NEW SHOWS ADDED:
MELISSA ETHERIDGE THIS IS M.E. *BRISBANE SHOW ANNOUNCED
SONGHOY BLUES *SYDNEY SHOW ANNOUNCED*
THE RESIDENTS
Experimental avant-garde group The Residents will be bringing their quirky show Shadowland to Sydney and Bluesfest in their first return to Australia in a decade. The Residents have been regarded as icons in the world of experimental music for over forty years and have garnered legendary status for their visionary music and unique aesthetics and managing to keep their identity a secret over their entire career.
THE RESIDENTS PRESENT SHADOWLAND
Proudly Presented by Bluesfest Touring, The Music and Eastside 89.7FM:
Factory Theatre, Sydney NSW-
THU 24 MAR 2016
– Also appearing at Byron Bay Bluesfest 2016 –
LUCKY PETERSON
Count your lucky stars if you get to catch blues New Yorker, guitar maestro Lucky Peterson in Melbourne, Sydney or his Bluesfest debut in March. With 18 solo albums to his name, Buffalo born Peterson released his first record at five years old in 1969, discovered by Blues legend Willie Dixon. The Blues Music Award nominee, vocalist, pianist, guitarist, French horn player and gun on the Hammond organ, fuses contemporary blues, soul, R&B, gospel and rock and roll.
LUCKY PETERSON
Proudly Presented by Bluesfest Touring, PBS 106.7FM and Eastside 89.7 FM
The Basement, Sydney NSW
TUE 22 MAR 2016
– Also appearing at Byron Bay Bluesfest 2016 –
JANIVA MAGNESS
With 25 Blues Music Award nominations and seven wins over an illustrious career spanning eleven albums, Janiva Magness is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today.
“One of the most fiery and original vocalists in contemporary blues and soul…thoughtful, inventive and almost unerringly on the money.” – MOJO
She most recently won the Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year Award (her fifth win inthis category), bringing her to seven wins, and she also won the coveted Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year (she is only the second woman to ever win this Award, Koko Taylor being the first). Janiva Magness will be making her Bluesfest debut in March 2016 and performing official sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney.
JANIVA MAGNESS
Proudly Presented by Bluesfest Touring
The Basement, Sydney NSW
WED 30 MAR 2016
ALSO TOURING; ALLEN STONE // THE DECEMBERISTS // JACKSON BROWNE // MELISSA ETHERIDGE // NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE // RHIANNON GIDDENS // THE SELECTER // SHAKEY GRAVES // SONGHOY BLUES // ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES // STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES // STURGILL SIMPSON // TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND // VINTAGE TROUBLE // THE WAILERS // THE WORD.
For more Information on the Bluesfest sideshows, click here.