Peter Noble, Bluesfest Boss wins Rolling Stone Award
Peter Noble, Festival Director of Bluesfest, took out the ‘Rolling Stone Award’ at the 5th Annual Rolling Stone Awards held at the Beach Road Hotel last night in Sydney. The award acknowledges the contribution of Peter Noble not only to Bluesfest, one of Australia’s favourite as well as most successful music festivals, but to the wider music industry that Peter has been a part of at a professional level for 50 years. Previous winners of this award include Michael Gudinski and Michael Chugg.
From his beginnings playing in Rock, Soul and Blues bands in Sydney during the sixties and seventies, before moving to the US to work as a professional musician, to setting up Portland Oregon’s first International Jazz Festival and booking at legendary venue ‘The Earth’, Peter Noble has established himself as one of the Industries finest.
Peter Noble began booking international acts with then called East Coast Blues Festival in 1990, and became a director in 1993. Peter coined the term Blues & Roots Music Festival in 1996 to encompass the growing reach and flavour of the festival – a term which would soon find common usage throughout the Australian music industry, typified when within 12 months the ARIA Awards created a Blues & Roots category as one of their major awards.
Peter became a pioneer for Blues, Jazz, Roots and Indie Music touring in Australia, as well as running AIM Records; which became the first ever Australian independent label to win a Grammy Award. He has worked in many areas of the music business including record producing, touring artists through his company Bluesfest Touring, artist management, setting up the Australian Artists Agency in the early 70’s , event site development and festival presentations all over Australia and SE Asia, where he currently presents the Singapore Rock ‘N Roots Festival.
It is fitting Peter was awarded this honour as Bluesfest is about to celebrate its 25th Anniversary over the Easter long weekend 17 – 21 April, 2014 at its permanent home, the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, north of Byron Bay. Bluesfest 2014 will see Industry heavy weights such as John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band and Jack Johnson take the stage.
For more information on Bluesfest visit: www.bluesfest.com.au