The Byron Bay Blues Festival has announced it’s second run of acts, adding to the already decent list already encouraging thousands to snap up tickets.
Rather than waffle on about each artist individually, I’ll just give you the whole list, shall I?Jason Mraz, Xavier Rudd, Paul Kelly, Drive-By Truckers, Booker T Jones (as in Booker T. and the M.G.s, but without the M.G.s), James Hunter, Blues Traveller, CW Stoneking, Ash Grunwald, AYO, Rodney Crowell, Dallas Frasca, Spectrum, Pete Cornelius & the De Villes, Hot Club of Cow Town, Resin Dogs, Tijuana Cartel, Son Veneno, Mic Conway’s National Junk Band, and Morning Of The Earth - Cult Surf Movie and Concert featuring Brian Cadd, Lior, Old Man River, Mike Rudd & Tim Gaze.
They join Ben Harper, John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Lucinda Williams, Zappa Plays Zappa, Angelique Kidjo, Tinariwen, Eric Bibb, Seasick Steve, Tony Joe White, Ruthie Foster, Blind Boys Of Alabama, Watermelon Slim & The Workers, Toni Childs, Luka Bloom, Alpha Blondy, Alabama 3, The Easy All Stars, Special Beat, Augie March, Blue King Brown, Saltwater Band featuring Gurrumul, Sonny Landreth, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Benny Gallagher, Bob Log III, Eugene Hideaway Bridges, The Bamboos, Watussi, Lowrider and Nu Yorican Nights.
That’s a lot of bands to take in, right? Let me sum it up with the ones I’m excited about:
Ben Harper, Booker T. Jones, C.W. Stoneking, Resign Dogs (are they STILL around?!), Zappa Plays Zappa, Lucinda Williams, Seasick Steve, Tony Joe White, Blind Boys of Alabama, Bob Log III, Lowrider, The Bamboos and Eugene Hideaway Bridges.
Apologies to everyone who loves bands I chose to omit from that list, it’s just an opinion, please save your hate mail for spelling mistakes or misquoted lyrics.
Tickets are available now at The Bluesfest Website, but snap ‘em up quickly.
The festival will take place at Byron Bay’s Belongil Fields between April 9 and 13.
