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BLUESFEST TOURS
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Australian Tour Dates
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Photo credit: SilkyShots
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Snarky Puppy
Monday 25 March: The Forum, Melbourne
Wednesday 27 March: Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Friday 29 March: Bluesfest
Saturday 30 March: Bluesfest
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SNARKY PUPPY
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Snarky Puppy is a 5-time GRAMMY™ winning jazz, funk fusion collective of sorts with as many as 20 members in regular rotation. At its core, the band represents the convergence of both black and white American music culture with various accents from around the world. Japan, Argentina, Canada, and the United Kingdom all have representation in the group’s membership. But more than the cultural diversity of the individual players, the defining characteristic of Snarky Puppy’s music is the joy of performing together in the perpetual push to grow creatively.
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SNARKY PUPPY / Photo credit – Ignacio Orrego
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Snarky Puppy have won GRAMMYs™ for Best R&B Performance (2013), Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (2015, 2015, 2021, 2023) and are regularly voted Best Jazz Group of the Year, in DownBeat Readers’ Poll and Jazz Times Readers’ Poll
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MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
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Meshell Ndegeocello
Monday 25 March: Factory Theatre, Sydney
Tuesday 26 March: Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne
Thursday 28 March: Bluesfest
Friday 29 March: Bluesfest
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MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
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Acclaimed GRAMMY™ Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello returns to Australia for headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne next March to present a stunning career retrospective, along with highlights from her latest album, The Omnichord Real Book.
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MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
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Ndegeocello is an unassuming colossus whose body of work extends far beyond the early hits and virtuosic bass playing with which she is most associated. “If That’s Your Boyfriend (He Wasn’t Last Night),” her taunting and funky breakout single, immediately set her apart as an instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer. Ndegeocello has remained impossible to typecast, and her versatility knows no bounds. A preternatural synthesist, over three decades and 13 albums, she has mixed and moved across jazz, blues, soul, funk, and reggae, as well as folk and rock.
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BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
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Blind Boys of Alabama
Sunday 31 March: Bluesfest
Monday 1 April: Bluesfest
Thursday, 4 April: City Recital Hall, Sydney
Saturday, 6 April: Melbourne Recital Hall, Melbourne
The Blind Boys of Alabama return to Australia for a very special tour. With over 75 years of soul-stirring music behind them, the Blind Boys continue their legacy as one of the most recognised and decorated roots music groups in the world.
Since forming at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in the 1930s, the Blind Boys have persevered through the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights movement to become living legends. Their unique gospel sound, blending close harmonies with fervent improvisations, has earned them five Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, and performances for three different U.S. presidents.
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BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA / Photo credit by Jim Herrington
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In recent decades, the Blind Boys have collaborated with artists like Peter Gabriel, Ben Harper, Justin Vernon, and Taj Mahal and they have toured the world over. Their latest album, 2022’s Work to Do with Marc Cohn, showed the group is still as vital as ever.
Now, the two remaining original members, Jimmy Carter and Paul Beasley, lead a fresh generation of Blind Boys into the future. Their concerts are roof-raising, spirited affairs that appeal to audiences of all cultures. With over 75 years behind them, the Blind Boys continue to innovate and inspire through their live shows and new music.
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BLUESFEST
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A Message from Peter Noble OAM:
“The Blind Boys of Alabama first played Bluesfest in 1992, and they’ll be returning in 2024 for the eighth time. They are the most celebrated and well known gospel artists in the world. Please join us for what is a very special experience and one you’ll never know if you’ll ever get to see them again.
Snarky Puppy has only been around for 10 years, and in this short time, they have won five GRAMMYs and pretty much every poll held by JazzTimes or DownBeat.
Meshell Ndegeocello is a phenomenon. With a staggering eleven GRAMMY™ nominations, her style transcends genres, and her shows always leave a lasting impression on audiences.”
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Bluesfest Tours showcases Bluesfest Byron Bay sideshows and Touring Artists.
Presenting the best international legendary and emerging artists from around the world in Rock, Blues, R&B, Soul, Folk, Punk, Hip-Hop, Reggae and Jazz at iconic venues across Australia each year.
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