Project Description
Top 5
Female Guitarists
By Rackett
Melbourne Guitar Show Series
Interviewer: Brianna Denmeade
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Drawing over 5,500 guitar lovers and enthusiasts to last year’s exhibit, the Melbourne Guitar Show is growing year on year and is gearing up for the biggest event yet. The voice of the Australian music products industry, the Australian Music Association (AMA) will be teaming up with australianmusician.com.au and presenting sponsors Triple M, 3PBS and Aon to present this year’s guitar-centric weekend.
Not only will the 2018 MGS provide a hands-on chance to see, hear and play a broad range of the world’s favourite brands, it will also see exhibitors offering great show deals, plus an opportunity to get close to some hand-crafted, locally made instruments and epic guitar and gear collections.
Describing the exciting developments, Rob continues,“Our exhibition welcomes back some big names this year and the learning opportunities are plentiful. If you’re in the market for guitars and gear, great live music from some of the best players. the Melbourne Guitar Show is the place to be.”
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Over the weekend Amnplify has been focusing on Top 5 lists with artists who will be performing at The Melbourne Guitar Show August 4 – 5, and this next list of female guitarists is brought to you by RACKETT. You can get tickets to catch RACKETT live at The Melbourne Guitar Show HERE, but if you can’t make it check out their list of Top 5 Female Guitarists…
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Nancy Wilson (Heart)
I remember getting hooked on the band Heart when I heard their track ‘Barracuda’ a few years ago. It leads me to her amazing acoustic guitar solo on ‘Crazy on you’. It really inspired me to delve deeper into my guitar playing, beyond basic chords.
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Joan Jet (the Runaways)
I love Joan Jet’s tone and thrasher attitude on guitar, she really embodies the ‘power’ in power chords.
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Orianthi Panagaris
I was star struck by Orianthi when I watched the Michael Jackson documentary ‘This is it’, then I found out she was Australian and it really gave me a kick up the butt to improve my own playing. It’s truly inspirational that someone from our little island of Australia could be present on stage with such an iconic international star.
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Anne Erin Clark (St.Vincent)
Before I officially started RACKETT I was living in Melbourne drumming in a punk band there and I went to see St.Vincent. It totally changed my perspective on guitar playing. I was surrounded by girls on guitars that specialised in power chords for short and fast punk songs, Anne was intricate, she had no pedals on stage and she was so punk in such a sophisticated pop way.
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Kat Ayala (RACKETT)
Kat is in my band, yes, so this might come across as biased, but I have to include her in this list because she is a great guitarist for many reasons. She can play mad lead lines, solos, soundscapes, anything. I throw any style of music at her and she adapts. She’s constantly chasing the next best pedal, the next best guitar and that’s inspiring to me. Sometimes we’ll get home from tour and I’ll be barely able to carry my own guitar through the door and then I see her re-arranging her pedal board, chasing perfection relentlessly, that kind of passion is contagious.
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MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW DETAILS
SATURDAY AUG 4 | CAULFIELD RACECOURSE |10.00am – 6.00pm | TICKETS
SUNDAY AUG 5 | CAULFIELD RACECOURSE | 10.00am – 4.00pm | TICKETS
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The Melbourne Guitar Show
will be held at Caulfield Racecourse
on August 4 and 5.
Tickets are on sale from June 5, 2018.
Online ticket prices when pre-ordered:
Adult day pass $20, adult weekend pass $30,
family day pass $35, concession day pass $10,
concession weekend pass $15, premium ticket** $40
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