Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th October
Festival organisers have advised us that planning is well underway for the 9th Annual Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival, celebrating the wonderful traditions of bluegrass and folk music.
This year’s Festival will take place across the weekend of Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th October. This is a wonderful time to visit this picturesque mountain town which is the gateway to the Gondwana World Heritage rainforest area.
Website – dorrigofolkbluegrass.com.au.
The Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival is a small, relaxed and friendly festival with something for all members of the family. The Festival is held at the Dorrigo Showgrounds which features loads of space and shady trees plus the added advantage of camping which is readily available adjacent to the Festival site. This means you can see the Festival across the whole 3 days.
The Dorrigo Showgrounds have 2 Pavilions – the Main Pavilion where concert performances are staged and the Luncheon Pavilion - where you can sit, relax and enjoy some delicious food, lots of music.
Some of this year’s artists include; The Junes, Kristy Cox & Band, the Ewan MacKenzie Duo, Mothers Of Intention, Innes Campbell & Present Company as well as the fabulous Josh Bennett & Parvyn Singh.
Early Bird Tickets – $65.00 – available until 1st October.
Whole Weekend Pass is $75.00.
Youth Passes – $20.00 – for primary & secondary school students
Neurum Creek Festival 10th – 12th September 2010.
Here’s a new festival which is not strictly a bluegrass festival but there appears to be plenty of bluegrass music on stage. Indeed, Innes Campbell is running a flatpick guitar workshop as part of the festival workshop program.
I asked Innes Campbell what can we expect from his workshop?
I tend to focus a lot on technique especially right hand as this is the one thing that is very hard to get from other sources – books, youtube etc and is very often overlooked or thought of as being of a lesser importance than the other skills.
I usually start with a tune, hopefully there will be a couple of members of the band to help me, then I will talk everyone through simple backup guitar starting very simply and progressing to include chord substitutions and bass runs - Innes Campbell.
The Neurum Creek Music Festival is a local acoustic music camping weekend held at Neurum Creek Bush Retreat in September each year. The festival’s aim is to provide an atmosphere of community and inclusion for the south-east corner of Queensland by showcasing the established and up and coming talents of this corner of the world, as well as featuring acts from around Australia and at times internationally.
Innes Campbell and his band Present Company will be performing at the Neurum Festival on Sunday at 1:30pm.
Innes Campbell’s flatpick wprkshop is on Saturday at 11:30pm.
A highlight of this year’s festival will once again be tune and singing sessions. It’s a place to pick up new songs and tunes, to experience playing with lots of different people, and most importantly to have fun. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, the campfires will be stocked, stoked and ready to burn most of the night (if not all of the night) for those of you who really like to session, or just absorb the atmosphere - Neil Murray.
Neurum Creek Music Festival – 10, 11, 12 September 2010 – www.neurumcreekfestival.com
Innes Campbell and Present Company - Something Quick and Neat.
To describe Innes Campbell as a guitar player is somewhat of an understatement. In 2009 the folks at Tamworth awarded him the title of National Guitar Champion. This CD highlights Innes’s extraordinary guitar work and gives credence to the fact that his is not only one of the country’s best flatpickers, but a talented songwriter also.
Innes Campbell has delivered a range of music styles in this CD. Seven of the fourteen tracks are original songs or tunes with influences from the folk, country, swing and bluegrass. As a very capable song writer he covers topics ranging from the serious (with questions to the overly serious Richard Dawkins) to the absurd (bemoaning the fact that his baby has contracted a case of the dreaded the swine flu). His arrangements of traditional tunes like St Anne’s Reel, Clinch Mountain Backstep, Big Sandy River and Beaumont Rag are further testament to his musical dexterity.
This CD features a host of other great musicians in his band Present Company with Luke Moller on mandolin, Mark Webber on bass, George Jackson on fiddle and The Davidson Brothers also playing banjo and mandolin.
I have had this CD playing in my car for the past three weeks. Nothing disappoints in this CD and there is every reason to add it to your collection.
Innes Campbell and Present Company – Something Quick and Neat.
Innes Campbell – The Muddy Farmer 14th January – 8:00pm to 11:00pm.
Innes Campbell is a guitarist with a love of singing, songwriting and playing great music with great musicians.
Innes’s festival appearances in 2009, included Redlands Bluegrass Festival, The Gympie Muster, Dorrigo Bluegrass Festival and more recently the Woodford Festival, where he showcased his virtuoso bluegrass guitar chops, thoughtful songwriting and sense of humour.
Innes is the 2009 National Bluegrass Guitar Champion (Tamworth), and since arriving here in August last year he has hunted down the best bluegrass musicians Brisbane has to offer in Luke Moller (mandolin), George Jackson (fiddle) and Mark Webber (bass).
The Bug features three booked acts along with occasional blackboards each week. 7.30pm every Thursday night at the Muddy Farmer Hotel cnr Ipswich Rd. and Annerley Rd., Annerley. Admission is free – meals are available.
Check out the website at brisbane-unplugged.org.
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