Blanchie’s Blues Ensemble Peter Blanch (“Blanchie”) has been around the traps for more years than he wants to mention. Having written numerous songs and performed solo gigs along the way. The Blues Ensemble is a group of seasoned musos, hand – picked by Blanchie, who are veterans and true lovers of what they call “Classic old school blues and rock”. Mixing a blend of old Chicago style blues through to up - tempo classics. Along with Blanchie’s unique vocals and acoustic guitar playing, the band features the talents of Bryan West on keyboards, Manny Farr on guitar, Sean Bowen on bass, Micky Macintyre on drums and Dave Welch on guitar and vocals.

Peter Blanch – Singer and acoustic guitar

Manny Farr (me) – Lead guitar

Mick McIntyre – drums

Shaun Bowen – Bass

Dave Welch – Rhythm guitar and backup vocals

Brian West - Keyboards

Sydney based jump swing blues band, forming the backbone of the Lemon Squezzin Dadies.

open for lunch from 12 noon

Always a great gig !

Pete Campbell & his lazy dog

Pete Campbell and band The Lazy Dog

Tim Bradley - drums

Jed Wesley-Smith - bass

Thomas Hespe - sax/guitar/b-vocals

Winner at the 2024 Fretfest Song Contest Tamworth. Campbell's songs are a sidewalk cafe, a mood, a glimpse in the mirror. His blend of acoustic and electric folk styles – from Appalachia and London, to the streets of Sydney – combined with blues, country and Americana, show that his influences are wide-ranging, from iconic artists such as Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, The Beatles and The Allman Brothers, to contemporary Antipodean songwriters such as Paul Kelly, Neil Finn and Bernard Fanning. 2022 and 2023 saw singles premiere on 2SER's The Outpost, Sunburnt Country Music and Stuart Coupe's Dirt Music radio show. 2025 will see him release a debut album and tour extensively with band The Lazy Dog.

Jesse Redwing has honed his chops in smoky juke joints all over the world for damn near two decades now.

He recently represented Sydney, Australia at the 2024 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN where he advanced to the semifinals.

On top of touring Europe and the USA with the Jesse Redwing band, Jesse has supported such acts as Cedric Burnside, Jon Cleary, Cold Chisel, The Teskey Brothers and Ana Popovic. A track off Jesse’s debut album "Crawlin’ Up the Walls" was featured on hit Netflix show “Shooter”

( https://youtu.be/NgPvHHRMLXY?si=5CwVzmhdyDDEd757 )

His song ‘Rubberband’ was also featured on a Marshall Headphones commercial and Joe Bonamassa’s Spotify playlist.

( https://youtu.be/nndaWLJXFbc?si=rlyKFkscqu4B6GG1 )

Jesse has released three original studio albums, Comin' on, Light My Way and Trim the Fat, as well as two live records- Live and Lascivious. and Blues on the Mountain.

Jesse's honest, down-to-earth playing translates well whether he plays solo or with his smokin' hot band. He is guaranteed to fill your cup with his contemporary take on the timeless soulful sounds of the blues legends.

Simone will take you on a Journey of Soul / Funk, from classic “Stax” Greats: Anne Peebles, Dorothy Moore, and Aretha.

To the modern Soul Greats of: Chaka Khan, Joss Stone, Brand New Heavies, Alicia Keys and more..... Good feelin’ Soul!!

Simone will “belt out” some of your pop favourites, Fleetwood Mac, Jessie J, Angie Stone & Womack & Womack, to Doobie Brothers.

Join us for a fab evening at a fab venue, great food available too…..

Best pint of GUINNESS around! Live music, Irish fare, lots of give aways and win and Irish Hamper.

PAT POWELL

Rob Luckey - guitar & vocals , Smithy - bass, Lachie Monaro - drums,Nick Summers- pedal steel, Stu Alexander - guitar & vocals, Rossco Waraker - keys.

Rob Luckey and the lucky bastards with friends.

Andy Baylor- multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, songwriter, singer, sideman and artist, is our very own king of roots music.

Andy’s been a driving force behind legendary acts of inner Melbourne’s 70’/‘80’s roots renaissance including the Belair Bandits, Blue Rockets, jump blues band Honeydrippers, the Dancehall Racketeers, the long-running Cajun Combo, seminal ‘90’s Fitzroy funk band, Banana Oil and, more recently the folksy/art Banksia Band. He has produced many acclaimed,influential independent albums alone, playing a half-dozen stringed instruments, singing, songwriting and illustrating with his own artwork. Funky soul, R&B, western swing, Jazz, Cajun, old -style blues, hillbilly, country, country rock,old-timey fiddlin’ – name a roots music style and Andy’s been there at the forefront. Early on, during an extended working holiday in the USA, Andy met and played with musical legends like David Grisman, Cajun greats Dewey Balfa and Mark Savoy, and Bob Wills’ fiddler Johnny Gimble. He hung out and played in Southern Juke Joints, Texas dancehalls and Cajun bars. Back home in the '90s Baylor was in constant demand running the Cajun Combo, freelancing and playing with internationals like a touring post- Zeppelin Robert Plant, jazz organist Jimmy McGriff and sax great Big Jay McNeely. With the Cajun Combo he backed Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Louisiana Red,Queen Ida ,Rockin’ Dopsie and blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon. He also played guitar for “The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul”- singer Betty Harris and eccentric New Orleans voodoo blues singer Coco Robicheaux. He toured with Texas accordionist Flaco Jimenez with a re-formed Racketeers, played fiddle and guitar and did touring stints with Slim Dusty, Redgum and Lucky Oceans band, was an award –winning regular at Tamworth Country Music Festival, and was personally chosen along with his musical brothers, Donal and Peter, by non other than Bob Dylan as support act for his 1992 tour.

https://andybaylormusic.bandcamp.com/

https://www.andybaylor.online/

Mitch Anderson, Harry Brus and Keith Sullivan.

cool,laid back. funky five piece offering enigmatic interpretations of soul, rock, country and blues.

Mangrove Swamp

STEPHANIE MARCHANT BAND w ILLYA SZWEC - guitar. KATIE GLENDENNING - drums. JED WESLEY- SMITH - bass. ROSCOE WARAKER - keys

We are not a sports pub but we love the AFL GF - live n loud front bar.

Playing many of the edgier Rock, Funk, Blues anthems from the 60’s 70’s & 80’s, Tall Order (Classic Rock Revival) are a collective of pro musicians from around the World who just want to bring you some of the amazing Music by the most iconic Artists of all time rarely heard in Pubs & Clubs. Classic Rock Revival – an explosive show featuring the iconic music of Jimi Hendrix, Queen, Deep Purple, Stevie Wonder, Van Halen and more.

a smorgasbord of Chicago shuffle blues, swing, jump and boppish instrumentals, plus New Orleans style rumbas and Latin flavoured tunes - all served up with GD’s unique voice and precise guitar work, Jeffs well-honed guitar and dobro licks and Ron’s immaculate Chicago style harmonica lines.

It all adds up to 100% Blues, 100% fun!

Ron King Harmonica and Vocal Jeff King Guitar and Dobro Graeme Druce Guitar and Vocal

https://denhanrahan.bandcamp.com/ Den’s music is a compendium of ballads, anthems and reckless laments from his songbook of the open road. It makes no secret of his love for Americana and the hard driven word that still lives in his heart. While steeped in present –day Australia, the phantom images of the past intrude all over his tales of remorse and redemption, the plaintive song of a bruised and homesick traveller. His six releases, Scars, Rum Runners, One Horse Town, Black Swamp Road, and Red Dust chart his relentless orbit around the country, touring through the landscapes that become his songs – the people, their stories, his own past.

Dead Horse Gap Band