BIG BLUES - 3 FANTASTIC BLUES ACTS LIVE & FREE from 5.30pm

• JB Lewis
•  Corrina Steel
• The Hipshooters

Palmwoods Got The Blues returns on  Sat Jan 16

 First call sideman JB Lewis opens the show playing his gutbucket prewar blues.  JB’s a regular on the Palmwoods stage playing bass or guitar  with Mojo Webb, Pete Cornelius, Geoff Achison and many of the touring acts that come through. He’s also a top notch singer and fans of real blues should be there early for this musician’s musician.

www.myspace.com/jblewismusic

Corrina Steel is primarily known as a country singer but after spending time Mississippi in the last year, Corrina’s third release“Fling With The King” features a darker bluesier sensibility than she’s displayed on her previous albums. Couple that with her RL Burnside inspired slide guitar playing and roadhardened band and the house will be rockin’ for this talented lady and her band.

www.myspace.com/corinnasteel

Since they arrived in Australia from New Zealand, the Hipshooters have been widely acknowledged as Australias premier exponents of the hard edged texas blues immortalized by the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan. A headliner at every festival they play, if there’s been a tighter band to play the Palmwoods stage, its only because frontman and guitar slinger extaordinaire Anton Tipi Elkington spends his working week teaching at home across the ditch. Rest assured though, the Hipshooters will blow the roof of the place just like they did they last time they visited. And the time before that!

 www.myspace.com/thehipshooters

2009 was a great year for the Palmwoods hotel and its roster of blues artists. Crowds were up, the bands were firing and the beer couldn’t have been any colder.

2010 kicks off with a couple of the pubs most popular artists and one on the verge of international acclaim. 

After a year of overseas travel and hundreds of gigs, Mason Rack’s return to Palmwoods on Sat Jan 2 will set the standard for every musician that follows his path through the pubs soundproofed doors. This young man has electrified audiences with his Weissenborn guitar and deep dark vocal vibrations since he hit the Australian blues scene 4 yrs ago.  As an added bonus, its hoped that he’ll be selling copies of his latest release “Live In Canada” currently in post production.

It’s a helluva way to begin the year!!

Palmwoods has got the blues – LIVE & FREE from 5.30pm

Tom Richardson

Asa Broomhall

Ray Beadle

With Christmas only weeks away and the Woodford Folk Festival hot on its heels, the tendency to pull back and keep entertainment costs down in the weeks before is only natural. At the Palmwoods hotel though, the thought would never cross the mind of the management and the December blues lineup is hotter than hot.

 Then on Saturday December 19, Palmwoods Got The Blues goes live all over again

Young Gun Tom Richardson is one of the most popular young artists ever to perform at Palmwoods. His latest cd release “Evolution” is receiving airplay across the country and Toms ever widening reputation sees him packing the “joint” wherever he goes. The dreads and lap slide guitar are almost de rigueur these days for Australian roots artists but Tom is something else again.

www.myspace.com/tomrichardsonmusic

Asa Broomhall is another of the Palmwoods hotels favourite regulars. When he’s not on the road or in the studio of course. Both of which, he’s been doing more and more these days. He’ll be back this time with his rockin’ trio playing tracks from his new release “Revelry Road”; fresh from a couple of shows in Sydney with Diesel and this just sets the scene for this month’s headliner

www.myspace.com/asabroomhall

Ray Beadle first came to the attention of Australia’s blues loving public when he was asked to join iconic Australian blues outfit, “The Foreday Riders” at the age of 13. In the years that have followed, Ray’s enormous talent has seen him travel to the US for month long residencies at BB Kings Blues Club in Memphis, recordings with harmonica wiz Mark Sallings and in 2008, a much talked about appearance at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Ray’s third release “Loaded” has only recently been released and documents the continued expansion of the monumental talent of this young man not yet 30yrs old. A hotshot guitar player certainly, but Ray’s wonderful songwriting and souldeep singing are what enable this young man to stand apart from the rest

www.myspace.com/raybeadle

Natural Ball

Brisbane’s Chicago Blues crack shots are bolting up the highway for 4 sets of their cracking mix of hot blues and loose limbed funk, perfect for filling the dance floor on Saturday 5th December.

LIVE  AND  FREE

Friday 11th December from 8pm

PULP FRICTION

Saturday 12th December from 8pm

INDIGO

Sunday 13th Decemeber from 2pm

SISTER C