Fiddlers Feast
The new Fiddlers Feast album ‘Caravan’ is out the first week of February through MGM Distribution.
Australia's premier Celtic music group also described as “the perfect festival band” will take the Caravan on the road launching the album with a series of concerts at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
Caravanis a superbly crafted, brilliantly performed and energy-packed Album that captures everything that makes Fiddlers Feast such a special group. “The Musicianship is absolutely stunning, there is a delicious underlying sense of humour and the arrangements are thoughtful as well as musically challenging.” (Trad & Now)
Appropriately the madcap ‘The Devil Went Down To Tamworth’ from the album is to be included on the special souvenir music CD to be included in the Official Guide to the Tamworth Country Music Festival produced and published by Capital News which is recognized as one of the world’s biggest festival publications. The bumper issue with over 260 pages is the original and definitive Tamworth Festival Guide featuring the Official Day by Day Program and Official A to Z Artist Directory.
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Eric Bogle
The annual Woodford Folk Festival has gone from strength to strength over the past 27 years, with its eclectic mix of amazing music, fascinating talks and street theatre – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Heading the contingent this year was our iconic Eric Bogle, still one of the most perceptive and moving songwriters on the Australian music scene. With an Order of Australia and a Peace Medal from the United Nations to his credit, Bogle is both an extraordinary wordsmith and a captivating performer.
(Source: Susan Jarvis, Capital News December 2012)
In some exciting news for the Bogle faithful, Eric recently had this to say to the crew at Rouseabout Records… “I hope you all had a good New Year, I did my usual trick, drank too much malt whisky then fell over.......I go into the studio at the end of this month to record a new CD, I'll send you the mixes when it's ready, probably around mid- February if all goes to plan! I hope 2013 is good to us all....”
With a new album from the maestro in the works it sounds as though it will be! In the meantime listen to ‘Flying Away’ from Eric’s most recent studio album The Dreamer in this month’s edition of Undercover Radio.
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Jim Low
Congratulations to the latest addition to our Rouseabout roster Jim Low for his 2013 Australian Bush Laureate Awards finals nominations. The extremely gifted Blue Mountains’ based songwriter’s The Further I Travel has been nominated for ALBUM OF THE YEAR with ‘Myall Creek Station’ taken from the album nominated for SINGLE RECORDED PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR.
The 2013 Awards will be staged in the famous Tamworth Town Hall at 2pm on Tuesday, January 22. A star-studded line-up of bush poets, including Awards finalists, will appear during the gala awards concert together with special guest country music artists and compere Jim Haynes.
Jim Low’s next release on Rouseabout is a dedication to his beloved home featuring songs about the Blue Mountains.Titled Across the Blue Mountains, the album is being released to help commemorate the region’s Bicentennial, celebrations of which are planned continually for the next 3 years (2013-15) taking in the explorers' crossing, the road building and Macquarie's first use of the road. The highlight will be the re-enactment of the crossing in May 2013. Blue Mountains Council has a site specifically for the Crossings.
Yet another new album of Jim’s original songs will be released later in 2013.
In the meantime if you haven’t already, discover The Further I Travel songs from which can be heard at the Undercover Music Soundcloud.
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Mic Conway's National Junk Band
Australia’s king of Vaudeville Mic Conway’s National Junk Band will also be making their presence felt at this year’s Tamworth Country Music Festival playing seven shows.
Combining jug band blues, politics and tongue-in-cheek humour the National Junk Band create an onstage experience that must be seen to be believed. Don’t miss them!
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Gary Shearston
“The word ‘legend’ is used freely in the music world, but few could be more entitled to its use than Gary Shearston.”
(Ian Dearden, Trad & Now)
Gary continues to be prolific in his songwriting output. His new album The Great Australian Groove (his fourth studio album released on Rouseabout Records) is being well received at radio already scoring “Album of the week” on Tribe FM 91.1.
Shearston also recently completed a half-hour interview with Jordie Kilby for his program Rare Collections which is broadcast on ABC Local Radio nationally and which, as of next month, will also be carried on Radio National.
Look & Listen out for Gary Shearston on “Folk in the Vines”on Tribe FM 91.1, Huon FM, Max FM, Eastern FM Croydon, Edge Radio 99.3FM, 2YOU, 2NUR, 3RPC, Original Country Radio, Sweet FM, Todays Country 94One, WYN FM 88.9, 5EBI, North West FM, ABC Local Radio & Radio National, 2SM Super Radio Network, 2CH, Bay FM 100.3, Happy FM 90.1, Australian Country with John Nutting, BBC in the UK, RCF-Haute Normandie Radio (France) & in Trad & Now, Capital News, New England Lifestyle, Campfire News & Le Cri du Coyote Magazine.
The Great Australian Groove (RRR57) is OUT NOW through MGM Distribution and also directly from Undercover Music via ‘Mail Order’.
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