 21/1/12. An explosion of percussive grooves, Latin fury and raw talent. Acoustic Elements blazing a trail across the Australian festival scene as they rip through fiery latin masterpieces and beat out rock solid grooves. Acoustic Elements have played on the Australian festival scene since 2009.
17/12/11. Balyana is a Gold Coast band that blends Bluegrass with 70s acoustic music favourites. Balyana often features at the Coast Acoustics Music Club and has played at festivals and folk venues from Tassie to North Queensland including the Cygnet Festival, Gold Coast Acoustic Music Festival, Dorrigo Bluegrass Festival and Illawarra Folk Festival.
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5/2/12. Dynamic stage craft coupled with soaring vocals this young artist is set in for the long haul as one of Australia‟s most prolific emerging singer songwriters of folk pop music. Bernie has taken to the stage
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18/2/12. From the Port Douglas Hinterland, Australia, the Hillbillygoats have travelled and performed over 250 live shows at festivals, pubs, clubs and corporate events. The dynamic duo of Bryce and Mahney Wearne take their influence of Hillbilly Roots, Ole Time Music and Modern & Traditional Bluegrass and combine it with Rock'n'Roll Favourites and Australiana to present 4 different shows that have been described as "knee-slapping, toe-tapping, high tempo fun!".
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 17/12/11. Canadian born Justin Livesay has written and performed his way across three continents. Now residing in Australia Justin is writing and recording his best work to date in "The Grail Studios". "... most musicians are busting a gut to get over seas, imagining hoping or dreaming that "over there " is where they'll succeed. Justin Livesay is part of the traffic moving the other way." MICHAEL SMITH DRUM MEDIA
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 17/12/11. Roots Rock Reggae. Through his music, Kobya breaks barriers by exploring new sounds with his strongest messages expressing love and concern for humanity while celebrating life. He sings about the world today, what it was yesterday and what he wishes for tomorrow. Kobya has co-produced 12 albums, featured in CNA/ ABC Documetaries, Channel 7 Outback Documentaries and released a new album tittled 'Professional Fool'. He has played in numerous festivals in Australia/Africa/USA/France and the Netherlands and conducted choir workshops, in Melbourne and Tasmania. Kobya has shared stage with, Jimmi Cliff, Steel Pulse, Lucky Dube,Van Alan and many others. He has performed for Neson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and was in the top ten finalist on Musicoz 2008.
 19/5/12. Lecia first played guitar when she saw her older sister playing as a young girl. She stole her sisters guitar and she has been stealing the show ever since from the USA, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, The Solomon Islands, and through out Australia.
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 Recently described by Rhythms Magazine as "one of Australia's finest singer songwriters" whose "pithy and catchy songs resonate deeply and manage to reflect the Australian psyche", Mark Cryle cut his teeth with the band Spot the Dog but has since emerged as a force to be reckoned with as singer songwriter with his releases Notches on the Wall (2006), House of Cards, (which was voted Folk Alliance Australia's CD of the year for 2009) and most recently Sideshow Alley.
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18/2/12. Part of the new generation of Australian bluegrass, the group brings a fresh approach to the Australian country music scene with their strong family vocal harmonies and high-energy traditional acoustic music.
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19/2/12. From dappled-shade-ice-tinkling riverside afternoons to balmy twighlight city rooftops and late-night jam joints.... and now freshly back from Europe and 11 dates at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, touring and promoting their newly released debut album.
Out of Abingdon continue to make their indelible mark on the jazz and blues soundscape.
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Acoustic Australian music known around the country. 
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21/4/12. The Phil Monsour Band formed in 2008 to record and promote the Empires New Clothes CD. Performing a blend of acoustic rock, the music provides a powerful vehicle for Phil Monsour‟s socially conscious lyrics.
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8/1/12. "...when you dance to the music of the Round Mountain Girls, it feels like it‟ll never rain again". – Rhythms Magazine (Jan 2011)
At every festival you stumble across an act that makes your
jaw drop - that uplifts you, that takes you by surprise because it wasn‟t what you were expecting and turns out to be so much greater than the sum of its parts. Round Mountain Girls have had an extraordinary last twelve months, and since hitting the festival scene that‟s exactly the effect they‟ve been having on audiences.
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5/2/12. Steve Tyson has been a fixture in the Brisbane music scene, for close on forty years. His early bands Gentle Art and Spike played the city‟s underground blues and r&b clubs whilst he was still at school.
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19/5/12. Súnas is a fiery four-piece Celtic band featuring multi-instrumentalists and exquisite four-part vocal harmonies. They play a unique and unforgettable blend of original, contemporar y and traditional tunes and songs....
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 8/1/12. Award winning artist Angela Toohey has had a successful career in both live and musical theatre. Angela has notably featured in The Boy From Oz, Mamma Mia, The Witches of Eastwick, Cabaret, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Educating Rita, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Starring opposite Hugh Jackman,
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 Breaking Hart Benton is an indie/folk group comprising songsmiths Michael David and Lee James. Formed out of a mutual love of British Isles folk and Appalachan music.
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19/5/12. A duo of exceptional musicality and ability to entertain and involve any audience - leaving them with that feeling of a great live music experience Musical variety is assured with instruments including fiddle, mandolin, banjo, didgeridoos, mouth harps, whistles,
guitars, stomp box, lagerphone and spoons.
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 With his band Present Company, Innes Campbell has been delighting festival crowds up and down the country since 2010 with a high energy show fuelled by his award-winning guitar playing, wit and intelligent songwriting. Now solo, Innes's new show is an engaging mix of highly skilled multi instrumentation - guitar, mandolin, banjo and bass pedals - with some witty original songs, cover versions that may surprise and a stage presence that will enthrall and delight you.
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 8/1/12. Kiara Jack shares her poetic justice for peace and no war through her classical-style piano and unusually unique style of vocals,, while playing a stomp box and playing a djembe. Aiming to inspire at least one listener at each and every performance, the way that she has been inspired by her favourite artists - "if it only be through one riff, or one line of lyric, that passes on the spark of inspiration to another, then that is enough."
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5/2/12. "Exquisite and haunting, Laneway's songs float with a delicious melancholy, like the last days of summer," Imagine Lindsey Buckingham and Gillian Welch meeting in a down town pool hall setting off on a road trip and stopping only for creek swims, tea, oranges and tequila; this journey of guitars and voices headed out country has an immediate familiarly that jumps out at you before the incredible depth of songwriting sinks in.
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21/1/12. Sweet jazz, a dash of country and some hollerin‟ blues with harmonica on the side, is Mama Juju‟s home-cooked recipe. Juju, with sidekick Slim on guitar, delivers some serious chanteuse channeling all the way from Ella Fitzgerald and Bessie Smith through to Doris Day.
Sugar Cane Slim is your guide for a musical journey exploring the roots of American music. Slim performs both well known and obscure gems by Bill Big Broonzy, Lightning Hopkins, Doc Watson and beyond, and his recounting of the stories behind the tunes and artists helps keep alive this rich musical tradition.
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15/4/12. "Acoustic guitar-driven songs, enveloped in upbeat realism, Irish singer-songwriter Mick McHugh is renowned as a performer who wears his heart on his sleeve with every note he plays." Since the release of his debut
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Henk Brent duo. Acoustic Guitar and Ukulele singer/musician
country rock, bluegrass, blues, ballads
 17/12/11. Peter and Wendy play an array of stringed instruments - guitar, mandolin, fiddle, double bass, ukulele, clawhammer banjo - they combine their extensive instrumental skills with close soaring harmonies. They are a versatile and dynamic duo that cover a wide variety of musical styles - from swing, country and jazz sounds with a touch of blues, to bluegrass with the fiddle and mandolin to Hawaiian and Motown on the uke.
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21/1/12. Hailing from Australia, acoustic guitarist Peter Miller developed a unique guitar style which has been inspired from players like the late Michael Hedges, Phil Keaggy and Michael Fix among many other musicians. His compositions are most reminiscent to the late Michael Hedges, with intimate painted poetic escapades which come straight from the heart. The atmosphere on the CD is at times melancholic, soothing and reflective. The record is a superb way and the guitar techniques he uses are noteworthy. Most pennings have a lot of space and it feels very serene and heart-warming.
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 18/2/12. Rokeby Venus is a Brisbane trio who are quickly emerging into the Australian music landscape. The outfit is made up of three young musicians: David Balfe, the bass-playing truck driver with an attitude; Matt Barnes, the jazz influenced, baby faced drummer; and Michael Danby, the surfing singer/songwriter. It's a diverse range of personality, experience and ideas, and it's reflected clearly in their music.
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17/3/12. The Soul Sisters are Wendy Lockyear and Lily White.
Lily White is an accomplished Gold Coast musician, singer, song writer, who has been
playing music most of her life in one form or another. A multi instrumentalist, her main instruments feature the harmonica, flute and guitar. She creates her own sounds with melodic vocals, and where applicable, beautiful harmonies.
Lily is a regular at the „Blues on Broadbeach Festival‟. Lily often plays with „Dr. Scrubby‟, and with the „Hillbilly Blues Bandits‟. Lily also played with blues legend Phil Manning.
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21/4/12. Stockade delights audiences around Queensland‟s Great South East with the fabulous original songs of Chuck and Chrissy Euston. A unique blend of blues and folk, Celtic and gospel styles, with hints of bluegrass and gypsy jazz.
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5/2/12. Drawing on the influences around them Thrillbilly Stomp create their own earthy blend of Cajun, Blues, Bluegrass, Celtic and Gypsy they like to call the 5 n 5 , making Thrillbilly Stomp Australia's only original 5 n 5 band...
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