Listen to a selection of New Zealand Blues music featuring Albums from Hammond Gamble, The Garage Swing Band, Noel Coutts, Nigel Spiers, Jon Hooker & Billy Vallance, Steve Gainsford, The Remarkable Beat Roosters, Handsome Giants, Mike Garner and Susan de Jong.




Waiheke Winter Blues Festival 2010, 28 & 29th August

A festival for music lovers with fun in their souls. It will include up to 12 bands playing at 5 venues over 2 days. A festival that’s all about experiencing top blues talent in intimate venues where the beer and wine glugs freely out of the bottle, platters of local fresh food are presented to you at your table and the musicians are so close you could wipe the sweat off their brows!
Bands include Gary Harvey Band, Los Diablos, Mahia Blackmore, Hammond Gamble, The Darcy Perry Band, Shayne Hurricane Wills and island talent Katy Soljak Band, Kippa, Mojo Risers, and B Squared.
Beat the winter blues with a world-class line up of talented blues musicians at a fabulous location. For tickets and further information go to Waiheke Winter Blues Festival 2010.



This month we feature a Blues, Rock, Gospel & Swing
originals album from
The Garage Swing Band




Remixed & mastered from the original 1999 recordings
and featuring master blues guitarist Brian Harley.

Now available for album sales & digital download from
cdbaby
and all your favourite digital stores.




Al Olds, Jo Lincoln & Brian Harley

I first met Al, Jo & Brian back in the late 1990's at the Southern Blues Bar. Bazz O'Shea, who ran the kitchen at the Blues Bar for 15 years kindly loaned me this photo and many others from the era. This prompted me to update and republish an article called NZ's Longest Running Blues Venue.


If you are visiting New Zealand and fancy a night of New Zealand Rhythm & Blues why not visit the venues listed on our New Zealand Blues Scene page and with an ounce of luck you might also catch one of the featured New Zealand Blues artists.







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