Thornhill Blues Festival
Thornhill Blues has been cancelled as of 2012These are the headlining blues bands for the main event are Oli Brown, Blues’N'Trouble, Aynsley Lister and Chantel McGregor. Doors Open 3.30pm and Tickets are £25.00 each. You can find out more information about the bands below…
Venue Address:
The Bailley Hall,
Wallace Hall Academy,
Thornhill
Dumfries and Galloway
Realising at an early age that if you picked up a guitar you got attention, especially from her dad whose guitar it usually was, it was inevitable that she would get one of her own. So at the ripe old age of three, she got her first guitar, a half size acoustic.
So it came to [...]
Blues’n’Trouble were formed in the early 1980’s by Tim Eliott & John Bruce. The band turned professional in 1985 and released their debut album.
During the next ten years B’n’T played with many blues greats including BB King, Robert Cray, Pinetop Perkins, Charlie Musselwhite, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells.
They recorded with “sixth Stone” Ian Stewart, enjoying [...]
The Oli Brown Band secured support slots in 2008 with artist such as Jon Cleary, Johnny Winter, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Robben Ford, Walter Trout and Devon Allman, as well as having Oli Brown Band headline gigs. All of the gigs saw them playing in larger venues and increasing their rapidly growing fan base.
Early 2009 saw [...]
Aynsley picked up the guitar at 8 and played his first gig at 13. One year later on a family trip to San Francisco, he was jamming at ‘Lou’s Bar’ on Pier 49. Brought up on his father’s record collection, he had learned to play by ear and would sit for hours in his bedroom [...]