Thornhill Blues Festival
Thornhill inaugural Blues Festival will be on the 29th and 30th April 2011
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 [...]
Formed in 2004, the 7th sons embrace the venerable traditions of British R&B. Their thumping beat owes much to the uncompromising sound of the great Chicago bluesmen of the 1950’s aligned with the hard-edged approach from the more recent past of Dr.Feelgood, The Pirates, and Nine Below Zero.
What separate them from [...]
Arcari’s growing reputation was endorsed in Spring 2007 when he was asked to put music to Robert Burns’ (Scotland’s national poet) poem Parcel of Rogues for a BBC Scotland special to mark 300 years of the Act of Union between Scotland and England. He also presented the programme, interviewing many high-profile [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Junkyard Dawgs are a band from Ayrshire which consit of, Joe King on lead vocals, harmonica and bass guitar, Johnny Shedden on the drums, Mark Borland playing lead guitar and last but not least Kerr Strachan on vocals and rhythm/lead guitar.
Influenced by the likes of The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, George Thorogood and The Destroyers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dr [...]
Baby Isaac capture the essence of 50’s Chicago Blues & West Coast Swing. Influenced by such Blues greats as T-Bone Walker, BB King, Little Walter and Sonny Terry, the band have successfully developed their unique sound, loosely termed as ‘Goodtime Blues’, into a powerful yet dynamic mix of Blues, Swing, R & B and Jazz.
Baby [...]
stone pony info
A band long in the making, Stone Pony have been underground favourites throughout Ayrshire for the last couple of years.