G’day all, We are beginning to emerge into the new normal and Blues Music continues in the ACT The Jam (ticketed) returned this month and by all accounts was a resounding if smaller success. This arrangement will continue until there is further easing of COVID restrictions. Tickets are selling fast for the next three Blues […]
Hello once more, May you all be safe and well. Another Covidly quiet month has passed….. The Friday Night events in the Keller have continued with good attendances. An additional one was scheduled for the 4th September. The Bluetone Specials Duo (myself & Matt Fitzgerald) played the last in this series of shows. It was […]
Hello again, Hoping everyone out there is well and Covid safe. Once again there is no great news apart from the sterling efforts of Kerry Sattler as she organises the Friday night events in the Keller. There are however rumours of other venues starting to flex their blues muscles at least on a small scale. […]
Hello all, This month we have fare-welled David Gilbert “Bucky” Buckmaster, musical entrepreneur, long time supporter and life member of the Canberra Blues Society, following a long and strong fight with illness. Bucky’s influence on and support for all six kinds of live music (Country, Western, Rhythm, Blues, Rock, Roll and Jazz) in Canberra and […]
How’s it going Blues fans? Well, things haven’t hugely changed yet. There have been some changes but on the whole, it’s same, same. Another short Pres Musing. And again, not a lot of good news to mention! Firstly, our great friend and colleague Dave “Bucky” Buckmaster was admitted to hospital on Monday 1/6. Our thoughts […]
Greetings Blues fans in lock down! Not terribly much to report. Nothing’s happened. I counted them twice. Hope this short version of Blues News finds you all comfortably incarcerated and still in full command of your faculties. Mine’s gone a little full goose bozo but I’m sure he’ll be back later. There are quite a […]
Hello Blues fans.Well. I might’ve spoken too soon in the previous Presidential Musings! The virus swooped in from out of nowhere and now we’re all dressed up and nowhere to go!Dunno about you, but I’m already getting cabin fever and its only early days yet. And in the whole scheme of things, I’m very lucky. […]
Hi there Blues fans. We made it to Autumn without a nuclear winter, alien invasion or a plague of brain sucking zombies! I think this time of year in Canberra is the best; very pleasant and colourful. Hope everyone has a very nice Autumn and you get out to some of the terrific gigs coming […]
Hello Blues devotees! So, as we bid goodbye to the first month of 2020, I feel it might be more a good riddance! Pretty horrible for most Canberrans and a complete catastrophe for others. As I write this in an air-conditioned shed in the middle of a racetrack in Bathurst, I see Canberra will get […]
As I write this, fellow Blues lovers, Christmas with all its shopping bustle and late-night parties has come and gone. It’s that bit between Christmas and New Year that I love. It’s quiet and relaxed. A time to sit back, unwind and work out what’s happening for the coming year. Except not this year. To […]