Backsliders 2016

Backsliders, celebrating 30 years in 2016, are still “redefining, refining and diversifying the [blues] genre”(The Australian, 2014).  Regulars at Bluesfest, Kidgeeridge, Narooma and festivals Australia-wide, Dom Turner, Rob Hirst, and Ian Collard return to Milton theatre playing their trademark driving Delta and Mississippi Hill country blues sounds with original 21st Century new blues anthems.
BACKSLIDERS
2011 ARIA Blues and Roots nominees and I-Tunes Australian Blues and Roots album of the year winners, Backsliders have been playing, touring the festival circuit and recording for 28 years. Slide Guitarist, multi-stringed instrumentalist, songwriter and vocalist, Dom Turner, is the founding member of the group. Dom’s influences are many and varied – a blend of delta blues, piedmont blues, rock, dub and sounds of Asia. Drum and percussion virtuoso and songwriter Rob Hirst (Midnight Oil), an acclaimed name synonymous with the best of Australian music, has been with Backsliders for 14 years. Rob stands as one of the world’s great drummers - now drawing on his early jazz and swamp-rock influences to produce a sound that is integral to the Backsliders 21st century blues grooves.  ARIA award winning harmonica genius Ian Collard (Collard, Greens & Gravy) will join Dom and Rob at Milton theatre.
These guys are renowned for captivating live shows - an eclectic mix of blues styles moving from driving delta blues riffs and jungle-like rhythms to ‘Piedmont’ blues influenced ‘all-acoustic’ unplugged treatments of 1920s songs by blues heroes such as Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert Johnson.

Support:  Ian Collard

Saturday 16 January 2016 - 8:00pm
Tickets  $40
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