A night of high-class bluegrass from our special guest one of the great American bluegrass innovators, singer and songwriter Peter Rowan, and Australia’s top rated bluegrass band The Davidson Brothers.

PETER ROWAN
For over forty years, cult bluegrass and country singer Peter Rowan has been recognised as one of the finest proponents of bluegrass and American traditional music. Grammy Award winner and five-time Grammy nominee, he began his professional career playing guitar, singing lead vocals and co-writing as a member of the Bluegrass Boys, led by the founding father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. His long career has seen him perform and record with the likes of Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Norman Blake, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Vassar Clements and Peter Tosh. An artist of unusual depth and imagination, Rowan experiments with other influences (rock, reggae, Tex-mex, Celtic, swing), while never losing track of the deep roots and musical purity integral to his presence. A singer and songwriter without equal, Rowan's singing is of the classic high lonesome, borrowed from the Appalachian ballad singers. Rowan is touring his latest recording 'Quartet' made with the brilliant instrumentalist Tony Rice. .
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THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS
These young men have built a reputation as being two of Australia’s hottest bluegrass exponents – multi instrumentalists on banjo, fiddle, mandolin and great entertainers with an enormous respect for the traditions of the genre.

“The Davidson Brothers’ fast-tracking music career is a combination of passion, energy, respect for tradition, and destiny... Two young blokes with all the energy and drive of their generation and an innate ability to transpose that energy to a younger audience... the spontaneity of youth and some excellent self-penned songs... And then of course there is the supreme musicianship.”Capital News Magazine