26 Sep – Sam McNally group; Matt & Pauly Zarb; Jack Derwin

Sam McNally group

Matt & Pauly Zarb

Jack Derwin

Sam McNally is one of Australiaʼs most experienced and accomplished keyboard players. He was a member of 70ʼs Blue-Eyed Soulsters, “Stylus”. He has recorded and/or toured with Air Supply, Tommy Emmanuel, Tim Finn. Louie Shelton, Doug Williams and Coloured Stone.

Sam has had compositions recorded by Tommy Emmanuel, Richard Clapton, Stylus, Louie
Shelton and John Farnham.

Sheena Wilbow is the epitome of class and style, with a good dash of sass in the mix.

They are joined by Ben Ackland (guitar) who has shared the stage with James Morrison, Lior, Michael Bublé ; Tony Boyd (drums) and Christian Young (bass)

Brother duo Matt and Pauly Zarb have a fantastic story. The brothers grew up west of Sydney where they both honed their crafts to become the singing, songwriting multi instrumentalists that they are today. After winning folk album of the year way back then they just hit the road and landed themselves in Kentucky USA where they both lived toured and recorded for 7 years straight. Matt and Pauly aside of playing countless festivals opened shows for WillIe Nelson, Keith Urban, Little Feat and many more.Since then Pauly moved to the UK where he lives and performs from and is returning to Australia to play a string of gigs with his brother Matt. This is a show not to miss as they will take you on a very musical entertaining ride that spans a lifetime from being kids playing music to men that have so much music to share with anyone who is lucky enough be there.

Jack Derwin is a dynamic, upfront solo blues artist with originality, delivering rich timbered vocals, resonating guitars, blues harp and stomp box in every power packed performance. Drawing from the influences of traditional bluesmen, jack delivers his own original blues with a unique Australian flavor; blues, folk and jazz entwined in the mix. as quoted by blue pie records – “fuelled with passion and filled with all styles of instrumentation, you will be blown away with musicality of harmonicas and slide guitar. jack’s stomp box adds a percussive sense to the album alongside the acoustic guitars which are used as a multi-lingual instrument through the album, a talent which is executed to the finest degree.” Jack’s album Covered All in Blue, debuted at no 2 on the Australian blues and roots charts and remained in the top 5 most played cds all year. It has also been nominated for the Chain Awards, for album and song of the year, and best blues vocalist. His other albums have charted well too, including his latest, Ankle Deep in Sand with the Howling Gents. Jack has played at the Hawkesbury blues festival, Jervis Bay sea change festival, Blues on Broadbeach fest, Australia Day “country rocks” blues stage at the rocks, Australian blues music fest, Sydney blues festival, Phuket international blues rock festival, Blenheim brews & bbq festival, Hawkes Bay blues, brews & bbq festival, Festival of Lights New Plymouth, Mitchell Creek rock and blues festival.