{"id":3284,"date":"2026-01-16T19:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themanlyfig.org\/wpsite\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:08:29","slug":"27-feb-2026-allan-caswell-diana-rouvas-kate-lush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themanlyfig.org\/wpsite\/2026\/01\/16\/27-feb-2026-allan-caswell-diana-rouvas-kate-lush\/","title":{"rendered":"27 Feb 2026 – Allan Caswell; Diana Rouvas; Kate Lush"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAt the 2024 Golden Guitar Awards Allan Caswell received the ultimate accolade in Australian Country Music,\u00a0 elevation to the Roll of Renown. This was in recognition of his huge contribution as a songwriter, artist, author, and record producer.\nCaswell is easily Australia\u2019s most recorded songwriter with over 990 of his songs being released around the world by artists of the calibre of Cilla Black, Patti Page, The Irish Rovers, The Living End, Slim Dusty, Barry Humphries, Ricki May, James Blundell, McAlister Kemp, Graeme Connors, Anne Kirkpatrick, Chad Morgan, Lynne Hamilton, Beccy Cole, The\u00a0 Flying Emus, Bullamakanka, The Wolfe Brothers and Ella Hooper.\nICaswell wrote the theme for the Australian television series \u201cPrisoner\u201d (Cell Block H in England) \u2026 \u201cOn The Inside\u201d was a number 1 hit in Australia and New Zealand in 1979 and later reached number 3 in the UK and the Patti Page version made the country charts in the USA.\nCaswell has won 8 Golden Guitars from 49 finalist nominations \u2026 he has also been awarded 17 songwriting Awards from the Tamworth Songwriters Association, including The Songmaker Award He has won 9 Awards at the Independent Country Music Awards (Southern Stars) including Album of The Year for 3 of his albums. He was also included in Tamworth\u2019s Galaxy of Stars.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDiana Rouvas is best known for winning the 2019 version of The Voice after a string of incredible performances;\u00a0 one of which was described as \u201cthe best live performance in the history of reality TV!!\u201d. She was quickly signed to Universal Music after her success on The Voice. At\u00a0age 17, Diana joined the ARIA award-winning Tina Arena on backing vocals, touring France \u2013 performing to capacity crowds at the legendary Olympia Hall. She\u2019s had the privilege of recording her own songs with the legendary soul funk \u201cRUFUS\u201d (Chaka Khan\u2019s band). Diana is totally bewitching in live performance mode, and is currently close to finishing her debut album of all original material. Appearing with Diana is pianoman Bill Risby<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Kate Lush brings her most exuberant and outstanding work to date. It\u2019s where modern blues & soul meets vintage groove. Think blistering horns with a super tight rhythm section, swampy Hammond grooves and powerhouse vocals.
Her albums have won numerous international songwriting awards as well as receiving an honorable mention in the U.S. Blues Blast Awards, they have also charted alongside the likes of Norah Jones, Tedeschi Trucks, Samantha Fish, Taj Mahal & Robert Cray.
Fronted by the fabulous Kate Lush, HIPNOLA\u2019s the lineup features Dave Bell on tenor saxophone and John Pennings on trumpet. Dave Plenty is on drums, Illya Szwec on Guitar, Darryl Walker on Bass & backing vocals & Wes Harder on Hammond keyboards & backing vocals.
\u201cLike Dave Hole & Fiona Boyes before her, it won\u2019t be long before Kate Lush becomes a household name among blues lovers in the U.S.\u201d \u2014 Blues Blast Magazine (U.S.)<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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