Woodfordia Inc
in partnership with Mullum Music Festival and Woodford Folk Festival
presents
Summer Tour 2019: Mullum to Woodford
Blair Dunlop is an award-winning British singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released 3 albums, 2 EP’s and toured widely around the globe. It’s an astounding list for a short 4-year career, but what sets Blair apart from his peers is the lyrical and musical maturity with which he writes.
His third album Gilded (May 2016) was widely acclaimed, with singles The Egoist and 356 gaining BBC Radio 2 Playlist status and also being remixed by Ed Harcourt. Prior to this Blair released House Of Jacks, which lived up to the promise of his 2012 debut Blight and Blossom and contributed to his win of the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award.
Blair has now cemented his place as one of Britain’s most exciting talents to come from the folk scene. The Guardian stated that the House Of Jacks proves Blair is ‘an increasingly adventurous songwriter’; while The Independent on Sunday described it as ‘fluent, lamentory and accomplished’.
2018 Blair saw the release of his 4th album Notes From An Island to rave reviews.
Dunlop is an outstanding guitarist and an emotionally persuasive singer. He is also, as demonstrated on this fourth album, a sharply intelligent songwriter who understands how folk can be enriched by tasteful rock and pop instrumentation.
– The Sydney Morning Herald
Some singer-songwriters grab your attention from the first note you hear, from the first song, from the first album. Blair Dunlop did that. I lent him my ears, and I was captured. He commanded through his music that I listen. And so, in a mere five years and now four albums, the chain remains unbroken.
– The Daily Review
An adept guitarist whose epic songwriting instincts prevail on a personal-political fourth album”
– MOJO
The busy crowd…is testament to Dunlop’s talents. Dunlop brings an air of tenacity while displaying a fine repertoire of well-crafted songs spanning traditional and contemporary. He’s determinedly taking the traditions of folk in his own direction.
– The Independent – Live review 2016
High-energy duo Hat Fitz and Cara are among Australia’s most talented roots music artists. The husband and wife team have clocked up 10 years of worldwide touring, festival performances and album releases from their base of operations in the hinterland of South East Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and are showing no signs of slowing down.
Their festival touring circuit takes in Australia, the UK, North America and Europe where their modern blend of old-timey-influenced sounds is equally at home in a variety of settings from folk or Americana main stages to blues and acoustic venues. While the singer/songwriters are both multi-instrumentalists, it’s Fitzy’s weathered vocals and soaring blues-soaked guitar combined with Cara’s pounding drums and soulful voice that show them at the peak of their creative power.
Winners of Blues Album Of The Year at the 2013 Australian Chain Awards and UK Spiral Earth, Hat Fitz & Cara also won Best Vocal Of The Year at the 2015 Chain Awards and were finalists in the 2015 Memphis International Blues Challenge in the USA.
One person literally blew my mind. I was walking past the blues tent looking to find something for breakfast, when a voice belted out of the ether that left me standing still in the middle of the path and listening. What a voice!! I was transfixed and HAD to find out to whom it belonged. I made my way to Bluestown and was surprised to see two people, a woman playing drums (and singing) and a man playing guitar. Cara Robinson the singing drummer, has to my ear the finest female blues voice I have ever heard in Australia – bar none.
– Sam Cutler, ex-manager for The Rolling Stones and The Grateful Dead
Beautiful, raw and exciting.
– Jeff Lang
MEDIA RESOURCES
Festival of Small Halls Announces Summer Tour 2019
Festival of Small Halls has announced that Blair Dunlop (ENG) together with Hat Fitz and Cara (AUS) will feature on the upcoming Summer Tour 2019: Mullum to Woodford.
Presented in partnership with major Australian festivals Mullum Music Festival and Woodfrod Folk Festival, the Summer Tour 2019 will kick off in the rolling hills of Mullum, NSW, from the Darling Downs areas and across the Fraser, Keppel and Cassowary Coasts, as far as the lush rainforests north of Cairns before wrapping up at Woodford Folk Festival, 27 December – 1 January.
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ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES
Blair Dunlop (ENG)
Blair Dunlop is an award-winning British singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released 3 albums, 2 EP’s and toured widely around the globe. It’s an astounding list for a short 4-year career, but what sets Blair apart from his peers is the lyrical and musical maturity with which he writes. 2018 Blair saw the release of his 4th album Notes From An Islandto rave reviews.
For full biography, social media links and press quotes, click here
Hat Fitz and Cara (AUS)
High-energy duo Hat Fitz and Cara are among Australia’s most talented roots music artists. The husband and wife team have clocked up 10 years of worldwide touring, festival performances and album releases from their base of operations in the hinterland of South East Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and are showing no signs of slowing down.
For full biography, social media links and press quotes, click here
MEDIA KIT
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The Festival of Small Halls Summer Tour 2019 is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.