Byron Bay Bluesfest 2013

The Byron Bay Bluesfest is just around the corner and is in it 24th year. The festival is held just north of Byron Bay at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm and starts on Thursday 28 March running right through Easter.
Performing at the festival are Grammy award nominees and winners such as Bonnie Raitt, Jimmy Cliff, The Lumineers,and Ruthie Foster.  Bonnie Rait music is also available for free download from our online music collection Freegal, just select eLibary from the library website and type in your borrower's card number and pin number.

Also appearing at the festival is Rodriguez.  Who hasn't heard the fascinating story about Rodriguez and the award winning documentary, "Searching For Sugarman", which has won an Oscar for "Best Feature Documentary", BAFTA for "Best Documentary", Special Jury Prize and Audience Award for "Best International Documentary" at Sundance. 

Some of the Aussie artists performing are The Cat Empire, Karise Eden, Xavier Rudd, Mark Seymour and  the Undertow and Hunters and Collectors.

More great artists in the line up are:
Paul Simon
Ben Harper
Chris Isaak
Robert Plant
Santana (tracks are also available from our free online music collection Freegal)
Jason Mraz
Tony Joe White

All the artists contained in this blog are in the library music collection and are free to borrow if you are a library member. Most CDs are in our collection now and some are on order but will be coming very soon to the collection.