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Bluesfest Fourth Announcement Features Buddy Guy And Jake Bugg

by Paul Cashmere on November 18, 2013

in Live,News

Peter Noble is putting the blues into Bluesfest with the fourth artist announcement for the 2014 music festival with Buddy Guy leading the latest additions but Jake Bugg will also be there.

“Damn right we got the blues at Bluesfest,” Peter Noble said. “I am honoured that the World’s Greatest Blues Guitarist is coming to Bluesfest and to play, not once on our 25th Anniversary Festival, but twice!

Buddy Guy will return to Bluesfest along with Charlie Musselwhite next year. Booker T Jones, The James Cotton Band, Eric Bibb, Beth Hart, North Mississippi Allstars, Devon Allman, Walter Trout, Cabdye Kane Band featuring Laura Chavez and Saidah Baba Talibah will also join the line-up.

Buddy Guy is a regular to Australia but this could be the last time in a long while that the 77-year old guitarist will tour. “I am advised that Buddy Guy is going to be pulling back on international touring and so, as much as I would hesitate to ever say this is his last tour of Australia, it really is going to become more difficult to get him back to our shores in future,” Peter said.

Jake Bugg, this years new singer songwriter discovery, will return to Australia for Bluesfest in 2014.

Artists previously announced for Bluesfest 2014 are:

Jack Johnson • John Mayer • Dave Matthews Band

with
John Butler Trio • Passenger • Aaron Neville • Erykah Badu • Iron & Wine • Gregg Allman • Boz Scaggs • Doobie Brothers • Elvis Costello & The Imposters • Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros • India.Arie • Dr John & The Nite Trippers • Morcheeba • Steve Earle & The Dukes • Devendra Banhart • Michael Franti & Spearhead • The Wailers • Jimmie Vaughan• Gary Clark Jr • Suzanne Vega • Grace Potter and the Nocturnals • Kasey Chambers • Ozomatli • CW Stoneking • Allen Stone • Larry Graham & Graham Central Station • KT Tunstall • Clairy Browne &The Bangin’ Rackettes • Robben Ford • Grandmothers of Invention •The Magic Band • Trixie Whitley • The Soul Rebels • Valerie June • Nikki Hill • The Paladins • Music Maker Foundation Feat. Pat Wilder, Cool John Ferguson, and Little Freddie King • RocKwiz Live.

Bluesfest will be held over the Easter long weekend (17th – 21st of April) at its home, the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, north of Byron Bay.

Tickets for Bluesfest are available here.

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