Mahalia Barnes Archives

John Swan (Swanee) has been working for the last few years on a special project. ‘Believe’ is a duets album featuring John famous friends and family and we have Brian ‘Frog’ Harris at Songland Records in Canberra for making it all happen.

Ruby Rodgers is taking the family tradition into a third generation with her new song ‘Family Tree’.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera classic ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ first rpremiered as a studio album in 1970 and first staged on Broadway in New York in 1971. The show has rarely been out of production somewhere in the world in the past 54 years. For 2025, its Australia’s turn again for yet another run of the Webber/Rice masterpiece with excellent casting and upgraded stage sets and costume designs.

Ruby Rodgers, the 15-year old daughter of Mahalia Barnes and Ben Rodgers and the granddaughter of Jane and Jimmy Barnes, has released her debut single ‘Hits The Heart’.

What started as a last moment rushed together event at the end of 2023 has become an incredible tribute to Jimmy Barnes, and we have his daughter Mahalia to thank for it.

In 1991, The Tin Lids, the children of Jimmy and Jane Barnes, Mahalia, Eliza-Jane, Jackie and Elly-May, released their Christmas album ‘Hey Rudolph’. It was a Platinum selling album giving the youngest Elly-May her first hit record at age two.

Red Hot Summer has added an extra show with Mildura scoring a Jimmy Barnes’ headline event in November.

Red Hot Summer’s November show At Sandalford Wines in Western Australia has been declared a sell-out.

Mahalia Barnes is putting The Soul Mates together for a stack of shows around Australia in February and March.

For the second time in 2022, a classic album has reclaimed the No.1 Album spot, as Jimmy Barnes’ “Soul Deep 30” returns to the top of the ARIA Charts this week, with his record-tying 14th chart-topper.

It is hard to imagine where the past 30 years has gone. I vividly remember Jimmy Barnes ‘Soul Deep’ being released 1991. We were all over it at radio.

Jimmy Barnes ‘Flesh and Blood’ tour will now start in September due to the uncertainty surrounding different states and their current Covid restrictions.

The #Gladyscluster in New South Wales has forced Jimmy Barnes to postpone the Perth date of his upcoming ‘Flesh and Blood’ tour.

Mahalia Barnes and Jade MacRae will open for Jimmy Barnes on the upcoming ‘Flesh and Blood’ tour in between Red Hot Summer dates.

The Victorian Government / Mushroom Group music initiative The Sound will air its final broadcast of Series One this Sunday.

Mushroom’s State of Music will stream a second episode this Saturday at 6:30pm.

1.159 million Australian’s turned in for Music From The Home Front on Saturday night with the show rating no 1 for under 40 year olds.

This Saturday night across Music From The Home Front will bring Australian and New Zealand acts live to your lounge room.

Jimmy Barnes, wife Jane, Son Jackie and daughter Mahalia are all keeping musical while the global pandemic is going on.

Blues/Rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa will return to Australia in September and he will have Anton Fig, Reese Wynans and Mahalia Barnes in the band.

Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates will release their third album ‘Hard Expectations’ this Friday (13 April 2018).

Joe Bonamassa will return to Australia later this year for his first shows since his joint album with Mahalia Barnes.

Mahalia Barnes has a jazz hit record with her album of Betty Davis covers with Joe Bonamassa.

Reece Mastin has broken away from this major label association with Sony Music to sign with Indie label Social Family Records.

iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com this week features special guests Oliver Leimbach of Lime Cordiale and Mahalia Barnes.

Mahalia Barnes, her band The Soul Mates and American blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa have been working on an album of Betty Davis covers.

Jimmy Barnes will make a special guest appearance at the Concert For Cambodia to be held in Sydney in September.

The Jimmy Barnes ‘Welcome To The Pleasure House’ tour is shaping up to be a family affair with the addition of his brother Swanee, brother-in-law Diesel and pal Adam Brand onto various stages of the tour.