Sideshows

The Avett Brothers

A favourite support choice for the Dave Matthews Band, the Avett Brothers have 'next big thing' written all over them.

Béla Fleck's African Project featuring Oumou Sangaré

Another huge treat for Bluesfest fans, as Béla Fleck will be joined by the inspirational African singer Oumou Sangarè and her band from Mali!

Buddy Guy

What can you say about this Bluesfest favourite and absolute blues legend? Buddy Guy is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a chief guitar influence to rock titans like Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, and Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago's fabled West Side sound, and a living link to that city's halcyon days of electric blues.

Gipsy Kings

The Gipsy Kings are that rare thing - a household name famous solely for their music. Without peer, they are the planet's most successful world music artists, and probably the best flamenco guitar artists in the world too!

Roger Hodgson and 10CC

Roger Hodgson is recognised as one of the most gifted composers, song writers and lyricists of our time!

Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club ®

Responsible for the highest ever selling world music record, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® is the formidable thirteen-piece band direct from Havana, featuring legends of Cuban Music and the stars of the Buena Vista Social Club film and World Circuit's much acclaimed albums!

Ozomatli

Bluesfest fan favorites Ozomatli are back! In their fourteen years together as a band, celebrated Los Angeles culture-mashers Ozomatli have gone from being hometown heroes to being named U.S. State Department Cultural Ambassadors.

Joe Bonamassa

Part of Bluefest's 2010 focus on great guitar players, Joe Bonamassa is so good, he recently sold out London's The Royal Albert Hall!

John Mayall

The blues doesn't get too much more exciting than this! John Mayall is of course a pioneering English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra

What an interesting journey this UK icon has had. By the time he reached his early teens Jools Holland was playing the piano in many of the pubs in South East London and the East End Docks. At the age of 15, Jools formed the band Squeeze.

Peter Green & Friends

Bluesfest is very proud to present one of the all time musical legends and one of the absolute greats of British blues.

Dr John and The Lower 911

There's no other New Orleans musician operating today who is as great as Dr John, pure and simple. Best of all, the man has a real fire in his belly again, proven by the new Dr John and the Lower 911's album City That Care Forgot, which deals with various aspects of post-Katrina New Orleans outrage.

Robert Gordon & The Gang They Couldn't Hang - Featuring Chris Spedding, Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) and Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats)

Here's another knock out band with six string prowess for Bluesfest 2010. Listen up - this is going to be heaven for rockabilly fans, and features the phenomenal guitar playing of Chris Spedding from Roxy Music!

Rodriguez

The mystery man is back! Rodriguez released his debut album, Cold Fact in 1970. It's crushingly good stuff, filled with tales of bad drugs, lost love, and itchy-footed songs about life in late '60s inner-city America.

Taj Mahal & His Band

Yet another classic artist is visiting Australia for the Bluesfest 21st Anniversary party and select sideshows. Born Henry St. Claire Fredericks in Harlem, New York, in 1942, blues-legend Taj Mahal grew up in Massachusetts.

Sideshows

The Avett Brothers

Béla Fleck's African Project featuring Oumou Sangaré

Buddy Guy

Gipsy Kings

Roger Hodgson and 10CC

Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club ®

Ozomatli

Joe Bonamassa

John Mayall

Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra

Peter Green & Friends

Dr John and The Lower 911

Robert Gordon & The Gang They Couldn't Hang - Featuring Chris Spedding, Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) and Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats)

Rodriguez

Taj Mahal & His Band

Artists