Goulburn Blues Festival 2013 was held over a weekend in early February.  Its official name is the Australian Blues Music Festival.  I’m not Official Photographer for this Festival and we only attended during one day.  I photographed just three performances: Jan Preston, Jeff Lang and Jimi Hocking.

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Jan Preston

Jan Preston and Band

Jan Preston grew up in Greymouth on the wild West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.  She has a long and illustrious career including playing with Split Enz and writing music for films.  Known as Australia’s “Queen of the Boogie Piano”, she always gives a great live performance.

Web Site.  Music on MySpace.

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Jeff Lang

Jeff Lang

Jeff Lang was performing here solo, first time I had seen him without a band for several years.  He creates a musical space somewhere between Blues, Roots and Folk and is an absolute maestro on the guitar.

Web Site.  Music on My Space.

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Jimi Hocking

Jimi Hocking and Band

Jimi Hocking is always a dynamo in live performance, including a level of fitness that would impress Mick Jagger.  In the 90s he was lead guitarist for the Screaming Jets and before that, replacement guitarist for a while with the Angels.  His web site describes him as “the electric love child of T-Bone Walker, BB King and Jimi Hendrix”.  He is always a great favourite with the people on the dance floor.

Web site.  Music on MySpace.

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See here for more images from this Festival (62 in all including some monochrome conversions).