Thredbo Blues Festival 2022 took place over three days and nights on a weekend at the end of January.

Below are images and links; each band has a JAlbum slideshow link under their images.

Also at the bottom of this post there are links for all bands, top 25 (colour), top 100 (colour) and selected monochromes.  (After a skin update, images should appear correctly sized on all screens.)

At the top of each JAlbum page you will see links to each of the 18 years I have covered Thredbo Blues Festival since 2006 (I missed 2018 because I was in Ladakh and 2021 due to Covid).  There are also drop down lists for each band for each year.  Alternatively, you can view the Thredbo Blues Festivals blog page from a link at the bottom of this post which has links to all those performances.  Note that previous years may have smaller sized images, 640×640 from 2006 to 2011 and 1024×1024 from 2012 to 2021.

The bands in this post are ordered according to when I saw the performances in the festival; the order of bands is alphabetical in JAlbum.  If you are on a PC and click on any of the images, you will see it larger (2000x2000px).  This is the same size as the images in JAlbum, where you can drill down to a selected image and go through one by one or run a slideshow.

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Yanya Boston.
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Karen Lee Andrews.

Karen Lee Andrews (20 images).

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Christian Marsh and Rory Ellis.

Rory Ellis (2)
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Foreday Riders.

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Ron King.

Foreday Riders (14)
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Mal Eastick.
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Peter Gray.

Mal Eastick (15)

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George Rigatos.
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Katherine Vavahea.
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Craig Lyons.

Marvellous Hearts (23)

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8-Ball Aitken (15)

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Piper Butcher  (2)

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George Bibicos.
Toni Swain Band (15)

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Mitch King (3)
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Dan Sipple and Shaun Wessell.
Shaun Wessell Duo (3)
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Pete Cornelius  (12)
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Nathan Cavaleri Band.
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Nathan Cavaleri.

Nathan Cavalleri (18)

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Genevieve Chadwick.
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Mick Malouf.
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Davo Fester.
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Genevieve Chadwick Band.

Genevieve Chadwick (21)

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Stewart D’Arietta.

Stewart D’Arrietta (5)

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Simon Holmes.

Pete Cornelius 8-Ball Aitken Jam (17)

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Divine Devilles.

Divine Devilles (12)

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Stewart Wauchop and CJ Raggatt.

CJ Raggatt (3)

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Illya Szwec.
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Dan Sullivan.
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Greg Clark.

Tomcat Playground (18)

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Murray Cook’s Soul Movers.
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Matt Crawford.
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Crowd at Murray Cook’s Soul Movers.

Murray Cook’s Soul Movers (22)

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Dom Turner and the Rural Blues Project.
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Rosscoe Clark.
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Dom Turner.
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John Gauci.

Dom Turner and the Rural Blues Project (20)

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Andrea Marr.
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John McNamara.
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Andrew Houston.

MacnaMarr Project (26)

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Craig Marshalsey.
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SunBears.
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CC Hall.

SunBears (18)

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Christian Young.
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Blues Power.

Blues Power (17)

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This, as usual, was a significant exercise.  I took 3,000 images and produced 323 colour images in individual band portfolios, and also 40 monochrome conversions.  I used Lightroom to select and catalogue images, including preliminary processing, and mainly processed images in Capture One.

Top 30 (36)

Selected Monochromes (40)

Top 100 (108)

All Thredbo 2023 images (363)

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On the Thredbo Blues Festival Page you will find links to images from all Thredbo Festivals I have photographed since 2006 (but then there are links at the top of the JAlbum pages).

There are now over 11,000 images linked to on this Blog for Live Music Festivals (mainly Blues Festivals).

For other images of a particular band I may have taken since 2006, see the Musicians and Bands Page . …

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Thredbo Blues Festival 2022 took place over three days and nights on a weekend at the end of January. Here is a selection of images, and links at the bottom to more….

Click on any image to see it larger (if on a PC at least).

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Darren Jack.

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Fran Liddle (Big Mama and the Hanged Man).

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Genevieve Chadwick (Genevieve Chadwick Trio).

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Ron King (Foreday Riders).

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Lloyd Spiegel.

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CJ Raggatt, wife, Brian O’Kelly, listening to Lloyd Speigel in the rain.

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Wes Harder (Kate Lush Band and Darren Jack Band).

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Kate Lush

Steve Edmonds (Kate Lush Band and Steve Edmonds Trio).

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Simon Kinny-Lewis.

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Simon Kinny-Lewis Band.

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Jeremy Berg and Kane Denelly, 19 Twenty.

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George Rigatos, Michelle Van der Meer, Rosscoe Clark, Mike Rix and Alison Penney, Michelle Van Der Meer and the Midnight Ramblers.

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Marty Ferugia and Mike Raper, Ray Beadle & The Hi Tones.

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Ray Beadle & The Hi Tones.

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Rory Ellis.

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Adam Lang, Steve Edmonds Band.

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Tony Boyd,  Kate Lush Band.

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Craig Lyons and John Morris, Blues Preachers.

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Robert Susz, Continental Blues Party.

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Mike Elrington.

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CJ Raggatt, James Hauptman and John Tweed, C J Raggatt Band.

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Fiona Boyes.

Phil Jenkins, Fiona Boyes Band.

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CC Hall, The Sun Bears.

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Dylan Harding, The Sun Bears.
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This, as usual, was a significant exercise.  I took 3,000 images and produced 400 colour images in individual band portfolios, and also 100 monochrome conversions.  I used Lightroom to select and catalogue images, including preliminary processing, and processed images in Capture One.

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There are many more images. On the Thredbo Blues Festival Page you will find links to images from the 2022 Festival, as well as thirteen previous festivals . These are mainly colour images.  Links for 2020 include top 100 images, top 30 images, selected monochromes and the 23 performers or bands.

Alternatively, there is also a direct overall link to all Thredbo 2022 images in JAlbum (with overview images and images by band organised by folder).

There are now over 10,000 images linked to on this Blog for Live Music Festivals (mainly Blues Festivals).

For other images of a particular band I may have taken since 2006, see the Musicians and Bands Page …

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Next post will be on Thira (Santorini).

Images from a small exhibition (of A3+ prints in an Album) prepared for Thredbo Blues Festival (which I’m about to attend as Official Photographer).

Next post was to have been the Agora in Athens and that will happen in one to three weeks…..

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(Click on any image to see it in a larger size, if you are on a PC or tablet at least.)

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Dutch Tilders

Rose Cottage, Canberra 2008.

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Pearl Noire

National Press Club, September 2010.

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Michael Hardy

Canberra Blues Society Christmas Party 2012,

Best Image, Australian Photographic Society Interstate Comp 2013.

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Ray Beadle

Thredbo Blues Festival 2011.

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Chris Wilson

Narooma Blues Festival 2009.

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Ian Moss

Sydney Blues Festival 2012.

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Darren Jack

Thredbo Blues Festival 2012.

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Genevieve Chadwick

Sydney Blues Festival 2012.

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Rory Ellis

Thredbo Blues Festival 2013.

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Pat Powell and Continental Robert Susz

Keller Jam, Thredbo Blues Festival 2013.

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Vito Portolesi

Thredbo Blues Festival 2013.

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Rick Estrin

Narooma Blues Festival 2014.

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Glen Cardier

Thredbo Blues Festival 2016.

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Simon Kinny-Lewis

Keller Jam, Thredbo Blues Festival 2013.

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Tony Boyd (Kate Lush Band)

Thredbo Blues Festival 2017.

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Kate Lush

Thredbo Blues Festival 2017.

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Michelle Van der Meer

Sydney Blues Festival 2016.

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Turner Brown Band

Blues on Broadbeach 2017.

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Tomcat Playground

Sydney Blues Festival 2016.

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Lloyd Spiegel

Sydney in Winter Blues Festival 2017.

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Liza Ohlback

Thredbo Blues Festival 2016.

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Rosscoe Clark

Sydney Blues and Roots Festival 2017.

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Nick Charles and Fiona Boyes

Keller Bar, Harmonie German Club, Canberra 2012.

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Foreday Riders

Sydney Blues Festival 2017.

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George Washingmachine, Phil and Trudy Edgeley

Thredbo Blues Festival 2016.

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Harry Brus

Thredbo Blues Festival 2019.

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Dillion James (on keyboards) and 8 Ball Aitken

Thredbo Blues Festival 2020.

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Leesa Gentz (and Julz Parker), Hussy Hicks

Thredbo Blues Festival 2019.

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Sun Bears

Austrian Club, Canberra 2021.

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John Gwilliam, 19 Twenty

Red White Amber and Blues Festival, Canberra 2019.

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Kane Denelly, 19 Twenty in Schuss Bar

Thredbo Blues Festival 2020.

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Michael David, Franchesca Appolis and Evelyn Duprai

Dancing in the Shadows

Thredbo Blues Festival 2019.

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George Rigatos

Thredbo Blues Festival 2020.

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Steve Edmonds

Red White Amber and Blues Festival, Canberra 2019.

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Claude Hay

Thredbo Blues Festival 2016.

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Ali Penney

Canberra Blues Society Christmas Party 2021.

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Thredbo Blues Festival 2020 took place over three days and nights on a weekend at the end of January. Here is a selection of images, and links at the bottom to more….

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(Next I will resume with the Cuba & the Caribbean trip, with still a post or two to go on Santo Domingo.)

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Psycho Zydeco.

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Michelle Van Der Meer’s Midnight Ramblers.

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Tony Boyd (Michelle Van Der Meer’s Midnight Ramblers).\

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Shane Pacey (Shane Pacey Trio).

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Paul Blasi (Shane Pacey Trio).

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George Washingmachine (Blue Rinse).

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Ron King (Foreday Riders).

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Jeff King (Foreday Riders).

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Grace Hickey (Grace and Hugh).

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Greg Ohlback (Liza Ohlback Trio).

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Lloyd Gyi and C J Raggatt (CJ Raggatt).

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19 Twenty.

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Syd Green (19 Twenty).

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Kane Dennelly (19 Twenty).

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19 Twenty.

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Ray Beadle (Ray Beadle Band).

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Jack Purdon (Ray Beadle Band).

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Mike Raper (Ray Beadle Band).

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Corey Legge (Swamp Stompers).

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Steve Edmonds (Steve Edmonds Band).

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Sam Boyd (Dancing in the Shadows of Motown Review).

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Greg Carger and Jason Bruer (Dancing in the Shadows of Motown Review).

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Evelyn Duprai (and Franchesca Appolis) (Dancing in the Shadows of Motown Review).

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Franchesca Appolis and Kimi Tupaea (Dancing in the Shadows of Motown Review).

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Paula Baxter (Aretha Franklin Tribute).

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Aretha Franklin Tribute.

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8 Ball Aitken.

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Dillion James (8 Ball Aitken).

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Nik Downing (8 Ball Aitken).

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Dillion James and 8 Ball Aitken (8 Ball Aitken).

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Darren Jack (Tyrone Vaughan with Darren Jack Band).

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Rick Melick (Tyrone Vaughan with Darren Jack Band).

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Tyrone Vaughan with Darren Jack Band.

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A few technical notes for those who may be interested.  I was using some new equipment, a Nikon D850 (70% of shots) and a Sigma 135mm f1.8 (40% of images).  This combination allowed me to replace a 180mm f2.8 and a 105mm f2 with improved resolution and bokeh and greater capacity to crop.  I also have a Fuji system which is more portable but the Nikon system has advantages for resolution, autofocus and low light sensitivity.  I also processed all the images under stage light in Capture One for the first time, for greater control of colour and greater ease with masking and layers.

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There are many more images. On the Thredbo Blues Festival Page you will find links to images from the 2020 Festival, as well as thirteen previous festivals . Links for 2020 include top 100 images, top 30 images, selected monochromes and the 23 performers or bands. Others not mentioned above include Phil & Trudy Edgeley, Charlie Bedford Trio, Claude Hay, Harry Ashton Band, Jordan Thomas Band, Mike Elrington and Richard Perso.

Alternatively, there is also a direct overall link to all Thredbo 2020 images in JAlbum (with overview images and images by band organised by folder). There are 367 images in all (excluding monochrome conversions).

For other images of a particular band I may have taken since 2006, see the Musicians and Bands Page.

Thredbo Blues Festival 2019 took place over three days and nights on a weekend at the end of January. Here is a selection of images, and links at the bottom to more….

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Colour

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Anna Scionti.

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Kane Denelly.

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19-Twenty.

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John Creech.

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Cyril B Bunter Band + Mal Eastick.

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Leesa Gentz (and Julz Parker) of Hussy Hicks.

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Harry Brus.

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Calvin Welch, playing with Harry Brus.
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Davo Fester, playing with Shane Pacey.

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Monochrome

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Cameron Fallaw.

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Fiona Boyes.

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Dancing in the Shadows.

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Mal Eastick, here playing with Hey Gringo.

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Jeff Lang and Danny McKenna.

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Mitch Cairns, playing with Russell Morris.

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Russell Morris.

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Rob Hirst, playing with the Backsliders.

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Rosscoe Clark, playing with Cyril B Bunter Band.

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Gail Page and Harry Brus.

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Claude Hay.

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Michael David, Franchesca Appolis and Evelyn Dupra, of Dancing with Shadows.

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Mark Grunden leading a second line, playing with Fiona Boyes

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Sammy Owens Band

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There are many more images. On the Thredbo Blues Festival Page you will find links to images from the 2019 Festival, as well twelve previous festivals . Links for 2019 include top 100 images, selected monochromes and one for each of the 21 bands. These include other bands or performers not mentioned above including Gwyn Aston, Ivor SK, New South, Richard Perso and Nick Charles & Pete Fidler .

Alternatively, there is also a direct overall link to all Thredbo 2019 images . in JAlbum (with overview images and images by band organised by folder). There are 493 images in all.

For other images of a particular band I may have taken since 2006, see the Musicians and Bands Page ..