Blues, Thursday August 28 - 2.40pm

Blues, Friday August 29 - 12.00 noon

Blues, Saturday August 30 - 5.05pm

THE CHRIS MAWER BAND

The Chris Mawer Band have been touring for the past couple of years taking blues music to cities and remote areas around Australia, and performing at many music festivals, pubs, clubs and chook sheds. Boxcar Special, the first offering from the Chris Mawer Band, is a vigourous Blues album distilled with cool West Coast tones. 27-year-old Mawer originally from Wollongong, has performed with Australian blues notables such as Jan Preston, Harper, Ray Beadle, Lil Fi, Pete Cornelius, Robert Susz, Bridie King, Foreday Riders, Psycho Zydeco, the RedBeans and has toured Australia a couple of times with Italian Blues guitarist Enrico Crivellaro and legendary blues vocalist Finis Tasby from Los Angeles. 'Chris Mawer is one of my new blues heros. Payin' the Price is one of the best new blues songs written in years and this might be the best blues album released this year... it might as well be from deep down in Mississippi' - Jeremy Loome, Edmonton Sun (Canada) "Cleverly crafted... it will get them all moving" - Blues Matters (UK)