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Adelaide Guitar Festival
Jul
24
12:00 pm12:00

Adelaide Guitar Festival

Head to the hills for a town-wide event in the beautiful town of Gumeracha. Bring along your friends and family for a day of live music and fun as Adelaide Guitar Festival takes over the town with an array of local and visiting guitarists.

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12pm - 1pm | Big Rockinghorse

Jimmybay & Aimee Volkofsky
1pm - 2pm | The Good Pantry
Elli Belle
1pm - 2pm | Applewood Distillery
Chris Finnen & Cal Williams Jr
2pm - 3pm | Salem Baptist Church
Mike Bevan & Alain Valodze
2pm - 3pm | Gumeracha Hotel
Magic Steam Train
3pm - 4pm | The Good Pantry
Banjo Jackson
3pm - 4pm |  Applewood Distillery
Kelly Menhennett
4pm - 5pm | Gumeracha Hotel
A.P D'Antonio
4pm - 5pm | Gumeracha Town Hall
Frank Yamma
5pm - 6pm | Gumeracha Town Hall
Matt Walker
6pm - 7pm | Gumeracha Town Hall
Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers with Band

MORE ABOUT OUR ARTISTS:

Jimmybay: Blues, folk, and alt country vagabond Jimmybay draws from his own experiences as he warmly joins his long-told campfire stories and bushy poetry into toe-tapping tunes. 

Aimee Volkofsky: Aimee Volkovsky weaves folk, country, and blues into a tapestry of dust, ghost stories, and the ancient beauty of the Australian landscape.

Chris Finnen & Cal Williams Jr: Each multi-award winners and exceedingly talented blues musicians in their own right, together this duo combine the gentle fingerpicking of British Folk with the raw intensity of a Delta Blues speakeasy.

Mike Bevan: Mike Bevan specializes in jazz and Brazilian guitar whose music has been described as ‘sublime and romantic’. 

Alain Valodze: Alain Valodze is an expressive Flamenco guitarist playing music of ‘haunting beauty and buoyant rhythm’. 

Banjo Jackson: Banjo's musical styles have been described as indie folk, ambient and anti-poetic and take influence from Bill Callahan, Phillip Glass and Aldous Harding.

Kelly Menhennett: Kelly is a national award-winning singer-songwriter of the soul/roots/alt-country variety, a captivating live performer and a voice once compared to a cross between Erma Franklin and Etta James.

A.P D'Antonio: Packing along a banjo and guitar, AP sings songs of rambling, brawling, gambling, up's and down's, love had and lost and some traditional favourites.

Frank Yamma: Frank Yamma is one of Australia’s most significant Indigenous songwriters with an ability to cross cultural and musical boundaries.

Matt Walker: Matt Walker is one of the most respected musicians on the Australian scene. He has toured with people such as Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dirty Three, Nick Cave, Tony Joe White, Cat Power, The Black Keys and Joe Cocker.

Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers with Band: Celebrating the 20th anniversary of two events; the very first ever “Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers” gig (a Tuesday night at the front bar of the Crown & Anchor), and the recording of their ‘lost’ album “Fine Line”

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Adelaide Guitar Festival
Jun
28
11:00 am11:00

Adelaide Guitar Festival

Various Events from the 9th to the 24th July (in Gumeracha). Some FREE events. Please read below for details.

With guitar strings tightened, cases packed and voices primed to share a tale or two, Adelaide Guitar Festival proudly announces the lineup for On the Road, delivering free one-day events and concerts by some of the country’s best musicians to ten South Australian towns; an increase from eight in 2021.

Employing 75 individual artists across 120 paid opportunities in 55 regional venues, each town will enjoy either an evening community hall concert, or a town-wide “micro festival” throughout the day and evening, whereby the entire township is activated with free-entry, family-friendly live music presented in pubs, bars, cafes, sports clubs and community halls.

The tour begins in the Eyre Peninsula on 8 July in Elliston and Streaky Bay, followed by Tumby Bay (9 July) and Cleve (10 July). Artists will then visit the Mid North (Crystal Brook and Watervale on 15 July), Yorke Peninsula (Edithburgh on 16 July and Wallaroo on 17 July), Kangaroo Island (Eleanor Downs on 17 July) and the Adelaide Hills (Gumeracha on 24 July).

Confirmed artists include three-time ARIA Award winner and festival favourite Jeff Lang, indie folk singer-songwriter Laura Hill, soul/roots/alt-country singer-songwriter Kelly Menhennett, young First Nations storyteller Nathan May, roots and pop poetic performer Lucie Thorne, blues stalwarts Chris Finnen and Cal Williams Jr, energetic tour-de-force blues band Hussy Hicks, and Tibetan lyric musician Tenzin Choegyal. Full musician lineups and individual event details are listed below.

Adelaide Guitar Festival Artistic Director (and On the Road artist) Slava Grigoryan: “In 2021, the overall economic benefit of On the Road to the communities exceeded $1.8 million, and on average, 24% of audiences were visitors to the regions. That shows us how strongly the program was valued everywhere by both locals and tourists, and we’re so glad to get to bring it back and expand it even further in 2022. 

We thank our funding partners who have enabled us to do so and to all of the communities who have welcomed us so enthusiastically. We can’t wait to visit you all in July!” 

On the Road also includes additional regional town visits via Resonance, where artists entertain residents of 11 individual Helping Hand residential care services in Whyalla, Port Pirie, Jamestown, Clare and Adelaide; Adelaide Festival Centre’s CentrED school visits, bringing musical entertainment and information sessions to over 400 school children in Kadina, Maitland, Tumby Bay and Cleve; and Adelaide Guitar Festival’s Winter School and Orchestraprograms.

In 2022, On the Road has been fortunate to receive seed support from Festivals Australia, Australia Council for the Arts, RISE and the Live Music Events Fund, as well as support from local councils and the Office for Health and Ageing.

Minister for Arts, The Hon Andrea Michaels MP"The South Australian Government – through the Music Development Office and Events South Australia – is proud to support Adelaide Guitar Festival’s On The Road initiative. 

On The Road also supports and builds capacity in our regional towns: it gives local and visiting artists new audience opportunities and will help develop South Australia’s regional touring circuit, which is integral to the development and employment of our talented live music artists."

All On the Road events are free to attend. 

Ticketed Adelaide Guitar Festival events run from 15 – 24 July at Adelaide Festival Centre and Her Majesty’s Theatre, and are on sale now, online and via Ticketek.

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Adelaide Guitar Festival On the Road Program – 2022(Artists listed in order of appearance)

Friday 8 July – Elliston Community Agricultural HallDoors open 6pmJoshy Willo, Laura Hill and Hussy Hicks  

Friday 8 July – Streaky Bay InstituteDoors open 6pmSlava Grigoryan, Lecia Louise and Jeff Lang

Saturday 9 July – Tumby Bay, various locations Entertainment from 12pm – 9pmTumby Bay Ukers, Slava Grigoryan, Gospel Bluegrass Revival, Laura Hill, Alana Jagt, Rafa Godoy, Aloysius Leeson, Lecia Louise, Nancy Bates, Glenn Skuthorpe, Hussy Hicks and Helpless

Sunday 10 July – Cleve, various locationsEntertainment from 11am – 7pm
Laura Hill, Rafa Godoy, Nancy Bates, Joel Davies, Alana Jagt, Aloysius Leeson, Hussy Hicks, Tom West, Joshy Willo, Ryan Martin John, Glenn Skuthorpe, Jeff Lang and Beinke Brothers Band

Friday 15 July – Watervale, The ValeDoors open 6pm
Duo Antipodes, Nathan May and George and Noriko

Friday 15 July - Crystal Brook InstituteDoors open 6pm
Tenzin Choegyal, Lucie Thorne and Nigel Wearne

Saturday 16 July – Edithburgh, various locationsEntertainment from 11:30am – 8pm
Duo Antipodes, Kelly Menhennett, Trav Collins, Tenzin Choegyal, A.P D’Antonio, Nathan May, 
Nigel Wearne, Lucie Thorne, George and Noriko 
and The Swamp Donkeys

Sunday 17 July – Wallaroo, various locations Entertainment from 1pm – 8pm
Nathan May, Nigel Wearne, Tasman Guitar Duo, Glenn Skuthorpe, Stefan Hauk, Kelly Menhennett, 
Mike Bevan and Alain Valodze, Lucie Thorne and The Yearlings, Tenzin Choegyal, George and Noriko 
and The Yorke Band

Sunday 17 July – Eleanor Downs Shearing Shed, Kangaroo IslandEntertainment from 11am – 6pm
Richard Glatz, Aidan J Jones, Slava and Sharon Grigoryan, Jimmybay and Aimee Volkofsky, Lecia Louise and The Jacky Winter Band

Sunday 24 July – Gumeracha Entertainment from 12pm – 7pm 
Jimmybay and Aimee Volkofsky, Elli Belle, Chris Finnen and Cal Williams Jr, Mike Bevan and Alain Valodze, Magic Steam Train, Banjo Jackson, Kelly Menhennett, A.P D’Antonio, Frank Yamma, Matt Walker and Sweet Baby James and Rob Eyers with band

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