Sound Feast is a fantastic free musical event at The J in Noosa Junction and it’s back on Friday 16 August from 6pm.
Performing at Sound Feast for the first time is singer, string plucker and writer, Craig Madden. Just back from Nashville, Craig has more than twenty years’ experience touring and gigging on Australia’s East Coast.
Craig’s voice and lyrics ring with truth, soul and experience, whilst his pumping rhythmic guitar style growls underneath, at times melodic and sweet, at others blue and intense.
Van Larkins, recently returned from his USA tour, is warmly welcomed back to Sound Feast. Van transforms what we traditionally consider a classical guitar style with musical influences like electronic, psych trance and 70s funk.
“I experiment and use every possible part of my acoustic guitar to make music. It could be bending the neck to make that ‘tremolo’ sound or pushing my elbow against the soundboard to create wah wah, while wiggling the capo for a whammy bar effect,” Van said.
Playing the blues is never as simple as it seems. It’s a balancing act between virtuosity and feel, rawness and finesse. Many try, but few seem to nail it like Dave Orr. At the heart of his music is that unmistakably raw blues guitar.And last but not least – Dub Zoo. Dub Zoo are testing the boundaries of musicality with a live improvisational reggae experiment, created in the moment, inspired by the audience. Featuring multi-instrumentalist Lee Hardisty on keys, sax, flute and kalimba and vocal extraordinaire Lizzie O’Keefe along with the monster rhythm section of Leon Tussie on drums, Brad Wenham on bass and Paddy Kiernan on guitar.
