Party: Marloo's Blues

Party: Marloo's Blues

MARLENE CUMMINS & THE BLUES EXPERIENCE BAND DR. DON'S DOUBLE DOSE (DON HOPKINS & ROB GROSSER)

GoSet Music and Marloo’s Blues invites you to join Australia’s foremost indigenous blues artist, Marlene Cummins with her Koori Woman blues belting style as she takes you on a journey of her life in Blues, along with long-standing friends and musicians including Murray Cook, Calvin Welch, Rex Goh, Craig Calhoun and Heather King. Performing original music from her critically acclaimed album Koori Woman Blues, as well as hits from such great Blues artists as Koko Taylor, Big Mama Thornton and Etta James, Marlene presents a show packed with great energy, humour, passion and a few cultural lessons thrown in.

“The life Marlene has lived is closer to the life of original blues singers like Muddy Waters than any contemporary American blues artist” – Richard Field, Producer.

Marlene Cummins knows the Blues from an Aboriginal woman’s perspective in this country and her story is one of vulnerability, strength and survival. She is an accomplished saxophonist, having refined her skills at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Marlene regularly busks to maintain her love affair with the saxophone and develop her feel as a musician.

As a regular broadcaster on Koori Radio for years with her renowned Blues show, ‘Marloo’s Blues’, Marlene won Broadcaster of the Year at the Deadly Awards in 2009. ‘Marloo’s Blues’ can be heard on Koori Radio 93.7FM 2LND every Sunday from 10am to 12 noon. “If you like the Blues as much as I dooz, you’d choose Marloo’s Blues!”

Marlene’s first full length album, Koori Woman Blues, was released to coincide with the release of a documentary, Black Panther Woman, which she made with award winning filmmaker Rachel Perkins about her life as a female member of the Black Panther Party. The film is an expose on the underbelly of Black experience in Australia from the 60s and 70s to now. The film has been making the international film festival rounds, recently winning the Special Jury Prize in Tahiti.

For more information and other tour dates, http://www.marlenecummins.com

DR. DON’S DOUBLE DOSE –Blues, boogies, spirituals, rags & ballads performed by piano player and vocalist Don Hopkins with drummer Rob Grosser. You’ll hear originals along with classics and rarities from the 1920s to the 1960s, ozzing the good-time, barrelhouse and boogie woogie fun of a blues party night, with the emphasis on the New Orleans piano styles. In New Orleans they don’t do it any better than these two. Recently winning second place at the 2012 International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee, Dr Don’s Double Base presents Blues & Roots vocalist, piano player and songwriter Don Hopkins and drummer Rob Grosser. An influential part of the Sydney Blues scene since the 70s, Don has also been an integral member of Jim Conway’s Big Wheel since 2002.. http://www.donhopkinsmusic.com

Contact: Lorda Omeissah 0413 044 332 Email [email protected]
DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM