Artist Index

All Artists Playing at the 2012 Northern Beaches Music Festival.

Listed in alpabetical order

1. Aaron Lyon and The Wild Things

Aaron Lyon Is a soulful balladeer whose craft has been forged by the blues of life, love and loss- at no expense to his roguish charm! Armed with a guitar and an unusually athletic voice, he evoke Read more...

2. Adam Cousens

Adam Cousens Is at home on stage with a guitar in hand and a crowd out front. A charismatic storyteller, Cousens promotes a ‘half glass full’ outlook on life and a purpose to enjoy the good times. Read more...

3. Allan Caswell

Allan Caswell Biography In 2007 when Allan Caswell won his sixth Golden guitar in Tamworth (with Drew McAlister for “Vocal Collaboration Of The Year”), it marked 27 years since his first Golden Read more...

4. Andy George

Andy George Attracted by the simplicity of folk and blues on an acoustic guitar Andy took an early interest in the blues which led to a life time of involvement with jug bands and bluegrass. W Read more...

5. Ange Takats

Ange Takats Foreign correspondent turned folk singer Ange Takats has lived a life less ordinary and the proof can be found in her well-crafted lyrics, soulful voice and colourful on-stage storytell Read more...

6. Anne Ridgway and Friends

Anne Ridgway & Friends A soaring pure voice and unusual, ambient tunings on 12 - string guitar describe the music of Anne Ridgway. Anne has the true artist’s quality of expressing her soul through Read more...

7. Another Train

Another Train Is a new line-up of four vintage folk musicians - all singers and instrumentalists with a shared grounding in the Australian folk scene. Kate and Denis's lead and harmony vocals are Read more...

8. Ben Osmo

Ben Osmo An avid musician, playing the flute and guitar with various jazz, reggae, funk and blues combos. His passion is to write and perform his own material. By adding a looper to his instrum Read more...

9. Beth n Ben

Beth n Ben Beth n Ben?s songwriting spans from Blues, Roots, Folk and Reggae to Jazz and Soul tunes. After doing their solo thing and playing in other bands around Canberra for six years the duo te Read more...

10. Blue Goose Band

Blue Goose In the late 1980\'s Whistling Goose, one of Sydney\'s favourite jug/folk/goodtime bands, came to an end after more than a decade of entertaining Sydney audiences. Blue Goose represents t Read more...

11. Cap in hand

Cap in Hand is a folk duo comprising \"Nigel Walters\" (also of Wheeze and Suck Band) and \"Dave Spira\". Dave and Nigel both play acoustic guitar in a range of open tunings and write many of Read more...

12. Charlie Gradon

Charlie Gradon Two years ago Charlie Gradon found his calling. After listening to Bon Iver\'s \"For Emma, Forever Ago\" he immediately wanted to learn guitar, singing, drums and anything else he co Read more...

13. Chloe and Silas

Chloe & Silas “Chloe Hall is a woman at the top of her singer/songwriter profession. She makes you laugh, cry, sigh and dream. And that voice… A treasure to file alongside Joni Mitchell, Nanci Grif Read more...

14. Daddy Longlegs and the Swamp Donkeys

DADDY LONGLEGS AND THE SWAMP DONKEYS From the murky depths of the Lantana swamp, rises the smokey mud stained rhythms of the Swamp Donkeys. Riding astride the donkeys like a golf ball balanced on e Read more...

15. Dave Calandra

Dave Calandra Finger-style guitar plucked with intricate detail, open tunings for depth of tone, and smooth vocals delivered with breathy intimacy.... These are just a few of the elements that comp Read more...

16. Doc Jones and the Lechery Orchestra

Doc Jones and the Lechery Orchestra Doc Jones: Guitar/Vocals (Little Lotta’s Whiskers/Ashtons Circus) Serge Stanley: Accordeon/Sax (Waiting for Guiness, On the Stoop) Dirk Kruithoff: Ba Read more...

17. Doug Richardson

Doug Richardson Doug started out in jug and blues and with his rich vocals and skilful guitar and mandolin his current favourite genre is bluegrass. Doug has toured as a solo artist as well as Read more...

18. Ecopella

Ecopella Ecopella is an environmental choir that sings about the beauty of our world and the struggle to protect it from exploitation and destruction. It gives activists and audiences an opportun Read more...

19. Folklore

Folklore Folklore brings four fine musicians: Cliona Molins, Fiona McVicar both from Jiggery, Anthony Woolcott from Triantan, and Rosie McDonald from Mothers of Intention and RAPT. All are well Read more...

20. Fowler and Barker

Fowler & Barker Are two old boys who met over a cup of Simon and Garfunkel (with some Jacob Arcadelt as a side dish) and have ended up working together in more ways than this... or that. Rich Fowle Read more...

21. Franklin

Franklyn Was born from a love of music and a need to do something different. Mordy and Gibs began jamming together and realised that every session produced a few original songs. They began working Read more...

22. Fred Smith

Fred Smith Is a superb songwriter with a wry sense of humour and a wonderful eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life. He is one of Australia’s most literate, humorous, intelligent and empathic s Read more...

23. Gilbert Whyte

Gilbert Whyte Gilbert Whyte is a Scottish songwriter who has drawn a performance style out of both traditional and contemporary folk and blues. Fingerpicking his way about Australia with a guita Read more...

24. Green Mohair Suits

Green Mohair Suits Garage Grass Pioneers Five fine gentlemen, and a rather fine lady, hailing from Sydney, Australia. Lots of picking and squeezing and singing. Oh - and the singing. A combinati Read more...

25. Grimick

Grimick An honest, folk-rock, acoustic style, Grimick are an energetic group of singer/song-writers who never stray from the essential ingredients - great rhythm, a contagious melody, and something Read more...

26. Jenny Biddle

Jenny Biddle \"I need to find a way to bottle this day.\" Sometimes a moment washes over us, offering such contentment that we wish we could capture it... store it away to draw on in another tim Read more...

27. Jim Pike and the Icebreakers

Jim Pike and the Icebreakers Jim has been performing solo and as part of a duo for many years but now with the formation of the Icebreakers his prolific original songbook is combined with lifting t Read more...

28. Karl Broadie

Karl Broadie Sydney based Scotsman Karl Broadie was born in to a family of philosophers, artists and free thinkers. Recognised as one of Australia’s most unique and dynamic songwriters, Karl has al Read more...

29. Kevin Bennett and The Flood

Kevin Bennett and The Flood The Flood...their name swirls with the gravity of the Old Testament and the everyday calamity of life on the land: a force of nature, and a story thick with sediments o Read more...

30. Kylie Adams

Kylie Adams Growing up in Bellingen on the north coast of NSW, Singer songwriter, Kylie Adams is creatively inspired by many artists and musicians. She has sung originals and covers in numerous Read more...

31. Leon Rabin and Toni Davies

Leon Rabin & Toni Davies Leon Rabin is a picker and a singer from out of the sixties who paid his dues in the clubs of London and across the USA. He\'s a little bit folky, and a little bit country. Read more...

32. Lou Bradley

Lou Bradley Singer songwriter Lou Bradley is a treat. While her genre is described as Alternative / American / Country she is a natural entertainer free from any pretence. She's funny and highl Read more...

33. Luke Escombe

Luke Escombe From sweaty tin shacks in rural Queensland to a speaker's podium at Parliament House, by way of the Melbourne Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe, Luke Escombe was all over the place Read more...

34. Mic Conway with Robbie Long

Mic Conway & Robbie Long In a circus of comedy, music and magic, Mic Conway and flat-picking guitar champion Robbie Long present an hilarious array of idiosyncratic songs that will make your jaw dr Read more...

35. Michael Azzopardi

Michael-John Azzopardi Guitarist Australia magazine once described him as an "Esoteric genius with a penchant for intricate acoustic masterpieces". Stylistically, Michael-John's music draws from Read more...

36. Milton Brown

Milton Brown Milton Brown is a surfer/musician/school teacher who has been in the surfing world for over 40 years. He has combined his two lifetime recreational activities to contribute to the soc Read more...

37. Mylee Grace

MYLEE GRACE Making music is one thing, being in a band is another, but every now and then someone comes along and turns all the theories you ever had about music on its head and you say to yourse Read more...

38. New York Public Library

New York Public Library - John Flannigan ("Flano"), Warren Boyd and Isabelle Fogarty are the New York Public Library, a lively, popular, and thoroughly entertaining trio who have been an icon of the S Read more...

39. Nick Rheinberger

Nick Rheinberger Nick is probably the most versatile performer on the Australian folk festival circuit, able to perform solo and with his band, as a comedy MC and a children’s entertainer, a poet a Read more...

40. Pat Drummond

Pat Drummond A performer with an astonishing capacity to entertain; and a songwriter, whose passionate commitment to Australia and its people has produced songs that are social snapshots of ordina Read more...

41. Phillip Bracken

Phillip Bracken Like him, Phillip Brackens music is nomadic in spirit. An obvious dreamer, he expresses a curious nature within his tunes. With a unique and warm voice and rhythms that are calm Read more...

42. RAPT

RAPT RAPT is Rosie McDonald, Ann Palumbo, Paul Laszlo and Tony Pyrzakowski. They move from jazz, blues and folk genres effortlessly, as well as playing their own compositions. Their music is upl Read more...

43. Renny Field

Renny Field With so many earnest, guitar-toting young men now struggling desperately for attention, it’s rare to find a genuine artist ??" one driven not by the urge to simply impress people with t Read more...

44. Richie Cuthbert

I used to play and write songs in a band called Cuthbert and the Night Walkers. These are my first solo efforts. Recorded mostly by myself but with some help from Nick Franklin (drums, mixing) and Alo Read more...

45. Sal Kimber and The Rollin Wheel

Sal Kimber & The Rollin' Wheel Has been quietly stealing hearts on Melbourne's live music scene for the past three years. In addition to a long list of local, regional and interstate pub and club s Read more...

46. Sam Buckingham

Sam Buckingham Chanteuse, storyteller, lover, traveller. Sam Buckingham has begun to push the singer/songwriter boundaries to deliver an exciting new banquet of sweet pop musings and catchy folk h Read more...

47. Sarah and Margie

Sarah and Margie Two wonderful singers, Sarah Fogarty and Margaret Salem have been performing as a duo for many years. Their voices blend to produce amazing harmonies that are truly exquisite Read more...

48. Sarah Humpreys

Sarah Humpreys Sarah Humpreys takes the ingredients of the classic songwriter and combines these with a sense of spontaneity, ukuleles, a love of old vinyl and an amazing ability to stare out the w Read more...

49. Selalu

Selalu Is a Sydney based dynamic group playing a diversity of original songs that take audiences on a journey that is thought provoking and moving. Drawing upon contemporary folk and country style Read more...

50. Shane Flew

Shane Flew In the past 30 years, Shane Flew has worked with most major names in Australian music, playing drums or percussion and singing, covering all style variations; Rock & Roll, Pop, RNB, Co Read more...

51. Shells

SHELLS Born in the forest filled Blue Mountains of NSW to now living in the rainforest covered village of Kuranda in Far North Queensland, wherever she goes \'Shells\' always finds herself surround Read more...

52. Snez

Snez Multi-award winning artist and fresh new talent in the independent music scene, SNEZ has never been afraid to put her heart on her sleeve. Celebrating the success of her critically acclaimed d Read more...

53. SNUGs

SNUGs Description of performance: The Sydney North Ukulele Group (SNUGs) is a group of people, keen on playing the ukulele. We have three main rules. 1. Everybody Plays 2. Everybody Sings Read more...

54. Solidarity choir

Solidarity Choir The Solidarity Choir has been around for twenty-four years. During that time they have collected some of the world\'s most uplifting songs of freedom, given them sophisticated cho Read more...

55. Spasm Band

Spasm Band The Spasm Band plays lively jug band / blues / roots music with strong vocals and a variety of instruments that include double bass, harmonica, guitar and dobro. All the members have Read more...

56. The April Maze

The April Maze "Their music moves you and seeps deep in to your soul, staying with you for days and weeks to come. It was such a delight to speak with them after their set as it reinforced what a Read more...

57. The Dingle Brothers

The Dingle Brothers An extraordinary and unique family of musical talent. Audiences may already be familiar with the musical and song writing genius of Tully and his father Harry Dingle - both uniq Read more...

58. The Jugalug String Band

The Jugalug String Band Formed in December 2005 for a quick gig in an eastern suburbs restaurant and when everyone got into the music and the cooks abandoned the kitchen to join in, it was decided Read more...

59. The Lurkers

The Lurkers Play subversive homespun bluegrass. With double bass, banjo, guitar and three-part harmonies, it\'s acoustic hillbilly punk about environmental evangelism, pirateering and DIY armageddo Read more...

60. The Mutual Acquaintances

The Mutual Acquaintances Comprised of Ian Barker, Brett Guyer, Luke O\'Neill and Michael Spencer ??" is a four-piece ensemble performing new and traditional Anglo-Irish music with vocals, guitars, Read more...

61. The Original Snakeskins

Re live the glory days of traditional Country music. With a swag of timeless originals, Bill Monroe's 'Rocky Road Blues', the gospel traditional 'Life's Railroad to Heaven' and Memphis Jug Band's 'Ste Read more...

62. The Pigs

The Pigs Take a hit song, turn it upside down, shake the change out of its pockets and set it down in its original form… foot-stomping bluegrass. Killing in the Name, Gold Digger, Like a Virgin… Fe Read more...

63. The Pump

Ian \'the Pump\' Macintosh Is best known as lead melodeon and songwriter with the popular Wheeze & Suck Band. He is also an exhibiting fine artist, and a teacher of traditional English dance. I Read more...

64. The Righteous Prannies

The Righteous Prannies Rises phoenix-like from the ashes of the now cremated ‘folk supergroup’ Wheelers & Dealers. The Prannies features the widely acknowledged musical genius of Mike Kerin on voc Read more...

65. The ThingOs

The ThingOs The ThingOs are Lisa McIntosh (keyboards) and Paul E. Hayward (guitar). The ThingOs write and perform a diverse range of original and quirky music. From semi-classical pieces, gypsy, co Read more...

66. Triantan

Triantan Triantan is a wake up call for anyone who thinks Celtic music is misty stuff. Their blend of Gaelic and English, of spine-chilling laments, blood-curdling war chants, songs of love and be Read more...

67. Tristan Haze

Tristan Haze Born in 1988 under the pseudonym Tristan Jamison Grøtvedt, Haze began composing songs around the age of five. Around the middle of a patchy career as a high school student, he discover Read more...

68. Tully

Tully A singer/songwriter/musician extraordinaire who writes entrancing, sensitive songs, with an innovative and impressive guitar technique. His original music spans near all genres and emotio Read more...

69. Urban eX

Urban eX Ann and Paul from the Urban eXcentrics play mostly original material drawing on diverse musical backgrounds and much involvement with the original music scene. They have both been judge Read more...

70. Van Bogan

Van Bogan Van Bogan is more a \'movable feast\' than a band with a fixed membership. Though there is a solid core, every performance draws on a range of different influences that varies with the m Read more...

71. Wheeze and Suck Band

The Wheeze & Suck Band Roots music and original material with humour, dash and flair that betrays their UK traditional origins. Scuba diving beneath cathedrals and holy apparitions at Coogee Be Read more...

72. Ziko Hart

Ziko Hart International artist and multi-instrumentalist Ziko Hart takes you on an unforgettable journey through world music and dynamic improvisation. Playing the Swiss Hang drum, African har Read more...

73. Zoe Elliot

Zoe Elliot Has a love for performance. Her shows invite you into the stories she tells, and to be a part of the show. Her songs have diverse stylistic ranges, subjects and will take you on the jour Read more...