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Getting into the groove: Blues day 2

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Aunty Dulcie Nicholls says Jing Walla – welcome, on the Crossroads stage at Bluesfest 2016 day 2. Photo Tree Faerie.

Day two was freakin’ awesome.

The Arakwal Jingi Walla (welcome), was a highlight of the day.

There were just too many incredible musos to name them all but some of my favs were:
Graham Nash (of course), Steve Earle, Elle King, Kaleo, The National, Archie Roach, Grahan Nash, the Brotherhood of the Blues, Lukas Nelson and Mick Fleetwood and co, and, Graham Nash!

Today is going to be AWESOME !

Photos Tree Faerie & David Lowe

More stories from Bluesfest 2016

100,000 punters flock to Bluesfest

By the time Tom Jones sang out ‘It’s Not Unusual’ at 10 o’clock last night more than 100,000 people had passed through the gates of this year’s 27th annual Bluesfest at Byron Bay.

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Bunny Sunday Bluesfest day 4

Sunday saw some of the Bluesfest big guns roll out – Jackson Browne played a massive one and a half hour set as did Melissa Etheridge – neither disappointed the legion of punters pressing against the barriers to see...

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Man’s death at Bluesfest ‘not suspicious’

A 44-year-old man from the Tweed region was found dead in a car at the Bluesfest site at Tyagarah on Saturday.

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Seasoned festival snapper souled right out

Veteran Echonetdaily photographer Jeff Dawson has probably caught more performers in the act up close at Bluesfest than you can think of, and much more than most of his peers on the job this year.

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Bluesfest hump day and the rain came

It wouldn't be Bluesfest if we didn't get a bit of rain and at the halfway point yesterday afternoon, the heavens open to hear the sweet tunes drifting up from Tyagarah and the rain fell.

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