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Fig Night Saturday 18 July 2020

Glenn Bidmead
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Taylor B-W
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Kevin Bennett & the Flood
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Glenn's songs are drawn from his life travelling the deep outback of Australia, from top to bottom and east to west. Spending 15 years on the road doing MusoMagic songwriting workshops with schools and communities, he feels very fortunate to have met so many Australians in so many towns. Red dirt and open country embed themselves in your heart.

He has co-written with many successful Australian and International songwriters such as Keith Urban, Mick Jones (Foreigner), The Veronicas and Brooke McClymont (The McClymonts). In 2019 Glenn had a great time at TCMF and a lot of laughs performing with Luke O'Shea & Andrew Swift in Luke's Songwriters in the Round.

Glenn has released several albums including Seven Seconds and Songs In Black & White as well as the Last Chance Café EP and the Kerosene country rock album, Art Of Survival. His newly released album Lifeblood is another collection of brilliantly written and arranged songs. The title track Lifeblood, co-written by Glenn and his partner Lorraine, is an anthemic contemporary song for those in drought and those who care.

www.glennbidmead.com

Tucked inside a pop shell lies Sydney-born, Kiwi singer-songwriter Taylor B-W, who blends soul-driven melodies with emotive lyrics that reflect her resilience and quest for peace within herself and the world around her, swiftly moving between the many facets of pop music to show-off different sides to her artistry.

B-W rediscovered her passion for music after initially pursuing an acting career. However, when her health suffered under the pressure of acting, and following a mind opening trip to Africa, she switched her attention to wildlife conservation, becoming a qualified zookeeper at Sydney's Taronga Training Institute.

Taylor B-W's songs are capsules of her mind and her past, clearing out the cobwebs. She delves into common issues that young millennials deal with daily: clinical depression and anxiety, financial instability, destructive relationships and heartbreak, loneliness in a digital world, body dysmorphia, thanatophobia (fear of death), eco-anxiety, and the yearning for inner peace.

B-W is simply on a soul-searching quest to heal the cracks in her relationship with herself and those around her: "I guess, I'm always just trying to make sense of it all." However, although her songs are very reflective, with a sombre and moody undertone, don't be fooled. B-W's music offers hope and resilience through hardship - she wants her songs to empower the underdogs (a concept she relates to well) and hope they know that someone is always there for them.

taylorbwmusic.com

Kevin Bennett is a well-respected indigenous singer/songwriter with Sydney Blues/Roots band The Flood.

He is an Aria nominee and winner of 6 x CMAA Gold Guitar ….2006 (with The Flood for Best Group), 2011(with Kasey Chambers for Vocal Collaboration), 2017 (with Bennett, Bowtell and Urquhart for Best Alternative Album and Best Group and in 2019 for Vocal Collaboration) and, most recently, with The Flood (for Best Group) at the 2020 Gold Guitar Awards.

He writes relevant, contemporary Australian music containing elements of Country, Blues and Rock - telling stories of where he's from and where he might be going, his past and his possible future….he sings his life.

The Flood has recorded 6 universally acclaimed albums including 'The Ballad Of KB', which was named in Iain Shedden's Top Twenty Australian Country Albums of all time, while Rhythms magazine calls The Flood 'the best Australian Roots band since The Dingoes.'

So whether it's solo, with The Flood or Bennett, Bowtell& Urquhart, KB is still making music that needs to be heard.

The Flood line-up for the Fig is KB (Vox/Guitar), Gary Carruthers (Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin/Harmonica/Vox), Wayne 'Killer' Kellett (Bass/Vox) and Mik McCartin (Drums/Vox).

www.kevinbennettandtheflood.com

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