DAN HOPKINS W/ SAVIDAS

AUSTRALIAN BLUES|ROOTS|GOSPEL ARTIST DAN HOPKINS PLAYS A PUNCHY BRAND OF MODERN ROOTS THAT HAS A DISTINCT DELTA FLAVOUR WITH SOUL AND GOSPEL OVERTONES. DAN CREATES AN EXPERIENCE THAT COULD BE DESCRIBED AS ASH GRUNWALD, ERIC BIBB AND PAUL KELLY MEETING DOWN AT THE CROSSROADS. THIS CULMINATES IN AN EMOTIONALLY DRIVEN JOURNEY DOWN A SWEETLY PLUCKED BUT OFTEN DIRTY SLIDE GUITAR BORNE ROAD ACROSS THE SOUTHERN BLUES IDIOM.

WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BLUES MUSIC FESTIVAL BUSKING CONTEST IN 2016 AND MUSIC OZ AWARDS FINALIST IN 2010, BACK TO BACK FESTIVAL APPEARANCES AT PORT MACQUARIE’S HOWLING MOON FESTIVAL IN 2017 AND 2018, DAN’S DYNAMIC FINGER STYLE BLUES HAS ENLIVENED AUDIENCES FOR KEVIN BORICH, CLAUDE HAY, MAL ELASTIC, HAT FITZ AND CARA, BLUES ARCADIA, WENDY MATTHEWS, MENTAL AS ANYTHING AND SYDNEY BLUES CHALLENGE WINNER (2014) DARREN JACK.

DAN’S SMOOTH RICH VOCAL TONE, HIS DYNAMIC FINGER STYLE BLUES AND DEXTERITY ON THE SLIDE GUITAR MIXED WITH POIGNANT LYRICS CREATE A HIGHLY VERSATILE PERFORMER NOT TO BE MISSED.

AS A BAND, DAN HOPKINS AND THE GENEROUS FEW SWING FROM SWEET URBAN COUNTRY BLUES FINGERSTYLE TO SWAMPY LAP SLIDE GUITAR PLAYING CREATING A SMORGASBORG OF SOUTHERN STYLE FOOTSTOMPING FOLK, ROOTS AND BLUES THAT IS BOTH AUTHENTIC AND EMOTIONALLY HONEST.

WITH UPLIFTING APPRAISALS FROM KHRIS MAZINSKI (JEFF LANG), PAUL GOMMERSALL (KATE BUSH; PAUL WELLER; SINEAD O’CONNOR) AND RICHARD CARTWRIGHT (PLATINUM ENTERTAINMENT) DAN AND HIS CREW ARE DEFINITELY A ROOTS ACT ON THE RISE.

With local support Savidas
Blending genres, pushing boundaries and mixing new, exciting sounds & old school rhythms. Stylistically melding roots, reggae, folks and funk into a completely original sound. Australia’s own Savidas, are the combined talents of Gumpy (Vocals, Guitar) and Katie Richards (Vocals, Drums). Playing their own mash up of funky styles has  earn’t their music with the unusual title of Bluegrass – Hip-Hop.
This highly-skilled two-piece has been thrilling audiences all throughout Australia and more recently Japan where they did a 6 week tour from Tokyo to Osaka and Kyoto to Yokohama they rocked the stages from huge venues to intimate little club and showed the Japanese punters their ability to bring the crowd into their songs, breaking the walls down of communications barrier Savidas proved their music really is the international language of funky love

Doors: 7pm
Tix: TBA