Name: Ballarat Blues Fest: Official After Party
Start: 2024-08-25T19:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-08-25T22:00:00+10:00
Location: Piano Bar Ballarat

Ballarat Blues Fest: Official After Party

As the dust clears from the Ballarat Blues Festival's Main Event, Piano Bar proudly presents The After Party! The place to be to get down to some world class blues music and celebrate in style.
Featuring.. ROD PAINE AND THE FULLTIME LOVERS
Out front on vocals and harmonica, the charismatic Rod Paine is a stylish showman with one of the most soulful and inspiring voices in this land. Charming audiences for 30 years, he has walked the stages throughout the country delivering a sound somewhere between Muscle Shoals and mid-sixties electric Blues. Add the broken-up harp sound emanating from his little 40-year-old amp, and he is hard to draw a comparison with.
Ray Tully and Tony Harwood form a dynamic rhythm section that is the backbone of the act. Performing together for over 34 years, this tight unit has graced various line-ups such as The Sensational Rocket 88’s, The Redliners, The Detonators and Straight 8’s to name just a few.
In 2014, the Fulltime Lovers welcomed the extraordinary Co Tipping to take over guitar duties, wielding the Fender Stratocaster in a way very few can. This important inclusion signalled a shift in the band’s sound and an extension of its broad appeal. The addition in 2020 of Michael J Shannon on Hammond organ has added colour and depth to the repertoire, where his incredible musical knowledge shows through.
In 2013, Rod Paine & The Fulltime Lovers won the prestigious MBAS (Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society) Blues Performer of the Year Award. They subsequently represented the MBAS in 2014 at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis USA, where they competed with the world’s best to impress an international audience.
Most recently, the band was awarded the MBAS Band of the Year for 2023.

ALSO the After Party will be showcasing up and coming Ballarat Youth Band JAWN! These young Blues musicians are proving that the Blues is in great hands, versatile and talented musicians with a passion for the genre, JAWN are ready to rip the stage up playing this local gig in one of their first Festival appreances.

**Important Information:**
* Date: Sunday 25th August
* The ticket price is $10 per person and is payable at time of booking.
* Doors will open at 7pm.
* The performance is scheduled to start between 7pm and 7:30pm.
* Our kitchen will be available from 7pm to 8pm
* Tables will be held until 7:30pm at the latest.
* Seating is allocated so please let us know if you have multiple bookings wanting to sit together.