Name: Kara Grainger Band with support from The Burnside Burners
Start: 2024-09-19T19:15:00+01:00
Location: @The Voodoo Rooms, EH2 2AA Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Kara Grainger Band with support from The Burnside Burners

Classic song-writing skills, smooth sultry vocals, and the ability to whip up a storm with a fiery slide guitar – very few can boast this set of trump cards, but it just happens to be the hand dealt to Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist Kara Grainger.
Now based in Los Angeles, Kara first picked up the guitar at age 12. She started performing in the late ’90s as lead vocalist and guitarist with the successful Sydney-based blues outfit, Papa Lips. With her brother, harmonica player Mitch Grainger, Kara and Papa Lips enjoyed a quintessentially Australian experience.
With the advocacy of her record company, she moved to Los Angeles in 2008, but continued to split her time between LA and Australia. Her debut CD, 2008’s Grand and Green River received first prize in the IAP awards in Austin, Texas and also was in the top 40 Americana charts for over 34 weeks.
An EP called Secret Soul, an album entitled LA Blues, and her latest release entitled Shiver & Sigh, featuring members of Bonnie Raittâ€™s touring band, completes her discography to date.
Grand and Green River is a slickly produced collection of songs recorded in LA and featuring some big-name players, including guitarist Eric Johnson and Little Feat drummer the late Richie Hayward.
The title track from her Secret Soul EP has been played across Australian radio, on BBC Radio 2 in the UK, and even received an honourable mention in Billboard’s international song-writing competition.
Recorded at the Hobby Shop Studios in LA and with Grammy Award winning producer David Z at the helm, her latest release Shiver & Sigh includes 5 Kara Grainger originals, as well as soulful re-imaginings of Robert Johnson’s C’mon In My Kitchen and Al Jackson Jr./Timothy Matthews’ Breaking Up Somebody’s Home.
As a vocalist Grainger is strongly influenced by Bonnie Raitt. Sharing a bill at the Timbre Rock and Roots Festival in Singapore last March with Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi, Kara remarked it was a pleasure to be one of three female lead guitarists on the bill.
As a slide player Grainger has developed her own style, less influenced by Raitt and other Californian slide masters than by their original Mississippi Delta blues role models.
Kara has been going from strength to strength. She has toured extensively throughout Japan, Australia and parts of the US – national tours in Australia including opening spots for Eric Johnson, Amos Lee and Little Feat.