JOHN FOGERTY ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER AT BLUESFEST!
17th of January 2012 - The 4th round of artists to perform at Australia’s much awarded and loved Bluesfest has been announced.
It’s the Festival’s biggest announcement yet for 2012; presenting more than 30 artists, including some very special headliners, the return of previous favourites, and opening the Bluesfest door to some exciting new discoveries.
Festival director Peter Noble says, “We’ve unveiled some amazing headliners and celebrated bands coming to Byron Bay for Bluesfest 2012, but now our fourth announcement is the final touch which really tips the scales into overdrive.
It’s certainly one of the best Bluesfest’s I’ve ever booked. Following on from the big headline acts in earlier announcements, our fourth artist unveiling is full of more headline surprises.
Bluesfest will be held at its home at Tyagarah Tea Tree farm just off the Pacific Highway, 12 minutes north of Byron Bay from Thursday April 5 through to Monday April 9, 2012.
4th Bluesfest artist announcement includes:
JOHN FOGERTY
Performs the albums and music of CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
ZIGGY MARLEY - CANDI STATON – DAVID BROMBERG BAND – CANNED HEAT - VUSI MAHLASELA – RICHARD CLAPTON – BLITZEN TRAPPER - THE AUDREYS – BACKSLIDERS – EUGENE ‘HIDEAWAY’ BRIDGES - RAY BEADLE – JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – HAT FITZ & CARA - TRIBALI – WATUSSI – EAGLE AND THE WORM - MAT. MCHUGH (THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS) – DUBMARINE - MAMA KIN – TIJUANA CARTEL – BENJALU – CARUS THOMPSON - KIM CHURCHILL – DALLAS FRASCA – MARSHALL & THE FRO - ASHLEIGH MANNIX – OLLIE BROWN – KOOII – LACHLAN BRYAN
JOHN FOGERTY plays Creedence Clearwater Revival:
It took Bob Dylan AND George Harrison’s constant cajoling to get JOHN FOGERTY to start playing Creedence Clearwater revival songs again. He started to do a few in his set in 1997 – 25 years after the band broke up.
Well, we can thank the Gods because for the first time in 40 years we are going to hear, live on stage at Bluesfest, one of the all time greats perform the music that he has written and only he can sing.
JOHN FOGERTY is going to perform in full one of 2 classic Creedence albums, which is either his favourite Creedence album ‘ Green River’ or Creedence’s biggest hit album ‘Cosmo’s Factory’.
Then, to top it off, after he has performed the album from start to finish, he is going to play all the Creedence Clearwater hits for the first time since the band split, in a special 2 hour show featuring multimedia presentations.
It will be a revelation to hear the classic “Swamp Pop” performed again by the main man of Creedence Clearwater Revival, the band that took over from the Beatles as the biggest band in the world.
The Creedence Clearwater Revival hit list includes: Proud Mary + Hey Tonight + Down On The Corner + Long As I Can See The Light + Bad Moon Rising + Have You Ever Seen The Rain + Looking Out My Back Door + Who’ll Stop The Rain + Run Through The Jungle + Lodi + Midnight Special and there’s so many more!