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Subscriber only I feel like we will all be eight-year-olds at a birthday party and we ve just eaten 50 red snakes. Hayley Marsten is ready to rock a festival crowd when she hits the stage at Agnes Water this month for the Agnes Blues, Roots and Rock Festival. After what was a quiet year for artists everywhere thanks to COVID-19, the Gladstone born and raised musician said she was pumped to be performing again. Honestly I m pumped to be performing in front of literally any person other than my boyfriend and computer screen, Ms Marsten said. I think every single musician is going to be jumping out of their skin they ll be able to play a real gig again.
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Subscriber only Award-winning country singer-songwriter Fanny Lumsden is bringing her fallow Album Tour to Central Queensland next month. Fanny s album fallow was released on March 13, 2020, the day everything came to a standstill with COVID. Despite a challenging, bumpy start to the album, the musician celebrated a number of huge career moments with fallow wining Best Country Album at the 2020 ARIA Awards and Fanny being nominated for seven CMAA Golden Guitar Awards in 2020, as well as an appearance on Playschool and the release of a documentary titled Mountain Mama Take Me Home: Fallow & The Tooma Valley . Fanny, who lives in Tooma, New South Wales, described fallow as coming under the broader country banner but with more of a folk sound.
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Subscriber only Fan favourite Ben Brady will return to the main stage for Agnes Blues, Roots and Rock Festival 2021. No stranger to performing, Ben lives for busking and performing anywhere from stages to streets across Australia. As a solo performer, Ben uses emotion to bring his audiences on a journey through every note and screaming riffs. Ben believes music is not art, but a drug that everyone needs in order to live. He combines his heavy slide guitar, harmonica and foot stomping into a melodic, soft-spoken folk performance. Ben will join 8 Ball Aitken, Hayley Marsten, Kate Mahood, Gypsy Rumble, and Hat Fitz & Cara who will all play at the Marquee Stage.