Your Comprehensive Guide To The Bluesfest Sideshows

10 October 2016 | 3:53 pm | Staff Writer

Everything you need to know and more

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With Bluesfest dishing out one of its best, most eclectic line-ups to date (seriously, it’s huge), the accompanying sideshow rollout was always going to be an epic feat.

With a slew of festival artists locking down headline dates around the country, we thought it time to pull together a one-stop guide to all the action.

The Lumineers 

(Melbourne + Sydney + Perth)

Snarky Puppy 

(Melbourne + Sydney)

roy ayers 

(Melbourne + Sydney)

trombone shorty & orleans avenue 

W/Blind Boy Paxton (SYD ONLY)

(Melbourne + Sydney)

Rhiannon Giddens 

W/The Teskey Brothers (MELB ONLY)

(Melbourne + Sydney)

gregory porter 

(Sydney)

laura mvula 

(Melbourne + Sydney + Brisbane)

gallant 

w/RUEL

(Melbourne + Sydney)

The Record Company 

(Melbourne + Sydney)

Andrew Bird

(Melbourne + Sydney)

Bonnie Raitt

(Melbourne + Sydney + Brisbane + Canberra)

Patti Smith

(Melbourne + Sydney)

Barry Gibb

(Melbourne + Sydney + Brisbane + Adelaide + Perth + Pokolbin)

Booker T

w/caiti baker (Syd only)

(Melbourne + Sydney)

Rickie Lee Jones

(Melbourne + Sydney + Adelaide + Edge Hill)

Jake Shimabukuro

(Melbourne + Sydney + Brisbane + Adelaide)

Joan Osborne

(Melbourne + Sydney)

The Strumbellas

(Melbourne + Sydney)

St Paul & The Broken Bones

(Melbourne + Sydney + Brisbane)

Michael Kiwanuka

(Melbourne + Sydney)

Billy Bragg & Joe Henry

(Melbourne + Sydney + Canberra)

Nikki Hill

(Sydney)

Slightly Stoopid 

(Melbourne + Sydney)

Mud Morganfield

W/Blind Boy Paxton (SYD ONLY)

(Melbourne + Sydney)

Davy Knowles

(Sydney)

Vintage Trouble

(Melbourne, Sydney)

Turin Brakes

(Melbourne, Sydney)

Trevor Hall

(Melbourne, Sydney)

Snarky Puppy

w/The Sticks (SYD ONLY)

(Melbourne, Sydney)

Nahko & Medicine For The People

(National Tour)

Miles Electric Band

(Melbourne, Sydney)

Mary J Blige

w/Liz Cambage (MELB ONLY)

(Melbourne, Sydney)

Corinne Bailey Rae

w/BUOY

(Melbourne, Sydney)

Find more info on Bluesfest 2017 and its accompanying sideshows via theGuide and our dedicated Festivals tab.