KICK OFF: CW (Cooper) Ayon and CR (Charley) Humphrey from Old Gray Mule shared their Mississippi blues sounds with Whitfield Primary students on Thursday and Friday open the Wangaratta jazz festival. Picture: MARK JESSER
WITH nearly the entire program indoors, this year’s 26th Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues is tipped to be the biggest yet.
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About 300 artists will perform over the four-day festival, which opens with Canned Heat, Old Gray Mule and Joe Camilleri and the Black Sorrows in the Blues Marquee.
Other opening night performances will be at Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre and Pinsent Hotel.
“There’s real variety, from Russell Morris to Joe Camilleri, Ash Grunwald, the headliners Dave Douglas from the US, and Canned Heat,” festival chairman Paul Squires said. “There’s no doubt this is the best line-up we’ve had.”
Limited tickets are still available at wangarattajazz.com for most venues.
