Hi folks,
Dobe here - still in Melbourne with one sleep to go before I head to Nashville for the Americana Music Festival & Conference (www.americanamusic.org)
I'm travelling courtesy of a travel grant from Arts Victoria's Vic Rocks program, and will represent Sounds Australia for the 2 weeks I'm there.
My 'mission' is to further talks which have been going on with the Americana folks for the past 9 months to forge an 'alliance' which will see a significant Aussie presence - artists, writers, business people - in future years.
I've organised lots of meetings and will 'host' Australia's participation in the Festival's first event - an International Reception.
At that reception we'll be featuring performances from noted ex-pat and Nashville guitar whiz Anne McCue - www.annemccue.com and Darwin songwriter Tracey Bunn - www.myspace.com/traceybunnmusic, who's in Nashville to record an album with Anne.
I'll regularly update this, and will be tweeting too - www.twitter.com/dobenewton
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