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Gwyn Ashton
Gwyn Ashton (UK/AU) in Bellingen, NSW AU
Federal Hotel
77 Hyde St
Feb 14, 2025
7:30 PM GMT+11
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About this concert
UK-based Aussie slide guitar maestro Gwyn Ashton comes slamming back home downunder for a series of electric one-man band and solo acoustic concerts to promote his latest album Mojosoul, plus a rock single titled "Get Outta Town", collaborating with guest guitarist Richard Fortus from Guns N Roses.
With seven guitars, a drum kit, bass rig, harmonicas, a kickass stage show and Mojosoul recently on the Australian Roots & Blues charts, Gwyn Ashton’s one-man band extravaganza is touring Australia right now, after smashing stages across Europe with the likes of Status Quo, Wishbone Ash, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, Tony Joe White and many more!
One of the most powerful and dynamic one-man bands on the global circuit, he’s toured 30 countries and performs at festivals and venues worldwide.
"South Australia's greatest ambassador for blues-rock" Billboard.com
"Some of the best moments of his (Ashton's) career. 8/10" - Classic Rock Magazine (UK)
"Ashton is right at home with this emotive, moving and bare-bones release. 8/10"
- Power Play Rock and Metal (UK)
"a record that showcases the various aspects of Ashton's music, developed over decades of traveling the blues highway".
- Blues Blast Magazine (USA)
"Gwyn Ashton offers us a beautiful journey to the heart of roots music".
- Soul Bag Magazine (France)
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Pavel
July 19th 2024
I don't usually listen to the music Mr. Gwyn Ashton creates. Nevertheless I was delighted how energetic the show was, the rande of sounds of his guitars and musical skills. His violin player/partner Jitka is a deep personality not only as a musician. It's so refreshing to talk to such a bright personality who really listen to you, who can sincerely share her thoughts.
It was a great show and I'm going to see them again in the future.
Město Brno, Czechia@Elementary school MV
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Gwyn Ashton Biography
Toting a hot new album and smashing stages worldwide, Aussie axeman Gwyn Ashton has reinvented himself as a one-man progressive alt. blues band and is now on his current Solo Elektro tour.
In two hours Ashton takes us on an eclectic mesmerising musical journey from acoustic roots, blues and world music to a set of electric hard-edged rockin’ blues, 60s-style fuzz garage rock and Brit-voiced psychedelia on an array of instruments, including a 1930s National steel guitar, Weissenborn lap slide and his custom-made Italian Liutart signature model guitar.
With no backing tracks or setlist Ashton spontaneously draws his set mostly from eight released studio albums. His lyrical songwriting and musical dexterity on resonator and lap slide guitars mixed with frenetic electric slide, heavy bass lines, hardcore kick drum beats and lo-fi microphone vocals makes him one of the most unique contemporary artists on the scene today.
He’s been ranked at number 3 in Guitar Part magazine’s Guitarist of The Year after Jeff Beck and Gary Moore and praised by the likes of Robert Plant, Johnny Winter and Deep Purple’s Don Airey, who has played on two of Ashton’s albums. Hubert Sumlin, Canned Heat, Walter Trout and Mick Fleetwood have all invited him to play with them onstage.
He’s opened for BB King, Status Quo, Mick Taylor, Buddy Guy, Rory Gallagher, Ray Charles, Junior Wells and many others and appears at festivals and clubs in the UK, Brazil, Malta, Australia and all over Europe.
Ashton has recorded with: Kim Wilson, Robbie Blunt, Chris Glen, Ted McKenna, Don Airey (Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Rainbow) and Gerry McAvoy & Brendan O’Neill (Rory Gallagher). Ashton replaced Thin Lizzy/Motörhead guitarist Brian Robertson fronting Band of Friends - a celebration of the music of Rory Gallagher, featuring his former band members Gerry, Brendan, Lou Martin and Mark Feltham. He has also opened for Peter Green, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, Jeff Healey, The Yardbirds, Magnum, Ten Years After, Dr Feelgood and many others.
Read MoreIn two hours Ashton takes us on an eclectic mesmerising musical journey from acoustic roots, blues and world music to a set of electric hard-edged rockin’ blues, 60s-style fuzz garage rock and Brit-voiced psychedelia on an array of instruments, including a 1930s National steel guitar, Weissenborn lap slide and his custom-made Italian Liutart signature model guitar.
With no backing tracks or setlist Ashton spontaneously draws his set mostly from eight released studio albums. His lyrical songwriting and musical dexterity on resonator and lap slide guitars mixed with frenetic electric slide, heavy bass lines, hardcore kick drum beats and lo-fi microphone vocals makes him one of the most unique contemporary artists on the scene today.
He’s been ranked at number 3 in Guitar Part magazine’s Guitarist of The Year after Jeff Beck and Gary Moore and praised by the likes of Robert Plant, Johnny Winter and Deep Purple’s Don Airey, who has played on two of Ashton’s albums. Hubert Sumlin, Canned Heat, Walter Trout and Mick Fleetwood have all invited him to play with them onstage.
He’s opened for BB King, Status Quo, Mick Taylor, Buddy Guy, Rory Gallagher, Ray Charles, Junior Wells and many others and appears at festivals and clubs in the UK, Brazil, Malta, Australia and all over Europe.
Ashton has recorded with: Kim Wilson, Robbie Blunt, Chris Glen, Ted McKenna, Don Airey (Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Rainbow) and Gerry McAvoy & Brendan O’Neill (Rory Gallagher). Ashton replaced Thin Lizzy/Motörhead guitarist Brian Robertson fronting Band of Friends - a celebration of the music of Rory Gallagher, featuring his former band members Gerry, Brendan, Lou Martin and Mark Feltham. He has also opened for Peter Green, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, Jeff Healey, The Yardbirds, Magnum, Ten Years After, Dr Feelgood and many others.
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