Blues for Change 2025

Blues in the Backyard - Presents Blues for Change 2025

Saturday 11 October 2025

Ipswich Knights Football Club 254 Brisbane Road Booval Qld 4304.

Admission $20 + Booking Fee - Doors 6pm Bands from 6.30.

Join us for a great night of World Class Blues while helping those sleeping rough and doing it tough at the moment.

Every ticket, tee shirt and stubby cooler sold helps fund the Emmanuel City Mission and its great work.

Bands:

The Lloyd Spiegel Trio - “A guitarist almost without peer, Spiegel deconstructs how the blues guitar is supposed to operate, makes sweet love to it, then kicks it out the back door”
– Australian Guitar Player Magazine

“Spiegel is ALL presence, authority, rhythm and drive. He epitomizes control, soul and passion with white hot ferocity and blazing instrumental mastery dangerous enough to spark a destructive inferno.”
– The Age, Melbourne

The Sidehustle & Tim Gaze - A rich mix of many blues sub genres - from Tim's catalogue of originals - to the Sidehustle's interpretation of the sounds of Chicago, Memphis and Australian blues. Expect to hear everything from Chain to Jimi Hendrix and R L Burnside - this combination does it all and with style.

Leah Cotterell & The Bad Choices - Queensland's pre-eminent Blues and Jazz singer is joined by the many talented Bad Choices for a night of blues not to be missed.