Eddie Tuleja & Andrew McSweeney

Eddie Tuleja is a guitarist/songwriter living in Meander Tasmania. His early influences were American rural bluesmen like Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis and Dave Van Rock. While attending Cornell University he became interested in the Chicago bluesmen - Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters and Otis Rush and of course Robert Johnson while following the great English guitar players of the time like Hendrix, Clapton Jeff Beck Peter Green and Jimmy Page. After Uni he moved to Paris to form the band King Harvest with schoolmates and fellow musicians and recorded the 70s hit “Dancing In The Moonlight” . In the 80s he ran a 73’ schooner with a fellow bandmate and met Diana, an Australian sailor living in the states. They moved to Australia with their son in 1988 and since then he has worked first as a builder then as a guitar tutor in the north of the state. He continues to write, teach and gig and is now completing his third CD of original material. Current influences include The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Little Feat and The Band on the electric side and on the acoustic side, Leo Kottke and the renowned French/Algerian guitarist Pierre Bensusan, whose residential seminar in France he attended in 2005.

Andrew McSweeney is a prolific and powerful songman, songwriter, singer and guitarist, with a loyal and hungry following of listeners, delivering soulful songs from the heart.

'The voice of an angel backed by mesmerising vocal and instrumental arrangements' Vin

The Mountain Song, featuring Dipika Delmenico on vocals, is available now on all platforms. The song was written by Andrew while in northern India on a Nada (sound) Yoga retreat lead by Dipika Delmenico.

"The Nada Yoga retreat in northern India involved a lot of singing, every day, as a form of meditation, including singing the Sanskrit mantra, Om Namah Shivaya, which can be interpreted as meaning 'I sing to the divine, including the divine in me'. I'm not exactly sure what that means but it might have something to do with the bliss I experienced from all the singing. This song came to me over the duration of the retreat while sitting by The Ganges (Ma Ganga) and listening"

Guest artist: Damian Breen, local legend, and master banjo player, Damian will perform a  few classic and original compositions ranging from Little Feat to the Foggy Mountain Band.

Tenchi Farm Dojo, 69 Hamptons Rd, Meander, TAS

2-5pm, Sunday 24th August

Bring a chair, bring a cushion, bring a friend.