The Bunyip Bluegrass Jamboree 2023

Davidson Brothers

Hamish and Lachlan Davidson grew up in the rural Victorian town of Yinnar. Raised in a musical family, the brothers began playing music and performing from a young age. With eight albums under their belt, they have built the reputation of being one of Australia's hottest Bluegrass acts and great entertainers with an enormous respect for the traditions of the genre.

With five Australian Country Music Awards (Golden Guitars) to their name and a handful of Australian Bluegrass Championship titles, the Davidson Brothers are favourites at folk and country festivals nation-wide, taking the music they love to a whole new generation of music lovers. Troy Cassar-Daley describes them as being “the best young bluegrass pickers we have seen for a long while in Australia and a very exciting live act.”

They have toured extensively throughout Australia, Europe and America, which includes representing Australia at the IBMA World of Bluegrass in the USA (2004, 2009, 2014, 2018) and headlining at the European World of Bluegrass in The Netherlands.

From making their first formal recording in 1998, to being inducted by the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame into their prestigious Hands of Fame in 2017, the Davidson Brothers have already achieved a lot, but as Hamish says, "We feel like we are just warming up."

An unbelievably talented family band featuring high lonesome harmony singing and a repertoire that reaches back to the bedrock of American country music and includes bluegrass and old time, as well as an expanding catalogue of original songs and tunes with that classic old-school sound.

Performing since 2012, The Burning Bridges appear regularly at national festivals and at venues of distinction across Melbourne and state-wide, and have released two albums to date with another on the way.

The band features Peter Somerville on banjo, dobro, guitar, and fiddle, partner Fran Martin on guitar, and son Tom Somerville on mandolin, guitar and fiddle. Wunderkind Justin Vilchez joins the band on mandolin and guitar, and Maxine Sutcliffe features on double bass.