The Bluegrass Jamboree is returning for its second year at The Bunyip Hotel. With more quick fiddles, banjo plucking and foot stomping, this year is sure to be another sell out event that you don't want to miss!

You'll be treated to the sounds of:

Davidson Brothers at Country Guitar Awards

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."

The Cartwheels

The Cartwheels are golden guitar winners Wendy Phypers and Dave Patterson along with talented multi-instrumentalist Pete Fidler.

The Cartwheels recorded their fifth studio album ‘The Cartwheels’ in 2019. The album was in the finals of the 2020 Music Victoria Awards for Country Album of the year.

The Cartwheels most recently wowed audiences at the Out on the Weekend Festival, The Western Weekender at The Brunswick Ballroom, The Penola

Coonawarra Arts Festival and The Patchewollock Music Festival. The Cartwheels live show features Wendy’s amazing voice, country, bluegrass and Wendy’s original songs. The Cartwheels also played The Mountaingrass Festival in November 2022 and was described by organisers as one of the festival highlights.

The Burning Bridges

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.

Jimmy will have the paella pans going and you'll be treated to a bowl, included in your ticket price.

The bar will be open, drinks will be cold and picnic rugs are welcome.