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Gwyn Ashton

Event Details

Thursday, January 12, 2023
Headline Artist: Gwyn Ashton
Venue: George Lane
1 George Lane
3182 St Kilda , VIC
AU

South Australian Hall of Fame inductee multi instrumentalist Gwyn Ashton is touring Australia with his one-man acoustic folk and electric swamp rockin’ boogie ‘n’ blues guitar show.

The multi award-winning former Virgin Records artist and lead guitarist in Europe with Band of Friends (Rory Gallagher’s band) and in Australia with Stevie Wright (The Easybeats) and Jim Keays (Masters Apprentices) performs all over the world with some of the biggest names in rock and blues and is now bringing his new electrified show to town, promoting his latest album, ‘mojosoul’.

One of the hardest working musicians in Europe, Ashton generates a huge sound onstage, singing and playing guitar, bass and drums at the same time and sounds like a full band. He smashes out a blinding set of National steel bottleneck slide-driven funky blues, electric gutbucket swamp rock and gospel and gets down and sweet on some folky Weissenborn lap slide, 12-string and acoustic guitar.

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In Sydney, Australia in the 80s Gwyn Ashton was one-time lead guitarist for Stevie Wright and Swanee and in the 90s he moved to Melbourne and played on two of The Masters Apprentices Jim Keays' sol