The third and last of the Women in Blues, Jazz and Roots series for Hotel Gosford’s First Saturday Blues Nights will feature one of the foremost tirelessly touring folk blues marriages in the country.
Former Coastie, Trudy Edgeley, will bring her powerful songs of ‘blackbirding’ in Far North Queensland to First Saturday Blues on September 3, and she’ll be joined by the slide brilliance and lyrical honesty of her partner, Phil Edgeley. Trudy and Phil are great friends and supporters of BluesAngels, so this may be a night of interesting cross-pollination and song hiving. Their new album, ‘One Plus One Equals Three’, was so named after repeated comments from audiences that they couldn’t believe so much sound could come from just two people. The album features strikingly original material and their shows are drenched in power and dynamics, soul and sensitivity. Arriving back in Australia on August 25 from their fourth tour of Big Sky Country in the USA, the Hotel Gosford show is bound to bring it all back home.
Legendary singersongwriter, roots musicologist, Mark Lucas, in his review of Trudy and Phil, described their music as ranging “…from dust-blown work songs to gospel-tinged country blues…universal experience at the same time deeply rooted in their own cultural understanding…”. It will be a night of songs to remember with BluesAngels’ songster, harmonica wiz Tom Flood’s equally eclectic blues compendium rubbing shoulders with Phil’s British Delta blues and Trudy’s Islander stories as they cook up a mess of musical fl avours, laced with camaraderie and irony, in the ever-pleasant buzz of old Coast friends, good food and swift service that characterises the wonderful and free institution, Hotel Gosford First Saturdays Blues, Jazz and Roots.
Media release, Aug 23, 2016 Tom Flood, First Saturday Blues, Jazz and Roots