Nicky Bomba is one of Australia's busiest and most highly respected musicians. He has built a solid reputation in the music industry via many projects including writing and performing with his band Bomba, conducting the Melbourne Ska Orchestra, playing drums on John Butler's award- winning "Sunrise over Sea" and "April Uprising" to being the Artistic Producer for the Multicultural Arts Victoria 'Visible' project. He has a discography of over a dozen albums and has been a composer/performer on many more.

Nicky Bomba has jumped on his musical boat again to deliver a party filled island adventure with his new band BUSTAMENTO. A tropical shaking six piece that pays homage to the upbeat rhythms of the Caribbean, covering the Calypso, Mento, Early Reggae and Ska styles. Their album "Intrepid Adventures to the Lost Riddim Islands" has just been nominated for an ARIA AWARD in the category of "2012 Best World Music Album"...

www.nickybomba.com
www.bustamento.com
www.melbourneskaorchestra.com

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BOMBA http://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/bomba/id100496148

The Gentrified Ferals emerged from the fertile swamps of Humpty Doo and in their exuberance frequently cross James Joyce's line of inappropriate art to return with eternity in their hands. They sing their lives from the tender yearnings of innocent hearts to the primal howl of free spirits. Once an introduced species to this ancient land they have evolved a sense of belonging and responsibility that compels them to noble action. Since mid 00’s they have undergone episodes of metamorphism in aesthetic and sound from folk punk to swamp rock as they journeyed through the abyss of the machine to escape from Droidtown. Under the guise of several GF names they spent a decade carrying out raids across the Berrimah line at parties through out the suburbs and into the heart of Droidtown wilfully misinterpreting being banned as being The Band. Deep inside the machine they have gathered insights beyond good and evil and now return with secrets to share and a call to dance the resistance..

Management:
American International Artists, Inc.
Cynthia B. Herbst, President
+1 (518) 686-0972
Cynthia@aiArtists.com

Much like songbird Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux spent her teenage years busking the busy streets of Paris. Just like the ‘little sparrow’, Madeleine befriended the city’s street musicians and made its Latin quarter her first performing stage. Years later, Peyroux would cite iconic Piaf as an influence on her music and record a rendition of the classic La Vie En Rose, soulfully capturing the tune’s romanticism and melancholy.
 
Born in Athens, Georgia in 1974, Madeleine “grew up in a house filled with music” and from an early age “instinctively realised music’s soothing power” but it was her teenage years in the French capital that turned the childhood notion into an all-consuming vocation for life.

Young Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her parents divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”, she recalls, “I was given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately.”

Thirty years after her formative busking days Peyroux is the proud curator of nine beguiling albums and an accomplished performer with sell out worldwide tours under her belt. Her atmospheric version of Serge Gainsborough’s La Javanaise was used in the soundtrack of Oscar Winner The Shape of Water and her countless accolades
include the coveted BBC International Artist Of The Year honour.
 
Madeleine’s thirst for creative exploration is unfading and her willingness to face creative challenges remains as solid now as it was three decades ago.

With endearing passion and great curiosity the unstoppable genre-defying virtuoso continues her search for the good and examines life with the treasured William Congreve belief that Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
 
Madeleine might attribute her success to “mostly luck” but to the industry and loyal fans alike, it is the immense talent and utter dedication to her craft that shines through.
“Peyroux is a tremendous talent and almost a total intuitive” reflects Larry Klein, “she has the capacity to get the magic. When she sings and plays her guitar, great things happen.”

Described by some as a True Artist, but by most as some guy who sings and plays music. Has also been compared favourably to His Bobness, Bob Dylan by a five year old one time.

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