
Here is a unique sort of soulful and sassy package of blues and roots:
Open it! Bonnie Kay, a contemporary American singer/songwriter from Philly who landed in Australia via Tokyo, uses acoustic, finger-picking, slide-guitar techniques, plus a voice reminiscent of blues icon Bonnie
Raitt's, to deliver her own red-hot, sexy sound.

Bonnie’s voice and guitar speak evocatively to the archetypal medley of emotions springing from the trauma of love relationships between humans: yearning, angst, passion, lust and yes.. everyone’s favourite- depression. With two failed marriages (and all the bits before, after
and in between) behind her, she conjures up situations for her audience to experience right along with her: the good, the bad and the ugly, with slightly less emphasis on the good, or it just wouldn’t be the blues. To formulate 
her traditional yet modern approach to the blues,  she draws on not just her own past experiences, but those of countless sisters and friends in life and
literature.

Her Bonafide companions? Add Wayne Rigby on saxophone and flute, Jed Wesley -Smith on double bass, Peregrin Chiara on drums and Tanya Bethune on trumpet and you’ve got additional elements of jazz, soul and funk- with indescribable element of texture and colour-sometimes smooth and jazzy, sometimes gritty and raw- taking the dance to a sobbing heap on the floor and then lifting it up into a foot-stomping, hollering hootenanny . It’s a Bonafide Band with a capital B. That, there, is the triple truth, Ruth! 


Whiskey Empire is a Sydney blues band fronted by Leslea Clements and Shannon Carswell. These women are truly amazing vocalists.

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