blue shaddy
Western Australia ’s Blue Shaddy is a high energy live act who make their audience feel as though they are right there on stage with them. Always festival favourites, Blue Shaddy are renowned for squeezing every last drop of energy into every performance.
Blue Shaddy is a band with genuine chemistry between its members – the fact that half the band is from the same family probably has a lot to do with their musical bond, delivering their music with unpretentious honesty and sheer enjoyment.
The band has been winning over plenty of new fans with their distinctive sound – which features a d efinite slant towards blues and root’s mixed with a swampy, earthy and surf-funk base and an infectious energy level on stage.
Blue Shaddy have consistently performed both nationally and overseas with some highlights being: The West Coast Blues and Roots Festival, 2005/2006/2007. The East Coast Blues and Roots Festival, 2007. Blues on Broadbeach 2007. The Australian Blues Awards 2007. The Bridgetown Blues Festival consecutively for the past 6 years, The UBLUES blues/roots & soul Festival, Singapore 2002 & 2003, The Vintage Blues and Roots Festival, Albany (2005,2006,2007), The Mordialloc Festival Melbourne 2006, The Whale shark Festival, Exmouth 2006.
To date Blue Shaddy have three albums independently released and are receiving national airplay on Triple J.
For singer songwriter and guitarist Jim McClelland, his brother Belly McClelland (harmonica) and Sandra McClelland (bass guitarist and wife of Neil) were born and bred in Western Australia's remote wheat belt with dust and flies and not a lot else to do but focus on their love of music. When you listen to songs such as, 'don’t wanna die here' and 'people talk', you get a strong sense of where these three come from and it becomes evident that their heart still lies in their roots. Now having lived in the city of Perth for some 14 years and meeting band members, Malaysian born Arun Satgunasingam, ( drummer & percussionist) and percussionist ,Sri Lankan born Kanchana Karunaratna, a true rural come urban come world Blues/Roots/Surf/Funk sound is what Blue Shaddy are today.
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