Melbourne, Australia based singer/songwriter, guitar fingerpicker and blues harp wailer Dan Dinnen plays soulful, solo-acoustic blues with a feel and style that harks back to the 30’s and 40’s. Dan has played gigs around Australia, and in October 2009 won the prestigious MBAS Blues Performer of the Year award which saw him heading to Memphis, Tennessee to compete in the 2010 International Blues Challenge. He’s supported the likes of Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges (USA), Chris Wilson, and as a side-man on guitar and harmonica has accompanied some of Melbourne’s finest players including blues players Jimi Hocking, Heather Stewart, Jules Boult and Jaimi Faulkner as well as folk-roots singer Kavisha Mazzella.
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2009 highlights include: winning the MBAS Blues Performer of the Year award; playing the famous Blues Train in Queenscliff; appearing on the bill for the Echuca Winter Blues Festival; performing some electric blues gigs as frontman for Bluez Deluxe...
Highlight2008 gigs include: Port Fairy Folk Festival - playing Blues Harp with Kavisha Mazzella at some of her shows - including the Gospel Blues Theme Concert where he had the thrill of playing Blues Harp and singing harmonies with the amazing Ruthie Foster (USA) and Melbourne's own Suzannah Espie whilst headline international bluesmen Guy Davis and Hans Theessink held court.
"You rocked it, man!" - Ruthie Foster
"He's got the heat!" - Kavisha Mazzella
Dan also plays with the Heather Stewart Trio - Heather: Vocals & Fiddle and Danny McKenna: Drums - playing 20s and 30s style Blues. The trio played at the 2008 Broadbeach Blues Festival where they were also the backing band for Jimi Hocking's Blue Mandolin gigs and were invited back to do it all again in May 2009.
