Past Event

John Goodall with Tim Marriage and Gea Mala

21st Jan 2010

Presenter: John Goodall
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Event Duration: 150 minutes

John Goodall is a songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist originally hailing from the Canberra blues scene. His roots are steeped in passionate guitar melodies via barefoot tribal life off the grid and on the pulse in the city of music. The bones for these songs given life around many a campfire since arriving in Victoria in 2001.

Having played guitar from a young age he has patiently crafted his own brand of simple home made guitar frequencies including Dolcimer, Slide and Acoustic based arrangments.

With a knack for mirroring humanities challenges through the tales of his own journies, John fuses contemporary and age old social and environmental issues within the framework of his guitar blues tradition. Not unlike the greats of early blues music's needs to have an expression for their hardship John conciously intertwines the personal with the universal.

Live, his songs easily swim from hypnotic emotional ballads to high energy roots grooves, carrying all the passionate ideals and feelings of the late 60's and the essence of earth based conciousness.

Call his messages environmentally concious or just a passionate unique expression John is an artist with much talent and depth.

2009 saw him at festivals such as Folk, Rhythm and Life and Renaissance and in the city - Rainbow Hotel, Evelyn, Brown Couch and more. John and new band are currently rehearsing for an album due out this year.