The mighty Blackwood River that runs through Bridgetown is an impressive force of nature when it floods, and so too are Blackwood Rising in full flight. They’re a happy go lucky blues duo who play a raucous mix of originals and covers which all get slathered in bluesy goodness. Fingerpicked tunes with bottleneck slide, various guitar tunings, an octave pedal, a double snare drum kit and an aversion to too much technology is what gets their mojo workin’.

As well as many standalone gigs up and down the state, Blackwood Rising are proud have supported acts such as 19Twenty, Blue Shaddy, Proud Mary,and Tom Fisher and the Layabouts, Matty T Wall band as well as music industry legends Ross Wilson, The Black Sorrows and Mental as Anything.