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.
Her bonafide companions on stage add their own elements of the story she tells. Matt Russell on lead guitar, Wayne Rigby on sax and flute, Jed Wesley- Smith on double bass, Peregrin Chiara on drums and Tanya Bethune on trumpet weave their own narratives that support the big picture- sometimes smooth and jazzy, sometimes gritty and raw- taking you to a sobbing heap on the floor and then lifting it up into a foot-stomping, hollering hootennany