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According to Troy Cassar-Daley, Hamish and Lachlan Davidson are “the best young bluegrass pickers we have seen for a long while in Australia and a very exciting live act”.
Known as the Davidson Brothers they will be appearing in the Red Room at the Ararat Hotel on Wednesday 2nd May from 8pm.
The Davidson Brothers have been building an impressive hoard of awards and accolades.
Five-time Australian Country Music Award winners (2009, 2010, 2012, 2018) and Group of the Year at the 2010 Australian Independent Country Music Awards.
Together, they were recognised as finalists in the Most Outstanding Musicians category of the 2010 Melbourne Prize for Music.
Hamish and Lachlan Davidson grew up in the rural Victorian town on Yinnar. Raised in a musical family, the brothers began playing music and performing from a young age.
With seven albums under their belt, they have built the reputation of being one of Australia's hottest bluegrass acts - multi instrumentalists on banjo, fiddle, mandolin and great entertainers with an enormous respect for the traditions of the genre.
“The Davidson Brothers are talented fellas and awesome guys. I love what they do and I’ve really enjoyed the privilege of working with them. This album is a great one,” Dan Sultan said.
In recent years, the Davidson Brothers have toured extensively throughout Australia and America, which included representing Australia at the IBMA’s World of Bluegrass in the USA in 2004, 2009 and 2014.
They were later invited to present at the 2010 International Bluegrass Awards held at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
In June 2011, the brothers completed their first European tour and performed at the 2011 European World of Bluegrass in the Netherlands.
The brothers have toured with Australian country music veterans such as Joe Camilleri, Troy Cassar-Daley and Lee Kernaghan, and shared the stage with household names like Tommy Emmanuel, Kasey Chambers and Dan Sultan.
They have also performed on many national television programs including ‘Spicks & Specks’ and ‘Good Morning Australia’.
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