‘Lily and the Drum’ will be appearing at Merimbula RSL Club on Monday, January 9 17 to promote their new album “Buried in Blue”.
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The South Australian based duo is a contemporary blues, roots, rock and soul outfit featuring vocalist, guitarist Lily Higgins and John Yacka on percussion, harmonica and backing vocals.
When Lily Higgins and John Yacka decided to leave the safety net of a full band and embark on the duo project they had no idea how much their path in life was about to change.
Five years ago they performed six songs at a singer songwriter’s night in Adelaide unsure of how the audience would react to their songs and stripped back approach.
Now with over 500 performances behind them, three Top 25 albums in National charts, four in the Top 10 on local Adelaide charts and 159,000kms travelled through four states they concede they are travelling musical troubadours and “loving it”.
In 2012 they released their debut album “Nobody Just Like Me” and in 2014 they released their next full length CD “Welcome Change”. They have recently released their third album “Buried in Blue”.
“We started this album last year but had so many gigs booked all over the country we just couldn’t make any decent progress on the album. In the end we had to refuse gigs and focus on recording and completing the album”.
We are happy with the result and have already had fantastic support again from Radio Stations all over the country.
“We were quite excited to be informed that the album “Buried in Blue” has recently charted at No.16 on the Top 25 National Most Played Albums Australian Roots and Blues Airplay Chart”.
Their live shows have been described as “honest, raw and energetic” and “a guitar and drum duo with an exciting rich melodic sound”.
A strong commitment to touring with live performances at numerous festivals across Australia, opening for high profile artists such as The Black Sorrows, Mental As Anything, countless smaller shows across the country along with fantastic radio support for their music has netted the duo a strong following and solid reputation.
They promise a “musical journey” straddling the genres of blues, roots, rock and soul and will also perform some great tunes by their favourite artists too.
See Lily and the Drum at the Merimbula RSL Club, Monday January 9, 7.30-11.30pm.