"I acknowledge that we are here today on the land of the Aboriginal people. The Aborigines are the traditional owners of this land and are part of the oldest surviving continuous culture in the world."
Richard Perso: 11-string and 6-string acoustic guitar Weissenborn guitar Resophonic guitar
WoodSkin Stompbox Yidaki (Didgeridoo)
Vocals
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Newton Faulkner, The John Butler Trio, Dallas Frasca, Ash Grunwald, Jeff Lang, Xavier Rudd, The Ellis Collective, Chris Smither, Juzzie Smith, Jet, Wolfmother, AC/DC, Led Zep, The Doobie Brothers and LOADS more....
Richard Perso, an Australian singer/songwriter from Yackandandah in North-East Victoria is a multi-instrumentalist who single-handedly redefines the phrase “one-man band.” Sitting on a stomp box with a drum pedal under his left foot and a tambourine under his right, Perso strums on one of his many guitars and sings in his low-range bluesy voice into one of his two vocal microphones. All of Perso’s guitars have two pick-ups, one of which runs directly into an effects pedal that Perso controls with his feet when he is not busy controlling the drum pedal or tambourine. All of Perso’s music is created live on stage without any backing tracks and on top of all this intense musical action, his trademark is adding in some notes played on one of his three didgeridoos.
Quickly becoming one of the most popular musical acts at many recent festivals and performances in Australia, Perso has found himself outranking many of the headline performers. Recently at the Mt. Beauty Music Festival, the singer/songwriter was ranked by festival-goers in the top three acts, even outscoring Collard Greens and Gravy, one of Australia’s hottest blues trios.
Ever since Perso has shared the stage with some of Australia’s best blues artists such as Phil Manning, Collard Greens and Gravy, Geoff Achison, Kim Churchill and Lisa Miller as well as sharing line-ups with Jeff Lang, Bob Brozman and Blue King Brown, many blues followers predict the rising star will be the future of blues and folk music. Skip Landy in his promotion for Devonshire Blues said, “Richard Perso is an exceptional guitarist; he is a name who is surely going to become well known. Jeff Lang and John Butler should be looking over their shoulders now because the next generation is here.”
In December 2008, Perso was invited to perform at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival Rolling Stone Live event as one of the four hottest up-and-coming guitarists/performers. The event, hosted by Rolling Stone Magazine and Gibson Guitars featured world-class rock, roots and classical guitar acts, so as an up and coming musician, playing in the show was an extremely high honor.
Perso continues to win awards for his vocal and instrumental talents all across Australia. At the National Folk Festival during Easter 2009, he was awarded the Lis Johnston Memorial Award for Vocal Excellence and in 2008 at the Wagga Wagga Jazz and Blues Festival, he was awarded the Best Young Blues Performer Award.
To his followers, it’s amazing that all this talent came from a beaten up old guitar that a lady from church gave to him when he was just 13 years old. Ever since that moment, Perso mainly self-taught and established himself as an avid busker, first starting busking to earn money for a new electric guitar. It wasn’t until later when Perso saw a young performer at the Yackandandah Folk Festival that he discovered the 12 string slide so often heard in his current musical tracks.
Soon after he discovered the slide and open tuning, he added several other instruments and effects. Pretty soon, there was no stopping the performer’s ambition and talent. He quickly added a stomp box, tambourine and in 2008, then finally added his signature didgeridoo to his performances.
Now, Perso is constantly working to perfect his own personal style, a style that has earned him such rave reviews as “Amazing vocals and sensational guitar” and, simply, “he gives me goose bumps.”
FESTIVALS
Music at The Creek Folk Festival 2009
Maldon Folk Festival 2009
Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival 2009
Ostara Festival 2009
Wagga Wagga Jazz & Blues Festival (Winner of Best Young Blues Performance) 2009
Mt. Beauty Music Festival 2009
National Folk Festival 2009 (Winner Lis Johnston Memorial Award)
Yackandandah Folk Festival 2009
Wodonga Carnival 2009
Maitreya 2009
Corinbank 2009
Tumba Fest 2009
Bruthen Blues Festival 2009
Federation Festival 2009
Folk Rhythm & Life 2008
Adelaide International Guitar Festival - Rolling Stone Live 2008
Music at The Creek Festival 2008
Bidgee Blues Festival 2008
Uranquinty Folk Festival 2008
Wagga Jazz And Blues Festival 2008 (Best Young Performer Award)
Richard! Thanks so very much for your gracious invitation and a very good afternoon to you in beautiful Aussieland! You have wonderful music on your page and you have great music influences as well. Have a wonderful weekend, Wishing you and yours a Very Happy, Healthy, and Safe Thanksgiving, many well wishes, blessings, and inspiration to you, and much continued success to you. All best! Arlene :D http://www.myspace.com/arleneweiss http://blog.myspace.com/arleneweiss
Hey Richard Was great to see you playing at Major's! I'm feeling like a bit of a tight arse for only giving you 8 bucks for that CD cos it's sounding awesome, especially turned up on the surround sound in my room :) My whole family get to hear your music whether they like it or not! Hope you're having fun in NY - Annie
Can I come to Woodford? I'm not allowed to go to Peats ridge anymore :( So decided i'm coming with you to Woodford because it will be amazing. I also decided that you have no say in the matter... I am coming :)
hey man. i was going to give you a call but your on line anyway. just goog luck in the states man. dont forget the little people!! nah serious though man, best wishes to ya. bless dog.
ps. give us a call when you get back im dieing for a another jam.
Hi!! I thought for a sec that I was gonna miss seeing you play again cause we are at the same time on Sunday at the Creek, but luckily I am MCing the Saturday night show and you are playing at that! Are you looking forward to it? I am! My caravan is arriving on Thursday!! Seeya soon. Rebecca
Do you remember me at all? Back from our little yack primary days?? Haha, I was on Kim Churchill's myspace because I met him in bris a while back when I saw Dallas Frasca play and I saw you were tagged in a pic with him, it was crazy! Hannah has been telling me so much about your music. I never thought you'd get into this so heavily. It's fantastic, you have done so so well. Congrats :) How's life been for the past like 9 years ? haha xx Jaz
Hi! The funny thing is I didnt even hear the horn!!!! I wasnt even sure if you knew you guys had past me! You must have been going pretty fast Perso. How was that wind farm??? Did you see it?? When I went past it the sun was setting and they were all bright orange and turning slowly in the wind and it looked SOOOO awesome! Played at Numurkah last weekend it was awesome. The sound guys were brilliant. Cant wait for the Creek its gonna be so much fun! I saw that Kim is playing... will be good to meet him. Catch ya soon....
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