Australia's Bluesfest adds Hozier, The Waterboys, & more

Bluesfest 2015

Thursday 2nd to Monday 6th April 2015
Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia MAP
$645 plus booking fees for five day ticket

Daily capacity: 20,000

Hozier, The Waterboys, Switchfoot, Hunter Hayes, Fly My Pretties, Super Chikan and Vasti Jackson, Diesel, Jeff Lang, Phil Wiggins & Dom Turner, Watussi, Nikki Hil, and The Rumjacks have been added to the line-up for the 26th Bluesfest - The International East Coast Blues and Roots Festival which returns to Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, near Byron Bay, Australia over the Easter weekend from Thursday 2nd until Monday 6th April 2015.

They join Lenny Kravitz, The Black Keys, Zac Brown Band, Alabama Shakes, Train, Michael Franti & Spearhead,Counting Crows, Gary Clark Jr., Angelique Kidjo, Jimmy Cliff, Mavis Staples, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Paul Kelly, Presents The Merri Soul Sessions feat. Dan Sultan, Kira Puru, & Vika And Linda Bull, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Paolo Nutini, David Gray, Ben Howard, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Augie March, Donavon Frankenreiter, Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Justin Townes Earle, Diesel n’Dub, Ash Grunwald, Blue King Brown, The Beautiful Girls, Steve Smyth, Karl S. Williams, Dispatch, Ruthie Foster, The Beat, Keziah Jones, Sheppard, Playing For Change, Xavier Rudd and The United Nations, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Rebelution, Soja, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Beth Hart, Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls, Mariachi El Bronx, G.Love & Special Sauce, Pokey Lafarge, Band Of Skulls, and Rockwiz, with more to be announced.

For the line-up details as available please click here.

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Early bird tickets are priced at $595 plus booking fee for a full five day ticket. All Kids under the age of 5 are free. Children between the age of 5 and 14 inclusive have to be in the supervision of a Responsible adult.

Bluesfest offers all kinds of blues music, world music, roots music, and a hybrid of those and other cultural styles under one umbrella - Blues & Roots Music. Bluesfest has continued to evolve incorporating surf culture, Latino Music, African Music, as well as political and environmental message artists.

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