Bluesfest Adds Hozier, Waterboys

HozierThe Waterboys and Switchfoot are the latest additions to Bluesfest, April 2-6 at its Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm outside Byron Bay.

Photo: John Davisson
Lollapalooza, Grant Park, Chicago, Ill.

Other international names were Hunter Hayes, New Zealand’s Fly My Pretties, a team-up of U.S. harmonica virtuoso Phil Wiggins and Australian blues guitarist Dom Turner, North Carolina’s Nikki Hill and a team-up by Mississippi’s Super Chikan and Vasti Jackson.

Aussie additions were blues guitarists Diesel and Jeff Lang, Sydney Celtic-punks The Rumjacks, and Latin-themed Watussi playing its final show.