DEAN OWENS & THE SINNERS (SCO)
Award-winning troubadour Dean Owens and his band will transport you to a sepia stained downtown cantina with songs from his stunning Sinner’s Shrine album (recorded with musicians from Calexico) and brand new 2025 release Spirit Ridge (recorded in Italy). A thrilling mix of genres – a unique blend of Scottish roots and rocky Americana, with added desert noir.
The Sinners make a glorious, brass infused, driving sound with Craig Ross (electric guitar), Philip Cardwell (trumpet) and Adam McMillan (bass), with Dean’s searingly soulful voice upfront. They conjure the magical panoramic sweep of the US desert states, infused with grit and dust from Scotland’s post-industrial heartland. Songs of love and lust, sinners and saints, the displaced, the wanderers and the border ghosts.
A joyous mix of songs, banter and stories from Dean’s 12 album career and a life on the road. Earworm inducing melodies and great songs; the heart of a rock n roller combined with the spellbinding delivery of folk’s best storytellers, with humour and melancholy intertwined.
“More intoxicating than the most treacherous of mezcals…” **** Rolling Stone
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For tens of thousands of years the Pyipgil Gundidj clan has gathered in ceremony on this country. Since 1977 the Port Fairy Folk Festival has been celebrated each year on the land of the Pyipgil Gundidj clans – on Peek Whurrong country. The Port Fairy Folk Festival pays their respects to elders past, present and emerging and acknowledges that the land we gather on each year for the Festival is the traditional lands of the Peek Whurrong people.