Karen Lee Andrews and Juzzie Smith will make their way into Goulburn when the Festival of Small Halls comes to town.
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The 25th edition of the music tour will held to St Saviours Hall in Goulburn on February 16 with the finest of Australia's home-grown talent to twenty community halls in New South Wales.
These icons of community life have been drawn from across the rich and diverse landscapes of New South Wales.
Halls of all shapes and sizes will throw open their doors, from the salty seaside town of Iluka right down to the fragrant gums shading the mighty Murray and back up to the rolling hills of the Northern Rivers, these artists are passing farms and floodlands, waterfalls and weirs, beaches and backcountry on an epic one month tour.
Surrounded by music her entire life, Karen Lee Andrew's career to date has largely revolved around classic soul and rhythm and blues sounds, but in recent years, as her musicality has evolved, she's been leaning more towards blues.
The influence of soul, gospel and Karen's Polynesian background continues to inform what she does, but the blues has come to feel more like home.
"I'm so excited to share this beautiful experience and my music with the wonderful New South Wales Small Halls tour audiences," she said.
"I can't wait to see you."
A true musical virtuoso with a style that is bluesy/folk mixed into a world of its own, Juzzie Smith is a ridiculously talented one-man band, based in Byron Bay.
Juzzie gives performances that are marked by an amazing ability to play guitar, harmonica and percussion at the same time using all of his body.
"Festival of Small Halls tours is the ultimate Australian tour," he said.
"Playing intimate venues in small country towns is going to be an adventure of a lifetime."
Tickets on sale from January 5, 2022 at www.festivalofsmallhalls.com
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