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Please join us for a Sunday afternoon in Koringberg with the one and only Dave Ferguson. Pack your own picnic, we will provide seating, tables and ice.
LONESOME DAVE FERGUSON is a one-man lo-fi-hi-impact explosion of Trans-Blues & Country-Dub. This solo show uses only harmonica, human beat-box and vocals, recording live loops and then layering and building those loops to construct a song… Although it's a solo act it's not your typical singer-song-whiner type show, expect more in your face dance-style grooves served up in a Deep-South style.
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"LONESOME DAVE, A ONE-MAN-MUSIC-MAVERICK THAT SENDS YOU INTO A TIMEWARP OF WARM, DEEP SOUTHERN SOUL, BLUES & COUNTRY SOUNDS, MIXED UP WITH A GOOD MEASURE OF FOOTSTOMPING DUB FUNK AND DANCESTYLE GROOVES. RAW, RETRO-FUTURISTIC GENIUS…" – Heartbeat magazine
"DAVE FERGUSON IS KNOWN FOR HAVING LEARNT THE HARMONICA ON ANOTHER PLANET." – Mahala.co.za, Jannike Bergh
"THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN DAVE FERGUSON PLAY LIVE, SPEAK WITH AWE IN HUSHED, YET ANIMATED TONES OF ADMIRATION. IT'S A STYLE THAT'S TARANTINOESQUE IN IT'S COMPLEX SIMPLICITY... – My Music Matrix
Harmonica player Dave Ferguson has been playing extensively in and around Cape Town and beyond since the early 90s as well as a 12 year stint abroad in the UK, Nashville, Memphis, Australia amongst others, inclulding colaborations with UK Alt. Country fore-runners The Arlenes, Emily Barker, Sophia, John Townes Van Zandt, Bob Margolin (Muddy Waters), Michelle Shocked, Candye Kane, Mickey Harte, Lucky Oceans (Asleep at the Wheel, The Zydecats), Dave Clarke (Blues of Cain, , Joan Armatrading & Chaka Kahn) and Winston Delandro (Guitarist for Bob Marley and the Wailers 1965-1972 currently with Ub40) Brian Robertson (Thin Lizzy), Ian Siegal, Jimmy Dludlu, Prime Circle, Taxi Violence, Bed on bricks, A-King, Red Earth and Rust, Valiant Swart.
Career highlights include a prime slot at Balla Coi Cinghialli (Italy) and opening the Main Stage at The Rollright Fayre (UK) and appearances at most of the major South African Rock & Blues Festivals (Oppikoppi, Splashy Fen, Up The Creek, Rocking The Daisies, The Table Mountain Blues Summit, Voodoo Lounge Blues Fest, Big Blues and even the two main Trance festivals: Earthdance and Rezonance). Ferguson also opened for The Lemonhead's Evan Dando, Gemma Ray, Candye Kane (US Blues Singer of The Year 2008) & played with Michelle Shocked and also performed a private performance at the request of the Counting Crows while they were on tour.
Dave has an endorsement with Seydel Harmonicas as well as Fender.