5 of the Best Soul Artist's seen at BluesFest 2016

Blues Fest 2016, a festival that has survived the up's and down's of Australian music festival history for 27 years, struck at the heart of Soul music fans with this year's epic line-up, handpicked by festival director, Peter Noble. These were our top 5 favourites...

There’s a new movement of Soul music sweeping across Australia and the rest of the world is listening.

From the Neo-Soul movement to the Jazz-Funk bands coming out of Australian cities and regional areas alike, Australia has got Soul.

In the wake of the recent cancellation of Soulfest, and the many disappointed fans that were left with no soul place to go, we thought we’d put together a list of some of the talent coming from our own shores.

Soulfest 2015 have cancelled!

Soulfest promoter's announced today that the 2015 Soulfest will be cancelled due to poor ticket sales, This announcement comes only 2 weeks before the vent, and the punters aren't happy!

2014 NCEIA Dolphin Award Winners

We attended the 25th NCEIA Dolphin Awards Last night, and their were some fantastic Australian Artists in the line up. On the judges panel were:

• Kirk Pengilly (INXS)
• Paul Pilsneniks (studios 301)
• Mark Gable (Choirboys)
• Alex Smith (Moving Pictures)
• Ciaran Gribbin (INXS)
• Marcus Schintler (Weddings Parties Anything)
• Anita Colenbrander (Bluesfest BuskingCompetition)
• Murray Burnes (Mi-Sex)

Noteworthy were the winners of Urban/Hip-Hop/Funk and Jazz categories Teddy Lewis King and Kellie Knight and the Daze

This years ARIA awards, at the STAR, saw Chet Faker and Sia take out multiple awards, including "Album of the year" Sia and "Best Male Artist" Chet Faker.

SONG OF THE YEAR: 5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect

Album Of The Year

Sia — 1000 Forms of Fear – WINNER

Aria nominations are out!

It's a Jessica Mauboy and Chet Faker kinda year at the Aria Awards - but what's the Urban/Soul/funk category doing?

Well strictly, there is no category for Soul or Funk music in the Australian Recording Industry Associations list! Here are our Australian best for the category "Urban"

Due to technical issues the soulfest organisers have pulled all the Australian Artists from the line up today.  Here is a list of the Australian Artists that were too play today.... get behind them, like their pages, comment on their timeslines and let them know that Aussies want to hear Australian content!

Watch the Australian artists your mssing out on in the video's in this article

Best Soul, Funk, R'n'B and Gospel Album nominees announced yesterday for Victoria Genre Awards

According to the Age the below artists albums are the top 5 artists in the Australian Soul, Funk, RnB and Gospel category

SBTRKT is coming to Australia for a couple of tour dates. SBTRKT is Aaron Jerome, a producer based in London, who performs behind a mask everytime he plays. The name of his project was created without vowels and the intention was to remain anonymous and not be associated with any one person.

I|E|G in association with Channel [V] and MAX are thrilled to announce Soulfest, Australia’s first ever Neo-Soul, Jazz and Hip-Hop Festival.  This unique Music and Cultural Festival is a celebration of some of the world’s finest contemporary Neo-Soul, Jazz and Hip-Hop Artists across two stages in the serene settings of Victoria Park in Sydney, Yarra Park in Melbourne, and Riverstage in Brisbane.