Having recommended Amber Saqladi as a must see at Long Road some years ago and then been blown away watching her perform solo in the early morning slot, Buckle & Boots provided the ideal opportunity to catch up with her once more. She would prove to be everything that we had foreseen at Long Road and more, this time playing with a full band and being the one artist across the whole weekend who really pushed the boundaries of Americana, with both sound and content in a totall

The seeds were set by Robyn Red for this performance, closing the Paddock Stage as headliner nearly two years previous. It was mid afternoon then and the tent while not as full and certainly not as cold as it was tonight, bore witness to an emerging talent.

You could pretty much have thrown a dart at any date on the Kezia Gill and Friends tour and landed yourself a highly entertaining evening, such was the quality of the cast on each date, yet one night stood out among all of the others where joining Kezia would be Hannah White and Robert Vincent. This would mean a trio of AMA award winners under one roof and a mixture of performing styles

It would be a packed Water Rats for the return of Nashville royalty in the shape of Kimmie Rhodes, a frequent visitor to the shores for many years.Having first seen Kimmie at The Weavers Arms, off the back of hearing her on the Mary Costello show on GLR, her shows are always a combination of musicality and musicology as she reels off anecdotes name dropping just about anyone and everyone in Nashville mainly because she has met them, written for them or recorded with them over