Ray Elias
Acoustic/Folk/Easy Listening Solo
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Ray Elias has been involved in the music industry for over 30 years, having played in several bands on the Sunshine Coast, solo in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Cairns and for 10 years, in the popular duo: Meridian.
Ray's guitar work combines strong upbeat rythmns, fingerpicking and combined techniques of rythmn and melody. Original songs in folk roots style and plays a wide variety of songs from country, blues, jazz, reggae to pop.
2020 Release of retrospective songs : Coming Home
If you've listened and would like to purchase a CD $15.00 or USB with songs, film 1 film clips and studio-musicians photos $15.00 plus mail cost. Please email me a request. Thanks.
Friends I have been well supported by a host of fine musicians and others and please check out the lineup by playing the tracks in Soundcloud and noting the artists involved if interested in the musicians from Cairns, mainly, involved.
Special thanks to Paul Hack Harris, Jimmy Mann (RIP), Kirk Steele, Chris McKelvie, Andrea Baudet, Nikki Doll, Simone Elias and many others; plus Damian Codotto (Purple Sound Studio), Colyn Hube (Lovegreen Photography)
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| Set list |
Wide Set List suited to restaurants, clubs and bars.
Classics, Country, Pop, Reggae, Contemporary. |
| Influences |
The Beatles, America, Crosby Stills, Nash & Young, Steely Dan, Crowded House, Oasis, Snow Patrol, Harry Manx, John Mayer & Pete Murray.
Also love the songs of Missy Higgins, Brooke Fraser and locally grown artists: Simone Elias, Emma Louise & Sian Evans. |
| Gig Highlights |
Yungaburra Folk Festival and Woodford festival stand out.
Enjoy restaurant work and enjoy concert settings at Tanks Arts Centre & Civic Theatre. |
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