Gwyn Ashton live at the Tumut River Brewing Co.

For the past 25 years, Ashton has been playing hundreds of clubs and blues, rock and jazz festivals across Europe. As one of Australia's hardest working musicians, Gwyn Ashton takes his audience on a mesmerising musical journey from lap slide instrumentals and acoustic ballads to steel guitar bottleneck slide-driven blues and beyond. His shows are musical, funny, entertaining and highly irreverent, enhanced with stories and songs of tales from a road well-travelled. Ashton's exemplary song craft is complemented by his fretboard wizardry and an armoury of acoustic and weird old electric guitars. He uses foot drums and a custom-made pedalboard of effects from fuzz, tape echo and an organ pedal, and loops them to create a sonic soundscape to enhance his breathtaking performance. Ashton has been described as 'the king of feel' by Robert Plant, 'a true blues player' by Johnny Winter, and 'one of the most versatile artists' by Deep Ellum Blues Club. Formerly with Virgin Records, Gwyn Ashton was once lead guitarist in Europe with Band of Friends (Rory Gallagher's band) and in Australia with Stevie Wright (The Easybeats) and Jim Keays (Masters Apprentices). Ashton has shared stages with Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Winter, Junior Wells, Rory Gallagher, BB King, Buddy Guy, Mick Taylor, Status Quo, The Yardbirds, Slade, The Troggs and many more!