WOMAD

Dan Sultan workshop

19:00 24th July on the Real Ale Bar

Dan Sultan Biography

Hip-shaking indigenous rocker

Ever since the heyday of Perth's Triffids, the geography of Australia has lent its music a similarly widescreen quality. The songs of Melbourne twentysomething Dan Sultan are also inspired by the wide open road, smoothly shifting through the gears from reflective rock'n'roll to turn-it-up-to-11 bluesy boogies. With occasional echoes of Steve Earle and later-period Tony Joe White, Dan's songs that wear the scars of revenge and fading love, while his hip-swaying onstage antics once led a fellow performer - with one eye on his indigenous heritage - to label him 'the black Elvis'. Dan also proudly takes his place in indigenous collective singing about Australia's internal injustices. That's when he's not making the most of his rugged, matinee-idol looks - Dan recently starred alongside Geoffrey Rush in the film version of the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae. The boy's clearly got talent.
(Biography by Nige Tassell 2010)

www.dansultan.com