Bec and the Big River Trio will perform for thousands of people at the Deni Ute Muster this weekend, continuing what has become a big breakout year for the south-west band.
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The band has been a regular at the Kirkstall Hotel but is this year reaching a far wider audience.
It is fronted by vocalist and rhythm guitarist Rebecca Beard, of Warrong, and backed by the trio of Dan Rondeau, of Caramut, on double bass with Phil Jones, of Koroit, on lead guitar and Raff Marino, of Warrnambool, on drums.
The band plays country, with a bit of rockabilly, and will perform this afternoon after the festival’s attempt at a world record for getting together the most people wearing a blue singlet.
Other artists performing at Deniliquin are Kasey Chambers, The Sunny Cowgirls, Troy Cassar-Daley, Adam Harvey, Spiderbait and American star Gary Allan.
Rondeau said 2014 had been a big year for the band with its win through to the national finals of the ABC Exhumed competition last year giving it the national exposure to be booked for a number of music festivals.
The ABC Exhumed competition sought to reveal the talents of “the best bands you have never heard of”.
Bec and the Big River Trio won a south-west round of the competition to progress through to a national battle of the bands in Sydney.
Following its Exhumed success, the band played this year at the Tamworth country music festival and the Launch It festival at Surfers Paradise. The band will perform next month at the Deep South Blues Festival in Adelaide.
Rondeau said the band had been playing together for about three years.
Beard is a relative newcomer to performing professionally but the other three band members have decades of experience in performing in bands.
Rondeau said the band hoped to eventually add the Port Fairy Folk Festival to its list of appearances.
