About
The Bald Brothers is a musical duo for hire in Byron Bay, NSW.
Dan Reade on piano accordion, Matcham Caine on guitar and vocals. Together they're The Bald Brothers, a blues and roots duo out of the Byron shire, and both are known around the northern rivers as players and teachers. Dan helped start Out of Range, which mixes swing, gypsy, reggae, cabaret and boogie-woogie. Matcham leads a vintage blues outfit called The Caine Cutters Blues Band. What you get from the two of them is songs that have lasted, drawn from across the last hundred years or so, with You Are My Sunshine, Ring of Fire, Summertime and Dirty Old Town all in the mix. They carry their own gear. Just point them at a power outlet.
The show
Guitar, vocals and piano accordion, and songs with a hundred years of road behind them. Dan and Matcham reach back to the early twentieth century and forward to the early twenty first, and the pull of it is the groove more than the volume. You Are My Sunshine, Ring of Fire, Summertime and Dirty Old Town are the sort of thing that comes up. Blues and roots out of the Byron shire.
On the day
Every piece of gear arrives with the duo, so the venue side of this is about as light as it gets. Point them at a working power outlet and they will handle the rest.
Song list
You Are My Sunshine
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Summertime
Call Me the Breeze
Dirty Old Town
Get Along Home Cindy
