Perth Folk and Roots Club with Kerry B Ryan & The Illegals

Perth Folk and Roots Club is back at the Inglewood Bowling and Sports Club on Sunday 25th July 2021 with the support of the Inglewood Bowling and Sports Club and City of Stirling. The performances are from 5pm to 8pm at the Inglewood Bowling and Sports Club, 1 Stancliffe Street, Mount Lawley. For this event, Perth Folk and Roots Club has Kerry B Ryan and The Illegals.

‘Perth Folk and Roots Club welcomes back Kerry B Ryan and hills band The Illegals to perform at Perth Folk and Roots Club‘, said Keith Anthonisz, President of the Perth Folk and Roots Club.

Kerry B Ryan is a blues guitarist, born in North Queensland and now living in the hills outside Perth WA. Kerry first picked up a guitar at age 13, performing his original blues songs as well as covers inspired by Freddie King, Jimi Hendrix, B.B King, Albert King, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Johnson. Kerry started his working life as a stockman at 14, working on cattle stations in North Queensland and carrying a guitar with him from place to place, playing with bands from the age of 16. After moving to Western Australia, he started working in a local music store and played in blues bands for 15 years as well as doing the country circuit for 8 years. Kerry stopped traveling to raise a family and went back to handling horses and making saddlery. Returning to music in 2010 he released his first CD called Blues for My Sweety and has been playing at many venues around WA as well as over east. Kerry has been running regular blues shows at Ellington’s Jazz Club. Kerry’s 2nd CD Crazy Blues which has been getting airplay across Australia on blues programs and also airplay in the USA.
 
The Illegals are a five-piece Rock and Blues Perth Hills-based outfit formed in July 2016. They are winners of the Blues Challenge heat and runner up in the International Blues Challenge competition held at the Bridgetown Blues Festival in 2016. They have been playing gigs around Perth City and the hills ever since and represented the Hills Blues Club at this year’s 25th Anniversary of Bridgetown Blues. With a Blues, Country and Jazz flavour, singer Kyra Bee astounds audiences with her powerful vocal prowess. She joins rhythm guitarist Melanie Dius, who has studied Jazz for 8 years and played in the Perth Hills Jazz Orchestra, even supporting The Black Sorrows in Perth. Gerald Ball’s smooth electrifying guitar licks complement the eclectic genres The Illegals are known for. Geoff Eastwood (bass guitar) and Bart Hayes (drums) form the tight rhythm section synonymous with The Illegals. They perform covers from Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B King, J.J. Cale, Beth Hart and Nat King Cole, plus some bluesy originals.

‘As always we are also looking for up and coming artists to do a few numbers for the audience’, Keith added.