NSW South Coast Bluegrass  Heather Mandich and Southern Alliance And a performer well known to Ausgrass audiences, Gary Brown is featured on dobro in the above line up.

Heather Mandich and Southern Alliance performing at the 2008 Harrietville Bluegrass Convention, November 2008. The Southern Alliance band feature well known South Coast musicians, Ray Marshal on guitar, Bruce Fummini on 5 string banjo and on double bass Mathew Hobbs with, on this occasion, "Mr Bluegrass", Trevor Warner on fiddle. This up and coming group can cut it with the best in the business calling on their long experience as solo artists. Guaranteed to be a sure winner with the crowd at Ausgrass 2009.

Gold Coast Bluegrass In late 2001 Tracey Davis started a band called Bushfire. Featuring Rob Davis, Dave Luxmoore and Phil Eizenberg, their backgrounds brought range of musical interests giving rise to bands ability to draw from Bluegrass, Irish, Country, Folk and Bush music to colour their style. Their instrumentation includes banjo and accordion, mandolin, fiddle and guitar, dobro, whistles and percussion along with close vocal harmonies. Additional reading: • Bushfire Website • Tracey Davis Website

Tracey Davis was born in Longreach and grew up on the land. She spent a great deal of time performing with her family's band playing bass guitar at dances across central Queensland. Tracey pursued a musical career, winning awards at festivals and playing in a variety of bands until 2001 when she founded the Bushfire Band. The band has appeared at festivals across the country including Tamworth, Redlands Bluegrass Convention, Harrietville Bluegrass & Traditional Country Music Festival, Beaudesert Country & Horse Festival and Imbil Acoustic Music Festival. The have also played a host of bush dances, private and corporate functions, pubs and clubs over the last 6 years. Bushfire have produced three CD albums to date. Their first album 'Kindling' included a range of traditional bluegrass along with four original songs. Their second album 'Bluegrass Live' is a blend of traditional and contemporary bluegrass music. It was recorded utilising a single microphone to capture vocals and instruments in a single recording take a method that was used in the early 50's and is making a resurgence among bluegrass bands today. Bushfire Band have just release their latest CD showcasing their musical variety and more of Tracey's songwriting abilities. Tracks from the new CD have been promoted and played on Australian radio as well as some radio stations overseas. A video of the title track 'It's Hot' is currently being planned.