Kara Grainger, Rising Souls, Piranha Blues

Classic songwriting skills, smooth sultry vocals, and the ability to whip up a storm with a fiery slide guitar - very few can boast this set of trump cards, but it just happens to be the hand dealt to Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist Kara Grainger.

As a vocalist Grainger is strongly influenced by Bonnie Raitt. Sharing a bill at the Timbre Rock and Roots Festival in Singapore last March with Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi, Kara remarked "It was a pleasure to be one of three female lead guitarists on the bill."

As a slide player Grainger has developed her own style, less influenced by Raitt and other Californian slide masters than by their original Mississippi Delta blues role models.