Classic song-writing 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. With her slide-guitar virtuosity and sultry soulful vocals, comparisons between Grainger and the likes of the great Bonnie Raitt, or Susan Tedeschi, are inevitably. Like Raitt, Grainger knows how to get inside a song's lyric, placing her own indelible stamp on such classics as Robert Johnson’s “Come On In My Kitchen” and the Allman Brothers “Whipping Post”. But Grainger is no throwback to the '70s rock scene. Although her inspiration is drawn from the same spring, there is a healthy dosage of 21st Century chic thrown in. Kara tours extensively throughout the US, Australia, Asia and Europe. In the US, she regularly performs at festivals (The Portland Waterfront Blues Festival, Blues from the Top in Colorado and Austin City Limits, to name but a few). She's opened for many major acts including Peter Frampton, Buddy Guy,Taj Mahal and Jonny Lang. Her national tours in Australia including opening spots for Eric Johnson, Amos Lee and Little Feat. She's travelled to India and Indonesia several times to perform, and she toured Japan in 2011 with The Swampers and Donnie Fritts, the infamous house Rhythm section for Fame Recordings in Muscle Shoals. In Europe, she's performed at the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, Maverick Festival, Tenby Blues Festival (UK), Beautiful Swamp Festival (France), Blues Alive Festival (Czech Republic), Sierre Blues Festival and Lucerne (Switzerland), as well as touring in UK, Belgium, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Spain. With a combination of tasteful blues slide guitar, soulful vocals and a heartfelt approach to song writing, this seasoned performer will be bringing a raft of new songs (from her latest album, currently being recorded in Memphis, and due for release later in the year) to showcase on this tour.