POWDERFINGER lead guitarist Darren Middleton is to rock Port Macquarie’s musical establishment.
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The backing vocalist and co-songwriter for the multi-Aria Award-winning group is to help judge a new rock bands category at the Port Macquarie & Districts Music Eisteddfod in September.
On September 1, rock bands will fill the auditorium at Port Macquarie Panthers. Eisteddfod director Angela Johnson said the junior bands would compete in the morning and the seniors in the afternoon.
The top five from each section will be judged in a Saturday night concert. Middleton will choose the rock band and guitar scholarship winners.
The musician and his Powderfinger cohorts won 16 Aria Awards in the 20-year history of the band and topped radio triple j’s Greatest Australian Albums of All Time last year with Odyssey No. 5.
The musician played guitar in high school and gigged across Brisbane with his first band, Sonic Tapestry.
He went on to form Pirate with high school friends, and met Powderfinger band members at a Pirate show.
That meeting set him on the road to success with Powderfinger and he will be looking to do the same for up-and-coming bands in the Hastings.
The prizes for the rock band winners are recording time at Q Studios Surry Hills, a professional band photography session with specialist MattG and a two- hour mentoring session with Middleton.
He also will conduct a guitar scholarship class the following day. Register for all sections of the Port Macquarie & Districts Music Eisteddfod at www.portmac eisteddfod.org.au/music by July 20.
