Blues guitarist in Woy Woy

Popular female blues guitarist Christina Crofts will perform several shows at a hotel in Woy Woy over the next two months.

Her first show was held at the Bayview Hotel on May 16, with other performances at the venue to follow on June 20 and July 25, from 8pm.

Crofts will be touring on the back of her current debut solo album Midnight Train.

As one of seven children, Crofts learned early in life to paddle her own canoe.

Affected by music from an early age, by the time she reached her early teenage years, Crofts knew her passion was to play guitar.

She persuaded her mother to buy a cheap electric guitar and practice amp and she taught herself basic chords by playing along with her favourite records and by observing guitar players on television.

In the mid-1990s formed and fronted her own band Croftstown Traffic - a blues-rock cover band.

The band enjoyed several successful years performing in and around Sydney, including appearances on the Australian Blues Festival and the Great Southern Blues and Roots' Festival.

Press release, 4 May 2009 Foghorn Media