Barry Easton
Violinist formerly with the Joe Attana band

Feature band at the Tamworth Country Music Festival
January 2001

The pic shows Barry Easton (standing), Joe Attana (centre) and bass guitarist and vocalist Kevin Lumsden. A fourth member is Greg Symes a pedal steel guitarist.Barry played lead violin for the Victorian Junior Symphony Orchestra at the age of 15 and then went on to be one of Australia's leading fiddlers. He has played at Tootsies in Nashville USA and with Alias Smith and Jones.

He also played with the late AP Johnson and the John Lawrence Band.

In Australia, he played with Arin Australias Irish Band before moving to join Joe Attana.

Joe Attana is an accomplished guitarist and vocalist who has performed with various Goulburn Valley bands in his early years and then went solo for some years.

In November 1999, he released a CD called "Country My Way". His band, "Hangin In" had huge success at the Tamworth 2000 festival.
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