Grant Haua Awa Blues Vinyl

I picked up guitar when I was 13 and ended up trying to make a living out of it. Its hard to tell growing up and gigging in a small country like New Zealand but for the past 10 years that's what I've been trying to do !

I've been the singer/songwriter/guitarist on 7 studio albums over the years, 5 of them over the last 9 years, In 2010, my first solo album "Knucklehead" got good reviews in NZ's premier music magazine. It opened a few doors for me on the local festival circuit. One thing leads to another and I ended up meeting percussionist Michael Barker [Neil Finn, John Butler Trio].

Together we formed "Swamp Thing" and for the following 8 years we wrote and toured regularly. In 2016 we were invited to Louisiana by Baton Rouge Arts Society. In Jan 2019 after literally countless tours through Australia and New Zealand I made the decision to depart Swamp Thing and to refocused on the music.

I picked up guitar when I was 13 and ended up trying to make a living out of it. Its hard to tell growing up and gigging in a small country like New Zealand but for the past 10 years that's what I've been trying to do !