Guitarist Robbie Long is a multi-instrumentalist who has covered miles of styles in his weird & wonderful career. He has been a ‘working man’s musician’ since leaving school, walking the boards with countless acts on stages and in studios over the past twenty years in Australia, New Zealand and Europe and Ireland. Although Rob has jazz/rock foundations, he has gathered tools from a spectrum of musical genres through his musical journeys, adding spice and depth to his playing.


As well as playing solo, Rob tours regularly with his bluegrass/newgrass band ‘The Lawnmowers’, and with singer-songwriter Kate Fagan. He has also worked with festival acts such as Totally Gourdgeous, Gilly Darbey, Waiting for Guinness and Gleny Rae Virus.


Rob has performed at many of Australia’s major festivals, including Woodford, The National Folk Festival, Port Fairy, Illawarra Folk Fest, Blue Mountains Blues & Roots and Tamworth Country Music Festival. He has performed live to air on ABC radio national many times, has appeared on The Sunday Arts program on ABC TV, and was featured on The Daily Planet on Radio National with The Lawnmowers.

A respected Australian guitarist, he has also performed onstage with a host of legendary Aussie guitar pickers, including Rod MCormack, Phil Emmanuel, Micheal Fix, Bruce Mathiske and Lloyd Spiegel.

In January 2008 Robbie won the Australian Flatpick Guitar title at the National Bluegrass Championships at Tamworth Country Music Festival.