It may be a vibrant and colourful event but to my eye several of the acts at this year’s Rainforest World Music Festival in Sarawak called for a black and white treatment. One of those was the brilliant Blue Canyon Boys from the USA.

The quartet of talented musicians cooks up an infectious brew of Colorado Bluegrass with driving rhythms and vocal harmonies.

The band features Kentucky native Gary Dark on mandolin and tenor vocals, Jason Hicks on guitar and vocals, Drew Garrett slapping away on bass and contributing baritone vocals with the band, and the hirsute Jeff Scroggins providing lightening licks and picking on banjo.

The band performed on the second stage midway through Friday night but with the energy and crowd pleasing set could have easily worked as the headline act. Certainly the evening’s closer, Frigg from Finland were a big disappointment and upstaged by tremendous Blue Canyon Boys.

You can see more of the Blue Canyon Boys in the Music Gallery.