With over 65 different festivals around Australia and still just 20 years old, this hardworking young musician is certainly blazing a hot trail through the countries vibrant industry. Outside of the hectic festival season, Richard Perso is playing shows in different venues all over the country. While he doesn't seem to have enough arms, legs or lungs to pull off such a physically demanding performance, that doesn't stop this multi-tasking male from playing 3 didgeridoos, driving a weapons cache of 4 over driven acoustic guitars, somehow managing to replace the roll of a drummer with little more than his 2 feet and singing with a voice that sits somewhere between Barry White and Eddie Vedder. In the November and December of 2009, after a massive start to the festival season, Richard recorded his debut album in New York and returned in May of 2010 to complete a 6 week tour of the North-East of the U.S.A and the South-East of Canada. Perso has a developed sound that blends Australian cultural heritage with blues, roots, rock and folk. It's quite an achievement for someone who picked up the guitar at the age of 13 and started playing by the age of 15. A tour through Canada for July and August of 2012 is in the pipeline and details for this are now being arranged. Watch this space for more.

Festival appearances include:
2011
Woodford Folk Festival
Majors Creek Music Festival
Bright and Loud
Beechworth Celtic Festival
Fleurieu Folk Festival
Indigo Rocks
Caloundra Music Festival
Turning Wave Festival
Village Festival Yeppoon
Newport Folk Festival
Perisher Snowy Mountains Of Music
Beechworth Harvest Festival
Love Culburra Beach Festival
The Golden Horseshoes Festival
The National Folk Festival
Yackandandah Folk Festival
Mt. Buller Picnic In The Park
Wodonga Carnivale Stomp
Melbourne Didgeridoo Festival
Moonee Valley Festival
Cool Summer Festival
Australian Blues Festival
Tamar Valley Folk Festival
Illawarra Folk Festival

2010
Tarerer Festival
Sydney Blues Festival
Fleurieu Folk Festival
Turning Wave Festival 2010
AUSfolk 2010
Ormstown Fair (CAN)
Mt. Beauty Music Festival
Yackandandah Folk Festival
Wodonga Carnivale Sprice
Tumbafest
Bruthen Blues Festival
Tamar Valley Folk Festival

2009
Woodford Folk Festival
Majors Creek Festival
Maldon Folk Festival
Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival
Ostara Equinex Festival
Wagga Jazz and Blues (best young blues performer under 25)
Newcastle Blues
Mt Beauty Music Festival
National Folk Festival (Runner up Youth Folk Artist of the Year & Lis Johnston Memorial Award)
Yackandandah Folk Festival
Wodonga Carnivale Bizarre
Corinbank Music Festival
Tumbafest
Bruthen Blues Festival

2008 and earlier
Folk Rhythm and Life
Adelaide International Guitar Festival
Music Majic Festival
Majors Creek Music Festival
Bidgee Blues Festival
Uranquinty Folk Festival
Wagga Jazz and Blues (Best young blues performer Under 25)
The Basin Music Festival
Yackandandah Folk Festival
Devonshire Blues
Wodonga Carnivale
Holbrook BNS
Albury Australia Day
Make Poverty History
Young Performers Beechworth
Wagga Jazz And Blues