Photo contributedMusician and Pin Up girl Shelley Minson will be performing at next month’s Gig on the Grass as part of this year’s Grey Mardi Gras festival.
Shelley and her multi award winning musician husband Lawrie, are based in Tamworth and play a fun mix of 50s Rock ‘n’ Roll and Rockabilly.
Shelley launched her first album Rockability at the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend in 2015 and has since headlined major festivals including Cooly Rocks On (Coolangatta), the Parkes Elvis Festival, Shepparton Shakeout, Gympie Music Muster and Ballarat Beat.
She has a love of the 1950s era and has been dressing in a vintage inspired style for a number of years.
Shelley has been featured in many retro magazines including Pin Up America, Retro Lovely, Retro Vintage Review Magazine and Pin Up Skool.
Her love of pin up has led to Shelley judging the Pin Up Australia competition and the Pin Up comp at Cooly Rocks On, Best Vintage style dressed competitions at Kurri Kurri Nostalgia Festival and Melbourne Love Vintage.
Shelley’s musician husband Lawrie Minson has more than 40 years of professional playing experience.
The couple are a crowd favourite and are always a popular addition for festival shows and local venues.
Lawrie’s work credentials are a ‘who’s who’ of Australian Music – Jimmy Barnes, Lee Kernaghan, Slim Dusty, Ross Wilson and more recently Andrew Farriss (INXS). Lawrie has four Golden Guitars and was awarded CMAA Musician of the Year in 2019 and also CMAA Legacy Musician of the Year 2024.
Shelley is currently promoting songs from her latest album Everybody’s Baby with the first single Riverbank Red hitting the top 10 on the Australian Country Music charts after only two weeks.
Shelley will share the Gig on the Grass big stage with The Blues Brothers Rebooted tribute band, crooner Terry Leonard (singing hits from the 1950s and 1960s) as well as Cobar’s own pub rock band, Ballz n All.
