NFF 2026 Awards Ceremony (15)

Debra & Ritchie Porter , an award-winning original duo , performing their own music alongside classic rock ’n’ roll covers from legends such as Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix and more.In August 2024, they were crowned International Duo of the Year in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) for our original music.

Bringing you the best covers in indie, rock, and pop — all killer, no filler! From festival anthems to dancefloor classics, Bent Back Tulips deliver a high-energy set packed with crowd favourites and feel-good vibes. Get ready to sing, dance, and lose yourself in the music — this is one band you won’t want to miss! Bent Back Tulips – turning great tunes into unforgettable nights.

One of the most outstanding instrumentalists in rock over the past 40 years, Texas guitarist Eric Johnson was already a legend before he recorded his first album. By the early 1980s, many celebrated guitarists were singing the praises of this skinny kid from Austin with the mind-melting chops. Comparisons were made to such guitar heroes as Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix and when he joined the ‘70s Austin fusion band Electromagnets they were being hailed as “the Mahavishnu Orchestra of Texas”. With the release of his highly-anticipated 1986 solo debut album Tones, the underground guitar legend finally emerged onto the scene fully-formed. It landed him on the cover of Guitar Player magazine, which hailed the album as a “majestic debut”, and earned him his first Grammy nomination for the song “Zap”. With the release of his follow up album, 1990’s platinum-selling Ah Via Musicom, which contained the Grammy Award winning song “Cliffs of Dover”, Eric Johnson became a bona fide international guitar phenomenon.