The Blue Mosquitoes have an energetic, vibrant sound - mixing traditional Celtic music with contemporary sounds and are aiming to take their music to a whole new generation. The band’s new album ‘Paper Boats’ is a collection of stunning compositions which convey also the vocal and instrumental skills of the band members.

The band's sound is rooted deeply in Celtic music, with an undeniably Australian character. The Blue Mosquitoes formed in 2006 and comprises Hannah Foley (fiddle, vocals) and Stuart Foley ( guitar, mandolin), their cousin Chris Boon (bodhran, guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Chris Coleman (bass, backing vocals).

The Blue Mosquitoes play regularly around Tasmania and have a growing reputation in the Australian music scene as an exciting band with a big future. Their career highlights to-date include an on stage performance with Dougie Maclean and supporting the legendary Saw Doctors on the Tasmanian leg of their 2010 national tour.

The band has performed at the National Folk festival in Canberra, Newstead Live (Victoria) and many music festivals and leading music venues in their home state of Tasmania. The band had a very successfull ‘Paper Boats’ tour of UK and Ireland in 2011 where they promoted their new album to an international audience.

The band played 24 gigs in the UK/Ireland tour where their music was variously described as being “startling good musicianship”, “implausibly fast”, “truly professional beyond their years”, “None better in 30 years running this folk club”, and “the highlight of the Edinburgh Fringe festival so far” .

The band is already planning a return tour of UK/Ireland for June 2013.