Bonjah are a five piece Blues & Roots

Blues & Roots

Blues & Roots is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released in 1960. It has been reissued twice as a CD, first by Atlantic Records, and then again by Rhino Entertainment in 1998....

 Quintet

Quintet

A quintet is a group containing five members.It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are considered a single unit....

 based in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 , Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Bonjah was formed in 2006 in Tauranga New Zealand by Glenn Mossop, Regan Lethbridge, Dave Morgan, Dan Chisholm and in 2008 Bonjah recruited James Majernik as the fifth member.

In 2009 Bonjah's track Fly was featured through various promotional campaigns and in March the band released Until Dawn with lead single Bring Back The Fire receiving an Apra Nomination for best Blues & Roots song of the year and was later followed with Fly
the second single which was also inducted for Apra

APRA

APRA or Apra may refer to:* American Popular Revolutionary Alliance , a Peruvian political party* Australasian Performing Right Association, a copyright collecting society...

 nominations.

During the summer of 2009 Bonjah toured Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 extensively and supported major artists such as The Who

The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...

, The Beautiful Girls

The Beautiful Girls

The Beautiful Girls are an Australian band, predominantly playing roots music. They have released three EPs, Morning Sun, Goodtimes and Weight Of The World. Plus four full length albums, Learn Yourself, We're Already Gone, Ziggurats and Spooks. They played at Dusty Days on 15 March 2008 in Wagga...

, Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly (musician)

Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...

, Raggamuffin and played at many Australian festivals including Pyramid Rock Festival

Pyramid Rock Festival

The Pyramid Rock Festival is a New Year's Eve camp-out rock music festival at Pyramid Rock, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.Beginning in 2004, it runs over two nights with two stages - the Main Stage, and the Pharaoh's Annex...

, Festival of the Sun

Festival of the Sun

Festival of the Sun is an annual outdoor music festival held in December at the Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park[1], Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia...

, One Movement Festival and Moomba

Moomba

Moomba is Australia's largest free community festival and one of the longest running festivals in Australia. Held annually in the city of Melbourne, Australia, Moomba is celebrated during the Labour Day long weekend , and has been celebrated since 1955...

 Festival.

The lead single from the Album Bring Back The Fire was re released in 2010 and later featured on a 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

 movie Matching Jack

Matching Jack

Matching Jack is a 2010 Australian drama film directed by Nadia Tass from a screenplay by Lynne Renew and David Parker, based on an unfilmed script by Renew entitled Love and Mortar. The film stars Jacinda Barrett as a mother who begins a lengthy search for a bone marrow donor to help her son , who...

  which was a film based on a unfilmed script by Renew entitled Love and Mortar Matching jack opened at number eight at the Australian box office in its opening weekend, taking in total $258,011.

Following Bring Back The Fire's national release Bonjah ended up donating all of their proceeds to the Leukemia cause and was later invited to play "light the night" which was a leukemia benefit showcase that also featured multi ARIA award winner Wendy Mathews and members of the Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is a documentary-style musical, based on one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, the Four Seasons...

at Sydney's recital hall on behalf of the Leukemia Foundation.

Apra Awards

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|rowspan="1"| 2010 ||rowspan="1"| Fly || Best Blues & Roots Single ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2010 ||rowspan="1"| Bring Back The Fire || Best Blues & Roots Single ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2010 ||rowspan="1"| Until Dawn || Best Blues & Roots Album ||
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Air Awards

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|rowspan="1"| 2009 ||rowspan="1"| Until Dawn || Best Blues & Roots Album ||
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