Troubadour’s Famous End of Year and Christmas Concert, at the Everglades
This year’s theme: ‘Trains and Boats and Planes. Songs about transport and travelling.’ Songs and poems about Cars, Horses, Donkeys and Bikes are also welcome.
Get your ticket, invite your friends and get your act together. This will be a true celebration of summer, song and friendship.
About the Xmas Troubadour Xmas Celebration
This is our end of year celebration, full of do-it-yourself performances and a few surprises.
Members and other local performers are invited to perform. At least one and preferably all of the songs or poems should relate to the concert’s theme.
If you’re not a performer, don’t worry. This is a happy end of year event for everyone, and being part of the audience is a lot of fun. There’s plenty of drinks and food available at the club, and you’re sure to enjoy it!
The concert is an opportunity to get together with your friends on stage. Here’s a chance to learn some new songs, to form a new group or get up on your own and perform. Typically each act gets 5-10 minutes on stage, enough time for one, two or perhaps even three songs. The time available will depend on the total number of performances and the available time. Anyone who would like to contribute on stage is asked to call MaryAnne (0407 917 117) or Michael (4342 6716). Our rule is, each song should only be sung once on the night.
Australia’s most famous and beloved folk and country band, The Bushwackers. Renowned for their energetic, captivating performances, are set to perform for the Troubadour Folk Club in the Everglades Country Club in Woy Woy on Sunday the 1st of December.
Since their inception in 1973, The Bushwackers have won three Golden Guitar awards, released 26 studio albums, have been inducted into the Tamworth Roll Of Renown, been recognised by the National Folk Alliance for their lifetime contribution to Folk Music and have performed all over Australia at festivals, events and venues.
Following their acclaimed 2023 appearance on ‘The Voice, Australia’, led by Dobe Newton and Roger Corbett, The Bushwackers continue to embody the essence of Australian music. Audiences can expect virtuoso celtic tunes, iconic Australian songs and heartfelt lyrics. Their songs and stories resonate across generations, honouring Australia’s cultural legacy. The Bushwackers promise their audience an unforgettable Sunday afternoon concert for the Troubadour Folk Club in The Everglades Country Club, Woy Woy as they showcase their legendary passion, humour, and music.The Bushwackers are Australia’s best-known, most-loved Australiana band, celebrating over 50 years of music.
7.00 p.m. Saturday 26 October 2024, Everglades Club
Mimosa Duo, one of Australia’s most exciting and accomplished acts, make a much anticipated and very welcome return to the Troubadour.
Phoebe O’Shea (violin and vocals) and Morgan Haselden (guitar), are brilliant, internationally accomplished musicians from the Central Coast. Their music is a unique and colourful collage of gypsy jazz with classy servings of French parlour, Argentinian tango, Celtic rhythms, Cuban son and classical music – all served with truly creative originality and very healthy dose of humour.
Since they first teamed up while training at the Sydney Conservatorium in classical music they have lived and performed in France, embraced in the heart of Gypsy Jazz. They have toured all over Australia and New Zealand and beyond as entertainers on luxury cruise lines, at the Opera House main stage, at numerous festivals and for literally hundreds of events.
Great music that breaks down all the borders! Don’t miss this.
Double Treat: Jack n Jel n Mac n Wal AND RareTreats in one enchanted night of great musical harmony. Troubadour Folk presents two of the most inspiring bands to have emerged from the fringe folk scene in Australia, on one night.
Jack n Jel n Mac n Wal are a four part harmony band full of rich vocals, originals songs and covers that are a bit country, jazzy and prog rock. from Newcastle and the Hunter. Mark Jackson and Jane Jelbart with Mac and Wal are a rare commodity: performers who can teach, teachers who can perform; multi-instrumentalists (guitar, bass, banjo, and trumpet) but particularly ukulele. Their original song writing is tender, toe-tapping and often silly!
RareTreats, from the Central Coast is a four piece, multi-instrumental band with four part harmonies. Instruments include keyboard, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, suitcase percussion. Presenting original material from their CD, “On the Streets” and other uncovered great music as a rare treat for listeners.
JAC n JEL n MAC n WAL
Jack, Jel, Mac and Wal are a four part harmony band full of rich vocals, originals songs and covers that are a bit country, jazzy and prog rock. Based in the Newcastle and Hunter region, they are a rare commodity: performers who can teach, teachers who can perform; multi-instrumentalists (guitar, bass, banjo, and trumpet) but particularly ukulele. Their original song writing is tender, toe-tapping and often silly! At home Mark and Jane (their real names) run 9 weekly ukestra/choir sessions (i.e. post covid), and they also have built an international reputation for ukestration workshops.
Check them out here:
RARE TREATS
RareTreats is a four piece multi vocal, multi instrumental band from the Central Coast. With Cec Bucello (founding Troubadour member and publisher of Trad and Now Magazine), Trudy van Laar (Troubadour Committee), Greg Frohlich and Terry Carlan (both retired teachers) and Dave Rowe (Blues Ranglers), they are a joyful and talented group who enjoy performing close to the audience as well as on stage. Together they combine intricate four-part singing harmonies with accompaniments on an amazing range of instruments that include keyboard, guitars, mandolin, ukulele, suitcase percussion, and a classic old banjo mandolin that never needs tuning and still plays like new!
RareTreats are experienced musicians who have won awards at the National Folk Festival and are loved just about everywhere they have played. With experience from various other bands, they bring a range of zany skills and talent together to present original songs from their recently released CD, “On the Streets”. This album is currently featured on Facebook, YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Bandcamp and other streaming and download sites. They also introduce a few other rarer, often not so well-known musical treats they have found to please listeners who like that sort of thing.
Here they are! Press the link and watch them in performance.
They’ll have your feet tapping, and get people dancing. Most of all however, audiences will enjoy themselves!. Troubadour regulars will know them from their great performances at the Everglades and Club Performance NIghts. If you don’t, come along and hear what you’ve been missing.
One Night| Two incredible string bands with some of Australia’s finger style guitarists and harmonists! Everglades Club Saturday 24 August 2024. Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/CSEZB
Cap in Hand
Cap in Hand are Nigel ‘Muddy’ Walters and Dave ‘Fingers’ Spira – a duo who share a common love of the subtle tones and contrasting dynamics of a wide variety of acoustic instruments, which they blend together to produce a refreshing and enchanting mix of songs and tunes…..both old and new.
Nigel sings, plays cello mandolin, dulcimer, guitar, harmonica, spoons and more….and is well known to Australian music lovers through his work over more than a decade with the iconic Wheeze and Suck Band (subsequently reincarnated as Traditional Graffiti).
Dave plays exquisite finger style acoustic guitar in a range of different tunings.
Nigel and Dave both write their own material as well as drawing on a treasure-chest of traditional and contemporary acoustic music from around the World.
A Cap In Hand gig is typically replete with songs that tell stories and includes a mix of delicately rendered songs and instrumentals, as well as up tempo tunes, singalongs and ‘classics’.
With a repertoire that spans at least six centuries be prepared for an emotional roller-coaster ride that will take you from the ‘deep and meaningful’ to the ‘light and whimsical.’
Craig Sinclair and Friends
Craig Sinclair – with Lara Norman from the Peppercorns
Craig Sinclair was born and bred in the open expanses of Western Australia, and has been delighting audiences across the state for years with his homespun songs, beautifully delivered harmonies and acoustic textures. Craig is also known for his work with the Peppercorns which features Craig Sinclair’s guitar and Lara Norman’s fiddle and mandolin. Whether he plays alone or with friends, audiences across the country have been delighted when Craig brings his beautiful finger style guitar and his rich voice to the stage.
Venue: The Everglades. 7 .00 p.m. Saturday 24 August Tickets just $20 members/ $25 non-members.
One family – One show – One afternoon to remember!
Be part of the musical magic that is Highly Strung Rock Orchestra.
Back by popular demand, join P & O Australia’s favourite musical family, Highly Strung Rock Orchestra at the Troubadour!
On their previous two performances Highly Strung have proven to have immense appeal, filling a large hall at each appearance. And no wonder. With ‘our Mary’, Mary O’Mahony centre stage with her magic fiddle she is surrounded by her peerless peers, her family. Together they present the best and most polished performance you’re ever liklely to see.
They play folk and acoustic music beautifully. Add to the incredible interpreations of traditional jigs, reels some of the great folk rock classics, theynail it with rock musical versions of some of the greatest popular songs of the past 60 years or more. Ther more you see, the more there is to enjoy. You start to understand why everyone wants to see them, again and again.
Back in 80s they were known as HATRICK and were incredibly popular in NSW and across Australia. They’re even better now – Their known by all the best international luxury liner travellers, and they’ve got more experience. And that’s not all, now there’s more of them. They’ve been reproducing and now have an amazing new generation which they’re been quietly adding to the lineup.
Come and see for yourself. Be amazed at their ability to retain the essence of your favourite hits with their unique lineup of guitar, woodwind, strings and vocals. Experience how orchestral instruments blended with guitar, presented by a family, can fill a room with magic!
Lineup;
Mary O’Mahony (McCoy), violin/vocals/recorder
Bernadette McCoy, violin/vocals
Stella McCoy, lead vocal/flute/whistle
Justin McCoy, lead vocal/guitar
Guest musicians; (yes, these are family, too!)
Molly McCoy, violin/vocals
Joey McCoy, guitar
Minnie McCoy, vocals
Tickets: A wonderful winter’s afternoon of the music and companionship for only $30 General Admission; and just $25 for Troubadour members. Book now, while there are still tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CSEYS
Mic Conway and Robbie Long 7.00 p.m. Saturday 22 June
at the Everglades
TroubadourFolk is proud to bring you the circus of comedy, music and magic that we’ve all been waiting! Mic Conway and Robbie Long present an hilarious array of idiosyncratic songs that will make your jaw drop, toes tap and sides split.
Audiences who know Mic from his days with “Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band” and Circus Oz will be delighted by this incarnation: Mic as storyteller of tall tales and true. There are new songs and some oldies close to Conway’s heart. Together with the gifted Robbie they croon and play heart-breaking versions great songs, dispense good advice on how to “Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh” and revisit Captain Matchbox classics such as “My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes” And then there’s “Masochism Tango”. There’s magic, juggling, cavorting and that trademark tongue-in-cheek sense of humour. Stripped back, irreverent, and shameless… it’s surreal vaudeville for crooning and swooning.
Troubadour Folk at Pearl Beach: Sunday 9 June, 2.30 p.m.
The Troubadour Folk Club is brimming with talented musicians and poetry reciters who gather each month to perform for each other at a performers night in Empire Bay. You may have seen some of them opening concerts at the Troubadour for some of the famed visiting musicians who come to grace our stage.
On Sunday afternoon, 9 June, the long weekend, we’ll be heading to Pearl Beach where they’ll be presenting a fabulous afternoon of Folk and Acoustic Music, Rhythm and Blues in a fund raiser for Pearl Beach hall and for the Troubadour Club.
The program includes performances from:
Aubrey & Purton
The Night Owls
The Melelukers
Arch Bishop
Michael Fine & Mary O’Mahony
Phil & Lynnette Rich
Bill Young
Rare Treats (Trudy Hurley and Cec Bucello)
So came and spend a delightful Sunday afternoon with some of the best live folk and acoustic music you’re likely to see. This is Rhythm & Blues Concert with heart and soul. Old songs, new songs and some great spoken word. Real Live Music and good old bush poetry like it should be.
You’ll enjoy the café style performance with tea, coffee available. This is the real thing – a folk cafe!
Tickets are just $25, and $15 for members of the Troubadour.Spend a fabulous afternoon with some of the best folk and acoustic music performers you’re seen in years. A Rhythm & Blues Concert with heart and soul. Old songs, new songs and some great spoken word. Real Live Music and good old bush poetry like it should be. This is the real thing!