Sunday 29 October, 2.00 p.m.
Judy Small + Anousha Victoire
Grand Concert: Everglades Club, Woy Woy
JUDY SMALL
Judy Small is rightly known as ‘The Grande Dame of Australian Folk Music’. A wonderful, warm and often funny performer and a great song writer, she is loved by audiences for her honest, powerful feminist and political songs. She has produced twelve albums and hundreds of songs, many of which have been recorded by other famous artists in Australia and internationally. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution as a songwriter and recording artist to folk music, and received the National Folk Festival Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.
Here are a few of her best known songs to get you in the mood:
ANOUSHA VICTOIRE
Judy will be supported by Newcastle based contemporary Australian-French folk singer-songwriter Anousha Victoire and one of the members of her trio (guitar, cello and violin). This will also be the Central Coast launch her new EP!
Anousha Victoire describes herself as “a weaver of everyday dreams, stitching together folk/world influenced melodies with bell-over-water clarity of vocal tone. The introspective singer-songwriter blends delicate ideas with a heart-aching immediacy. Her trademark fingerpicking folk guitar style and haunting vocal melodies are complemented by soaring, emotive strings and vocal harmonies, blending into folk storytelling songs that could be timeless classics”.
After winning an ABC Music Award (Folk) for one of the first songs she wrote, Anousha went on to build a loyal local following. Her songs gained indie and ABC radio airplay. She’s performed at the National Folk Festival, St Albans Folk Festival, Planet Dungog, Woodford’s Women Out Front, Wollombi Festival, and has toured regional Australia presenting at intimate concerts and folk clubs. After her first EP releases in early 2000’s won additional awards, she gained further recognition for her song on the plight of the last asylum seeker on Nauru with Last Man Standing. Later, she returned to the studio with producing a full-length album Precious Things in 2020. Her single Rather Be Your Lover (Than Your Wife) featuring guest bluegrass musicians Gleny Rae and Robbie Long, received airplay on Double J.
Her appearance at the Troubadour as the support act for Judy Small is also the launch of a brand new studio EP Embers of the Night produced by Gareth Hudson. Her recent single Mole Creek debuted at #4 on the AMRAP regional charts.
If you’ve never seen Anousha perform before, look at these beautiful clips:
Book now to be sure of a ticket for this very special event! Tickets just $20 for Troubadour members, $25 for non-members. All Welcome. Let your friends and loved ones know – why not buy them a ticket?
Booking here: https://www.trybooking.com/CKCVJ
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Saturday 23 September
Rory Ellis and Christian Marsh (Australia)
+ The Night Owls (Central Coast, via Qld)
7.00 p.m. at The Everglades, Woy Woy
Rory Ellis has been likened to Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits in the UK, Waylon Jennings here in Australia, and in Germany, they said he could be their next Bob Dylan.
Together now with the fabulous Christian Marsh, with the Night Owls playing as the support act, this will be a fabulous night of Americana and home made classics, plus much more!
Rory has toured extensively throughout Australia, mainland Europe and the UK and has recorded 10 studio albums, to national and international acclaim. With 30+ years of song writing under his belt he has performed at some of the world’s biggest festivals to audiences of thousands. Included in these are Isle Of Wight Festival UK, Eastleigh Festival UK, Maryport Blues Festival UK, Larmer Tree Festival UK, Shetland Folk Festival UK, Castel St Pietro Blues Festival (Italy), Celle Festival (Germany), Thredbo Blues Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival AU, National Folk Festival (all Aust.), the list goes on.
Rory has also played alongside greats such as Eric Bibb, Richie Havens, Jackie Leven, Robert Cray, Canned Heat, Charlie Musselwhite, Pokey La Farge, Renee Geyer, Russell Morris, Brian Cadd, Diesel and The Black Sorrows.
Rory’s last album Inner Outlaw, released moments before the world stood still, debuted in the Top 10 on the iTunes Chart, and twice featured in Australia’s bible of Roots music, Rhythms Magazine. Inner Outlaw was also voted by two writers as the WritersTop 10 Albums of the Year in late 2019.
Gifted with a soul-wrenching voice praised by media worldwide, you will know he’s lived every word delivered. With stories by the ton, this is Americana with a perfect twist! Naturally it features the voice of Rory Ellis in turn playing all things acoustic, and joined onstage by his long-time friend and virtuoso Chromatic and Diatonic Harmonica player Christian Marsh. Together they create the most haunting, gutsy, and inspired versions of handpicked gems from Rory’s last 10 albums.
Christian is a world renowned master of the Chromatic and Diatonic Harmonica. He has won “Gold Harmonica” Awards in Tamworth 3 times, worked alongside harmonica giants such as Howard Levy, Larry Adler, Toots Theilemans and featured on many high profile Australian and International artists albums and stages.
Check them out here:
+ The fabulous NIGHT OWLS, from the Central Coast, who bring home grown world class Bluegrass to the Troubadour!
Hailing from the Central Coast, Stewart Porter, Jeannie Kay and Geoff Wright form the trio “Night Owls“, they play a mix of Bluegrass, Country and Folk. Multi instrumentalists, Night Owls, make their music with guitar, harmonica, mandolin, dobro and banjo and combine great musicianship, vocals and harmonies to provide entertaining, foot tapping music.
Regulars at our Troubadour Performers Concerts, Night Owls won The Judges Choice for Best Band at the Australian National Busking heats on 25th September 2022 and recently travelled to Cooma for the finals.
Saturday 26 August
Maurie Mulheron and Pat Craigie (Aust)
+ Dennis Aubrey (Aust)
7.00 p.m. at the Everglades Club, Woy Woy
Maurie Mulheron and Pat Craigie
“In the spirit of Pete Seeger, our aim is to not just
to put a song in people’s ears but on their lips as well.”
Maurie Mulheron and Pat Craigie are two of the most enjoyable and acomplished exponents of folk music in Australia. They have appeared regularly at Australia’s peak folk festivals, folk clubs, theatres and concert halls here and overseas, as well as at protest marches and on picket lines for over forty years.
Pat and Maurie are particularly well- known for their reimagining of the protest songs, love ballads, union hymns and work songs that were discovered during the worldwide folk revival of the 1960s. No surprise that they were chosen to be the opening act for Peter, Paul and Mary on their final Australian tour.
Maurie is the writer of the massive hit theatre production One Word…WE! The Songs and Story of Pete Seeger & Friends, on which he collaborated with Pete. More recently Maurie’s show, The Times They Are a-Changin’: the songs and stories behind Dylan’s masterpiece, was described as “…a guided musical tour of one of Bob Dylan’s early and arguably most important albums…in my top five acts of the festival.”
Pat is an actor, singer and guitarist and founder of the band The Strangest Dreamers who has performed in theatre, film and television as well as being a popular singer-guitarist on the folk circuit.
Together Maurie and Pat perform original songs and new arrangements of classic Australian and international folk songs. As experienced performers with a background in theatre, their ability to connect with audiences through song, humour and stories have made them audience favourites in venues across the country.
Check out this gem, from Maurie’s first appearance at the Woy Woy CWA for the Troubadour in 2013, when he accompanied the great Jeannie Lewis:
Dennis Aubrey
Known and loved by Troubadour afficionados and other music lovers, Dennis Aubrey is the singing, ukulele playing poet of the Sydney streets. You’ve probably seen him busking somewhere around Central or the Opera House, or caught him performing in New York, London or Europe over the last 40 years. Perhaps you’ve enjoyed him performing alone or with his musical partners Pete Purton and Rod Crundwell in one of the great concert halls of the Central Coast.
He’s also a fabulous song writer and solo performer. His song, The Bag Lady’s Waltz, is surely one of the great Ozzie songs. Like a number of his other songs it has been picked up and sung widely by famous artists. I was one of those who loved these and some of his other songs without knowing that Dennis was their writer. There are many more gems in his treasure chest. Certainly he knows how to bring a tear to your eye, and is sure to make you tap your feet and sing along to some of his great choruses.
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Come and enjoy this wonderful, engaging night of music that changed our lives. Sing-along, stamp your feet, cheer, shout out – and just enjoy still being here, celebrating our survival and all that’s good in the world, and calling out for all that needs to change! What ever you do, don’t miss out. JUST BE THERE!
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Friday 21st July 7.00 p.m
One Night: Two Amazing Performers
Kejafi (Aust. via Scotland, Ireland):
Celtic music at it’s very best
and
Marcus Sturrock (Aust)
A truly amazing finger style guitarist and musician
This SPECIAL EVENT,
is our GRAND CONCERT for July at the Everglades.
So special it’s a Friday Night.
Tickets: $20/25. Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/CHDAJ
Kejafi are Australia’s best Celtic string and fiddle band and one of the best international groups of recent years. They take listeners on a musical journey inspired by the music, dance and piping from the Scottish Highlands and far flung islands at the northern edge of the world. A repertoire of traditional and original tunes and songs celebrate a deep Australian and Scottish connection, performed with an exciting, ensemble of dual fiddles, an octave mandolin and haunting vocals lamenting lost love and telling tales of the battlefield.
Marcus Sturrock is not just one of Australia’s most accomplished finger-picking guitarists. He is internationally recognised as completely incredible.
Marcus has played at most folk festivals and various styles of music festivals, headlining at some, from Woodford Folk Festival (Queensland), Port Fairy Folk Festival (Victoria), Folk By The Sea (NSW), Fairbridge Folk Festival (Western Australia), Saint Albans Folk Festival (NSW), Tamworth Country Music Festival (NSW) and Illawarra Folk Festival (NSW). He’s also been guest artist along side John Butler Trio, Wendy Matthews, The Angels, Rose Tattoo, Hunters and Collectors and played on stage with many famous musicians.
His 13 albums had tracks from two of them featured on ABC Radio National, ‘The Daily Planet’ (Grammy award winner & commentator, Lucky Oceans) and ‘The Weekend Planet’. (Ex producer Doug Spenser). Marcus’s music is mostly original, some traditional and some well known covers. As an Independent musician he sold more than 10,000 albums on his first release.
In-between singing, vocal scatting in harmony with his guitar notes and Marcus’s instrumental performances, he includes story telling, sometimes humorous and often related to some fascinating people he’s met on his world concert tours. As one of the known pioneers of intricate guitar body percussion, Marcus occasionally incorporates percussive beats on the guitar’s body while simultaneously playing.
If you don’t know him, watch these clips and see what the fuss is all about:
Reviewers and commentators rave about Marcus:
“Marcus has forged a truly unique sound from the acoustic guitar, melody, harmony & in your face Rhythm on one instrument, astounding” – Tony McManus (renowned acoustic guitarist specialising in Celtic music)
“I was fortunate enough to catch a performance by Marcus Sturrock emotively weaving his musical influences from Folk, Funk, Jazz, Middle Eastern, Classical, Celtic, to Flamenco & more with technical ease and diverse percussive beats on the Guitars body while simultaneously playing melody, harmony & scatting; Marcus is a standout innovative composer”. – Robin Lumley – Audio Engineer/Producer (gold & platinum status) and/or keyboardist for David Bowie, Genesis, Brand X, Phil Collins, Moody Blues, Pete Townsend, Stéphane Grappelli, Bill Bruford, Eric Burdon, Procol Harum, Gary Moore & the London Symphony Orchestra.
“Marcus is not merely an adept guitarist; he has the happy ability to play music rather than just notes and to infect the audience with his own joy.” – Doug Spencer (Producer/Presenter ‘The Planet’ ABC Radio National).
Sat 27 May, 7.00 p.m. Traditional Graffiti (Aust/UK)
GRAND CONCERT at the Everglades
| This beloved and amazing folk-group bring their upbeat brand of English folk music back to Woy Woy. For years, first as The Wheeze & Suck Band, and more recently as Traditional Graffiti, they have specialised in sharing warm, fun performances with plenty of chorus singing and audience interaction with their legions of fans, friends and music lovers across Australia and New Zealand and the UK |
CMBDA Bush Dance – 10 June.
Central Coast Bush Dance & Music Association
All welcome
Further Information contact Jackie: jackie@hpo.net.au
or Robyn Northwood, Central Coast Bush Dance & Music Association,
0410 446 485
Sat 24 June, 7.00 p.m, GRAND CONCERT
Corn Nut Creek (Aust/USA)
plus Kimberley Wheeler (Aust)
at the Everglades
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Corn Nut Creek are two women from different sides of the world who play incredibly beautiful songs and tunes. They tell haunting and intimate stories breathe new life into the timeless style of American ‘Old Time’ folk music. Tanya Bradley’s banjo playing and velvet vocal provides the perfect lyrical counterpart to Danielle Vita’s lilting voice and fiddle playing.
PLUS
the amazing Kimberley Wheeler: ‘one of Australia’s best and busiest bluegrass and old-time musicians’. Rob Dickens, Music Journalist
Watch Corn Nut Creek here:
Tuesday 18 April: Bruce Watson (Victoria), Houseconcert
Longtime favourite of the Australian folk scene, a masterful craftsman of songs: evocative, heart wrenching, often side-splittingly funny. En route to the St Albans Folk Festival
“A rare talent…best songwriter I have seen in a long time” Eric Bogle
Sunday 26 March, 2023. Everglades, 2 pm
Keith Potger (of the Seekers)
A unique and special concert by one of Australia’s most loved and world famous folkies. This will be a memorable event that you don’t want to miss. Book early, to make sure you get a ticket while they’re available.
Keith Potger’s musical career started well before The Seekers first stormed the UK charts in 1965. He is a self-taught musician, playing the banjo, 6 and 12 string guitars and keyboards. While still at school he performed in vocal groups which evolved into The Seekers in 1962. Later that year Judith Durham joined the group and they focussed on the folk and gospel music boom, accompanying themselves on guitars, banjo and double bass. Keith’s ability to arrange harmonies for the group members was evident from these early days.
He contributed the distinctive 12 string guitar riffs to The Seekers’ chart topping recordings, augmenting the wonderful lead voice of Judith Durham and the boys’ ear-catching harmonies and instrumental talents. When The Seekers disbanded in 1968, Keith’s musical activities turned to songwriting and record production in major recording studios in the UK, forming New Seekers before returning to Australia where he continues to thrive.
Keith has let us know that at this unique Troubadour event, he will pay great respect to the hit songs of The Seekers, including some of their biggest, such as I’LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER YOU, A WORLD OF OUR OWN, MORNINGTOWN RIDE and GEORGY GIRL.
He’ll also share some of his stories about life on the road with one of Australia’s best known acts always give the audience humourous behind-the-scenes insights. Some country songs and some original songs from his three solo CDs round off his upbeat performance.’
Put the date in your diary now and make sure you book early.
Sun 5 March Alistair Brown (Scotland/Canada)
House Concert, 2 pm
Alistair Brown has been singing the old songs and new songs written by people who like the old songs, since he was fifteen years old.
He began his career in the folk clubs of his native Scotland during the folk revival of the 60s and honed his art in Canada, where he lived for many years and was active in many aspects of folk song & dance, as a recording artist, radio broadcaster, reviewer, dance teacher, university lecturer, & program director at folk music & dance camps. He continues to make regular appearances in North American folk clubs & festivals, performing solo, or with his group, the Friends of Fiddler’s Green.
““The atmosphere was electric as the audience hung on his every word. This man is a born raconteur and in the intimacy of our house concert the effect of his song/story performance was doubly felt.” (From a recent review)
Sat 18 March Martyn Whyndam-Read (UK)
House Concert, 6.00 pm
Beloved and renowned British collector of Australian folk music, this is his farewell tour of Australia.
Although an Englishman, folksinger Martyn Wyndham-Read has been one of the greatest ambassadors of Australian folk song, having spent over 30 years playing music absorbed from the musical tradition of drovers, bush workers, and cane cutters. Having spent time employed as a bush worker himself, Wyndham-Read first fell in love with the traditional Aussie folk songs while employed on a South Australian sheep farm in the early ’60s while only 18 years old. Soon he found himself at the center of a Australian folk music revival, recording his own debut with Nic Jones and a cast of friends and playing the country from end to end before returning home to England, where he found a similarly receptive audience. With over 30 albums to his credit, Wyndham-Read remains an active touring. With a bgreat repertoire of songs from the British Isles and Australia, he has an enviable reputation as a tremendously warm and hypnotic performer.
Sun 26 March
ENDA KENNY (Australia, Ireland)
Saturday 25 February , Everglades, 7 pm
| Much loved singer songwriter Enda Kenny returns to the Troubadour after his bookings for 2020 and 2021 had to be cancelled due to Covid Lockdowns. He’s got a new album of beautiful songs, and he just won the BEST PERFORMER of the Festival at the Newstead Folk Festival. He’s in great form. Come and enjoy the craik!
An Irish-Born songwriter, Enda made his home in Australia in the late 1980’s. His thoughtful, descriptive stories of his adoptive homeland have struck a chord with festival audiences all over Australia and are always memorable and spiced with plenty of humour. He has been hailed as the audience favourite at the National and a host of other folk festivals in Australia and internationally for years. Now residing near Mount Beauty in the Victorian Alps, Enda is touring to New Zealand and UK & Germany in 2023 as well as an extensive Aussie festival calendar. This is sure to be one of the great concerts of the year. Don’t miss out. “The finest Irish songwriter living overseas” Colum Sands
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Watch Enda Kenny singing Live here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qSRh_04DIM
Steve Turner, UK
Wednesday 18 January 2023
House Concert, 6-9 pm
Start the year well with a fabulous House Concert in Woy Woy with Steve Turner, celebrated English folk singer and multi-instrumentalist.
One of the most accomplished and complete performers of traditional and contemporary British folk music on the world circuit. His recent album was voted the very best of the 1000 CDs received by the USA’s national folk programme Midnight Special broadcast from Chicago. He has performed in the UK, Europe and across globe for over 30 years – his mastery of multiple instruments, his rich voice and his amazing repertoire ensuring he is loved by audiences and sought after by fellow musicians.