George Mann (New York)+ Solidarity Choir (Sydney)
Saturday 29 October

 Everglades Club, Woy Woy, 7.00pm

George Mann is the first overseas artist to return to the Troubadour.  Renowned for his social activism, his repertoire of work and civil rights songs, his Pete Seeger/Woody Guthrie links  and tour, his performances in veterans hospitals and nursing homes and his catalogue of inspiring songs about modern American work, love, life and loss, he just keeps getting better and better.  Together with the great Solidarity Choir, this will be an inspiring night of Folk and International songs for a better world.
Tickets:  $5/20/25.    https://www.trybooking.com/CCYNY

Shanty and Folk Night 

Sing like a drunken sailor.

This is a shanty singing workshop and concert for the seasoned shanty singers, lovers of folk music, and newbies alike.  Members from the famous Forty Degress South and singers from the Redfern Shanty Crew, will lead shanties for the first hour in the BIG SING, before we will have a break for a nip, a pint and a meal.  The evening then climaxes with a fabulous concert and ‘sing round’ for a half hour after the break with a few of the best folkies and old salts around.  Learn a few old tunes and new.  Join in the rousing choruses of sea shanties and folk songs of renown, and find your own voice.  Or just sit back and cry at the sad tales of hardship, desertion, betrayal and love lost. A program with strong audience participation, that caters also for those who just love to watch, listen and perhaps meet a few new friends.

Where:  Scenic Room, Gosford Leagues Club

Bookings:  https://www.trybooking.com/BZXTJ

Mimosa Duo with the Bathtub Gin Orchestra Saturday 24 September

Phoebe Haselden (violin/vocals) and Morgan Haselden (guitar/ vocals), the exquisite and very popular Mimosa Duo make a welcome return to the Troubadour. They bring with them the amazing Bathtub Gin Orchestra, a superb sextet that adds the great Dorian Mode (piano/vocals), Brendan Berlach (clarinet), Fiona Lugg (double bass) and Toby Hall (drums) to the lineup.  A showcase of some of Australia’s greatest musicians playing at home on the Central Coast.  Do not miss this!

Tickets:  $20/25   https://www.trybooking.com/CCGSJ

Join club members and other local musicians on-stage. Refreshments/snacks provided for a gold coin donation, or BYO. When: 7.00 p.m. Sat 10 September Where:  Empire Bay Progress Hall, 1 Gordon Rd, Empire Bay Tickets:  Just $10.  Bookings preferred – please use these links:To book a performance spot, and all enquiries call MaryAnne: 0407 917 117 The Birth of Folk Rock with The Trippy Hippy Band Live at the Everglades, 7.00 pm Saturday 27 August Echoes of Laurel Canyon Wouldn’t it be great to hear Joni Mitchell live?  How about Crosby Stills Nash and Young?  Carole King?  Or the Mama’s and the Pappas? This is your chance to hear the music of the famous musicians who created folk rock music in the late 60s and 70s.  These were the most influential artists who lived in Laurel Canyon, the foothills of Hollywood, between 1965 and 1975.  With local performers like The Mamas and The Papas, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Doors, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, America, Gram Parsons and the Eagles, Laurel Canyon was a community of artists who forged Folk Rock, a new genre of music, that forever changed the look, sound and attitude of popular music. The Trippy Hippy Band performs the music you love and shares the stories that inspired them.  With an amazing multimedia support program, this is going to be the real thing – well actually better than the real thing because this is here and now – Australia’s best folk and acoustic musicians in glorious five part harmony, singing and playing the best songs of all the great groups and famous singer-songwriters.  Won’t you join us? Echoes of Laurel Canyon is a fabulous 2 hour retrospective. Live music, with video and stories about the most influential artists who lived in Laurel Canyon, the foothills of Hollywood, between 1965 and 1975.