Jo Jo Smith & Tracey Roberts
JoJo Smith is one of Australia’s greatest musical treasures, an inspirational performer who takes her audiences on a lyrical, musically diverse journey of blues, soul, funk, R&B, Latin and jazz. Her own songs are a tour de force and along with a unique interpretation of a small, select group of covers, JoJo’s status as one of Australia’s best singer/songwriters is confirmed. She has performed with some of the cream of Australian music royalty (Renee Geyer, Marcia Hines, Olivia Newton-John) and has several albums under her belt. Last year JoJo toured Australia doing 50 gigs, celebrating 50 years of performing.
Tracey Roberts one of those rare breeds of singer/songwriter-pianists whose emotive and stylish performances consistently hold audiences spellbound. Along with a clear, dynamic vocal range, her sensitive piano playing and richly poetic lyrics combine with melodic arrangements to create beautiful, original songs. There’s always some surprising quirky cabaret stuff with spontaneous anecdotes and commentary thrown into the mix … The music is a fusion of adult-contemporary, jazz-infused soul, pop and folk, with hints of blues, classical and Celtic influences. An entertaining, class act.
“I was blown away by JoJo Smith. I have never seen anything like the show I saw at Mullum Music Fest.” – Ash Grunwald
“Tracey Roberts is one incredible act.” – Castlemaine Jazz Festival
120 min
Jo Jo Smith & Tracey Roberts
Date: Saturday 31 August
Time: 8pm
Venue: Hats Auburn Courthouse
Prices $25.00 pre-booked $28.00@door.
Tks bookings@hatsincsa.com OR T 8849 2420
JoJo Smith is one of Australia’s greatest musical treasures, an inspirational performer who takes her audiences on a lyrical, musically diverse journey of blues, soul, funk, R&B, Latin and jazz. Her own songs are a tour de force and along with a unique interpretation of a small, select group of covers, JoJo’s status as one of Australia’s best singer/songwriters is confirmed. She has performed with some of the cream of Australian music royalty (Renee Geyer, Marcia Hines, Olivia Newton-John) and has several albums under her belt. Last year JoJo toured Australia doing 50 gigs, celebrating 50 years of performing.
Tracey Roberts one of those rare breeds of singer/songwriter-pianists whose emotive and stylish performances consistently hold audiences spellbound. Along with a clear, dynamic vocal range, her sensitive piano playing and richly poetic lyrics combine with melodic arrangements to create beautiful, original songs. There’s always some surprising quirky cabaret stuff with spontaneous anecdotes and commentary thrown into the mix … The music is a fusion of adult-contemporary, jazz-infused soul, pop and folk, with hints of blues, classical and Celtic influences. An entertaining, class act.
“I was blown away by JoJo Smith. I have never seen anything like the show I saw at Mullum Music Fest.” – Ash Grunwald
“Tracey Roberts is one incredible act.” – Castlemaine Jazz Festival
120 min
Doors open at 7:30pm (music 8:00pm)
Bar from 7:00pm
Tickets $25/$20
Jo Jo Smith & Tracey Roberts
JoJo Smith is one of Australia’s greatest musical treasures, an inspirational performer who takes her audiences on a lyrical, musically diverse journey of blues, soul, funk, R&B, Latin and jazz. Her own songs are a tour de force and along with a unique interpretation of a small, select group of covers, JoJo’s status as one of Australia’s best singer/songwriters is confirmed. She has performed with some of the cream of Australian music royalty (Renee Geyer, Marcia Hines, Olivia Newton-John) and has several albums under her belt. Last year JoJo toured Australia doing 50 gigs, celebrating 50 years of performing.
Tracey Roberts one of those rare breeds of singer/songwriter-pianists whose emotive and stylish performances consistently hold audiences spellbound. Along with a clear, dynamic vocal range, her sensitive piano playing and richly poetic lyrics combine with melodic arrangements to create beautiful, original songs. There’s always some surprising quirky cabaret stuff with spontaneous anecdotes and commentary thrown into the mix … The music is a fusion of adult-contemporary, jazz-infused soul, pop and folk, with hints of blues, classical and Celtic influences. An entertaining, class act.
“I was blown away by JoJo Smith. I have never seen anything like the show I saw at Mullum Music Fest.” – Ash Grunwald
“Tracey Roberts is one incredible act.” – Castlemaine Jazz Festival
120 min
Doors open at 7:30pm (music 8:00pm)
Bar from 7:00pm
Tickets $25/$20
Adelaide Songs CD Launch
Join the Adelaide Songs Ensemble to launch our first CD
.Eleven of our thirty odd new songs about Adelaide…….
Free Entry..CDs available for purchase
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Fringe review: Adelaide Songs
Adelaide Songs is a presentation by local musicians of their own compositions celebrating and reflecting on their home city and its history, with musical styles varying from blues to ballads, from comedy to biting satire. ★★★★
“How Adelaide is this?” asks musician Paul Roberts by way of introduction. “Forty degrees outside and we’re squeezed into a French bar to hear songs about Adelaide!”
He and fellow singer-songwriters Paula Standing, Alan Hartley and Keith Preston were there to present a creative blend of music to honour their home city – sometimes with satire and occasionally with a sharp reminder of the Adelaide’s flaws, past and present.
The evening started with Hartley’s gentle anthem to Adelaide’s founding fathers, who had high ideals of inclusive freedom, but we were then jolted to a different place as Preston reminded us that those ideals were soon stolen, along with a generation of Indigenous children, at a dark house in Blackwood called “Colebrook”.
“Square Mile City Blues” lightened the mood once again (with some neat guitar work from Preston), then Paula Standing performed a show favourite, “Lucky Girl”, in which she used a tremulous voice and evocative keyboard accompaniment to tell the story of Funi and the real reason for Wang Wang’s failure.
The “Hindley Street Waltz” led us happily through the notorious entertainment strip before we were once more reminded of our darker past as Hartley sang “Timmy”, about Marcus Clark and the collapse of the State Bank.
“Athens of the South” gave the musicians a chance to shine with a Mediterranean style, then two more blues compositions followed, with a poignant story from Stormy Summers’ perspective and an appropriately topical “Festival Overload Blues”.
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Roberts introduced the perennial question among Adelaideans with the satirical “My School’s Better than Yours”, then Standing brought the audience back to more reflective mood with a heartfelt apology to the next generation in “We Took It All”.
The evening concluded with a rousing anthem for audience participation and we all sang along happily with “Colonel Light He Got It Right”.
These are talented and thoughtful songwriters and skilled musicians, supported wonderfully by sensitive fiddler Ashley Turner and delicate but appropriate percussionist Satomi Ohnishi. The show has been in existence for some years, but the songs are continually updated, and more are added so you will always hear something new.
The enthusiastic response from this audience is an indication that Adelaide Songs continues to delight all those who live in and love this city.
BIG POSSUM STRINGBAND
Formed in 2017, the Big Possum Stringband are the fresh, new faces of folk. They are young, excited, and passionate about the rich legacy of traditional Appalachian music of the American South.
Tessa Dillon (fiddle) and Seth Swingle (banjo) are joined by multi-instrumentalist Evan Collins to make oldtime country music’s hottest new band, and local Adelaide born Bassist Peter Hisco, Director of the Kellycountyrpick, is joining them for the tour.
Fresh off their 1st place win at the 2018 Clifftop festival (generally regarded as the most prestigious contest in the genre), the Possums are bringing their mix of breakdowns, showpieces, ballads and rounder songs to audiences around the nation and the world.
With three-part harmonies, electrifying fiddle breaks and a pounding square-dance beat, the Big Possum Stringband creates a powerful energy that will have you stamping, yelling and dancing along.
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If you’d like more information about this show, or to request an interview please call Sarah Martin (08) 8340 4697 or email Sarah at publicity@thegov.com.au
BIG POSSUM STRINGBAND
+ The Dogpatch Fiddlers
The Gov | Thu 22 Aug
Tickets: $25 + Booking Fee
Doors open @ 7:30 pm
Tickets available from www.thegov.com.au | www.oztix.com.au
Jimmy Little’s Messenger 20th Anniversary
Performed by Brendan Gallagher, James Henry, Stu Hunter and Kutcha Edwards
Produced by Leah Flanagan and Brendan Gallagher
20 years ago, Indigenous Australian icon Jimmy Little released Messenger, an album paying tribute to great Australasian songwriters. Messenger launched Little into the consciousness of a whole new generation of fans, many of whom had not known that he was Australia’s first Indigenous pop star on the back of hits like “Royal Telephone” in the early 1960s, or that he had a huge presence on Australia’s country music scene. The album won the 1999 Best Adult Contemporary Album ARIA, and at the same time Jimmy was inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame.
Fitting for a man who was one of the first people to record a Barry Gibb song – Little charted with the then-17 year old songwriter’s “One Road” in 1964 – Messenger saw Jimmy interpret classic Australian songs like “Under The Milky Way” by The Church, “Down Below” by The Cruel Sea, “Cattle & Cane” by The Go-Betweens, “Quasimodo’s Dream” by The Reels and “The Way I Made You Feel” by Ed Kuepper. The album was the result of an idea conceived by Karma County singer/songwriter/guitarist and producer Brendan Gallagher who wanted to highlight Little’s honey-smooth voice and frame him as a superb interpreter of classic material – a singer’s singer. The importance of Messenger in the Australian music canon cannot be overstated, nor its impact in reinvigorating Jimmy’s legacy as a seminal contemporary Indigenous artist.
In this new multi-media music concert, “Messenger” producer Brendan Gallagher celebrates the music and impact of “Messenger” and shines a light on Jimmy’s wonderful career. Joined by Jimmy’s grandson James Henry, “Messenger” player Stu Hunter, and Kutcha Edwards, and co-produced by Leah Flannagan, “In The Shadow Of The Black Love” promises a magical night of beautiful music in tribute to one of the true greats of Australian music.
Trinity Sessions is a fully seated concert venue and is General Admission. The venue bar will open at 7pm. The doors to the concert space will open at 7.30pm. The concert will commence at 8pm.
Trinity Sessions is a cash only venue. Trinity Sessions does not sell water in plastic bottles. Water is available (and glasses) however, you are requested to bring your own bottles.
Parking is available on site and at the Medical Centre across the road.
LOCATION
Trinity Sessions
318 Goodwood Road, Clarence Park, SA 5034
CONTACT DETAILS
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Mike O’Callaghan & Pete Titchener (SA)
Mike O’Callaghan & Pete Titchener (SA)
Take to the Courthouse Stage
DATE: Saturday, August 3rd
TIME: 8 pm
VENUE: Auburn Courthouse
PRICE: $23.00 pre-booked $25.00 @door
TKS: bookings @hatsincsa.com OR
T 8849 2420
After many years of touring both nationally and overseas and performing/recording in groups such as Country Express, Colcannon, Munro O’Callaghan Titchener, Mike O’Callaghan has taken the plunge with his first solo album, “Tales Worth Telling”. Songs about life and events that many people will relate to.
Pete Titchener is perhaps better known as a former member of Colcannon and more recently as Eric Bogle’s accompanist.
However, for the past 3 years, he’s unleashed the dormant comedic solo performer in him and has been evicted from folk clubs and festivals in both Australia and New Zealand.
Enjoy a lovely nights entertainment with these two fun-loving talented musicians who will entertain and amuse you all night with their travelling tales of life and adventure.
The Young Sequoias Present ‘Electric Delta’
Will Kallinderis and Matt Colyer of The Young Sequoias celebrate Mississippi Delta blues, featuring songs by Mississippi Fred McDowell, Howlin’ Wolf, Junior Kimbrough, RL Burnside and other greats.
The Mississippi Delta blues sound is characterised by an emphasis on vamps and droning single chord rhythms usually accompanied with harmonica and drums. The Young Sequoias will get you moving to these infectious rhythms along with their raw and gritty original boogie woogie, finger picking and bottleneck slide that’s bound to bring the tin shed down at the Wheaty!!
Book online before June 15 for earlybird discount.
The Young Sequoias have been building up an increasingly compelling repertoire of infectious grooves, funky soulful originals, and renditions of various popular delta blues classics. Formed in 2018, The Young Sequoias are Will Kallinderis, vocals, guitar and harmonica and Matt Colyer, drums, percussion and bass. Featuring a style that is highly intuitive, feeding off each other’s dynamics – Will’s upbeat guitar and harmonica together with Matt’s catchy rhythms creating a surprisingly full sound from a two piece act. In 2017, Will filled in for Chris Finnen playing harmonica in Cal Williams Jr’s sold out Fringe show ‘A History Of Early Blues’. The success of the shows lead to the two of them teaming up with Kory Horwood on double bass performing regularly at festivals and shows.
Rowdy’s Honky Tonk & Western Swing
Honky tonk and western swing the way the good lord intended it
Wanna dance? Come join us at the Wheaty on the last Saturday of August (31st) for a double header with the fabulous “Nobody’s Sweethearts”. Nobody’s Sweethearts are a local western swing band with THE BEST pedal steel and fiddle combo for miles around! . Join us for a listen and a dance at one of Adelaide’s premier live music venues. Tix at door.
Stay warm and hope to catch you at Troppo or the Wheaty over these winter months.