Yellow Blue Bus
Adelaide’s Ukrainian inspired global fusion ensemble is back at our home in the Port. Free entry
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Yellow Blue Bus
Musician/Band
Shambolics & The Finns
The raucous Shambolics return to Brick City with 8 piece Irish folks The Finns, in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
There will be dancing, there will be shenanigans, and of course there will be Guiness. Get in early for happy hour 4-6. Music kickin off from 6pm !
Free Entry · Open Late
Shambolics
Musician/Band
https://shambolics.bandcamp.com/
The Finns
Musician/Band
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
Kristian Mizzi
Khristian Mizzi
DATE: Friday, September 13th
TIME: 8 pm
VENUE: Hats Auburn Courthouse
PRICE: TBC
TKS e
T 8849 2420
More than just a few have said with enthusiasm that “Khristian Mizzis songs take them to a place they’d forgotten in themselves”. With a strong yet gentle voice, and artfully weaving beauty and truth into the words of each song, Khristian Mizzi reaches the hearts of his audiences with his performances.
Victoria’s Khristian Mizzi returns from over the border for a string of tour dates in support of his latest offering, “Some Other Morning” (SOM). 2 years since his last release. Drawing inspiration from Leonard Cohen, James Taylor, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens and John Martyn, Khristian Mizzi elegantly articulates many contemporary issues faced by Australia and the world today.
His solid and seamless live performances, his love of words and clever use of the English language underpin a polished song craft and vocal style influenced from the pinnacle of these best 70s singer songwriters. And Mizzi measures up. Mizzi is selected for most of Australia’s highest profile festivals like Pt Fairy, Illawarra and Melany. In 2017 he was awarded the ‘Troubadour Artist’ of the year award at the prestigious VIC ‘The Newstead Live! Folk Festival’.
This new album is a great blend of humanity, politics and musicality.
Neil Murray
The “ Blood & Longing” tour will be in Auburn, SA at the Hats Courthouse – one of Neil Murray’s favourite venues in regional Australia.
DATE: Saturday, August 24th
TIME: 8 pm
VENUE: Auburn Courthouse
PRICE: $25.00 pre-booked $28.00 @door
TKS: bookings @hatsincsa.com OR T 8849 2420
What’s not to love about a Neil Murray concert? This talented Singer & Award-winning songwriter is the ultimate travelling troubadour who loves to travel this wide brown land plying his craft and gathering stories for his next song. He always captivates and inspires where ever he goes his passion and talent knows no bounds. His sensitivity and love of his country told through his songwriting makes for a wonderful night out. He has released a remarkable string of albums – the latest being Blood & Longing which will be
available on the night. Make sure you get along to what will be yet another fabulous Hats Concert.
Neil will be supported on the night by local group The Little Blue Bees
Rod and Judith Dawson are “the little blue bees” a duo presenting a mix of both original and eclectic covers. Judith is the winner of the South Australian Country Music Association’s Songwriter Award 2019, the prestigious Frank Harding award for musical excellence, as well as being a two-time finalist in the Judith Crossley songwriting award. She is an accomplished poet whose achievement has also been recognised as the winner of the CJ Dennis award for poetry.
NEIL MURRAY’S NEW ALBUM
Blood & Longing
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Hills of Burra 4.13
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The Footsteps of Blackfella Bob 3.02
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Byjantic Man 4.12
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Cry my Darling 5.58
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Every Time I Turn Around 3.40
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Kind of Day 5.31
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Dja Dja Wurrung, Dja Dja Wurrun
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Who will Ride with Stuart? 5.14
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Waiting to be Born 5.20
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My Secret Heart 4.29
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Come Too Far Now 4.15
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Old Land (instrumental) 2.14
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Let the Dead Rise Up 6.20
Those who know and appreciate Neil Murray’s work will find in “Blood & Longing” an impressive addition to his already remarkable catalogue of songs that continue to refine a sense of place, purpose and identity. Those that don’t, stand to be converted.
“Wherever I go in this country, I always think of the old people of that place. Sometimes it overwhelms me. Many of the songs come from these powerful feelings.” – Neil Murray
Blood & Longing starts out with energy and drive, as our broke, yet upbeat troubadour passes through Tennant Creek while grappling with the digital age – Hills of Burra, then meanders through a series of encounters:- the historical narratives, The Footsteps of Blackfella Bob and Who will ride with Stuart?, the celebration of a post-apocalyptic survivor in Byjantic Man – featured in the cover art, the plea for a dying river Cry My Darling, the visionary ballads Kind of Day and Waiting to Be Born, the ever-present yearning of Dja Dja Wurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung and My Secret Heart. Throw in the lighter, Every time I Turn Around, before arriving at Come Too Far Now, which predicts the troubadour “washed up and broken down”.
In the Australian backcountry, the haunting Old Land (instrumental) would seem a final requiem. But the last word of Blood & Longing is a redemptive sermon of sorts, Let the Dead Rise Up, spoken to an arresting musical score by David Bridie and John Phillips.
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.
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