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Hats last Concert for 2023.
[ [Drifting across Australia picking good timinˈ Bluegrass music. The High Street Drifters are an Australian bluegrass quartet spanning the roads between Victoria and South Australia. While the band strive to honour the hard driving sound of original Bluegrass music their youthful flair and unpredictable arrangements demonstrate a progressive take on standards and original compositions.
The group was formed during a time when travelling across the country was not an option, so through countless zoom calls their unresolved passion for the music they shared was all channeled into the birth of The High Street Drifters
DATE: Saturday Dec 2nd
TIME: 8pm
VENUE: Hats Courthouse.
PRICE: $25/22
BOOKING LINK: https://www.trybooking.com/CLSXU

The 2022 Wirrina Bluegrass and Acoustic Roots Festival was a blast! So many fabulously varied performances and many people came along to join in the fun. The 2023 Festival is already beginning to take shape. Mark the dates on your calendar—the last weekend of November. So that’s Friday November 24 to Sunday November 26. The festival is an annual gathering for people to hear, play and share acoustic music from the Bluegrass, Old Time, Acoustic Roots and other related traditions.
Bluegrass is great music. That’s why it heads up our festival. Our stage attracts world-class musicians; many come back each year to perform, to run workshops, and to join in the fun and inspiration of all that a Wirrina festival is.

Announcing more performers for the 2023 Festival
The committee members have been working our way though the impressive list of applicants for the year’s Festival. We are excited to announce that the first performers have been booked—with more to come in the next weeks. As well as the Foghorn String Band from Canada and USA we have:

Tony O’Rourke
Green Fieldz
The High Street Drifters
McHarg Creek
Bluegrass Junction
Crooked Road
Andrew Clermont
Kate Battersby
Vetter Og Villska

Book accommodation at Wirrina
Please go to the Wirrina Cove Holiday Park website to book your accommodation for the Festival—camping, caravans, and cabins available.
www.wirrinacoveholidaypark.com.au

Next date: Saturday, 21 October 2023 | 08:00 PM to 10:30 PM

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Fifty years ago, The Seekers 1968 BBC farewell concert was broadcastto 10 million fans, breaking TV viewing records.

This October, Adelaide’s own The Beggars bring you Sing the Seekers, a concert celebration of The Seekers’ wonderful career. Hear the sensational vocals of Renee Donaghey, Stuart Day and Quinton Dunne, and guest artist, Quentin Eyers.

From their early days in the Melbourne cafe scene to London—the swinging centre of the pop universe in the 1960s—The Seekers rode a rollercoaster of pop/folk hits. Their popularity has not faded with the years, having had more comebacks than Dame Nellie Melba and John Farnham.

The Beggars’ sound is often compared to The Seekers. Little wonder! When Stuart was six years old, he saved his pocket money to buy The Seekers’ Sing Their Big Hits and listened to it ceaselessly. He and 10 million others wept as they watched The Seekers final TV special. Quinton toured with The Seekers on one of their Australian tours in the 1990s, and Judith Durham was an original inspiration for Renee to take up singing.

Since 2006, the three Beggars have made beautiful country folk and pop music together with a focus on the power of vocal harmony. They are brilliant singer-songwriters with a crystal clear Australian acoustic sound. Their handmade music has climbed iTunes and European radio charts, and made them a regular feature on the Australian and European touring circuits.

Hindley St Music Hall, Adelaide
Thu 21 Mar
From $71.65
Off the back of their sold out One For The Road tour of Australia & New Zealand, finger-picking four-piece The Dead South return Down Under for a run of headline shows in 2024.

With banjo, mandolin, cello and guitar, The Dead South certainly look the part of bluegrass traditionalists. But, as outsiders to the bluegrass world by circumstances of geography, they’re from the Canadian prairies, and by influences, equal parts finger-picking and punk, there are few comparisons to be made for the four-piece acoustic band. With a global following sparked by YouTube, early success in German rock clubs and now, sold out shows at iconic venues in many continents, this is no country for old-time string purists.

A brotherhood first and foremost, formed in university and forged on the road, The Dead South are quite comfortable in their role as a total anomaly most everywhere they go. Their progressive, tightly-constructed approach to acoustic music that favours intricate solos and harmonies has brought two JUNO Awards for Traditional Album of the Year, the most recent for the Muscle Shoals-made Sugar & Joy (2019). The Dead South followed up in 2020 with Served Live, a double live album that celebrated and supported the live music industry in a time of crisis.

With their newly-released double EPs Easy Listening for Jerks, Parts I & II, The Dead South find their own balance between their punk origins and the bluegrass world of their sound. A strong statement about identity, influence and inspiration, the new EPs show a band stepping out into new musical territory while also staying true to themselves.

3 Big days of folk music with over 80+ acts on 8 stages
kids festival, workshops and more

https://sites.google.com/view/fleurieufolkfestival/home

Raw Honey are velvet harmonies, shimmering guitar and earthy rhythms all rolled into one delicious musical ride. Folk veterans Miranda Bradley and Suze Pratten have been delighting audiences for years with their mix of raw and sweet musical treats.

Coming together again after time apart interstate, Raw Honey are thrilled to return to the Wheaty for the first time since their last Adelaide show in 2006.

But wait, there’s more! Susie Keynes (Fruit, Redhead) will open the evening in her own inimitable style.

Join these gals with their pin drop musical moments, tales of joy and sorrow, and all the love in the room!

TIX – $20/15 PRE-SALE – $25/20 ON THE DOOR (IF AVAILABLE)

https://www.facebook.com/RawHoneyMusic/

ABOUT
2021 The Voice Australia winner Bella Taylor Smith is coming to Trinity Sessions.
Crystalline and intimate, endlessly supple and warm, Bella Taylor-Smith’s extraordinary voice has become one of the most identifiable new sounds on the Australian airwaves in a remarkably short space of time. The immersive six track EP ‘Look Me In The Eyes’ is layered like clouds to create her deepest embrace yet.

Growing from the alt-folk influence of Angus and Julia Stone and the Audreys to the soulful ilk of Yebba, H.E.R. and Adele, Bella forged her identity as a vocalist and songwriter over two EPs in 2021. The independent Tell Me How You Really Feel? preceded her debut with EMI Australia, The Complete Collection. Bella’s first single, Higher, charted in the ARIA Top 40 last September.

Bella’s third EP ‘Look Me In The Eyes’ debuted at #4 in ARIA Aus Albums Chart, earning Bella her first ARIA Award nomination (Michael Gudisnki Breakthrough Artist) as she continued to wow packed stadiums around Australia on both the Guy Sebastian and Pentatonix national tours. Sealed by the renowned studio expertise of co-producer Scott Horscroft (Ocean Alley, Sarah Blasko, Olympia, Vera Blue), Look Me In The Eyes is an assured and enveloping experience from one of our most skilled and focused new voices.

Performing songs from her ARIA accredited #4 Aus Album, ‘Look Me In The Eyes’(EMI/Universal) as well as classics and never-before-heard music from her forthcoming album, Bella says: “I’ve been writing non-stop, and I’m thrilled and overjoyed at the opportunity to take these new songs out and sing them for you as well as some of the beautiful covers you may have discovered me by! It’s going to be a truly beautiful evening and these will be my last Australian shows before heading off overseas again so I would adore it if I could see you there and say hello!”.

Support for Bella will be Kym Miaco.

Trinity Sessions is a fully reserved seating concert style venue where the focus is on the music with bar facilities pre-show and interval. The bar is not open during the performances. Trinity Sessions sells a range of beer, wine, cider, soft drinks and small snacks. No BYO drinks allowed and no BYO food allowed into the concert space.

ACCESSIBILITY – Should you require a wheelchair or accessible space please contact Roger on 0401122256 or trinitysessions@outlook.com.au to arrange.

DATE
Friday 1 December 2023 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM (UTC+09:30) Bar from 6.30pm Concert space doors 7pm (subject to sound check) Music at 7.30pm
LOCATION
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Trinity Sessions S
318 Goodwood Road, Clarence Park South Australia 5034

The Audreys began as university buddies and songwriting duo Taasha Coates and Tristan Goodall, forming in Adelaide in 2004. They released their first album Between Last Night And Us in 2006. The album went on to win that year’s ARIA Award for Best Blues & Roots Album and be certified Gold for record sales, catapulting them onto the national stage. In 2008 they released their follow up album, won a second ARIA, and began touring in North America. In 2011 they released their third album Sometimes The Stars, picked up yet another ARIA, and scored a major synch placement in the US show One Tree Hill. In 2014 The Audreys made a music video with Adelaide dance troupe Restless Dance Theatre. That year’s album Till My Tears Roll Away was again nominated for an ARIA but lost to John Butler. Taasha missed the whole event because she was in hospital, having just given birth to her second baby.

In 2016 Taasha released her first solo album, Taasha Coates & Her Melancholy Sweethearts, recorded with fellow musician Shane Nicholson. Tristan helped her write the album, so they kind of considered it the fifth Audreys album. Taasha toured solo for a few years, including several visits to the US and the Americana Music Festival in Nashville. In July 2022, Tristan sadly passed away from a long illness. Taasha wrote beautiful tributes to her best friend and musical soulmate on the bands’ Facebook page, announcing his death to fans just a few days later. Before retiring from touring, Tristan had given Taasha his blessings for her to continue what they started, and she has been touring with a new line-up since 2021. Taasha and band plan to record a new album in 2023. Many of the new songs were penned with Tristan before his passing, and the album will be dedicated to his memory.

This concert, at Trinity Sessions, one of Tristan’s favourite venues will be very special as the new songs get a run with the full band. The concert will include inductions into the SA Music Hall of Fame.

Trinity Sessions is a fully reserved seating concert style venue where the focus is on the music with bar facilities pre-show and interval. The bar is not open during the performances. Trinity Sessions sells a range of beer, wine, cider, soft drinks and small snacks. No BYO drinks allowed and no BYO food allowed into the concert space.

ACCESSIBILITY – Should you require a wheelchair space please contact Roger on 0401122256 or trinitysessions@outlook.com.au to arrange.

DATE
Friday 17 November 2023 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM (UTC+09:30) Bar from 6.30pm Music at 7.30pm
LOCATION
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Trinity Sessions S
318 Goodwood Road, Clarence Park South Australia 5034

Legendary artist Graham Nash, as a founding member of both the Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash, is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. He has seen rock history unfold at some of its seminal moments – from the launch of the British Invasion to the birth of the Laurel Canyon movement a year later. An extraordinary Grammy Award® winning renaissance artist – and self-described “simple man” – Nash was inducted twice into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, for his work with CSN and his work as a solo artist. His latest effort, “Now”, was just released worldwide on May 19.

Towering above virtually everything that Graham Nash has accomplished in his long and multi-faceted career, stands the litany of songs that he has written and introduced to the soundtrack of our lives for nearly six decades.

Graham Nash will be joined on stage by his longtime musical partners, Shane Fontayne (guitar and vocals) and Todd Caldwell (keyboards and vocals), performing favorites from across his sixty-year career.

Beccy Cole & Ricky Albeck’s – Hootenanny
Ricky Albeck and his Mum, Beccy Cole, play their regular alt-country jam ‘Hootenanny’ at the Wheaty every second Wednesday.

This gig is becoming a favourite among fans of storytelling music. They are often joined by Adelaide icon, Carole Sturtzel and golden guitar winner, Trev Warner.

Expect great story songs, fine picking and surprise guests.

11 times Golden Guitar winner, Beccy Cole OAM is currently playing to packed houses on her Great Country Songbook tour with Adam Harvey but here at the Wheaty, we get a more intimate performance, plenty of stories and great family harmonies.

First in, best seated – limited seating – Pre-sale $15 + BF or $15 cash on the door.