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A Concert to Celebrate Refugee Week
Join us in this special concert with acclaimed performers Farhan Shah and SufiOz, and Farid Shaheen Drokhshan duo.
Be mesmerized with music, song and dance with artists from Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria & Europe. Drums, Bass and guitars meet harmonium, tablas and hammer dulcimer to create a danceable and uplifting sound that speaks of peace, friendship and compassion from some of SA’s leading world music artists.
Marion Cultural Centre – Domain Theatre, 287 Diagonal Road, Oaklands Park 5046

FREE ENTRY

Contact Marion Cultural Centre (08) 8375 6855 (Free registration required – https://marion.online.red61.com.au/event/318:683/318:966/)

Bluegrass Junction is Adelaide’s most traditional bluegrass band, playing a big repertoire of bluegrass classics as well as their own original music.

The band consists of Trev Warner, with Nick Cawthorne, Geoff Bridgland and Stephen Loss. Geoff’s brother John joins the band occasionally on mandolin. Bluegrass Junction came into being around 1997, however each band member began their music careers years before that, frequently playing bluegrass together in other bands since the early 1970’s.

The result is an intuitive understanding of each other’s approach to playing and singing, and a song and instrumental list ‘longer than your arm’.

All members of the band are capable singers, and when they combine two, three or four part harmony, the vocals hum! And, they are the only Australian bluegrass band regularly featuring twin-fiddle instrumental numbers, acknowledging the traditional old-time country music that pre-dated bluegrass, and which was such a staple of Bill Monroe’s music.

Bluegrass Junction are bluegrass veterans. They know where the genre comes from. They respect what makes it work. They play with passion because they love it, which is clearly evident on stage, ensuring a good time for all.

http://country.ianfisk.org/artists/bluegrassjunction/index.htm

Alyce Platt (VIC) + Nancy Bates
Alyce Platt and Nancy Bates team up for this special show at the Wheatsheaf, with each artist presenting their own musical journey before joining forces on stage as a powerful and moving duo.

Alyce Platt is a critically acclaimed, singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor who presents her original music and artistic pursuits through the slightly crooked lens of the Indie-pop artist. No Alyce Platt performance is ever the same – she commands a wondrously varied musical arsenal, playing in multiple moods, configurations and styles. At this show, Alyce will mix her originalsongs with unique interpretations of classics, illustrating the full array of what makes her music beautifully tick. Both emotive and heartfelt, Alyce Platt performs with passion and intensity.

https://www.alyceplatt.com

Nancy Bates is a celebrated First Nation’s Australian singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and 2022 Finalst for the Australian Women in Music’s Humanitarian Award. Four years on the road with Archie Roachhave spurred Bates on to become a powerful presence on stage, an advocate for Mental Health, and tireless campaigner for climate action, and human rights. In recent years she has collaborated with many women in prison, turning their experiences of pain and loss into beautiful music.

http://www.nancybates.com

$25 ON THE DOOR (if available)

https://www.alyceplatt.com

Anya Anastasia & Band + Aimee Volkofsky
Anya Anastasia is an independent artist and composer from the Adelaide Hills who’s music is a powerful blend of experimental folk and West-African inspired desert rock. Anya’s lyrics ask questions about our society, conspiring to stir dissent and environmental action. Amidst the grind of modern industrial life, her songs transcribe wonders of the natural world.

Her debut EP ‘Dissenter’ was released in April 2022 and met with great success. Tracks from the EP have been played on Double J and spent months in the charts of Three D Radio and came in at #14 in the 2023 Three D Radio Top 101. The self produced music video to accompany debut single ‘Losing Wild’ is a finalist in the 2023 Environmental Music Prize.

Anya’s lush arrangements, intricate guitar work and intriguing vocals weave together to create beautifully crafted songs featuring Gareth Chin on keys/rhodes and Satomi Ohnishi on percussion/drums.

Nominated for ‘Best Folk Artist’ at the 2022 South Australian Music Awards, Anya has performed her original music at Woodford Folk Festival (2019), in SoHo Playhouse New York, the Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre in London, and at many other iconic live music venues and festivals around Australia.

Opening the night is Aimee Volkofsky. “Desert Siren” Aimee Volkofsky was born and raised in the arid lands of western NSW, on the banks of the Barka. She sings songs of dust, ghosts, the harsh realities of life in the bush. Aimee’s songwriting weaves together folk, country, and blues into a tapestry of new and old, in reverence to the ancient beauty of the Australian landscape.

https://www.anyaanastasia.com

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.

Sue Baker & The Sourdoughs + Maddy Diamond
Sue Baker’s songs are full of metaphors from nature, narrating stories of life, love and yearning. She’s got two solo albums to her name, the latest being “Lovers’ Moon” from 2022. Different forms of The Sourdoughs (a play on “Baker”) have been around for a while, and currently made up of Sue, Ron Vanderzwan on drums, Nigel Sweeting on double bass, Ashley Turner on Fiddle, and Adam Threapleton on harmonica. Together, they weave, tilt and wrap Sue’s songs in warm slices of folky goodness.

https://suebaker.com.au

WHEATY’S 20TH BIRTHDAY – Featuring: GOLONKA! + The Melting Pot
Making beautiful music with a wild gypsy heart, Golonka’s songs speak of the stars and the moon, of pussycats and preachers, of love and death – and their live shows are sweet, menacing and danceable in equal doses!

Golonka will be joined by the Melting Pot, a string trio of cello, violin and mandolin who play the delightfully idiosyncratic music of Allye Sinclair, with a cracking Celtic or European folk tune or two often thrown into the mix.

After a sell-out Adelaide Fringe season, The Cal Williams Jr Band are back for an encore performance of their shows ‘A History of Nick Drake’ and ‘A History of Coffee House Blues’.

The first set will be a journey through the songs of iconic British musician Nick Drake from his albums ‘Five Leaves Left’, ‘Bryter Layter’ and ‘Pink Moon’ with the multi-award winning Cal Williams Jr Band as they capture the stories and sounds of this iconic songwriter.

The second set will feature ‘A History of Coffee House Blues’ where the 2022 Fringe Best Weekly Music Award winners Cal Williams Jr Trio pay homage to the early blues of the London and New York coffee house scene to celebrate the music styles of Leadbelly, Mississippi John Hurt, Bob Dylan, Bert Jansch and John Martyn.

‘A must-see show! ★★★★★’ -Kryztoff Raw

‘These three guys are the real deal and the show is an all-round gem ★★★★★ ‘-GlamAdelaide

‘They hooked the full audience right there and kept them hooked ★★★★★’ – Indaily

TIX – $25 on the door (if available)

Good old bush dance at the Irish Hall once the home of all the best bush dancing in Adelaide

Gird your earlobes, suck in a mighty sweet airy lungful, gather your munchkins close, let your beardy ringlets tremble with glee: this will be a Spooky tour like no other; actually it will be as close to what it is as it possibly can be. With their new renditions of (amongst other things) two Ukrainian songs and Yothu Yindi’s “Treaty”, the Spooky Men are venturing ever deeper into realmanpolitik, whilst not forgetting their mighty roots in utterly shallow stupidity. Many gigs are being swarmed by others as discriminate as you, probably best not to wait too long to book. See you there!

Sun 30 July ADELAIDE, Town Hall Info and Bookings