SUNDAY MUSICIANS:
Sunday August 17, 4pm - 6.30pm LONESOME BOATMEN
Sunday August 24, 6pm WAY DYNAMIC & FRIENDS (FREE SHOW)
Sunday August 31, 4pm - 6.30pm MANDY HAWKES BAND
Sunday September 7, 4pm - 6.30pm THE ELTHAM VALLEY DRIFTERS
AUGUST 24. WAY DYNAMIC & FRIENDS
It’s been a big twelve months for Way Dynamic, spearheaded by songwriter Dylan Young, having released their sophomore LP ‘Duck’ to excellent reviews, then tours with with Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman & The Wind now a free show on a Sunday at the pub!
Now backing it up with another full length album release ‘Massive Shoe’, resuming Young’s exploration into minimalist folk-pop, baroque pop and art rock.
It’s a bit of a dream team band, including members of Cool Sounds and Snowy Band. Presented Shan and the team at Jet Black Cat Music.
AUGUST 28 . MONTHLY BLUEGRASS JAM
Bring your gee-tar, fiddle, or song singin’ voice, grab a pint and join Bobby and the gang for our new monthly bluegrass jam. All welcome!
SEPTEMBER 3 . NOT QUITE FOLK (OPEN MIC NIGHT)
Join us for the iconic, long running (coming up to 15 years!) NOT QUITE FOLK open mic night here at the pub hosted by Phil Levy.
All welcome, (just no Wonderwall or Under the Bridge covers and you’re good with us). Come in and ask for Phil at the side of stage to register. 6.30pm kick off!
Happening the first Wednesday of each month.
SEPTEMBER 10. MONTHLY IRISH FOLK JAM
Guinness lives here all year and so do our beaut’ Irish folk friends. For around 18 months now, on the second Wednesday of each month, a bunch of local musicians gather round a few tables near the fire place for an evening of traditional folk music. Naturally the pints flow and the pubs abuzz with the sound of Ireland!
All welcome, as audience or to join the jigs. 5-8pm, every 2nd Wednesday of the month.
OCTOBER 9 - KACY & CLAYTON
A familial bond and their rolling ranchland home are at the heart of Kacy & Clayton’s music—a timeless amalgamation of British folk rock, classic American country, cross-cultural traditional songs and slightly faded psychedelia. Second cousins born and raised in rural Saskatchewan, Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum were musically educated and inspired at a young age by Kacy’s paternal grandfather and grew up playing countless hours of music together at family and community gatherings large and small.
Buoyed by Kacy’s otherworldly voice and Clayton’s virtuosic guitar playing, and with a musical wisdom that belies their ages, the forward-looking traditionalists have released a string of thrilling albums beginning with 2013’s The Day Is Past & Gone, including two produced by Jeff Tweedy and a collaboration with New Zealand’s Marlon Williams. Touring extensively throughout North America and Europe, the pair have shared stages with the likes of Wilco, Colter Wall, The Sadies, Ray Lamontagne and The Decemberists.
Confident, focused and ever-surprising, Kacy & Clayton continue to forge a musical path on their own terms and time, showing the way for a new generation of like-minded travelers. A life spent in music, with family at their side.
OCTOBER 19. NIKKI LANE & HER BAND (USA)
Nashville’s outlaw country queen, NIKKI LANE returns to Australia for the first time in eleven years, bringing her signature blend of vintage country and rock ‘n’ roll swagger to stages from coast to coast this October. Best bit, she's coming right here to the pub too!
Born as a Baptist in South Carolina, Lane discovered music as an outlet for creative expression from an early age, dropping out of school at 17 to move to LA, then to New York and finally settling in Nashville where she launched her songwriting career (and a downright excellent vintage clothing store).
With a voice as sharp as her style and songs that walk the line between heartbreak and honky-tonk rebellion, Nikki Lane has carved her place as one of Americana’s boldest and most authentic voices.
With three albums under her hand tooled leather belt, Lane released the highly praised Denim & Diamonds in 2022 which was produced by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and has since collaborated with the likes of Lana Del Rey and Sierra Ferrell. In June, Lane released a surprise single, Woodruff City Limit, setting the scene for an exciting year ahead of new music and style from the star.
Experience country music with a rebel heart when Nikki Lane comes to town, with shows packed with road-tested anthems and favourites from her wide-ranging collection of country and twang, served with grit and glamour.
OCTOBER 25 ONWARDS! SYLVIE (USA) RESIDENCY
Here’s something new! Alongside our good mates at Jet Black Cat Music, we’re excited to have US folk outfit SYLVIE join us for a spring residency. Each week we’ll see a new performer join the stage, including Leah Senior, Jack Davies and a wrap show with a host of favourite Northern Rivers friends forming an unofficial House Band. It’s going to be a time! Come for one, or come for all!
WEEK 1 - SAT 25 OCTOBER w/ LEAH SENIOR
WEEK 2 - SAT 1 NOVEMBER w/ JACK DAVIES
WEEK 3 - SAT 8 NOVEMBER w/ (unofficial) HOUSE BAND
Named for a song by British folk-rockers Matthews Southern Comfort, Sylvie is the nostalgia-steeped collaborative project of SoCal native Ben Schwab (Golden Daze, Drugdealer). Reminiscent of the amber-hued sounds of the Laurel Canyon scene, the project and its 2022 eponymous debut album were inspired by Schwab coming across a box of tapes that had been recorded by his father's band in the 1970s.
In 1975, John Schwab and his band “Mad Anthony” sat in a barn in Southern California and recorded their songs. It was a narrative that was common during this period - the band was close to a record deal but it never came, and the tapes were stored in a box in a closet. Decades later, in a small town in Ohio, his son Ben Schwab came across them. The recordings would imprint a sound and feeling that he would end up chasing. They were timeless, effortless, and soulful. A harmonic birthright.
Ben had a long career as a professional inline skater that sent waves through the subculture, before watching the industry fade away. Following a period at CalArts, he formed his first band, Golden Daze, and later joined the group Drugdealer. Sylvie is the full return to the musical lineage and spirit that lived in all those lost yet beloved cassettes and reels. True to Mad Anthony’s form, Ben and his friends also sat around in a garage in LA to make these recordings. Of course his father’s voice is featured prominently, he sings one of the songs. Not much has changed. - Mike Collins (Drugdealer)