SUNDAY MUSICIANS:
Sunday March 30, 2.30pm - 5.30pm THE LONESOME BOATMEN
Sunday April 6, 2.30pm - 5.30pm SLIM PICKINS
Sunday April 13, 2.30pm - 5.30pm ANDREW MORRIS
Sunday April 20, 2.30pm - 5.30pm WAY OUT WEST
Sunday April 27, 2.30pm - 5.30pm CHRIS AARONSTEN
APRIL 2 . 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.
APRIL 4. CHARM OF FINCHES
Australian sister duo Charm of Finches delivers intricate folk-pop that is simultaneously graceful and darkly bewitching. Their seamless blood harmonies traverse melancholy and wonder in equal measure.
They return performing songs from their latest album as well as exciting new material. The sisters, Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes, have toured extensively through the UK, Europe and Canada in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Their fourth studio album ‘Marlinchen In The Snow’ was recorded in rural Nova Scotia with acclaimed Canadian producer Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, Oh Pep!), inspired by the frozen beauty of the landscape and their transient life on the road with their music. It was released on iconic Australian Indie label Spunk Records in April 2024, debuting on the national ARIA charts Top 30 Aus Albums.
Their third album ‘Wonderful Oblivion’ released in 2021 through New York-based label AntiFragile Music saw them win the Australian Folk Music Awards Best Folk Album (2022) and Music Victoria Best Contemporary Folk Act (2021).
They have been nominated twice for the prestigious Australian Music Prize.
april 9. 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.
APRIL 16. JOHN CRAIGIE
After blowing our minds with his wit, humour and excellent live performances in early 2024, JOHN CRAIGIE is back in our open arms in a three-week run around the country in March and April.
Like an old friend, Craigie is the master of a great show. Filled with intimate conversations and songwriting created to perfection, this troubadour has fallen in love with Australia and we’re stoked to have him back.
This time, Craigie will be bringing his hits and wit to venues from the West Coast to the East Coast, packing his guitar and charismatic nature and those igniting songs off his defining Pagan Church album.
Joining Craigie on his adventure is Portland, Oregon folk-country singer songwriter Kassi Valazza who makes her Australian debut.
APRIL 24. 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!
APRIL 26. ANDY GOLLEDGE BAND & QUEENIE
Get ready for an unforgettable East-Coast tour with the electrifying sounds of Andy Golledge and Queenie ! With a mix of high-energy band shows and intimate solo performances, this special co-headline tour will feature the best of Australian alt-country and indie-rock talent so grab your tickets now - you don’t want to miss out!
When Andy Golledge performs, people take notice. Many years of performing live has honed his skills in knowing how to write a killer song and knowing how to knock an audience off their feet. His name is folklore in regional NSW and inner Sydney, both for the exhilarating unpredictability of his live shows and the curveballs of his repertoire, genre-hopping between 60s country and classic rock & roll. The band consists of some of the most respected musicians in the alt country/Americana scene in Australia, with a show that can take you from tender to tears, to rollicking and dancing wildly. His shows are word class, polished and ready to grab the attention of broader audiences.
Queenie is a fearless performer who wears her heart on her sleeve. Her live shows shake, shudder and smoulder with fiery charisma and freewheeling stagecraft when she’s performing with her band; a Rogues’ gallery of Melbourne’s finest musicians. Beneath all the sizzle, though, is a unique and powerful voice: tender one moment and visceral the next, Queenie can soar from Emmy-Lou Harris to Mariah Carey at the drop of a hat, launching her deeply emotive songwriting into the stratosphere like a rocket strapped to a Cadillac.
MAY 14. OFF-SITE w/ POKEY LA FARGE
Our favourite riverboat chic rock-n-roller Pokey LaFarge is back in Australia this May, this time with his band and ready to share his latest offering, Rhumba Country, serving up flavours of mambo, Tropicália, rocksteady, and mid-century American rock-and-roll.
It’s been six years since the Illinois-born singer songwriter embraced our southern shores, when he toured the country in 2019 with a then unknown, Sierra Ferrell.
After crisscrossing and rambling around the USA looking for a home, Pokey LaFarge found himself in Mid-Coast Maine ready to pursue a major life change. Pokey’s time of working 12-hour days on a local farm catalysed an extraordinary burst of creativity and redefined his sense of purpose as an artist. And now he has recorded and birthed his boldest album yet, ready to share with Australian fans.
Rhumba Country (2024, New West Records) was initially shaped from material that emerged while LaFarge was deep in work on the farm. “I’d be pushing a plow or scattering seeds, and the songs would just come to me,” he recalls. “It was tremendously inspirational and made me realize that apart from singing, farming is perhaps the oldest human art form.”
The result is a kaleidoscopic sound informed by LaFarge’s love of music from far-ranging eras and corners of the globe, celebrating life and love.
“The songs that naturally come to me are upbeat and make you wanna dance or at least bop your head—they’re all very colorful,” says LaFarge. “I used to think of my music in dark blue, but now I see it in technicolour.”
You’ve heard his music, you’ve seen him on the screen and stage, now it’s time to experience Pokey LaFarge and his band live with his rocksteady rhythms, country croon and soulful sounds gracing the stage at Bangalow's iconic A&I Hall, co presented with the Eltham Hotel team creating another memorable off-site event.
MAY 15. MARINA ALLEN (USA)
Known for her vivid songwriting, Los Angeles-based musician Marina Allen has ripened a rare harvest with her third studio album. Taking fragments and stories from Allenʼs past, Eight Pointed Star is an arrival home. She'll be bringing these dreamlike musings, each conjuring a world of their own, on tour across Australia this May!
This timeless collection of songs is a clear-eyed modern classic of alternative folk and Americana that holds a curiosity as open to you as you are to them. Itʼs an album about discovery, searching with the eight points of a compass; about hope, gazing at the emanations within the eight points of a North Star; and about ancestry, being comforted by the eight-pointed stitching patterns used in quilt-making. Full of little, radical acts, coming from a place of truth, Eight Pointed Star favors a type of soul-searching that doesnʼt dwell in complications, and is open to answers. Trust is the centrifuge around which themes of love, family and folklore unfurl across the album. Dust is kicked up from the red-scarred earth, and with it, an inexplicable calm settles over these nine songs.
June 8. JB PATERSON ALBUM LAUNCH
JB Paterson and his brilliant band of comrades finally return to The Eltham Hotel, celebrating the release of his new record, The Whole World’s Gone Mad, and So Have I - available exclusively on vinyl for now.
With several albums under his belt but only a dozen live shows with the band, JB now ventures into new territory with narrative-driven folk tunes that sound like they could’ve come from another time.
Supported by Beefheart and McQuinn.
JUNE 27. DIDIRRI & ROWENA WISE
Didirri and Rowena Wise are proud to announce their Australian "No Cure For Love" tour, presented by Beloved / Remote Control.
Celebrated for their individual artistry in the indie-folk scene, these two remarkable songwriters have come together to create something truly special. Didirri, known for his masterful storytelling and dynamic live performances, joins forces with Rowena Wise, whose crystalline vocals and delicate songs have earned her a devoted following across the country.
Their new collaborative single, "No Cure For Love", showcases the magical synergy between these two artists, weaving together Didirri's raw emotional depth with Rowena's ethereal melodies. This national tour sees them performing as a combined ensemble, presenting songs from their acclaimed debut records alongside solo works and collaborative pieces in a special extended set.