Troubadour 33
Concert & Party Weekend
-The comfort lover's music festival

"Great music, food and fine wine/for music lovers it doesn't get much better than this." Sandy McCutcheon - read Sandy's full review below.

A U G U S T 19th - 21st 2011

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?

Remember The Troubadour ?
(1978 - 1990, first in Bowen Crescent, then Brunswick Street)
Remember The Continental ?
(Greville Street, - similar, a bit more up market, and a decade later)

Well, if you imagine taking a year of the very best nights at those venues, packed them all into one weekend, add some comedy, a rock ‘n roll dance, a disco & rock trivia quiz & dance, interviews and chats, fine wines, restaurant style lunches and dinners, socialising, partying, and the chance to make a hundred new friends, including the musicians, ... you’ve got the idea !

And who’s performing ?

The 2011 performers include:

THE AMAZING RHYTHM ACES,
MIKE McCLELLAN,
MARTIN PEARSON, DONNA DEAN, BERNARD CARNEY, MIKE BRADY,
FRED SMITH, MANDY CONNELL, LINDSEY MELDRUM ...

The weekend also includes a Saturday night Wine Dinner, a Rock'n Roll Dance, a Rock, Pop & Disco Trivia Quiz & Dance, Strum Club sing along and play along, Troubadour Auction, Desert Island Discs,
and quality food all weekend.

Review of the 2008 weekend here
by Sandy McCutcheon

To view the 2011 programme
click here


The 2011 ticket prices are:

Weekend Ticket $225,
(not including meals and accommodation)
Friday 4.30 - midnight (incl. Dinner) $85,
Saturday, 9.30am - after midnight - $125
(+ meals as required)
Sunday 9.30am - 5pm approx - $80
(+ meals as required)
Sunday lunch & afternoon show only -$85

Accommodation & Camping
on site or at nearby motels from
approx $50 to $100 per person
(call for further details)

Dining Room meals:
breakfasts $17.50, Lunches $28, Fri Dinner $35,
Sat Wine Dinner $75
or all 6 meals for $180 (save $21)
(Advance meal bookings essential)

For further prices, booking and ticketing details click here.

Further information is available by phoning Andrew Pattison (03) 54255400, or emailing wineandmusic@bigpond.com

BOOKINGS DEFINITELY CLOSE EARLY IN AUGUST
advanced bookings essential, no tickets available at the door

More about the weekend below,

about the musicians ....

THE AMAZING RHYTHM ACES are one of America's most influential roots music bands of all time, very much Country Rock, but also Rhythm & Blues, Rock ' Roll, Bluegrass, Latino, shades of Folk and pure Country ....

... based around the songs and vocals of one of Nashville's most successful songwriters, Russell Smith, the band emerged in the 1970s with a string of hits including 'Third Rate Romance', "Amazing Grace (Used To Be Her Favorite Song)", "Dancing The Night Away" (later a huge hit for Leo Sayer) and the Grammy Winning "The End Is Not In Sight", shared stages and tours with everyone from Willie Nelson to The Eagles, from Fleetwood Mac to Jimmy Buffet, and recorded 7 albums in 6 years, before disbanding in 1981.

Around 1995 they got together again to re-record an album of their biggest hits, titled "Ride Again", their first CD, and then toured briefly in the USA before heading to Australia where they had always had a strong fan base. Another album followed, and by 1997 the re-formation was official.

Since then the band has toured every year and recorded another 9 albums, and this year's Australian tour is their 7th down under.

Founder members Russell Smith and keyboard player Billy Earheart plus long time lead guitarist Kelvin Holly (who also plays with Little Richard and Neil Young) are joined by Muscle Shoals rhythm section Fred James on bass and Mike Dillon on drums, who each feature on the bands most recent CDs.

To enjoy this great band in the intimacy of The Troubadour Weekend will be a special treat.

MIKE McCLELLAN is well known to Troubadour affiicionados and regulars. He was Australia's most successful artist to emerge from the singer songwriter boom of the 1970s, with a string of classic hits like "Song And Dance Man", "Saturday Dance", "Rock And Roll Lady", "The One I Love" and "Good Companions". Not only an outstanding singer and songwriter, but a superb acoustic guitarist too. This weekend he will be launching his brand new CD, his first album for over a decade.

DONNA DEAN is a New Zealand singer songwriter who has been compared vocally to Annie Lennox, Dusty Springfield and Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie, has written the title song of a 2010 Grammy nominated album by 'The Queen Of Bluegrass' Rhonda Vincent, has lived and worked for several years in London, and toured regularly in Germany. Back home in New Zealand she has toured with Jimmy Webb, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, and earlier this year with Don McLean. Her grandfather's lap steel guitar and her mother's love of traditional American folk formed the foundations for a songwriting career that started at the age of 11. This will be Donna's first time in Australia.

MARTIN PEARSON needs no introduction to Troubadour and folk festival crowds ... incredibly funny and incredibly committed to serious song all at the same time, ... a huge draw card at the Woodford and National folk festivals.

FRED SMITH is a Canberra based musician, songwriter and wit who also works for the government as a political adviser, which has recently taken him to the war zone in Afghanistan, resulting in, amongst other things, a brand new album of songs called 'Dust Of Uruzgan'. Fred and this new bunch of songs totally stole the show at this year's Burke & Wills Folk Festival.

MIKE BRADY is a songwriter probably best known for the huge football hit "Up There Cazaly" and for being the brains behind Joe Dolce's monumental worldwide success with 'Shaddap You Face'. But don't let that put you off! Mike is a very dedicated songwriter with a wonderfully warm and engaging stage persona, and some very fine albums recorded in recent years in the USA and featuring some outstanding American musicians.

BERNARD CARNEY also needs no introduction to Troubadourees. English born and raised and Perth residing, Bernard has a wonderful wit and a huge repertoire of serious, satirical and silly songs, combined with outstanding guitar playing. He is also a master at taking charge of our Saturday night Rock & Roll dance. And he comes this weekend with a brand new CD.

MANDY CONNELL was raised in the middle of the folk scene, and was bound to become a singer. That she has also become an oustanding songwriter is a bonus! Still in her twenties Mandy has spent most of the past four years honing her craft on the British folk festival circuit, where she recorded her latest CD, released just weeks ago at The National Folk Festival. We are lucky that she is taking this northern summer off from the English festival season, and is able to be with us.

LINDSEY MELDRUM is the 20 year old lead singer of Tasmanian folk trio The Fooks, and also an emerging songwriter. A singer of incredibly diverse styles with a confidence and professional presentation that belies her years!