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Troubadour 32
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 20th - 22nd 2010
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 2010 performers include:
ALBERT
LEE & The A Band,
O'NEILL
& RODGERS,
DOUG ASHDOWN, MARTIN PEARSON, MARK CRYLE, MARK WILKINSON,
BRENT PARLANE,
FESTIVAL FOLK SING JONI MITCHELL with Kavisha Mazzella
& Kiki Wilmot, Penny Larkins & Carl Pannuzzo,
Alanna & Alicia Egan, Fay White, Ange Takats,
Liz Frencham, etc ... and many more ..
The
2010 weekend also includes a Saturday night Wine
Dinner, a Rock'n Roll Dance, a Rock & Disco
Trivia Quiz & Dance, Strum Club sing along and
play along, Troubadour Auction, Desert Island Discs,
a fun Panel game with an audience
and quality food all weekend.
Review
of the 2008 weekend here
by Sandy McCutcheon
To
view the 2010 programme
click here
IN BRIEF 2010 TICKET
PRICES WILL BE;
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 nearby motels approx $50 to $100 per
person
(call for further details)
Dining Room meals:
breakfasts $16.50, Lunches $27.50, Fri Dinner $35,
Sat Wine Dinner $75
or all 6 meals for $175 (save $23)
(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 ....
ALBERT LEE is a legend of Country Rock, Rockabilly
and Rock 'n Roll, a singer, piano player, and above
all one of the most revered guitarists of all time.
Half gypsy and English, he paid his dues in the
German and British R&B scene in Chris Farlowe's
Thunderbirds playing the same circuit as the Yardbirds,
The Animals and the Rolling Stones. He then was
a founder member of cult band Head Hands and Feet
before heading to the USA in 1974 to join The Crickets,
Buddy Holly's old band. Then he was lead guitar
in Emmylou Harris's Hot Band, followed by 5 years
with Eric Clapton, and the best part of 20 years
with the Everly Brothers after he was instrumental
in their 1983 reunion. He was also the principal
instrumentalist on the wonderful Emmylou Harris,
Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton album 'Trio'. For
the last 20 years he has juggled these sorts of
commitments with his own solo career, headlining
Albert Lee and Hogan's Heroes in Europe, and recording
solo albums in the USA, as well as finding time
to be a key member of Bill Wyman's Rhythmn Kings.
Known as 'the guitarists' guitarist' because of
the large number of guitarists, famous and unknown,
who are at all of his shows, Albert is described
by Eric Clapton as "a great, great player,
fluid, lyrical and free, like a jazz musician but
with country scales, like Django, but with a bluegrass
past."
We are very proud to have Albert back for his second
Troubadour Weekend, with a fabulous band including
his English drummer Peter Baron, Sydney's Michael
Vidale on Bass and Michel Rose on pedal steel, and
Victoria's Richard Tankard on keyboards.
ANGE TAKATS is a Queensland singer songwriter who
started her music career singing Joni Mitchell songs
in Bangkok bars while on a journalism assignment.
She has since won Queensland's Q award and the National
Folk Festival's Liz Johnston Award.Very much in
the Joni Mitchell / Joan Baez groove with a 21st
century touch of humanity.
BRENT PARLANE is one of the few country folk singer
songwriters in Australia good enough to have sustained
a 30 year career with his craft. A great festival
favourite and this year's 'Desert Island Discs'
candidate.
DOUG ASHDOWN is a legend of Australian contemporary
music, an incredibly versatile musician and a great
songwriter, and was selected by CBS record in the
1960s to be Australia's answer to the Bob Dylan
singer songwriter wave.His 'Winter in America' is
a gem.
MARK CRYLE is a Brisband based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist,
and founder of Brisbane band Spot The Dog. He is
regarded as one of Australia's best songwriters.
MARK WILKINSON is Sydney's next great singer songwriter!
Destined to make a mark in the music mainstream,
he impressed us so much at this year's National
Folk Festival we couldn't wait to introduce him
to Victoria.
MARTIN PEARSON needs no introduction to Troubadour
and folk festival crowds ... incredibly funny and
incredibly committed to serious song all at the
same time,
O'NEILL & RODGERS is a new duo bringing together
two Canberra veterans of acoustic and roots music
- Bob Rodgers with one of those wonderfully powerful
high range voices like Vince Gill and Peter Rowan,
and a history of lead vocals in rock 'n roll bands,
and Dave O'Neill, a jazz trained virtuoso of all
stringed instruments who has played with numerous
bands including a long international stint with
Eric Bogle. He is also Artistic Director of The
National Folk Festival.
And as well as all that Saturday afternoon will
bring a fabulous CD Launch concert with a bunch
of superb musicians, both legends and newcomers,
such as Fay White, Kavisha Mazzella and her daughter
Kiki Wilmot, Liz Frencham, Penny Larkins and Carl
Pannuzzo, Alanna & Alicia Egan, performing the
songs on the new 'Festival Folk Sing Joni Mitchell'
CD. And we've even found time for some of these
great artists to perform their own concerts as well
... have a look at the programme by clicking the
link some way back up the page.
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 The
August Troubadour Weekend is two and a half days of pure indulgence
for musiclovers of all ages, in particular baby boomers who cut
their teeth on the music of the folk revival of the '60s and '70s,
and all the Anglo Celtic, Australian and American country folk music
and their many derivatives that inspired so many of us to own guitars,
even if we never really mastered the playing of them!
The Weekend is a continuing celebration of the great music
of both Australian and international artists that was presented
at Melbourne's Troubadour music venue from 1978 to 1990, and each
year it showcases both top artists from that
era and some of the best of today's new performers.
The music
and entertainment is almost non-stop, except at meal times and in
the wee small hours. But there is space and opportunity for a break,
in our lounge bar and cafe, in the Dining Room bar around meal times,
and in the 160 acres of park, and bush tranquility of Campaspe Downs.
See map The entertainment is principally
on one main stage in a cosy 250 seat venue, and quality breakfast,
lunch & dinner is served in the Campaspe Downs Dining Room (advance
meal bookings need to be made before the weekend) Wines, beers,
coffee, tea, hot chocolate etc and finger food snacks are also available
all day and evening in the concert venue's lounge bar.
REVIEW OF THE
2008 TROUBADOUR WEEKEND BY SANDY McCUTCHEON
Happy Birthday Troubadour
Writer Sandy McCutcheon was a guest at the Troubadour Weekend at
Campaspe Downs and recovered enough to file this report.
Great music, food and fine wine – for music lovers it doesn’t
get much better than this. The word “Troubadour” should
have been enough to alert me to the fact that I was in for a good
time, but the ambiance of the weekend exceeded expectations.
Between 1978 – 1990 the Troubadour was the musical Mecca of
choice. The famous and the unknowns all came to Melbourne and on
the odd occasion legends walked in off the street to play a set.
What they and the audience were treated to was a venue dedicated
to those who wanted to really listen. Over the years the “Troub”,
under the direction of its much loved host, Andrew Pattison, became
a movable feast, springing up everywhere from the heat of Woodford
to the chill of the National. Everywhere it went it gathered new
devotees amongst musicians and audience.
The smallest and probably best loved incarnation has been the Troubadour
Weekend at Campaspe Downs Country Resort, outside of Kyneton. This
year was no exception. The line up was a blueprint for a Folkies
Hall of Fame with musicians coming from around Australia and overseas
to be part of a gloriously intimate experience. The line-up included
(amongst others), Kristina Olsen, Bernard Carney, John Schumann
and the Vagabond Crew, Martin Pearson, Rose Bygrave, Doug Ashdown,
Mike McClellan, Brent Parlane, Glenn Cardier and Danny Spooner.
Liz Frencham, Steve Vella , The Tiffany Eckhardt Trio, Jordie Lane
and Tracy McNeil put the old guard on notice with some great performances.
Vella’s voice was as fresh as his song writing and guitar
playing was polished. Liz Frencham melded with her double bass in
a performance that traversed the emotional and musical spectrum.
Her double bass is an extension of her body and indeed to watch
her play is to watch an erotic performance where musician and instrument
are as one. Her extraordinarily chilling rendition of Suzanne Vega’s
The Queen and the Soldier with Martin Pearson, was simply stunning.
Another stand out of the weekend was the hi-octane concerts by John
Schumann and the Vagabond Crew. Drawing on material from their Lawson
CD and gems from the Redgum repertoire, they blew the audience away
with tight dynamic delivery. The addition of Kat Kraus’s awesome
vocals as a third harmony made even the most familiar songs fresh
and exciting. Then there was Michael Kennedy, a gently spell-binding
singer, songwriter and raconteur who not only interviewed Andrew
Pattison but delivered some beautiful songs in his trademark low
key style; sweet cream on the Troubadour’s 30th birthday weekend.
Then came the finale – a round-robin featuring five musicians
who have been very significant to the past ten years of The Troubadour.
These included Martin Pearson, Kristina Olsen, Liz Frencham, Michael
Kennedy, and finally Colcannon's Kat Kraus, leading the whole room
in a wonderfully nostalgic yet timeless sing out of Joni Mitchell's
'Both Sides Now'.
There are festivals and festivals but the Troubadour Weekend is
unique. To mix and chat with musicians is not always easy at the
large gatherings. But at Campaspe you can eat breakfast with them,
sit around the log fires and even dance with them. As places are
limited to around 250, I am booking now for next year.
Essential info: Campaspe Downs Country Resort is near Kyneton, an
hour out of Melbourne, and next year's Troubadour Weekend dates
are August 21st to 23rd. For more info call 03 5425 5400 or visit
www.wineandmusic.net.
For
booking and ticketing details click here.
Location
Campaspe Downs is 7 kms south west of Kyneton on the Trentham
Road, between Kyneton and Tylden, and approx. 85 kms from Melbourne
via the Calder Freeway, Woodend and Tylden.
For all Bookings and Accommodation
please contact Andrew at;
The Troubadour Weekend
Ph 03 54 255 400 Fax 03 54 255 401
89 Coombes Lane
Mia Mia, Vic 3444
wineandmusic@bigpond.com
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