All members and prospective members are invited to the......

End of Year Party

Sunday 29th November, 2.00pm onwards

Cobargo Showground Pavilion

 

Entertainment and sessions. BYO grog / instruments / voices

Raffle    Afternoon tea

 

Some performers who will be appearing - Damon Davies & Heather Black, Guitarama,
 
 a circus act and dance demonstration, Gary Renton & Max Just, Len Morris

Dave Lamb, Margaret Essex, Marco Solo

Add your name to the Open Mic concert if you would like to do a spot

 

Entry: $12 single  $20 family (INCLUDES annual membership to the Yuin Folk Club)

(if you paid you membership after 30th August 2009, entry will be $2 single and $5 family)

If you cannot attend and wish to renew your membership or join, you can download a membership form here

Enquiries : 64936758

 

 For information about recent club concerts see below or read past newsletters

  
 

Batten down the hatches, hoist the mainsail!  Here comes.......

The Roaring Forties

Friday  30th October, 2009  7.30pm

Cobargo School of Arts Supper Room

THE ROARING FORTIES will be performing at the Yuin Folk Club on Friday 30th October. As the name implies, nautical songs are a strong feature of their repertoire and the group of 4 unaccompanied singers are on their way to the Eden Whale Festival where they’ll be performing in the Wharf and also at the Killer Whale Museum.
 
They are no strangers to the region having performed many times at the Cobargo Folk Festival; they have had some really memorable presentations of songs of history and working life: Tolpuddle: the Australian Connection; Yarri of Wiradjuri; and Shellback Sheila; two of the members (Margaret and Don as Southern Cross Trawlers) had a workshop called Sons of Liberty which they performed in 2008.
 
Members include John Warner (fine songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, author of Yarri of Wiradjuri and Yarns of Old Tom – about the killer whales of Eden); Robin Connaughton (songwriter/guitarist – composer of Steelers of NSW with John ); Don Brian (whistles);Tom Hanson (with the resonant bass
voice); and Margaret Walters (another memorable voice). Their new CD is titled Life of Brine. Don won’t be with them on this occasion having been convicted to Norfolk Island for 3 years.
 
Most of the members have been singing together since the early 80s and they are renowned for the powerful impact they make singing unaccompanied folk songs in harmony. They are each strong individual singers and choose robust songs telling of real people, their lives and work. They areconstantly adding to their repertoire with songs of Australia’s social and industrial history and they welcome audience participation in their wonderful chorus songs.
 
Floor spots welcome
Light supper will be available
Members $8, Non-members $10
Enquiries: 64936758 

 

  
 

Margret RoadKnight

Friday  11th September, 2009  7.30pm

Cobargo School of Arts Supper Room

 

Margret RoadKnight was born in Melbourne in 1943, was based in Sydney for several decades, Brisbane for another and currently lives in Lakes Entrance in regional Victoria.

2009 marks 46 years of professional singing and 36 years since her first record was released.

Margret made her singing debut at a Melbourne Theatre in 1963. Since then she has performed solo and collaborated with a plethora of local and overseas performers on jazz, blues, gospel, folk, comedy and social commentary songs in concert halls, cathedrals, clubs and campuses from Broome to Hobart, Beijing to Memphis, Paris to Aukland, Edinburgh to Tel Aviv, New York to Seoul, Amsterdam to Dublin, New Orleans to London, Vancouver to Nuku'alofa.

A unique and passionate artist, renowned for powerful vocals and wide-ranging roots-based repertoire with lyrics full of wit and wisdom, Margret RoadKnight survives and thrives outside the mainstream music scene with flair and soul.

Four decades into her career, she continues to tour extensively, singing rivetting if under-exposed songs, either acapella or with her guitar and African thumb piano, solo or with accompanying musicians, always interspersed with informative and amusing anecdotes, at venues ranging from house concerts to outdoor festivals.

And, yes, she still reprises her fondly remembered mid-70's Australiana hit "Girls In Our Town"

 

"....as much as for her impressive voice and choice of songs, RoadKnight is delightful because she sheds so much fresh light on the nature of the world and its people" (Oakland Tribune, San Francisco)

 

For more information
visit Margret's website
  

Candlelit folk club setting. Light refreshments will be available (BYO alcohol)
Members $10    Non-members $12
Enquiries and bookings (not essential): 6493 6758
 
 

 
  
 

Beautifully Mad (Tony King and Kris Ralph)

Saturday, 15th August, 2009   2.00pm

House Concert at 'Frybach Park', Lyrebird Ridge Road, Coolagolite

 

Tony King and Kris Ralph are ‘Beautifully Mad’! They are one of Sydney’s most sought after duos. They produce acoustic music at its best, from the hauntingly beautiful in the vein of Luka Bloom, to the exotic tones reminiscent of Cassandra Wilson to the wild Hendrix.
 
Tony is an ARIA award winning songwriter and tours with Andrew Strong in The Commitments as lead guitarist. Tony is an accomplished composer, guitarist, a fine bass player on both fretted and fretless instruments and is gifted vocalist. He is also a producer and film composer.
 
Tony just got nominated for Australian Songwriter of the Year. He also won four awards including Best Song in two categories, the best result of any songwriter in 2006.
 
Kris Ralph is an accomplished singer/actor who plays guitar, percussion,writes songs and paints. Kris has been performing on stages all over Australia since she left school. Kris is also an award winning songwriter and a trained for years under Jazz legend Kerrie Biddell to achieve a wonderful rich voice.
 
Starting at the Riverina Trucking Company for four years and then moving to Sydney where she starred in shows such as, The Department with Tracy Mann and Max Gillies, The Madras
House with Peter Carroll and Hugo Weaving, Stepping Out with Nancy Hayes, Rowena Wallace and Colette Mann, Blood Brothers with Christina Amphlette and Russell Crowe. Kris has sung in bands such as The Other Woman with Genevieve Lemon and Suzanne Thompson, and now withTony King in Makin Whoopee.

As a session singer in Sydney, Kris has featured on the Buddy Album (Sydney Cast) and as backing vocalist on Read My Lips and Sexy Is The Word, for Melissa Tkautz. Kris studied at the Conservatorium of Music in jazz fundamentals. She has co-written songs for Makin Whoopee’s albums, Let Them Fall on Moonlight Cactus; Mandarin Sky and the title track on Full of the Moon.

Tony and Kris are known as Beautifully Mad when they are performing their original material.

They have been one of the most popular acts at the Cobargo Folk Festival, performing with their full band. Now you have the chance to see and hear Tony and Chris as a duo in this more intimate, acoustic House Concert venue.