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RAGGA JUMP LOCK THE GATE
Pull into the Rails on Friday night and enjoy the musical stylings of Ragga Jump, Byron’s finest world funk reggae beat band. With their new protest song against the coal seam gas industry Lock the Gate, this is a band that knows how to unite a crowd. While you might be locking your gates against the greedy mining companies, you’ll be leading this warm Byron band right down your garden path!
GABRIEL OTU AT THE BYRON BREWERY ON FRIDAY
DANCING FOR AFRICA This Friday at the Byron Bay Brewery acclaimed Ghana musician and African dance teacher Gabriel Otu performs with his full band Happy Africa Locomotif. African dance music at its best! Bring your dancing shoes and a full bag of energy. 7.30pm start, free entry.
JESSWAR AT THE BYRON BREWERY ON SATURDAY – HIP-HOP NIGHT
HIP-HOP RAP ’N’ STUFF
Lovers of hip-hop are in for a treat at the Brewery on Saturday with up ’n’ coming Gold Coast-based female rap star Jesswar as well as local Byron crew The Hated and local SAE college hip-hop project Kombat Kollektion. Eleven rappers and four DJs will make this night a true showcase for contemporary hip-hop and rap in Australia. 7pm start. Free entry! Don’t miss out!
GREG LYON BAND AT THE BRUNSWICK BOWLO EVERY WEDNESDAY
THE LYON ON WEDNESDAY The Greg Lyon Quartet brings music to your ears every Wednesday at the Brunswick Bowling Club, 6.30pm to 9.30pm.
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CC THE CAT AT THE HOTEL BRUNSWICK ON SUNDAY The quartet champions real jazz with superb renditions of the classics that will make you feel you’re sitting in one of Melbourne’s best jazz clubs. The Bowling club is also offering great meal and Shiraz deals to make a complete night out with friends. Actually shanks and Shiraz with jazz!
CC THE BRUNS PUB
Australia’s premier female reggae artist CC The Cat delivers honest and uplifting reggae, funk and soul music with her powerful voice and anthemic songs, backed by a bangin’ band featuring some of the country’s best musicians, currently proving themselves to be one of the hottest touring acts in the Aussie roots scene. The Brisbane/Byron Bay-based five-piece, fronted by sassy songstress Claire Cottone (aka CC), features legendary bassist Julia Rose (CC’s sister), drummer Dave Bell (Kingfisha), trumpeter Stevie Buchanan (Bullhorn) and trombonist Ange Gadd (One Dragon Two Dragon). Between them, band members have played nearly every major festival stage in Australia. Hotel Brunswick on Sunday.
ONLY FOUR AND ALREADY SINGING TV TUNES! Miss Amber and Stukulele are proudly celebrating the fouth birthday of Uke Night at the
Mullum Court House Hotel this Thursday from 6.30pm. The night is all about TV themes… so strap on a uke, belt out The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle, Green Acres, and all your old faves or just enjoy the entertainment with special guests The Northern Rivers Uke Orchestra, those talented Brandolinis The Three Little Sisters and a first for Uke Mullum – ukulele maestro Azo Bell. Come and have some cake – Adults $10, Kids under 16 $2.50. Join the mailing list at www.ukemullum. com for the link to the songbook.
WOW – IT’S MAROU AT THE BRUNS! Mandolins, ukulele and whistles – stories of travels across the globe, and the pull of home. Like catching up with old friends you’ve been hanging out to hear from, Farewell Fitzroy is Busby Marou’s welcome return, the highly anticipated second album from the Queensland duo.
Two years on from their acclaimed self-titled debut, Farewell Fitzroy is 12 tracks of folk-pop and country-tinged songcraft, distinctly Australian storytelling, and the gifted musicianship of Tom Busby and Jeremy Marou. Recorded with US producer/engineer Brad Jones (Missy Higgins, Josh Rouse, Justin Townes Earle) in April 2013 at his Nashville studio, Alex The Great Recording, after two solid years of touring the globe Tom and Jeremy were determined to capture new songs with their full
MISS AMBER AND STUKULELE CELEBRATE 4 YEARS OF UKE NIGHT AT THE COURT HOUSE HOTEL IN MULLUMBIMBY THIS THURSDAY WITH TV THEMES!
THE LAURELS AT THE HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN ON FRIDAY 7 band sound. They spent a month literally sleeping in the studio – which, by the way, was haunted. Busby Marou at the Hotel Brunswick on Friday from 7pm. Which, by the way, is not haunted. Free show.
RESTING ON YOUR LAURELS
The Laurels are a neopsychedelic four-piece based in Lewisham, in Sydney’s inner west. Forming in 2006 after the members met at a Silly Hat party, each of them originally living in disparate parts of the east coast. The band garnered critical acclaim for their shoe-gazing guitar techniques and understated vocals emulating the loud and headily distorted sound
of 90s artists such as Ride and My Bloody Valentine. They are joined by Nicholas Allbrook and guests at the Hotel Great Northern on Friday 7. Free show. 9pm.
THE ACFIELDS IN PARADISE
Bound by two distinct voices that have obviously spent many a childhood car trip harmonising with each other, sibling songsters Dan and Hannah Acfield have been aptly described as ‘the ying to each other’s yang’. The pair have left their previous solo careers behind and created a colourful blend of folk-pop and alt-country as The Acfields, and have been rewarded with groundswell and national acclaim. Hannah was described by Gotye to have ‘an expressive
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COUNTRY SONG
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Bosom Buddies Comedy Fundraiser with Mandy Nolan
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