Friday 17 February 2012
The Beez (Germany)

The Beez last visited us two years ago and played to a large and appreciative audience.

They have developed a fine reputation as a visually and musically entertaining band. They are all exceptional musicians, offering cabaret style irreverant interpretations of classic songs.

The Beez have furnished their house with musical bric-a-brac from around the world, a potpourri of moving, silly, deep and sometimes meaningless pop and rock songs. These songs are, however, anything but common or garden variety. The four tonal interior decorators from the Beez rearrange and craft a song until a certain stylistically unmistakable Beez Feng Shui emerges.The Beez are at home on any stage and travel light-four voices, two acoustic guitars, an acoustic bass and an accordion and, it has to be said, more than a few costumes. The Beez are renowned as excellent hosts, serving lavish lashings of humour and musicality guaranteed to charm every audience. Their programme 'In the House' is (with or without electricity) like a luxury penthouse on the roof of pop and rock history in which everyone finds a sunny room with a view.

Some sound bites from the Beez "Look What They've Done To My Song" CD:

Close To Me

Go Your Own Way

Ja Ljublju Tebja

Happy When It Rains

The Beez website and their MySpace

Under the Grandstand, Queen Elizabeth Oval, View Street, from 8:00pm for an 8:15pm start. Tickets at the door.


Wednesday 21 March 2012
Truckstop Honeymoon (USA)

A Bendigo Folk Club favourite, in fact they have a BFC recidency; performing regularly for us every second March!

Truckstop's website.

Tuesday 27 March 2012
A huge double header - April Verch (Canada) and Nathan Rogers (Canada)

April is another fantastic return performer; her website.

And, Nathan Roger's is new to us but comes highly recommended. Whilst Nathan is very much his own man, if we are lucky, he may even perform a couple of his dad's songs - his dad being the legendary Stan Rogers.

Nathan's website.