Friday 17 February 2012
The Beez (Germany)

The Beez are back!

They last visited us two years ago but provided a sneak preview of the latest songs at Newstead Live in late January.

You sit in the audience at a Beez show knowing full well that you won't go more than 30 seconds without either being blown away by superb musicianship or great humour. They are the perfect package.

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 latest CD "Freischwimmer" CD:

Ich Liebe Musik

Always Looking Out For You

You Ought to Know

A Plague of Locusts

The Beez website.

Under the Grandstand, Queen Elizabeth Oval, View Street, from 8:00pm for an 8:15pm start. Tickets available at the door - $20 or $15 members and concession.


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!

Every time Katie and Mike set themselves up Under the Grandstand they play to near capacity crowds. Katie Euliss and Mike West deliver a performance that is fully entertaining and relating to the highs and lows of modern life, coping without question with the hand you are dealt.

Katie and Mike were already living the performance when their home in New Orleans was washed away by Hurricane Katrina. Since then they have have travelled to the ends of the Earth and back, performing in Australia, Holland, Germany, Britain and throughout the US. Home when they are there, is now mid west Kansas, a long way from New Orleans in every respect.

Truckstop's music tells a story so honest and strange you know they didn?t make it up. Their performance involves tough, funny, hi-octane songs about interstates, pinball arcades and true love.

Truckstop Honeymoon has just released a new CD "Steamboat in a Cornfield" and it is a ripper. Some sound bites:




She Wants to be French

Steamboat in a Cornfield

Joues le Jeu





Truckstop's website.

Tickets available at the door - $20 or $15 members and concession. Under the Grandstand, Queen Elizabeth Oval, View Street, from 8:00pm for an 8:15pm start. Tickets at the door.


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.