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THE MELTDOWN & THE TESKEY BROTHERS – THE MEENIYAN DANCE  Saturday 5th August. 2017.  8pm

***SOLD OUT***

To celebrate the Hall’s 125th birthday Lyrebird are going to bring back the Meeniyan dance on Saturday 5th August. There will be some tables and chairs – but these will be unallocated. Doors open at 7, music to start at the usual time of 8pm. The bands are prodigious – The Meltdown (9 piece full sound explosion) & The Teskey Brothers. Not only a birthday, but a full-on celebration. Dress up or dress down, just dress and get there!!

Melbourne’s purveyors of the finest country soul THE MELTDOWN, are delighted to be performing at Meeniyan to celebrate the Hall’s 125th year and also the release of their self-titled debut album. Blending country, gospel and 60s soul, the result is a unique take on Australian soul music and a record full of life, energy and deeply felt storytelling. With influences ranging from Father John Misty, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Alabama Shakes built above a steady foundation of southern soul music, this collection of stellar players have created a mesh of Stax and Motown with a healthy dose of the Nashville songwriting tradition. Making the song the focus, The Meltdown stay true to the common goal of the story and keep your attention on the honey soaked tones of Simon Burke’s incredible voice.
The Teskey Brothers. are a group of talented young musicians, thcir influences include Funk, Jazz, Blues, Soul, Rock, even some Latin They unashamedly draw from any style so long as it fits into the overall category of good, they don’t discriminate, loving and appreciating a wide style of musical genres. Modern influences include such artists as Ben Harper, Steve Wonder, Prince, Cody Chestnut, and Cat Empire. Whilst recent musical history supplies the artistic genius-of Otis Reading, Ray Charles, George Benson to challenge and inspire the young and open mind, the Teskey brother’s love nothing more than to play music old or new and they do it with unique and original style their youth and enthusiasm is a joy to behold

“This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.”

Members & Concession $30. Adults $35

Dress up or dress down, just dress and get there!!

Book tickets via email or any of our local ticket outlets: Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek; Duck Hutt, Meeniyan; Main Street Revelations, Foster; The Rusty Windmill Cafe, Leongatha.

Booking tickets via email is simple: just email us telling us the number of tickets you want to purchase and we will email you back with payment details.

Enquiries phone 5664 9239 / 0427 060 219

Unallocated limited table seating. All Ages. BYO.

MEENIYAN TOWN HALL  Saturday 15th July 2017. Doors 7pm. Show 8pm

Joe Pug & Courtney Marie Andrews

Chicago born and raised Joe Pug is no stranger to this part of the world and makes a welcome return to headline shows after coming down for 2016’s Out On the Weekend festival. His third and critically acclaimed album Windfall, a 10-song indie-folk gem that has cemented his reputation as one of America’s most respected young songwriters, was met with high praise with The Australian describing it as “absolutely brilliant.” As Paste Magazine commented, “Windfall is an album about not just the broken moments and uphill climbs that shape life, but how to exist in those moments, how to draw on core strengths and adapt, how to live through it all and come out stronger.” We all agreed and you will hear tunes from this, his back catalogue and new tunes and covers come July.

Touring with Joe will be Courtney Marie Andrews. At just 16 years old, Andrews left home in Arizona for her first tour. Travelling up and down the West Coast of the USA, busking and playing anywhere that would have her. Soon after, she took a Greyhound bus four nights straight from Phoenix to New York to do the same on the East Coast. For a decade or so since, Courtney’s been a session and backup singer and guitarist for nearly 40 artists, including Damien Jurado. She never stopped writing her own material, though. Picking up admirers like Jurado and Ryan Adams along the way, she has quietly earned a reputation as a songwriter’s songwriter. Her 2016 album release ‘Honest Life’ has been praised by media universally with the UK’s Daily Telegraph saying “the poetic economy of her lyrics is right up there with such masters of the country vignette as Guy Clark and John Prine…a truly substantial talent.” That’s some big associations right there.

Joe Pug and Courtney Marie Andrews. Two sensational talents gracing the one stage for a great night of music and discovery. Don’t miss them this July.

Members & Concession $40. Adults $45

Book tickets via email or any of our local ticket outlets: Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek; Duck Hutt, Meeniyan; Main Street Revelations, Foster; The Rusty Windmill Cafe, Leongatha.

Booking tickets via email is simple: just email us telling us the number of tickets you want to purchase and we will email you back with payment details.

Enquiries phone 5664 9239 / 0427 060 219

Table seating. All Ages. BYO.

MEENIYAN TOWN HALL  Saturday 10th June, 2017. Doors 7pm. Show 8pm

Beth Orton | support Vorhees   **sold out**

English Brit award winning singer-songwriter Beth Orton today announces that she will play dates around the country this June, adding to her already announced appearance at the Sydney Opera House (Vivid Live festival).

Last in Australia in 2013 for the Heavenly Sounds tour, Orton is well known for her mesmerising on-stage presence and powerfully emotive vocals. Consequence Of Sound wrote of Orton’s “… intensely heartfelt vocals and ever assured guitar…” at a recent London show, continuing that “Orton’s vocal at times recalled the melisma of Joni Mitchell and the purity of Sandy Denny”.

Orton will perform with a full band for the first time in Australia in many years playing songs spanning her celebrated career from Trailer Park, Central Reservation, Daybreaker, Comfort of Strangers and Sugaring Season to her 2016 album Kidsticks, which was co-written and co-produced in LA with Fuck Buttons’ Andrew Hung. The album received rave reviews from tastemakers around the world, with the UK’s Guardian describing the album as a “joyously abandoned swirl of words and sounds”, while Clash Magazine said, “it is an album marking out its own territory rather than trying to conform to expectations.”

“Her 20 years of folk-electro oscillations find an experimental middle ground here, between breathy vocal rounds and abstract electronic grooves”, said Rolling Stone Australia.

WATCH Beth’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert here, and live performance of Moon on WFUV here

Don’t miss your chance to experience this incredible performer when she returns to our shores in June.

Support |Vorheers   https://www.facebook.com/VorheesMusic/

Members & Concession $60. Adults $65

Book tickets via email or any of our local ticket outlets: Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek; Duck Hutt, Meeniyan; Main Street Revelations, Foster; The Rusty Windmill Cafe, Leongatha.

Booking tickets via email is simple: just email us telling us the number of tickets you want to purchase and we will email you back with payment details.

Enquiries phone 5664 9239 / 0427 060 219

Table seating. All Ages. BYO.

MEENIYAN TOWN HALL  Saturday 27th May 2017. Doors 7pm. Show 8pm

Sarah Blasko **Sold Out**

Performing without a band for the first time in her storied career, Sarah Blasko will lay bare her extraordinary songwriting and iconic voice in a special nation-wide tour of theatres both intimate and grand. Sarah Blasko writes songs that strike with rare immediacy, clarity and purpose. Melodies beguilingly simple, lyrics ever honest and direct. She has a deserved reputation as one of Australia’s most commanding live performers whether she’s playing in the most intimate theatres, the grandest Opera Houses or our most expansive festival stages.

“Whenever I listen to Sarah Blasko’s albums I feel like I’m navigating a vast ocean” – Dave Faulkner – The Saturday Paper

From her game-changing debut The Overture & The Underscore (2004) through to 2015’s stunning synth-laden paean to love Eternal Return, the three-time ARIA Award winner has continually proven herself an irrepressible artistic force and one of the most recognisable voices in Australian music.
In the midst of releasing 5 studio albums both beloved by fans and critically adored, Blasko continues to find time to write scores for award winning film, television and theatre productions.

Members & Concession $52. Adults $55

Book tickets via email or any of our local ticket outlets: Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek; Duck Hutt, Meeniyan; Main Street Revelations, Foster; The Rusty Windmill Cafe, Leongatha.

Booking tickets via email is simple: just email us telling us the number of tickets you want to purchase and we will email you back with payment details.

Enquiries phone 5664 9239 / 0427 060 219

Table seating. All Ages. BYO.

MEENIYAN TOWN HALL  Saturday 15th April 2017 **SOLD OUT**

TONY JOE WHITE

THE SWAMP FOX AND BLUES ICON

TONY JOE WHITE

RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA IN APRIL 2017

The Swamp Fox, Tony Joe White, is to put it simply a bona legend of the music game and at the age of 73 he just keeps getting better. We are pleased to announce his return to Australia in April 2017.

Tony Joe White was literally born for the blues, the part-Cherokee musician being brought up as part of a big brood on a cotton farm in Louisiana, raised on a diet of Lightnin’ Hopkins and local bluesmen, an upbringing reflected to this day in his evocative, haunting music and adding a veneer of authenticity to everything that he touches.

Gems like “Polk Salad Annie” and “Rainy Night in Georgia” were just the beginning. His recording career has now spanned parts of six different decades and spawned well over 20 albums with his songs recorded by Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones and Etta James. He has worked in the studio or on stage with list of artists that would make your head spin – Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, The MGs, Eric Clapton, JJ Cale, Waylon Jennings, Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris and recently appeared with the Foo Fighters on Letterman as they performed Polk Salad Annie which prompted host David Letterman to say “If I was this guy, you could all kiss my ass.” Fair call.

TJW is not one to sit still, and he’s still as relevant as he ever was with the release of his latest album, Rain Crow.  American Songwriter magazine gave it 4 from 5 star review and said “Rain Crow is yet another stunning example that Tony Joe White’s uncompromising, often ominous vision, shows no signs of diminishing.”

So whether you’ve been with White for the duration or are a newcomer to his incredible music it matters not – come along and join the festivities when the legend that is Tony Joe White hits Australia in 2017.

www.tonyjoewhite.com

facebook.com/tonyjoewhiteofficial

twitter.com/tonyjoewhite

Concession $52 Adults $55 (includes all bkg fees and GST)

Book tickets via email or any of our local ticket outlets: Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek; Duck Hutt, Meeniyan; Main Street Revelations, Foster; The Rusty Windmill Cafe, Leongatha. Enquiries phone 5664 9239 / 0427 060 219

Table seating. All Ages. BYO.

MEENIYAN TOWN HALL Sunday 5th March 2017. Doors 6pm. Show 7pm

Kurt Vile  **Sold Out**

Support: Jess Ribeiro

Mistletone very proudly presents Kurt Vile, stopping by Meeniyan as part of his supreme solo tour.

Since releasing his debut solo album Constant Hitmaker in 2008, Kurt Vile has ascended to an elevated stature as one of the most accomplished and charismatic songwriters of our time. A firm favourite with Australian audiences, KV has packed out rooms across Australia (including Sydney Opera House earlier this year, with his band The Violators).

Kurt’s latest album b’lieve i’m goin down…, released last year via Matador / Remote Control, won universal acclaim; The AV Club called “the purest distillation of Vile’s idiosyncratic style to date”, and Pitchfork bestowed it Best New Music, noting: “Kurt Vile has a persona, and you know him by now: He is the weird quiet kid in the corner, the one who seems at first lost in his own world and disconnected from everything around him, but turns out to be smart, observant, and low-key hilarious. So while his albums draw you in with the vibe—the impeccably recorded and mixed songs that shuffle bits of folk, new wave, or country in the mix but are always squarely down-the-middle rock—you return to them for their human qualities, the way they offer a manner of seeing the world, a glimpse at a perspective that feels both voyeuristic and easy to connect to your own life.”

Last year, Kurt told Rolling Stone that he wanted b’lieve i’m goin down… “to sound like it’s on my couch”, citing Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush as a reference point. “Not in a lo-fi way,” he explained, “just more unguarded and vulnerable. I wanted it to feel like I was on a couch in a familiar living room even if I was somewhere else. To me, it’s sort of that home vibe that I had to capture somehow…to make it sound like it was played there in the room.”

This intimate and immediate power that Kurt Vile’s songs possess is one of the qualities that KV fans hold dear to their hearts, and it will be in generous supply on this rare and auspicious occasion of a Kurt Vile solo tour.

• “The music is quiet and the melody, like a hymn, folds in on itself, and embraces full strength in a sexy, floating forcelessness that slowly gathers into a wave that doesn’t go where you think it will” – KIM GORDON

• “The former forklift driver is now one of the most adored artists around. He has a canon of cool songs: feelgood, insightful, reflective, comforting, jubilant tunes. It’s been a slow burn, but he hasn’t put a foot wrong – he’s one of only a few that you’d trust to still be making cool music decades from now. Give Kurt Vile’s music some little chunks of your life and you will be rewarded. Handsomely” – AUNTY MEREDITH

One price $55 + booking fee

Book tickets via email or any of our local ticket outlets: Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek; Duck Hutt, Meeniyan; Main Street Revelations, Foster; The Rusty Windmill Cafe, Leongatha. Enquiries phone 5664 9239 / 0427 060 219

Table seating. All Ages. BYO.

Summer Of Soul Saturday January 7th, 2017

Felix Riebl

As the energetic, charismatic, and quietly spoken frontman of Melbourne powerhouse The Cat Empire, Felix Riebl has carved a reputation as a phenomenally gifted song-smith and performer.

Concession $70 Adults $80 (plus booking fees)

Summer Of Soul Saturday January 7th, 2017

VIEUX FARKA TOURE

Often referred to as The Hendrix of the Sahara, Vieux is the son of legendary Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure. Ali came from a tribe of soldiers, historically, and defied his parents to become a musician. History repeated when Vieux declared that he also wanted to be a musician – and with help from family friend, the kora maestro Toumani Diabate, Vieux eventually convinced his father to give him his blessing shortly before Ali passed.
http://www.vieuxfarkatoure.com/

Concession $70 Adults $80 (plus booking fees)

Book tickets via email or any of our local ticket outlets: Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek; Duck Hutt, Meeniyan; Main Street Revelations, Foster; The Rusty Windmill Cafe, Leongatha, Massage & Books, Inverloch and Upbeat Juice Bar, Wonthaggi. Enquiries phone 5664 9239 / 0427 060 219

Summer of Soul  – Mossvale
Park

LAKE STREET DIVE

Australia & NZ fell in love with LAKE STREET DIVE on their debut tour in Feb/Mar 2015 and the now Brooklyn based US band have since released their new album “SIDE PONY” on Warner/Nonesuch and we are totally thrilled to announce they are back touring Australia/NZ this summer.
On the last tour they mesmerised audiences at WOMAD, Secret Garden Festival, Meeniyan and many more and were an absolute highlight at these events so we can’t wait to see and hear the warm, soulful pop grooves of one of the best live bands on the planet on their next Antipodean adventure.

Concession $70 Adults $80 (plus booking fees)

Book tickets via email or any of our local ticket outlets: Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek; Duck Hutt, Meeniyan; Main Street Revelations, Foster; The Rusty Windmill Cafe, Leongatha, Massage and Books, Inverloch and Upbeat Juice Bar, Wonthaggi.      Enquiries phone 5664 9239 / 0427 060 219