Pokey LaFarge & His Band (USA)
With special guest DJ Emma Peel
TWO SHOWS:
* Saturday 10th May 2025. Doors 7pm, Show 8:00pm (** SOLD OUT **)
* Sunday 11th May 2025. Matinee. Doors 2pm, Show 3:00pm
MEENIYAN TOWN HALL
2nd show announced.
Demand for Pokey’s sold-out show on 10th May has been overwhelming, so he and his Band are also doing a special matinee show, the following afternoon, Sunday 11th May.
Matinee times are Doors 2pm, Show 3pm.
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Our favourite riverboat chic rock-n-roller Pokey LaFarge is back at Meeniyan Town Hall this May, this time with his band and ready to share his latest offering, Rhumba Country, serving up flavours of mambo, Tropicália, rocksteady, and mid-century American rock-and-roll.
It’s been six years since the Illinois-born singer songwriter embraced our southern shores, when he toured the country in 2019 with a then unknown, Sierra Ferrell.
After crisscrossing and rambling around the USA looking for a home, Pokey LaFarge found himself in Mid-Coast Maine ready to pursue a major life change. Pokey’s time of working 12-hour days on a local farm catalysed an extraordinary burst of creativity and redefined his sense of purpose as an artist. And now he has recorded and birthed his boldest album yet, ready to share with Australian fans.
Rhumba Country (2024, New West Records) was initially shaped from material that emerged while LaFarge was deep in work on the farm. “I’d be pushing a plow or scattering seeds, and the songs would just come to me,” he recalls. “It was tremendously inspirational and made me realise that apart from singing, farming is perhaps the oldest human art form.”
The result is a kaleidoscopic sound informed by LaFarge’s love of music from far-ranging eras and corners of the globe, celebrating life and love.
“The songs that naturally come to me are upbeat and make you wanna dance or at least bop your head—they’re all very colourful,” says LaFarge. “I used to think of my music in dark blue, but now I see it in technicolour.”
You’ve heard his music, you’ve seen him on the screen and stage, now it’s time to experience Pokey LaFarge and his band live with his rocksteady rhythms, country croon and soulful sounds gracing the Meeniyan stage this May.
Tickets : $77.00 plus booking fee
Book tickets via Oztix link
Enquiries phone 0408 039 251 or 0419 302 851
Allocated table seating. All Ages. BYO.
Sat 10 May. Doors 7pm, Show 8:00pm
Sun 11 May, Matinee. Doors 2pm, Show 3:00pm
