Just time for some quick final news for 2022 as we’ll be starting the new year off with a bang with some legends and some legendary tribute shows. So here goes!

January kicks off with a long-time favourite – Atlanta Coogan’s brilliant Amy Winehouse Show at the Palais Hepburn Springs on Saturday Jan 14 – before we present the premiere of something new: A brilliant Tom Petty show entitled Learning to Fly at Memo Music Hall in St Kilda on Saturday January 21 with an all-star vocal cast – Rebecca Barnard, Nick Barker, Sal Kimber, the Huxton Creepers’ Rob Craw and up and coming singer/songwriter Georgia Knight – and a bunch of well-seasoned Petty freaks comprising the band. In addition to those two shows, we’re pleased to present rock’n’roll royalty Russell Morris and his great band at The Memo in Healesville for the first time on Saturday January 28. 

The legends keep coming in Feb; indeed, we could call February our legends month.

We kick the month of with a couple of weekends’ worth of shows from Ross Wilson – Warrnambool Feb 4 and Narre Warren Feb 5, then Devenport Feb 9, Launceston Feb 10 and Hobart Feb 11. Ross and his great band are doing his ‘Eagle Rock’ 50th anniversary thing. (You know Tom Petty was a big Daddy Cool fan yeah? Check out Heartbreakers’ keyboard player Benmont Tench performing “Come Back Again” on YouTube!)

We’ve also got a Frankston/Narre Warren/Horsham Feb 10/11/12 weekend run for Richard Clapton, and a Healesville/Warragul/Frankston run for Joe Camilleri and the Black Sorrows.

We have more Ross Wilson shows in March – Upwey, Sale and Warragul on March 3/4/5.

Moving to May we are pleased to announce a weekend of dates – in Healesville, Sale and Warragul on May 5/6/7 – from Laura Davidson and her All-Star Band‘s superb show Superstar: The Carpenters Songbook. Laura is as versatile as she is capable – she’s toured the world with Bjôrn Again, playing Frida, and she’s also appeared in The Spicy Girls as Sporty Spice and up front of AC/DSHE as the leading lady Bonnie Scott! She has a great love for jazz, pop and all things rock and has been likened to the late great Shirley Strachan after performing for a number of years up front of Bongo Starkie’s Million Dollar Riff Skyhooks show. 

The complete list of upcoming shows, with ticket links, follows. Don’t forget your artists still need your support, so please get out to a show or two.

Have a great Xmas and a fun and safe NYE, best wishes for 2023, and we’ll see you ’round the traps.

 

 

The life and songs of Amy are brilliantly celebrated in The Amy Whitehouse Show. Atlanta Coogan, one of Australia’s finest and most versatile vocalists, along with her handpicked ‘Back To Black Band’ and a stellar horn section, take audiences on a lovingly curated musical journey through Amy’s life.

Sat 14th Jan The Palais, Hepburn Springs 
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Nick Barker, Rebecca Barnard, Sal Kimber, Rob Craw (Huxton Creepers) and Georgia Knight, backed by Josh Owen, Dan Lethbridge, Rick Plant, Ben Wiesner and Jethro Pickett, who have between them played with the likes of James Reyne, Buddy Miller, Missy Higgins, Glenn Richards, The Audreys and more. True fans one and all, this crew realise that not only was Tom Petty one of rock’s great singer-songwriters but the Heartbreakers were one of rock’s great bands. “Refugee”, “The Waiting”, “Stop Dragging My Heart Around”, “American Girl”, “Free Fallin'” – these guys had way more than their fair share of classics and you’ll hear them all, done just right, at this special one-off show.  

Sat Jan 21 Memo Music Hall, St Kilda 
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Russell Morris is one of Australia’s most enduring singers. A major pop star in the late ’60s, he went on to become one of the country’s first singer/songwriters. Now he is playing Healesville for very first time. Tix on sale now!

Sat Jan 28 The Memo, Healesville 
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From Daddy Cool to Mondo Rock and as a solo artist with no less than 26 ARIA Top 40 hits to his credit as a singer, songwriter and producer, Ross Wilson is the Boss! Catch Ross playing the best of Daddy Cool and more in Feb and March!

Sat 4 Feb Lighthouse Theatre, Warrnambool 
Tix from $64 BOOK TICKETS 
Sun 5 Feb (arvo) Bunjil Place, Narre Warren
Tix from $64 BOOK TICKETS 
Thu 9 Feb Paranaple Arts Centre, Devonport
Tix from $64 BOOK TICKETS 
Fri 10 Feb Theatre North, Launceston
Tix from $64 BOOK TICKETS 
Sat 11 Feb Theatre Royal, Hobart
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In 2023, the man who defined what it was to be a singer-songwriter in Australia, the legendary Richard Clapton marks 50 years since the release of classic debut album Prussian Blue. In great voice, with a great band, and an incomparable set of great songs, Richard Clapton is not to be missed!

 

Fri 10 Feb Frankston Arts Centre
Tix from $65 BOOK TICKETS 
Sat 11th Feb Bunjil Place, Narre Warren
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Sun 12th Feb (arvo) Horsham Town Hall
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Fresh from a three-week European tour and a Music Victoria Awards Best Blues Album nomination, and with a new live album getting readied for release. the hardest working man (and the hardest working band) in the land are firing on all cylinders and you’ll wanna catch them while they’re hot. Joe Camilleri of course is a bona fide icon, an ARIA Hall of Famer and a rare artist whose creativity continues to blossom, decade after decade. Joe and band will play all the songs you want to hear, and some new stuff that you’ll want to hear next time. 

Fri Feb 24 Memo Music Hall, Healesville 
Tickets from $64 BOOK TICKETS 
Sat Feb 25 West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul 
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Sun Feb 26 (arvo) Frankston Arts Centre 
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From Daddy Cool to Mondo Rock and as a solo artist with no less than 26 ARIA Top 40 hits to his credit as a singer, songwriter and producer, Ross Wilson is the Boss! Catch Ross playing the best of Daddy Cool and more in Feb and March!

 

Fri 3 Mar Burrinja Theatre, Upwey
Tix from $64 BOOK TICKETS 
Sat 4 Mar The Wedge Performing Arts Centre, Sale
Tix from $64 BOOK TICKETS 
Sun 5 Mar (arvo) West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul
Tix from $64 BOOK TICKETS 

 

 

The sublime Laura Davidson and band present all the Carpenters’ hits exactly as you want to hear them – “Close To You”, “Top Of The World”, “We’ve Only Just Begun”, “Superstar”, “For All We Know”, “Yesterday Once More”. And more!

Fri 5 May The Memo, Healesville
Tix from $59 BOOK TICKETS 
Sat 6 May The Wedge Performing Arts Centre, Sale
Tix from $54 BOOK TICKETS 
Sun 7 May (arvo) West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul
Tix from $54 BOOK TICKETS