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Saturday 5 July
Leonard Minogue
Irish balladeer and poet, Leonard Minogue, supported by the Newcastle Peoples Chorus Trade union choir.
Tix $14
19 July
Come All Ye Soup and Supper Night
Where you are the performer and the audience for a souper soup supper
$5 entry
Saturday 2 August
Cancelled
Pete Hawkes supported by Phil Emmanuel
replacement concert to be announced
Sunday 31 August
Folk Club Picnic Day and sessions
Centennial Park Cooks Hill
11-3pm
BYO picnic lunch. We'll bring the games. including games and sessioning
Free event
6 September
Mark Jackson
Singer, songwriter and all round entertainer and a great involver of audiences is Mark Jackson.
Supported by Di’s creative dance troupe Tarriq Turuq
 DANCE OF LIFE AND TARIIQ TURUQ
The “Dance of Life” Gypsy Belly Dance Troupe and “Tariiq Turuq” Arabic Fusion live band.
A collaboration developed between the extended Dance of Life family to produce dance with live music. Playing music from the Middle East and Eastern Europe the group combine traditional and fusion dancing with traditional and modern instrumentation in an exciting and innovative way.
The Dance of Life has been Newcastle’s premier Gypsy Belly Dance group for 12 years and has been performing with Tariiq Turuq for 3 years.
Tix $14
4 October
Bob Campbell
Bob the fiddler from Gulgong and the band Home Rule
Tix $14
1 November
Folk in Broke Festival
More info at link above
22 November
Something Big Gig
Bees' Wing Coal Mining Workshop along with Bill Becrik, Arch, John Grenager and others
Tix $14
6 December
New York Public Library
Funny name, great band
Tix $14
Sunday 7 December
King Street Fair
Top class entertainment Folk Club stage with local performers, poets, busking competition, stalls and food. A fun day out to find some Christmas gifts.
Tuesday 16 December
Alistair Hulett and David Rovics
Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club
Wesley Fellowship Hall, 150 Beaumont St, Hamilton
Alistair Hulett, born in Glasgow, is an acoustic folk singer with a distinctively political tone. In the early 80's Hulett was the founding member of the five piece folk punk band, Roaring Jack, opening for overseas acts, including Billy Bragg, The Pogues and The Men They Couldn't Hang.
‘Alistair Hulett is a singer of intensity, integrity and conviction, but although much of his writing is hard edged social and political commentary which challenges any hint of passivity in his audience, he doesn’t let the ideology overpower the imaginative lyricism of his writing. He combines rich vocal tonality, deceptively understated guitar style and articulate incisive introductions in a relaxed presentation. He is a singer and writer of stature and Australia’s loss is most definitely our gain.’ The Living Tradition UK
‘Hulett has an extraordinary knack of capturing folk ballad phrasing and melody and putting them into overtly contemporary story songs. It is a mix that has been achieved by very few other writers.’ Sing Out! USA
‘His writing style never seeks the obvious path of easy rhyming or scanning schemes, instead seeking to challenge and provoke, as he explores where other songsmiths fear to tread… The combination of the songs, the delivery and that knife-edge Glaswegian voice is a weapon which refuses to take a background role.’ Taplas UK
Hullett's first solo CD, Dance of the Underclass, was released in 1991 and was completely acoustic, featuring contributions from other members of Roaring Jack, and a rendition of The Internationale. The album was hailed as a folk classic, with the song, He Fades Away, being covered by Roy Bailey and June Tabor, and later by Andy Irvine. A second album, In The Back Streets Of Paradise, was released in 1994, and was a collection of songs originally intended as the next Roaring Jack's release.
In addition to his solo albums, Hulett has worked with Dave Swarbrick of Fairport Convention, producing three albums. |