Newsletter 17/9/2011

Hi All, it’s been a while! 2 months across Europe, 3 new CDs underway from London to Tamworth,

and leading up to where Tamfest turns 40,

The Supper Club 14, BackBeat (ol’ rockin’ Bluegrass) has it’s 20th Anniversary Concert, and I turned 50!! (Mum turned 80!).

Crikey! You’d better come say G’day! Short & simple below

This Week!

First off this Friday in central VIC – always a joy to cut loose with the Wookster –

whether Bluegrass, 60s/ 70s or original views on Brigit Bardot

through to the inner Australian workings of the mind LOL. A voice to tremble the heart & soul.

Clermont with Paul Wookey

Friday Sept 23 Mansfield Produce Store
68 High Street, Mansfield VIC (03) 5779 1404
info@theproducestore.com.au

BluGuru in Concert this week!
Here begins the pre-Wedding Tour for Josh & Parvyn –

bring your regards & focus as we trip you musically round the world plus a

batch of my large “Being There” Panoramic Photos (from literally around the world) on display/ sale

Saturday Sept 24 Melbourne World Music Cafe, The Boite, Mark St Acoustic Concert
(last Melb appearance for the year)
Bookings advised – 1 Mark St, North Fitzroy Phone: 9417 1983
admin@boite.com.au

AND

Andrew Clermont & Friends
Sunday 4pm Sept 25 The Mill, Euroa – Our favourite country Vic venue.
Bookings 17 Kirkland Ave, Euroa, VIC (03) 5795 2772
Frank is helping with the crowd rustling! email to pierce.f@bigpond.com

Tue 7.30pm – 10.30 pm Oct 6 Coomealla Golf Club (Mildura Country Music Festival) a solid Country night
Host : Andrew Clermont (opening & closing sets)
featuring: Dean Perrett, Reg Poole, Dwayne Elix, Cameron Mason, Chooka Williams, Lee Forster

Totally Gourdgeous <http://www.totallygourdgeous.com/> (Last Concerts this year) SA
Weekend 21 – 23 Oct Fleurieu Folk Festival <http://www.fleurieufolkfestival.com.au/> – south of Adelaide!

The Supper Club Special November
– BluGuru In Concert with Tom Donald – Piano Extraordinaire
plus blazing young friends – Steve O’hern (Finger-tapping Guitar)/ Emily Little (Violin)/
Jess Stocker (Swiss Hung & Macedonian Percussion) & the otherside of Brooke Schiemer!
Monday 8pm Nov 7  Tamworth Capitol Theatre

Which then became !!!

Tue Nov 8 Gunnedah beside Town Hall

BluGuru (The Wedding Tour)

Wed 7pm Nov 9 Lambs Valley (Maitland) House Concert – Bookings:
Your hosts: Julia & Brian Leaver Ph 4930 6279 bleaver@activ8.net

Thu 7pm Nov 10 Tara House <http://www.tarahouse.com.au/> Concert – 13 Edgeware Rd, Enmore (Sydney)

Fri 7pm Nov 11 Congo House Concert (Moruya)
Bookings : Paula & Jock howejp@bigpond.com

Sat Nov 12 Canberra House Concert

Sun Nov 13 Mansfield Produce Store

Tue Nov 15 Mildura Muso Club

The next CDs nearly ready!

London Abstractions –
Tom Donald (Piano), Mark Buckingham (Bass Clarinet),
Mal Webb (Gourd Bass) , Andrew Clermont (Gourdalin & Violalin – Epoch 5-string)=
Folked up Jazz – free style musical paintings!

Andrew Clermont’s International Supper Club 2010 Live Part 2 & 3

more info next Email or

see http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/specialevents.htm#tamfest

– drawn from 30 hrs of 24 track recordings made at Tamworth Jan 2010 !!

January 2012 Supper Club @ The North Tamworth Bowling Club will include The Beez (Germany), Hussy Hicks (QLD), BackBeat 20 year Reunion,

Tullara & Shalane Connors, Steve O’hern, Emily Little, BluGuru, Andrew Winton & Paul Novosel (WA) to name just a few!

It was 80 strong this last January – Season Tickets get you 5 free shows ($180 – direct from me). More detail next time.

Tickets available Oct at The Information Centre

A story line next time folks! We’ll keep it thoughtfully short this time !

Newsletter 16/4/2011

Hi most wide ranging friends, associates, fans and wanderers via BluGuru/ Totally Gourdgeous/ The Lawnmowers/ The Supper Club/ Dya Singh/ Fiddlers Feast & more

Hope you can join me somewhere in the next months to blend old times & new, adventure & contemplation covering 50 years.

Turning 50 has a curious feeling of renewal and “did that really happen?”!
Four very different daughters , now 17 to 28, another 5 step siblings over a recent decade, an ex-wife, partners & lovers, of great time, intensity and experience & learning (I/ they we hope). And now life from a bold Berlin perspective much of the time.

My 18th was around the bar at home in Panorama, SA with some still close friends; 21st celebrating together with about 6 Gemini friends at St Andrews Hall in Unley with two of my bluegrass & similar bands – Remnants & Nuclear Shoes! 30th and few others leading up round that time with big handdrawn cards and stories from the many in Tamworth town.Married in 88 – honeymoon from Adelaide to Tamworth, Sydney to Melb and home then was Koyuga VIC. Then came the horse era in the Moonbis, followed by m ajor event of 6 months at the World Expo, Seville in 92. I become party to about 6 bands around 98 who tour variously across the planet still.40th in San Francisco & LA touring with Dya Singh World Music Group. 44th party tour -Tamworth, Syd, Melb, Canberra & Adelaide, 2008 a merry Bday gathering in Fremantle. And 8/8/08 sets changes in motion that reshaped my life and love. Dad passes on in 2009 while I’m at his sister’s funeral with all his Rellies in north Germany.

And now with new band BluGuru as well as 3 of the other main 4, (most mentioned below) will join me in my 50s lap!

Through it all, many of you have been part & parcel to the adventures, ups & downs, corners & surprises. It’s time to come gather where possible. I’ve mapped out a trip from Canberra through Sydney, briefly to the Gold Coast the New England towns out as far as Moree and eventually across to Adelaide for my actual 50th birthday Party /Free Concert at the Governnor Hindmarsh Hotel show room on Sunday 5th of June, then my brothers 49th & Mums 80th before landing in Paris/ Berlin for the following 2 months of touring, living and the love in Berlin. Phew! Details are below

But I am hoping some of you can pass this on to others who have been to (or should go to, ha) or are a part of these 50 years that would add to the surprise of the tour.

There is opportunity to meet most of my bands/ worlds along the way. BluGuru/ Totally Gourdgeous/ The Lawnmowers/ The Supper Club and many co-performers as well. See the links at the bottom of the page.

Some folk have asked what I’d like at this auspicious occasion, and I believe I’m aiming do get a nice suit and long armed, narrow shirts to habit over my next decades. But I’ll be most happiest if folk will love the Big Pic Series of images (some of which can be enlarged from Postcard to 5 metres wide (some examples can be found at link and panoramio) enough to invest. They’ll be at the Gigs or in The Van parked outside and certainly on the web
But mainly it’s a case of you just Being There!

Please join us at ……

APRIL.APRIL.APRIL.APRIL.APRIL.APRIL. 2011
21 – 25 – Easter National Folk Festival in Andrew Clermont’s (16 piece!) Ragas2BluRiches Supper Club – BluGuru

with legendary family band Tamarisque, Steve O’Hern (See with Tullara on Youtube), Shalane & Tullara (CCMA winner at 16) Connors,

Declan Affley Award winners Jeri Foreman & Paddy Montgomery, Parris Macleod

Brooke Schiemer (Star of Stage), Jess Stocker (Turkish Delight), Dave Bishop and who knows more !!

Thu 21 evening spice ! BluGuru at The Troubadour
Fri 22 9pm – 11pm Ragas2BluRiches Supper Club – BluGuru @ Trocadero –
Fri 22 2.30 – A Crash Course to Mandolin Freedom Workshop – Andrew @ Workshop 6

Fri 22 4pm TOTALLY GOURDGEOUS @ The Marquee

Sat 23 10pm – 12am – Ragas2BluRiches Supper Club – BluGuru @ Scrumpy Bar
Sat 23 4pm A Crash Course to Guitar Freedom Workshop – Josh & Andrew @ Work Shop 2

Sat 23 7pm TOTALLY GOURDGEOUS @ Brindabella

Sun 24 10pm – 12am – Ragas2BluRiches Supper Club – BluGuru @ The Troubadour
Mon 24 12.30 – TOTALLY GOURDGEOUS @ The Marquee

Mon 25 2.30pm A Crash Course to Fiddlin’ Freedom Workshop – Andrew @ Workshop 2

(Watch out for Totally Gourdgeous in the Rocky Horror Band Competition!!)

Wed 27 Sydney (Enmore Rd) Tara Guest House Concert – Julian’s 60th Bday! brom@taraguesthouse.com.au – BluGuru & Dave Hellens
Thu 28 Sydney “Camelot” (Marrickville Macedonia Club) BluGuru together with

The George Washingmachine Swing Band – Clare O’Meara, and more Bookings – qirkz@tpg.com.au

MAY. MAY. MAY. MAY. MAY. MAY. MAY – BluGuru

Sun 1 Central Coast – Parris Macleods “Cloud Studio” House Concert – Wyong – parris@cloudstudios.com
Tue 3 May Lunch Show 12 -2PM – Newcastle UNI Derkenne Courtyard Shortland uni
Wed 4 May Lunch Show 12 -2PM – Newcastle UNI Bar on the Hill on the Lawn
Thu 5 May Gallipoli Club Newcastle – BluGuru & The Lawnmowers
Sat 7 May Dorrigo Theatre bridgetsommers@yahoo.com.au
Sun 8 – Wed 11 Gold Coast 50th gathering TBC (send an email to find out – likely in Southport on the Tue Night)

THU 12 May Gallipoli Club Newcastle – BluGuru supporting HARDRIVE Award winning Bluegrass from Melbourne
FRI 13 May House Concert – Maitland – Julia & Brian Levers Lambs Valley – bleaver@activ8.net.au
SAT 14 -SUN 15 May – Karuah BLUEGRASS Festival The Lawnmowers
WED 18 May Workshops @ Moree Secondary School, Carol Ave Campus – BluGuru
WED 8pm 18 May Moree Post Office Hotel 0267 52 1219 – BluGuru
THU 19 May Murrundi Workshop & CONCERT @ THE GOLF CLUB – Bluguru

SAT 21 May 10.30AM – 12.30 Gunnedah WOLSELEY PARK- BluGuru

SAT 21 May – North Tamworth Bowlo 8pm $25 / $20 Kids Free – BluGuru / Supper Club

Thanks to Emily Little on the “BluGuru” Epoch Fiddle at the Tamworth show – Photo Ross Waldron

SUN 22 May 10am Bollywood Dance Workshop 1PM Concert URALLA ARTS Council 0427 141 482 – BluGuru

JUNE.JUNE.JUNE.JUNE.JUNE.JUNE.
FRI 3 June Wentworth (MILDURA ) ARTBACK DINNER & CONCERT with BluGuru anne@artbackaustralia.com.au

SUN 5TH JUNE Midday – 4 pm 50th Birthday for Andrew – Lunch “Supper Club” party concert FREE (over 20 musicians)!
@ The Gov – Port Rd Brompton Adelaide. Multi-Media presentation –
Paintings through to Andrew’s world tour Being There BIG PICs display and offering
– Meals & Drinks available from Hotel.

Thu 23 Adelaide – Scala Songwriters Concert in Simon Franks Band –
a one hour feature of a great songwriter friend of 30years @ Higher Ground 9 to 15 Light Square (NW corner),..

29 Jun PARIS/ BERLIN mainly

JULY,JULY,JULY,JULY,JULY,JULY,JULY,JULY,
Totally Gourdgeous in Europe (Denmark/ Germany/ England- London Festival)- Details soon..

SEPTEMPER.SEPTEMPER.SEPTEMPER.SEPTEMPER.- BluGuru
Sat 10 Sept Christobel’s Soirées ~ 2011 – Adelaide House Concert xbalta@hotmail.com
Sat 24 SEPT Market St – Boite – Melbourne

OCTOBER.OCTOBER.OCTOBER.OCTOBER.OCTOBER.
SEPT 30 – OCT 9 – As Tech at MILDURA COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL –
Main Concert for Andrew likely Wed Night

Newsletter 11/2/2011

It was certainly a strange sensation to be at a festival of such magnitude while so much of Australia was either burning, flooding, and then cyclonic – and now Perth too, man! Many friends were doing their best in those places being helped or helping many others in the most remarkable ways. Our hopes of steady recovery go to them all.

*****Coming up soon Adelaide Fringe Gigs for BluGuru!
First of all thank you so, so much, those who came again & again through the Tamworth Festival week last month to our 13th Supper Club. The North Tamworth Bowling Club is in the process of renovations and fortunately they have kept the unfinished changes out of the Festivals way (and drink prices!). We were blessed with maintained attendance from last year with a large amount of word of mouth new folk, despite a tendency across the Fest of reduced turn out and even cancelled gigs for some bands! Yikes! Leaves me all the more grateful for all your faithful attendance/ spreading the word, and feeling we are doing a few things right. I do read and consider the suggestions in the Questionaire/ Mailing List form! Some thoughts are of-course easier to implement than others. To see the Pics, history & such go to http://www.myspace.com/andrewclermontssupperclub & http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/specialevents.htm#tamfest (my fav pics from Sunny, Ross & Peter) and on Flickr.com look up Ross Waldron for a best-of from his shots this year. I’ll put more up soon.
Don’t forget there is a Season Ticket ($180) which gets you 5 free shows. I strive to keep the surprise element strong though-out the week which includes getting performers to take us though a good selection of their material and potential personnel over their appearances. It is not possible to have such a variety show feature any particular contributor for long sets but realising the Supper Club is itself a “festival”, it seeks your attendance always more than once if not often, to give the bigger picture. We thrive on a youth zing factor and time for them to chill together and produce the gold, to mix with the cauldron of fest spice!

The Being There BIG PICS

And while on that subject, curiously : This year I made an extra push from my visual arts direction specialising in Panoramic photos taken with up to 24 photos to capture the view eg when standing at the base of a glorious waterfall and need to turn halfway round and from straight down to straight up to take it in. An interesting challenge to get the ooh ahh onto paper. 6 BigPics sold this year during the festival with orders for more – thankyou! The web presence of these will build through the year.

http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/sales.htm

Keep in mind also between now and June and again in Sept variously to the end of the year, BluGuru – Parvyn Kaur Singh, Josh Bennett & I will be touring and are right now taking in suggestions for Shows, Workshops (music & dance), House Concerts, and corporate options – anywhere, but especially between Adelaide, Melb, Syd & Brisbane paths.

Here is a wRap up of the Supper Club for Jan 2011.

Highlights were many
– Flatfoot vs Indian Classical Kathak Dance Off with Claw-hammer Banjo vs Sitar ! Whitetop Mountaineers vs BluGuru – a great fun event.
– Macedonia played FLATOUT – taking no prisoners – it was grab a chord/bunch of notes and hang on! (Now I’ve heard that before somewhere!) – and it’s all on video tape! Woohoo!
– Fund-raising for the QLD Flood victims with the Quatro String Quartet from Bundaberg – over $500 raised in 2 x 3 song visits and another $800 at the Golden Fiddle Awards, Quatro performance.
***We duly thank the supporters of the Supper Club & GFA for their generosity and a big Yay for Quatro and particularly Brinderella Airlines for sponsoring their flights all the way down around the flooding.
– local legend photographer, Peter Brown, donated an extremely artful photo of our resident Banjo man, Montz Matsumoto to the hallowed North Tam Bowlo venue, received by the honourable Ted Trainor. Our best wishes go with Ted as he progresses with his cancer treatment.
– we soared with the re-meet of Tullara Connors with Steve O’Hern as they gave John Butler’s tune, Oceans, few solid journeys – once also accompanied by Paddy Montgomery on Irish Bourzouki – triple string wild! (See the New Supper Club 2010 CD!)
– A wonderful card up the sleeve this year as well was the humble Tim Bennett on Bass who’s accompaniment was beautifully sublime with equal moments of astoundment with his tapping and ‘nothing’s too hard’ techniques, harmonies and super vibe!
– the glorious Harmonica Night – truly a ‘must see’ on the first Sunday. From the ‘dexteric’ Tony Eyers Bluegrass tunes to Christian Marsh’s unsurpassed beauty of soaring note and definitive attitude. They top & tail a total feast with this year featuring the blow & suck Aussie style the empowering Mark Atkins on Didgeridoo, taking time out from symphonic tours with Phillip Glass and that most extraordinary Winter Olympics Opening with Ashley MacIsaac. Just some of the feast we get to share at the Supper Club.

But let’s look at the main flavours at this year’s Supper Club –
Tamarisque – The Gordon family band from Adelaide returning by great demand, which also brought with young lefty Paddy Montgomery (cheeky and most photogenic!), and the equally left Bennett Bros Tim & Josh – now engaged to Parvyn Kaur Singh. That of course meant that young SA fiddler, Jeri Foreman was not going to be left out as one way or another, another Supper Club Fellowship variation grew again. These folk all from Adelaide meant a few pre-fest linkups were possible to tease and taunt one another into quite a wider range of orchestrations.

The followup with fellow SA banjo man, Matsumoto, in Tamworth, proceeded with further elaborate and sensitive pieces of multi-culturism. The Gordons, between keeping Paddy on the straight & narrow, lol, and ever ready with piano to take a piece just a little further, were also invited as surprise Finale guests at the Golden Fiddle Awards where over 20 fiddlers united in a newish classic piece, “Death by Triple Fiddle”. Meanwhile Quatro trolled the revelling audience for the Flood Appeal post their standing ovation. pre-finale pieces. Also at the Awards with whirling flatfoot dance steps and traditional playing, were our special Sup Club guests from West Virginia,USA, The Whitetop Mountaineers. http://www.goldenfiddleawards.org.au/ . It was their 3rd visit here and by now they are pretty much family!! Martha & Jackson also come into our Youth ‘section’ – an essential push with the Sup Club. And though they gave a wholesome flavour with Old-time hillbilly music, the second half of the week saw a rather extreme Banjo challenged “Coolgrass” group from Melbourne. Theatrical mayhem & lyrical, musical challenge, and a whole lot of laughs a minute.

Triple CD Launch
It was also the first time for my newly named & recorded, genre jumping trio BluGuru with Parvyn & Josh. We gave the CD the name of the last 2 year’s tours – Ragas 2 Blu Riches – with specific spelling. Brooke Schiemer, many years now in the Supper Club team, was also invited to contribute to the BluGuru recording, made at Enrec Studio in Calala, Tamworth. Thus her first recording is there and simultaneously I mixed down the Live 24-track recordings from The Supper Club last year which also featured much of Brooke Schiemer’s vocals within the first highlights released from those, gulp, 30 hours captured. “Andrew Clermont’s International Supper Club 2010” I anticipate this is the first of 3 CDs to come from the best 3 hours found therein!! eg the Piano Night with 4 pianos circling Golden Fiddle winner, Cathy Fraser, with a La Bottine Souriaunte piece with ricochets from Jess Stocker, Pete Fidler, myself and Liz Frencham on Upright Bass – or the twin Dobro beauty of Chris Rogers (Mildura) & Pete Fidler (Melb) – but see below for more detail.
Also finally we had the arrival of the Tamarisque 4th CD – Swan Song. A very hearty 19 tracks! A fitting (thus far) finale to a wonderful era of family music.

And great to see it them all selling well. Naturally if you missed out on any, just let us know.

The YOUTH – how they inspire!
Over the years we have been sooo touched by the efforts the youth have gone to to present ideas & works, or just share their enthusiasm & technique – usually well beyond their years. The outside seating around the North Tamworth Bowling Club is often packed with musical intrigue. Occasionally players like Jess Randall from The Crooked Fiddle Band or Wu PuYu (long time Flautist & Concert Pianist with the Supper Club), will write a score for the multitudinous players or even a 4 part String section around Michael Fix led by Savannah Jo Lack has happened before! But then by now you do know to expect the unexpected ! This year we had the Swiss Hung (Steel Drum), Sitar, Synth Guitar, assorted double & fretted Basses, Pedal Steel, Octave Mandolin/ Mandola/ Beatbox/ tapping Bass & acoustic guitars, a sudden rivetting Czardas performance from previous Youth No-Holds-Barred Fiddle Champ, Emily Little; I had the pleasure of backing Chloe Nott as she won 2011 Bluegrass Encouragement Award Winner after the Coolgrass boys surrounded her at The Supper Club as a closely following rhythm section. Jess Stocker kept the East European rhythms flowing in and around the weeks music with her Darabuka drum and Swiss Hung – looking forward to mixing down more of last year’s recordings to reveal the solace of this unusual soft steel drum.
Special surprise was young 5 string banjo lass, Taylor Pfeiffer with a powering voice and Australia issues in her heart – at 11 years old she a great inspiration for young and old.

How it runs & the Mandolin invasion!
The Week runs with 2 separate shows a night from Sat to Sat. At 6pm (bar Friday) is a Mix-of-All-the-Nights smorgasbord and at 9pm we focus into a particular theme or Instrument. It should be noted that the ever adaptable Mandolin has sprouted dramatically at the Supper Club being able to sneak in as cousin to Fiddle, Guitar & Piano (quite the honky-tonk sound) and so entwined with Banjo & well, why leave out the Harmonica here, which it perfectly blends with! It is thus the perfect Chameleon and achieves feature every night (10 Mandolinists this year)!!

The Supper Club reached a new record this year! Over 80 contributors! Including 18 Youth (Y)
Brooke Schiemer (Tamworth) – Voice, Piano & Accom

Tamarisque (Janet, Jane (Y), Hugh & Alex Gordon (Y) – SA) – Voice, Piano, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Guitar, Octave Mandolin

Jeridene Foreman (SA) – Fiddle (Y)

Jess Stocker (Armidale) – Darabuka, Drums, Hung (Swiss ‘steel drum’) (Y)

Whitetop Mountaineers (Martha & Jackson – West Virginia, USA) -Vocals, Claw Hammer Banjo,
Fiddle (made by Jackson with a chook headstock!), Guitar, Mandolin

BluGuru (Parvyn Kaur Singh (VIC), Andrew Clermont, Josh Bennett + Tim Bennett (SA)) –
Vocals, Shaker, Mandolin, Guitar, 5 string Fiddle, Tenor Banjo, Didgeridoo,
Gourdolin, Mandola, 12- string Guitar, Gibson Les Paul Guitar, Sitar, Vocal Percussion, Upright & Funk Bass

Paddy Montgomery (SA) – Octave Mandolin, Guitar, Mandolin, Bass (Y)

Montz Matzumoto (SA – JAPAN) – 5 string Banjo, Guitar

Steve O’Hern (Armidale) – Tapping Acoustic Guitar (Y)
Matt Abel (Tamworth) – Drums & Accom
Christian Marsh (Wyong, NSW) – Chromatic & Diatonic Harmonica
Andrew Toner (Sydney) – Guitar Synth
Paul Robert Burton (Central Coast, NSW) – Double Bass & Kohon & sounds!
Pete Fidler (Melb) – Dobro
Tony Eyers (Syd) – Blues/ Bluegrass Harmonica (diatonic)
Mark Atkins (Tamworth) – Didgeridoo
Terry Serio & John Caldor (Sydney) – Vocals, Electric Guitar & Pedal Steel
Chloe Nott (14 – 5 string Banjo), (Y)
Archer (VIC) – Vocals & small body Guitar (1930s re-enacted!)
Lawrie Minson (Tamworth) – Banjo, Harmonica
Quatro (1st fiddle, Amity Brand Amus A (15)2nd fiddle, Claudia Vogel (14) Viola, Vanessa Smith (14) Cello, Radha Shukla (15) from Bundaberg), (Y)
Parris Macleod (Wyong, NSW) – Keyboards
Hussy Hicks (Julz Parker & Leesa Gentz) (Gold Coast) – Vocals & Guitar
Kim Ritchie (VIC) – Vocals
Taylor Pfeiffer (Y 11 years) – Banjo & Vocals
Lauren Lee Williams (VIC) – Vocals & Guitar
Minnie Marx (Byron Bay) – Guitar & Vocals (Y)
Connie Kis Andersen (WA) – Vocals
Ally Harper & the Senile Delinquents (Melb) – Vocals, Bass & Guitar
Tullara & Shalane Connors (Grafton) -Tapping Acoustic Guitar & Vocals (Y)
Texas Rose (NSW) – Vocals
Emma Nixon & Tony Vandermeer – Fiddle & Guitar
Nigel Lever (Syd) – Mandolin & Vocals
Craig Sinclair (Perth) – Vocals & Guitar
Rob Long (Newcastle) – F hole Electric/Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Coolgrass (Jim & Angus Golding, Bruce Packard & Doug) – Vocals, 5 string Banjo & overdrive, Double Bass, Mandolin, Guitar
Jenny Taylor with Lipstick & Spurs Choir (8 piece) – Vocals
Steven Jaymes (Brisbane) – Vocals & Piano/ Keys
Brent Larkham (Spain/ Tamworth) – Vocals, Guitar
Brian Dover (Newcastle) – Vocal & Guitar
Paul Wookey (VIC) – Vocal & Guitar
Karen Lynne & Martin Louis (Blue Mts) – Vocals & Banjo
Jimmy Rush (Syd) – Guitar & Vocals
Daniel Watkins (NSW) – Guitar (Y)
George Jackson (QLD) – Fiddle (Y)
Dave Hellens (Melb) – 5 string Banjo
Val Wood for being Val
Julie Rees, Lucy Rindo, Robyn Hill for wonderous accomodation
Ross Waldron & Sunshine Poschinger on Video & Still Cameras + Peter Brown – Stills (Tamworth)
with big thanks to Bridget, Matthew (Y) and Angela (Y) Sommers on the door and my sister Karin Schmidt on the CD table! Phew!
(Y) = youth

**Here is a bonus way to support the Event

“Andrew Clermont’s International Supper Club 2010” CD $25

1. The Overture (La Bottine Souriante) medley to Big John McNeill – All in, led by Cathy Fraser & Duncan Smith
2. BlueBird (Pot’n Kettle – Pannuzzo & Larkins) – All in, with Wu PuYu on Flute
3. Intros
4. Blackberry Blossom – Jimmy the Fish with Montz Matsumoto & Clermont
5. Black Coffee (Liz Frencham) & Rob Long
6. Milk Cow Blues – All in – with Tami Neilson (Nth America), Mark Mazengarb (NZ), Peter Denahey, Jess Stocker (as seen on the cover!)
7. Big Bug Shuffle (Russ Barenberg) – Peter Fidler & Chris Rogers (Twin Dobros) + Parris Macleod
8. Stay Young (Gallagher & Lyle) – All in – including oh wonderous audience
9. The Longing (Clermont) – All in, featuring Brooke Schiemer & Penny Larkin ‘sing out’
10. Hymn of Ordinary Motion (Douglas / Barenberg/ Meyer) – Twin Dobros – Fidler & Rogers
11. Oceans (John Butler) – Steve O’Hern & Tullara Connors (CMAA Winner)- The Finale !!

DEDICATED TO TED TRAINER,
AND HIS TEAM WITH FAITH, SUPPORT &
HUMOUR THROUGH THE DECADE AT THE NORTH TAM BOWLO

Welcome to 10 tracks in Part 1 of perhaps 3 CDs to commemorate
the 2010 Supper Club selected from 30 hours of 24 track recording! $25

2003 saw the capture to CD of a very special mid-year Supper Club.
With the best of indigenous Didgeridoo from Mark Atkins meets India Tabla rhythms
of Dheeraj Shresthra with Parris & Wu PuYu Macleod anglo-piano/Taiwan Flute overlay
while The Lawnmowers ala ,Bluegrass soared between! $25

The 2004 Video recordings became short summary clips – a visual & auditory
distillment to wet the appetite and bedazzle the uninitiated! $25

The 2005 Videos (from up to 3 Cameras) became a mammoth 13 DVDs of the 15 Shows
with a bonus Best of DVD as well. A very intimate delve into the last year we saw
Sophie Raymond with surprise guest, Colin Brooks (Texas, USA) and both
the young Eldridge Sisters, Savanah Joe Lack & Daryl Walker. And
the NoHoldsBarred Fiddle Contest – A priceless documentary. $30 Best of $25 individual $200 Set

Looking forward to completing the editing of video footage since then to 2010
– sponsors welcome !

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