Concert tours now from Melbourne through and around coast to Sydney/ Newcastle/ Tamworth etc Oct 2016
Hi Folks, a great set of tours & events coming up to take you through to the end of summer
and starting this weekend in Melbourne!!
Matsumoto/ Wookey/ Clermont
and
All Corners Covered – Rachel Johnston & Andrew Clermont
followed by The Supper Clubs at Woodord & Tamworth Festivals
see it all here at http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/gigguide.htm
and http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/latestnews.htm
or zoom in on the excerpts attached here.
Plenty CDs & DVDs to catch up on at the concerts.
Paul Wookey joins Matsumoto & Clermont Tour.
Late Oct to mid Nov from Melbourne to Mallacoota far east VIC to New England mid north NSW and back to Harrietville VIC
for the happy Mountaingrass mingle!
Clermont first played with Paul in about 1982. Wookey & Clermont met Montz at Frances Folk Gathering on the SA/VIC border some 15 years ago. We have all become best friends in music and are very keenly looking forward to this special trip.
Introducing a hot and very unique trio of song harmony and musical journey with a strong but worldly bluegrass taste.
Montz Matsumoto http://montzbanjo.com/
From Kyoto, Japan, Montz met Andrew at the Frances Folk Gathering nearly 20 years back and became the most seen performer at Andrew Clermont’s Supper Club. He’s very pleased to introduce the magnetic Banjo whiz/ entertainer/ world traveled Matsumoto to the hallowed Rutherglen extended community. He has also been blitzing with The Pigs from Gympie to the Black Stump, and variously with The Borderers and festivals with Clermont.
Most people would probably associate the banjo with Appalachian hillbilly music and the film ‘Deliverance,’ however the charismatic Matsumoto’s eclectic brand of music is testament to the adaptability of the instrument to a wide variety of musical styles, including Japanese, Indian, Celtic, Reggae and of course the traditional Bluegrass as well. He cites Doc Watson, Ry Cooder, David Grisman, Tony Trischka as influences with Woody Guthrie strong on his latest CD. Wit and humour shine throughout his performance , honed from touring the world.
Plus!!
Paul Wookey www.paulwookey.com.au
..is a gifted musician and possessor of one of the most acknowledged and diverse talents to have emerged in this country over the last 2 decades.
During this time Paul has shared the stage with & won accolades from a great many performers, including American Blues great John Hammond and Jimmy Witherspoon,( for whom he played guitar replacing Robin Ford), and Vince Gill, the No. 1 country singer in the U.S.
Although reasonably adept at an old country ballad, (Paul was a Gold Guitar winner at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 1981!) his first love is the blues and old 50’s &60’s rock&roll.
Paul has toured with Mick Jagger, Joe Satriani, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Hammond, Charlie Musselwhite, Brownie McGee, Vince Gill, Jessie Winchester, Mark O’Connor, Dan Crary, Byron Berline, Albert Lee, Mickey Newbury, Ralph McTell… and the list goes on
And chameleon Andrew Clermont, a nutso Fiddler, Mandolinist & 3 time Bluegrass Guitar Champ to boot – 30 years touring – from Tom T Hall, Dya Singh, BluGuru to Totally Gourdgeous, All Corners Covered and a Golden Fiddle Award director!
Plus 20 years of the epic Supper Club at Tamworth CM & Woodford, National & WA’s Fairbridge Folk Festivals!
Andrew Clermont is touring with formidable and feisty cellist Rachel Johnston
with a selection from the tips of Scandinavia through UK to inner Outback & Oldtime.
Clermont leaving for a moment the curious Totally Gourdgeous, BluGuru, Dya Singh & Supper Club adventures
of the last 2 decades, and Johnston her many years of the Australian String Quartet (!) and touring with Missy Higgins –
here be some particularly fresh and soul stirring music.
Curious & twisted are the stories and songs. Tantalising and soaring are the works –
they will certainly draw upon all their histories and take us well beyond!.
Clermont is with the sensuous double size Mick Moffat F5 Mandola along side the Gilchrist F5 Mandolin and Roger Buckmaster Fiddle & 5 string version, plus ringing cast metal didgeridoo & White Swallow Banjo
beside Rachel’s near glowing Luis & Clark Cello.
Add Clermont’s 3 time Bluegrass Guitar Champ maneuvers to
Rachel’s gleaning of the worlds of Cello style and there be a feast to behold!
https://www.facebook.com/soaringmusic/
Rachel Johnston & Andrew Clermont – All Corners Covered Tour !
Early December Beechworth to Newcastle
Newsletter 9/10/2015
Dear Friends of the Clermont path,
thank you all so very much for your attendances, including celebrating our 17th year of musical adventures last January and/ or at Woodford Folk Festival last Xmas for our 3rd time – or Estonia!?!.
Here be first a “quick” thanking summary, followed by new tours ahead with Totally Gourdgeous/ BluGuru and Zen Tripitalia with a special surprise, Rachel Johnston, from years in the Australian String Quartet! Then what is new for the Supper Clubs coming up and at Woodford & Tamworth Festivals next summer! Special guests via Italy/ Ireland/ Chile and plenty from Oz!
We also celebrated 10 years of The Golden Fiddle Awards at a packed Capitol Theatre during January’s Tamworth Country Music Festival with a poetic delivery from Pixie and a good cross-section from the youth with Pumpkin Juice and over 20 years of the Fiddlers Festival (Feast) band.
And a glance into the ‘surprise’ USA tour.
However for those who feel you’d love to help out in some way! There are definitely options for you too. At Tamworth we seek accommodation for our players, or help with their travel funds! Meanwhile you can buy Season Passes to the Supper Club all week – a definite way to show great support for the event !!
Holding a House Concert is also a brilliant way to bring the music to you – easier than you think! Now is a good time to put in your requests for next year!!
Tours !
Concerts ahead at Townsville (This Tue!! c/o Folk Club House Concert!) Kangaroo Valley, Gosford, Woodville (Newcastle), Murrurundi, Tamworth, Gunnedah, Wauchope, Uralla, Newcastle Uni, Enmore, Tomerong, Nowra, Canberra, Bega, Mallacoota, Beechworth, Mansfield, Harrietville VIC – perhaps even Melbourne! See http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/gigguide.htm
A QUICK LOOK BACK AT Tamworth Supper Club, January 17 – 24
This time about 85 artists joined us – from Adelaide to Yackandandah, Denmark (south coast WA), Melbourne, Brisbane, Estonia (next to Russia!), Tasmania, Fremantle, Sunshine & Gold Coast, Berlin (Germany), all over Victoria, Maitland, Sydney to Euroa and plenty local too!.
Special guests from The TRUGS (Tamworth Regional Ukelele Group) through to legend Leslie Avril & Jug Music extraordinaire Mick Conway with Robbie Long, the grateful return of Roshani in Urban Chiefs to The Switch, riveting Daniel Champagne, Women in Docs to G Louise & The Wild Women of Armidale, rootsy Sian Evans to sublime Sam Leman & Hawaiian dose through Lucy Leman and beyond to the word tales from Geoffrey Graham.
Wonderful regulars through the week included Pumpkin Juice fiddle kids, Simon & Marta, Jeri Foreman & Gage Stead, Paul Wookey & Philomena Carroll, Parris Macleod & Chontia Robinson, Louise Adams (going brilliantly on The X-Factor just now! See her next Tamworth Supper Club in celebration!!) “with lil Frankie nearby, Jude Iddison fiddling, Tullara Connors guitar journeys and the absolutely endearing Rauno Vaher percussionist with his euro twinkle in his eye 🙂 who put in a visit after The Supper Club went to Estonia last year – far reaching Marilla Homes, Maik Antrack and yet to be seen here, Chris Blyth (who will appear at the Adelaide Supper Club gathering at Wirrina Bluegrass Festival early this September).
Plenty invaluable contributions from Nigel Lever, Kate Mear, Pete Fidler, Jess Stocker (with choice family musicology in G Louise & WW Armidale). There was the well awarded Leaping Lizards and on Friday Mark Atkins Group with The Crosby Sisters on before them with some very wide ranging Tamworth music with Mark likely to appear anywhere in the world from Phillip Glass events to South American Festivals.
Our feature nights had great show & tell from Byron Bay’s Nick & Sam, Guy Kachel & Josh Lanyard on the Guitar Night; Tamworth essentials Randall Wilson & Phil Weaver with dynamic duo Kirk & Garry Steel on the Piano Night; local Emily Little strutting with all on the Fiddle Night, and young 7 year old Ameille Leitch on the Ukelele Night; as did local 19 yr old freak, Chloe Nott, on Banjo Night with mighty Montz Matsumoto; stage stars Brookie & Daniel Gillett shining on Girls Night with occasional visits from Aron Maclean (ex The Pigs) with still more from Brians Heywood & Moore and likely a few missed out but to ALL of you we are so very grateful.
But we had hardly finished and ideas/ plans for next year’s Sup Club and between gatherings were quickly being sewn!
Winter Highlight!!
At the end of last Festival, Local Doctor/ Song-writer / Finger-picker/ story teller/ Supper Club supporter Phil Hungerford enlisted me to help with his 60th birthday in July, applying Supper Club methods into the fray and after a sensational 10 piece band concert of 18 of his songs the other week, we have a locked in special event for next year’s Friday Night feature – complete with a tick to his Bucket list – playing Mandolin on one of our party tunes, Macedonia (by Mark O’Connor)!
USA LINK UP!
Also at the very next festival – Yarra Junction’s Fiddlers Convention just outside Melbourne, over a fine glass of red, one Tony Schick, retiree Bass & Guitar man had plans to visit Boston, buy a double bass, drive it to Nashville (to gather it some stories), and bring it home. Turns out we thought it was a fine plan requiring just one little addition, Me! Every now and then one bites the bullet and goes with a whim.
Coincidentally it also turned out most of the folk we had asked about visiting were going to be home – like Supper Club guests, the Whitetop Mountaineers, Jay Ungar (who wrote the Civil War theme Ashokan Farewell), and more of that most influential New York Fiddle Fever band (when I was just learning fiddle!). We’d be able to see the western swing masters, Time Jumpers, in Nashville; spend a week in Boston jamming with the Bluegrass, Irish & Scottish players. Join a weekend of Scottish Music study with Alastair Fraser and Natalie Haas at Ashokan itself! http://youtu.be/et_FPWZkxNM And finally record the double bass in Nashville on a sublime country track “Over & Under” penned by dear friend from the Tom T Hall tours I did across Oz, Bob Angelo in his very substantial studio by the Nashville outskirts waterways.
And most special just before hitting the Crooked Road, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, were the visits to The Smithsonian Museums in Washington DC (primarily the Aeronautical versions) and Vintage Motorbike Museum in North Carolina.
Anyone who’d like a closer look at that astonishing trip that includes me playing a $200,000 Martin guitar… can give a hoy and there is a link to a blog on it with plenty pics & Vids. www.schickster.com.au/blog
We didn’t set out with too much of a plan and were able to ricochet from place to place with all the surprise a new day can bring. Much thanks to Tony for being such an easy going traveller – it was a month after all!!
TOURS AHEAD
Supper Club Guitar Fest at Wirrina Bluegrass & Acoustic Festival Sept 4 – 6 (Featuring Adelaide & Scottish surprises linking early & recent days in a woven matrix of harmony notes) Was great!! And just in the process of producing a road CD of the presented trio there – Zen Tripitalia! (Townsville Concert imminent!)
Totally Gourdgeous gathers at the Kangaroo Valley Folk Fest in mid October while (yep! All the instruments made out of awesome Gourds!).
BluGuru will make a lap from Sydney to the New England, with Bombay Bluegrass and well beyond ! Plus – as of this week – Bonus Guest :-
There’s been a special revelation of music with cellist Rachel Johnston – 7 years in the Australian String Quartet ! And is joining me on an introductory duet tour from Sydney to Melbourne along the coast with some of our favourite Halls, homes and Arts venues. Well met at her first visit to a Folk Festival, introduced by great friends, The Gordons from Adelaide, the Supper Club will also hear new twists & turns from this new heart and soul! And infact she is now joining the whole BluGuru Tour as well !! Hope you can make it.
See Gig Guide @ http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/gigguide.htm for next moments & Supper Club details as well!!
I must get this email out, OUT!!
Months go by and I try to squeeze in another year between them! LOL
We’ve had the Mildura CM Fest in just the last weeks was a great gathering of stunning voices & characters again. I became head of Production there this time, plus adding Fiddle & Mandolin at The Independant CM Awards. Tamworth’s Aleyce Simmonds drew many Awards & stunning performance.
Hope to see many of you soon
Oh! And on the baby front – Brookie & Daniel from the Supper Club had a fine son, Jules, earlier on, Josh & Parvyn are recently with news they are expecting, and my youngest daughter Tahlia is also just out with expecting news! Wishing you all health and music in your lives as much as possible!
Tall Regards, Andrew
Newsletter 17/12/2014
Hi everyone,
how is it we are already knocking at the year’s end! If you were all busy enough to be able to say that, congratulations.
If you overcame a struggle, helped a friend or a cause, created something from scratch, sang as you worked, sat quietly while another told their story, accepted a difficult decision, assisted a positive change, cried for joy or shed tears for a hardship, laughed till it hurt, soared in passion, swam a cold stream, found and stopped in a hot spring, held someone’s hand – then you are embracing life in these ever curious times – perhaps even away from these screens! Best of seasons greetings!
We hope you can join us as we share through music, our impressions and passions of the years gone and likely ahead!
Firstly there is the new DVD from Totally Gourdgeous, “Shades of the Vine” available now & launched @ Woodford!
from 4 cameras with audience at Enrec Studio, November a year ago. This is the band where all the instruments are made of Pumpkins (Gourds)! The legendary PackRack song in all its multi-language/ faceted glory! Forwards AND backwards and even silent for the visual only! Hundreds of hours spent finding the best angle of delivery from Penelope Swales, Mal Webb, Carl Pannuzzo & Clermont for an hour of, as we say – Punning Pathos, Heartfelt Hilarity, Messages of Love, Fellowship and Environmental sanity.
And shucks – incase you won’t see us too soon, the new TG DVD can be ordered right here and I’ll send back the bank details for direct deposit.
– Oh, and if you were one of the fortunate to be at the DVD gig, please remind us!!
Andrew Clermont’s International Supper Club is in it’s 17th year! and most appreciated to have shared music from across the world with / through hundreds of performers. This year we return from 10 days in Estonia!
Click here to see the latest Posters & brochures as they update – and if you’d like the poster files to print out, just ask! Below are some of the personnel detail for both gatherings! Woodford first & Tamworth further below.
@ Woodford Folk Fest in Bill’s Bar Dec 27-Jan1
Twice Daily! 3pm & 9pm -ish.
The last 2 years have seen The Supper Club join Woodford officially – though it is more like a home coming – for The Supper Club was born of the gatherings at Andrew Pattisons Wine Bar/ Troubadour through the previous 30 years of Woodford & The National Folk Festival!
The line up includes
Totally Gourdgeous (DVD Launch),
Marilla Homes – Irish to Opera via Patsy
Ingrid Wangel & her Nickelharpa (see poster)
Louise Adams (VIC/SA),
Hannah PC & Mark Aspden – Clarinet (VIC)
Chontia Robinson & Parris Macleod – Keyboards (QLD),
Jude iddison – Fiddle & Ukelele (WA),
Jeri Foreman – Fiddle (SA),
Sam Reed – Drums & Flügel Horn! (WA)
Jess Stocker – percussion – Gubal, Darbuka, Kahon (NSW),
Maja & The Goodvibes (QLD) – Maja Puseljic, Cara Tran (Keyboard/Fiddle, Monique Bartkowiak (QLD) – Cello
The Leaping Lizards (QLD) – Ron Dmick
Chris Rogers – Banjo, Octave mandolin, guitar & vocals (Mildura, NSW),
Astro Cobalt – modern Oldtime! (SA),
Maik Antrack – Bass (Germany),
and of course Andrew Clermont (from everywhere 🙂 +… always surprises.
@ North Tamworth Bowling Club Jan 17 – 24
Performers who weren’t at Woodford are highlighted
Leslie Avril (1st Sat & Sun 6pm only)
Louise Adams (VIC)(where Calamity Jane meets Kate Cebrano! :-),
Chontia Robinson & Parris Macleod (been there from the start 17 years ago!)(QLD),
Jude Iddison – sawing the bow from (WA)
,
Philomena Carroll & Paul Wookey (Gold Guitar Winner) – classic country done brilliantly (VIC),
Jess Stocker – endeared to all with her presence & percussive finesse (NSW)
‘The Good Questions'(Simon Frank & Marta Bayly, SA) seasoned song-writing and harmony (SA) till Thu,
Daniel Gillett (Harp Uke) – popping up in many a guise – perhaps even with clarinet!
Maik Antrack – Bass – sometimes hard to tell if he is on the stage or he IS the stage! (Germany),
Taylor Pfeiffer – the epitome of creative youth (SA), Banjo & Girls Night
Chris Rogers – brings Dobro & Banjo to a new class and tone
Rauno Vaher (Netherlands) – last seen in Tallinn, Estonia, it is believed he’ll next re-appear at The Supper Club on Mon 19th – Reggae Drummer (Jamaican Country) but I’ll sure he’ll adapt…
Brookie Schiemer (over 10years with the Sup Club) along with Louise Adams, bless us with the next generation of potential 🙂 Congratulations to both! We hope Brookie can manage a few appearances before the call.
Marilla Homes – brings new depth to sublime performance.
Jeri Foreman & Gäge Stead
 are forever exploring the next tune, lookout! (SA),
Nigel Lever (NSW) – the un-questioned Gentleman of Bluegrass (best seen Monday Night)
Montz Matsumoto (Tas) – if ever we had a multi-cultural ambassador for Bluegrass !
Andrew Clermont – Chameleon Performer – (Europe & OZ) plus a host of extras – see below
Click here and scroll down to see the latest Posters & info as they update
6pm Shows are A-Mix-of-All-the-Nights (no 6pm show Friday)
alway different and a grand showground of talent and invention of “The Fellowship” above.
9pm Shows have unique flavours!! 
MANY SPECIAL GUESTS !
Sat 17 Fiddle & Mandolin – Champions from all directions!
Sun 18 Ukelele & Mandolin (we figured more is better!) plus Mick Conway & Rob Long, TRUGS (Tamworth Ukes amassed by Brookie Schiemer), the graceful Harp Uke with Daniel Gillett, Wild Women of Armidale, Sam Leman & Lucy Wise!
Mon 19 Banjo & Oldtime – plus Sian Evans (Rusty Datsuns), Leanne Tennant(TBC), Taylor Pfeiffer, Golden Fiddle Life-time Achievement Award winners – The Leaping Lizards (QLD) and our beloved Montz Matsumoto.
Tue 20 Girls Night plus Women in Docs, Sian Evans, Leanne Tennant,(TBC) and Armidale soul voiced Emily & Jess Stocker , Taylor Pfeiffer- and our own Louise Adams, Marilla Homes, Jude, Jeri ….
Wed 21Guitar Night – Special guests Byron Bay Busking Champions Nick & Sam, highly awarded Tullara Connors, Clermont & Maik Antrack cut loose with Ron Dymick, Guy Kachel, and plenty TBA
Thu 22 Piano Night – Parris Macleod returns with his music from movies & albums afar and the various session players usually sneak in through the night! Including likely Accordian & Harmonica worlds !- Plenty TBA
Fri 23 International Night with Mark Atkins & Friends (our legendary Didg player all over the World and Olympic Games) and the vocal gold of the Crosby Sisters together with Euro visitors Maik Antrack & Rauno Vaher & the Supper Club big band!
Sat 24 The Finale – the final show & tell from the week’s mighty mingle
(6pm is Bluegrass!) Booking highly advised
Tamworth tickets are $20 & $15 concession available from the door or Info Centre
– or get a Season pass for $200 (5 free shows)
The above detail may change a little – we hope that won’t inconvenience you.
Golden Fiddle Show @ The Capitol Theatre
10.30am Wednesday Jan 21
Celebrating 10 years of the Golden Fiddle Awards – all the live music without the Awards! Hosted by Pixie, we take you through the history of the GFA and Fiddledom itself. Special guest to give rhyme to reason, Ted Egan, with a symphonic performance of The Drovers Boy!
Fiddlers from all over Australia will be present and powering. Not to be missed! Much thanks to Epoch Strings for the years of Sponsoring.
http://www.capitoltheatretamworth.com.au/events/356/GOLDEN_FIDDLE_SHOW/
http://sa2.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?&presenter=TAMWORTH&venue=&event=GLDFID15
https://www.facebook.com/events/800186680024816/
Thanks for your time here. To get a Poster or Brochure to print out, just reply & ask
and remember tis a great time to get in early for the latest Totally Gourdgeous DVD
or Supper Club CDs/ DVDs from the many years
Warm Regards from Andrew & The Supper Club
Thanks to Marilla Homes for her Voice & Photos – here Woodford Fire Event front & centre !
Newsletter 27/3/2014
Hi All, great to see many of you over the last year of intense touring –
if you have any friends near any of these gigs, let alone yourself, please extend an invite.
Four of my associated bands (Fiddlers Feast, The Beggars, The Pigs) met up in Europe
last year including BluGuru lastly with a sojourn through the midst of Germany & Denmark.
We return with new music, instruments and a bonus stunning guest Shenzo Gregorio for the last week of the tour.
A reminder on BluGuru line-up! Gigs listed below.
BluGuru
Sounding like “Jeff Beck meets Ravi Shankar on the set of ‘Oh! Brother Where Art Thou’ while dancing in Rio!”,
they feature the sublime voice of Parvyn with Percussion, Mandolin & Indian Dance – seen lately with Bombay Royale, as is
Josh Bennett (Adelaide Fringe Award Nominee for Best Music and the
only foreigner performer at India’s 14 day Saptak Music Festival of Festivals!)
– Guitars & Mandolin to Sitar, Dilruba (bowed Sitar!) & Tabla.
Chameleon Andrew Clermont, who is also a nutso Fiddler, Mandolinist & 3 time Bluegrass Guitar Champ to boot – 30 years touring –
from Tom T Hall, Dya Singh to Totally Gourdgeous and his 16 years running the multi-festival Supper Club!
New double size Mandolin, massive Didg & 12- string Guitar with this time.
Together they are distilled from a vibrant world touring history with 3 part harmonised twisting tale
of gone Bluegrass/Celtic/ Blues/ Swing/ Jazz/ Indian adventure.
http://www.bluguru.net
Plus Shenzo @ The Roxby, Glebe 24th April till end of tour
a sensational Golden Fiddle Award winning violinist and multi- instrumentalist from FourPlay, Brisbane Symphony Orchestra and the Electric Stunt Orchestra.
Shenzo Gregorio info
Tour Details
Sat March 297:30pm – Queanbeyan Artist’s Shed – 14 Foster St, Queanbeyan East NSW. $15/$12
Bookings ph 0412 463 388 or music@artistsshed.com
Sun March 303pm – Tomerong Hall NSW. $20 Bookings hbf@shoal.net.au
Mon March 317pm – House Concert in Congo NSW. Contact Jock and Paula for details howejp@bigpond.com
Thur April 37:30pm – Mudbrick Hall, Mallacoota NSW. $25/$22. Bookings www.artsmallacoota.org
Fri April 47pm – Nerrigundah Hall NSW. Contact Trevor Kincade for details bodallampe@hotkey.net.au
Wed April 97pm – Mansfield Produce Store, Mansfield VIC. Booking Essential ph 03 5799 1404
Thur April 108pm – Theatre Royal, Quiet Place. Castlemaine VIC. $TBA Ph 03 5472 1196
Sun April 2012pm – McWilliams Wines, Jack McWilliam Rd, Hanwood NSW. Free Entry
… And with special guest Shenzo Gregorio:
Thur April 248pm – The Roxbury, 182 St Johns Rd, Glebe (SYDNEY) NSW. $20 Bookings johnsgigs@gmail.com
Fri April 256pm Dinner – Showtime 7- Woodville Hall, Woodville NSW.
$25 Contact Lucie Bruvel info@shepherdsground.com Bring a picnic plate to share for Dinner!
Sun April 277pm – Uralla Arts. Contact andrew.parker6@bigpond.com
Newsletter 21/9/2013
HELP! 🙂 Time to invest in the Tall one! Post $$$ van repair assist request! New motor & diesel injector pump (must be made of Diamonds & Titanium!)
Yes you’ve all been meaning to / waiting for that special time to buy! Here it is !!!
Clermont DVD&CD shop is open!
Free Post & (Award Winning) Terra Australis CD with every triple or more sale!
TUITION DVDs – Crash Course to Fiddle/ Guitar/ Mandolin/ Didg – a chance to get off your “plateau”?!
The SUPPER CLUB Trilogy CDs – 2010 & 2012 & Double DVD – “Live @ The Capitol”
CDs from BluGuru/ Totally Gourdgeous/ with Parris Macleod/ Solo and SO much more…
Recent special release particularly good for inspiring good cooking is the DVD/ CD “London Abstractions”
featuring Mal Webb on Gourd Bass, Tom Donald on Piano with Mark Buckingham on Bass Clarinet and
yours truly weaving Gourdalin and Violalin! Live from London!
A complete list at
http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/sounds.htm
Check out the full list of options at the link but email me for deals & haggling for multiple sales 🙂
Most CDs are $25, DVDs $30 to $50 (tuition)
But EMAIL ME at andrewclermont@gmail.com
Now is the time for bulk deals!! Payment by direct deposit. See –
http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/contact.htm
Tall Regards (and hope you can help out!)
Newsletter 19/02/2013
Hi fine friends of The Supper Club!
We hope this email finds you well into a strong, or resolving 2013.
Last year’s email list got a tad waylaid, then found, during this year’s January gathering, so there is much to tell in as short a email as I can manage along with for those new this year! After this email you will only receive them as a Bcc.
BluGuru is Touring round SA/ VIC / ACT/ NSW in April (details below!) and Totally Gourdgeous will do a hearty lap mid Oct into late Nov (details later in year but put your requested areas in or tell us you’d like to present a House concert ! ) By the way, anyone up for Supper Club T-shirts? (Colour? Style? Design?)
Thanks
First off, Thank you all SO, SO much for contributing to our precious “fringe” Fest of music. As I recall/ read your collective comments & thoughts I also note that in each last show each year we have first of all, a very full house, and secondly that over half of you are new to the Supper Club. The week’s gossip has been fruitful and the word was that The Supper Club is a “must see”. Plenty of “don’t change a thing” and “refreshing”, and always a big thanks from many, that the volume is sensible. And most importantly thanks to the many who help in accommodation & hospitality.
Highlights
A few highlights this year were Marilla Holmes (in Melbourne Cup attire finery or Steam punk!) embellished by string section with Rhiannon & Monik (Golden Fiddle Award winners for Youth!) alongside Jeri Foremann (cello & twin fiddle) plus Steve O’hern on sublime finger-picking irish guitar. Guitar & Piano Nights soared from North American troubadour, Gregory Page to Western Swing Stuie French (with Camile’s sultry voice). An Oud revelation with Paddy Montgomery supported by Jess Stocker’s Darbuka percussion wrapping up with a finale spectacle of The Borderers dancing on the tables spurred on by Mal Webb’s trombone while Parris’s keyboards ducked & weaved when not exploding into the night! Just to mention a few nights awesome moments!
Tickets in
There were many new “season pass” holders I’m glad to say (get’s you 5 shows free!). And the benefit that All the door funds are going to the majority of the performers and in particular making it possible for what is largely a youthful gathering from all round Australia, to happen, without them being pushed into the busking chaos down the street. We thank Bridget Sommers & family for their help each year at the door.
Food & Art
The new club bistro arrangement went pretty smoothly given the huge volume of orders – getting food to all in some effective way. (Wider meal options promised next time!).
For the many waiting there was solace though a gallery of Portrait Art from my beloved Bettina Düesberg & Landscape (multi-shot) pictures assembled from my many music tours across the planet. Prints and/ or originals are certainly always available – on my site under “Big Pics” (and see www.bettinaduesberg.de). Amongst her portraits made this visit was ex-prime minister Bob Hawke! Expressions of interest of the assorted pieces can be emailed back.
The “take home” results – Andrew Clermont’s International Supper Club – CDs & DVDs
Here be an offering for celebration or “close enough to” therapy!!
In Jan 2012 we recorded all that happened on stage and similar to 2010, distilled the 30 hours captured, into 3 hours of wonder. You can look at my CD site in www.andrewclermont.com.au to see the picturesque fold out covers and contents page for each.
No CDs repeat songs and it is the Best of the Best!
Those who have been often to the Supper Club know there are sooo many combinations that peak unpredictably – but we were there to capture those moments – and now here for you!
$25 for 1CD
$45 for 2 CDs
$60 for the trilogy Set delivered to your door (post)
$100 for both 2010 & 2012 sets together!! (That’s 2 CDs free!)
& free Supper Club postcards with all sales!
Special Live Supper Club DVD @ The Capitol
In the last months we also just released the double DVD from a most rare Supper Club event where we re-united with our first youth “champion” of piano, Tom Donald at a gala show at Tamworth’s Capitol Theatre.
Not only soaring solo piano of Ray Charle’s Georgia, through assorted famous styles, but re-combining spectacularly with our Theatre Star, Brookie Schiemer; NoHoldsBarred Fiddle Youth Champ, Emily Little; young powering percussionist Jess Stocker along-side BluGuru’s multi-facets from Kathak Indian classical Dance with alluring Vocals of Parvyn Singh to Sitar plus Swing & Celtic, Blues & Bluegrass guitar from Josh Bennett leading into a spontaneous “London Abstraction” (reflecting the CD / DVD of same name being launched on the night)!
Not to forget the jaw dropping guitar of young Steve O’Hern & surprise guests who arrived unexpectedly to town from UK, The Rosellys, to complete the Supper Club story of bringing music from afar together.
What was more a surprise is that we were, at very short notice, able to pull together 4 Video cameras. operators, plus 4 still photographers as well to capture the event. 2hrs between 2 DVDs of close ups and detail. Only a coupla months mixing it all..! Very excited with the result.
Please join us by ordering this once only recording $40
The “Missing Link” CD – London Abstractions
And what were we launching on the Captiol Theatre night? What I call the food & wine CD of “active ambient” music that was spontaneously cooked up in London the 2 months before, and married to 100 of my Being There Big Pic images from Australia in a “Dreamtime” offering – “London Abstractions”. A trance between Tom Donald (Piano)& I (Gourdalin & Violalin!) including adventures with Mal Webb (Gourd Bass) & Mark Buckingham (UK) on Bass Clarinet.
CD $25 / DVD $30 see youtube examples at http://www.youtube.com/andrewclermont
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It’s been a wonderful & great, surprise filled gathering of music, art & image of late. We hope you can include some in your collection too.
That’s enough sales pitch! Now see it live!! 26 stops along the up coming BluGuru tour…!
Come along to a concert or tell your friends who may be near – Live music is always a precious commodity.
BluGuru Tour Easter till June 2013
March 31 Easter Sunday 1pm – Burke & Wills Winery, Lancefield, VIC – the harvest Fest celebration presented by Andrew Patterson wineandmusic@bigpond.com
April 4 Thu – 7pm The Produce Store, Mansfield, Contact Dean info@theproducestore.com.au Bookings essential
April 5 Fri – 7pm Tara Guest House, Enmore Rd brom@taraguesthouse.com.au Bookings essential $30
April 6th – Private Wedding Function
April 7 Sunday – Woodville Hall (nth of Newcastle) including Bollywood & Beyond Dance for all. luciebruvel@yahoo.com.au Bookings essential $30
April 9 & 10 Tue/ Wed – Newcastle UNI lunch session 12 till 2 – great cheap food, relaxed vibe. Check closer to date which venue which day!
April 11 Thu – Gunnedah Arts Event & School workshops – Check details closer to date
April 12 Fri – Dorrigo Old Gazette Theatre bookings $30 bridgetsommers@yahoo.com.au
April 13 Sat 2.30pm – Supper Club Capitol DVD launch @ The Ritz $40 includes DVD, a highlights viewing, a drink and Acoustic performance of BluGuru with Brookie Schiemer – Plus you get into the evening BluGuru concert at the North Tam Bowlo for half price!
April 13 Sat 7.30 pm – Concert @ North Tamworth Bowling Club, Bligh St $30/ $25 conc – school kids with parents, free
April 14 Sunday 4.30 – 7.30 Mudgee Brewing Co NSW
April 17 Wed – House Concert @ Congo near Moruya south coast NSW (inquiries to andrewclermont@gmail.com)
April 18 Thu – Braidwood Folk Club NSW sue.rendell@skymesh.com.au
April 19 Fri 7.30 – @ Merry Muse – Canberra Southern Cross Club
April 20 Sat Arvo – Cobargo Folk Club NSW – cobargofolkfestival@bigpond.com
April 21 Sun SE VIC Mallacoota Arts, East tip VIC – The Mudbrick
April 24 Wed – Briagalong VIC House / Hotel Bookings Garry – gmgrose@gmail.com
April 25 Thu Anzac Day – Beechworth Hotel TBC
April 26 Fri Myrtleford Arts day School Workshop & night Concert VIC
April 27 Sat 6pm McDougal Wines Dinner Concert Mildura mcdougall_wines@hotmail.com NSW
April 28 Sunday 2pm – Auburn Courthouse Cultural Centre, SA – $25/ 23 conc
May 3 Friday 7pm The Singing Gallery, Maclaren Vale, SA
Check here for updates & more detail! http://www.myspace.com/andrewclermont
See ! Not so long an email……. ! See you soon or next Sup Club!
Newsletter 1/12/2012
Warm Tall Year’s end/ Xmas etc greetings to you all that I have variously met, gathered, stumbled upon, grown up with, respected or confused along the way.
With music we get to open communication between cultures – note to the powers that be – when in doubt or difficulty refer/ revert to musical connections for perspective!
Quote of the month – “Quiet is the new Loud!” (Stuart Day – house concert Hervey Bay)
*jump further below for Detail of the biggest Woodford (just after Xmas) & Tamworth (end of Jan) Supper Clubs plus Poster Pics attached.
The condensed year!
Family
The Clan has recently expanded with a new grandson, one Rowan John, due to great & fine effort from youngest daughter Tahlia & partner, Alex, starting life close enough to 8 lb. Very proud of Tahlia’s progress through these late teen years. A home set up with chooks for eggs, cats for the mice, plus the hopping and gung-ho Antecinus a-many and dog for security and Tahlia is recently into essential oils for animal care, having also been helping locally with the Riding for Disabled!
It’s the build up time to eldest daughter, Mandy’s, wedding in May, and finally caught up with the second after a long year of near misses – Sharna, still trucking, but now focusing on Personal Training. It’s just over a year since the third, Nayia, had her big accident – still quite a recovery to go.
This year in Europe
Four months in Europe this time; mainly mixing a double DVD – “Live @ The Capitol” 2011 (featuring BluGuru plus Stage Voice Brookie Schiemer, Fiddle Champ Emily Little, Tapping Guitar Stephen O’Hern, diverse Piano Tom Donald (UK/Oz), Kathak Dance Parvyn Singh, World Percussion Jess Stocker, Clermont & Josh Bennett plus surprise guests The Rosellys (UK)). And then mixing the new triple CD set of the 2012 Supper Club (3hrs of treasured moments from 30 performed hours! and featuring about 25 players from 90 through the festival week!) – Phew!
Was a bit burnt out after that intensive! However a fine tour of Germany with Chris Rogers, sublime multi-player of Mildura broke some of that up quite merrily. From featuring at the Memmingen Music Festival in the south, to playing where the anti-nuclear movement first began south of Hamburg and did a house-in-the-forest make over enroute! Ha. Hear some Supper Club at our myspace.
Plus I now have a cool trio in Berlin; 6 string Bassist – Maik Antrack (local) and Elec guitar – Chris Blyth (Scotland). We had a fav gig where the second half revealed a request to play “industrial” music – ah , gotta love creative requests! We had a hoot of a romp through worlds of improvised “industrial” beat that ricocheted dramatically for a good 45 min with a stopped-on-the-dial party audience! Name is still undecided “TAKAMAK” perhaps.
On return to Oz I accidentally gained a “bonus” day in Beijing and full compliments to China Air for handling my missed flight with with such grace – an over-night room & meals.
Back in Oz
On landing in Sydney I was on a time race to re-gather my van from kind friends near Maitland and made a B-line to Mildura Country Music Festival. Two weeks there sound mixing, a concert, and playing in the Awards band – a great performance night from all where Luke O’Shea cleaned up, but entwined with a stellar cast.
An Adelaide, pretty much 30 year reunion late October with Simon Frank (Molloy) – co-writer on various tracks over the years; my brother Alex on guitars & Nick Carrol (original line-up drummer) plus Andrew MacDonald (from my first BlueGrass band, Remnants, from same era)!
The pre xmas run was a 3 week tour of Queensland, Brisbane to Cairns, with The Beggars: Australian Songbook from Adelaide. Ahh! Finally some performance time with Stuart Day (The Barkers, Those Kodiaks, John Wibberley Band) plus Renee Donaghey & Quinton Dunne from various degrees of separation. A near sold out Morning Melodies tour and a happy CD buying public!
We managed to fit in a few House Concerts (including the Wintermoon site!) as well, in the evenings. Anyone keen to have one of these sometime I’m near, should send an enquiring email!
The next section focuses on Woodford Folk Fest at the end of this year & Tamworth Festival in January.
The Supper Club @ Woodford 2012-13
I fine coup this season is having Bettina join us with her Painting Woodfordia @ Bills’ Bar – Woodford Folk Fest – perhaps up to 8 paintings will be completed (You! might be one of them!!) during these last 6 days of the year. I hope this becomes a successful starting point to many Festivals for us together in our various strengths. Coincidentally her own daughter is exploring Australia – and for at least another year.
This Xmas to New Year season there will be DAILY at least 4 hours of “Andrew Clermont’s Festival Arvo/ Supper Club” with over 25 piece orchestration! @ Woodford Folk Fest – at the new venue, Bill’s Bar. In our case 2.30 – 4.30 each arvo & 10 till midnight starting at 10pm on Boxing Day 26th! And attached to Bill’s Bar, will be Bettina Düesberg’s Portrait Gallery in action many hours daily with portraits of Woodfordia characters & festival life.
The Supper Club, now in it’s 15th year finds it’s roots through the original Troubadour/ Wine Bar of Andrew Paterson. And thus we celebrate those formative years (that go much further back!) with a humdinger gathering this season.
Performers this year start with a special opening treat Lina Andonovska (Classical to crazy Flute/ Old-time Banjo/ Flamenco Dance) *only first 4 shows! (likely joined by Andrew Veivers!)
BluGuru – myself (Mandolin, Guitar, 5-string Fiddle, Didgeribone, Vocals & MD) with (Josh Bennett – Vocals & LH Sitar, Tabla, Guitars, Mandolin & Parvyn Kaur Singh Bennett – Vocals, Percussion & Kathak/ Bollywood Dance) till 30th
plus from –
VIC (Melb) : Mal Webb (Mouth Music, Horns, Mbira & LH guitar/ Bass etc); Paddy Montgomery – Vocals, LH Guitar, Mandolin, Irish Boursouki; Dan Watkins – Vocals, Bluegrass Guitar, Mandolin; Stephen O’Hern – Irish, Tapping, Slapping & Flat-pick Guitar; George Jackson – 5-string Banjo, Fiddle & Irish Dance)
NSW : Brookie Schiemer – songstress, Ukelele & theatre (Tamworth); Daniel Gillet – Ukelele, Vocals; Ben Wordsworth (cool drums – Lismore); Stephanie Rogers & Ben Bamborough – Vocals & Guitars; Siskin River – Vocals, Mandolin, Banjo & tapping Guitar & Tap Dancing! (Grafton), Emily Little – 5-string Fiddle/Violin maniac; Parris Macleod – Keyboards, Percussion; & Chontia – Vocals & Guitar (Central Coast)
QLD : Amanda Gilmour – Vocals, Doc Span – Harmonicas,
SA : Jeri Foreman – Fiddle; Tamarisque with Alex Gordon – Vocals, Synth Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Viola, Mandolin, Guitar; Tim Bennett – everything Bass, drums & Yidaki
A youtube clip which applies is –
http://youtu.be/gTNrOe93k-w
– if you care to help promote!
To also bear in mind, the People’s Orchestra with rehearsals every morning a 9am @ The Grand.
Here all ranges of players from the performers AND the public meld themselves into a section of The Fire Event!!!
Please come be part of it!!
Overall Fire Event Director/ Designer is Joey Ruigork van de Weven, Musical Director Nick Lavers
Overseeing the Peoples Orchestra is Andrew Veivers
I’m the Stringed Instrument Director, Mal Webb on Horns, Angela Little & Beat Lehmann Co-Directing the Choir etc!
There will be a place for any degree of contribution!!
The Supper Club @ Tamworth 2013
Much of above will also be at Tamworth CM Festival as guests of the ‘fringe fest’ Supper Club @ The North Tam Bowl minus Tamarisque, Josh, Tim & Parvyn, Doc & Amanda will pass this time.
However, the rest will be all the more prepared to join TOTALLY GOURDGEOUS the classic CD line-up therefore also giving us opportunity to here the multi-facets of the Solo performances of Penelope Swales (incisive Songs) , Carl Pannuzzo (Piano to Ukelele with an as diverse voice), Mal Webb (Mouth Music and beyond!), plus Salvation Jane Reunited (Melb) Acapella fun & splendour, A Gypsy element with Fiddler Pepe up from Melbourne with her hot band kicking in from the Fiddle Night already on the first Saturday – 19th.
15 shows!
All nights are a twin show (‘cept the Fri 25th). Enjoy A-Mix-of-All-the-Nights at 6pm and then from 9pm it’s the various themes Sat (Fiddle); Sun (Mandolin – new); Mon (Banjo & Old-Time); Tue (Girls Night); Wed (Guitar); Thu (Piano); Fri (Feature Night – Salvation Jane, Rob & Deta (Songs from The Wall) & Totally Gourdgeous); Sat (Grand Finale). There is no Friday 6pm (Club raffles!) and the last Sat 6pm (Bluegrass Champions).
Tickets are $20 Adults $15 Conc & school kids free with parents. Season Passes get you 5 shows free! (Contact me directly here or Ph 0407 753809)
