Past Event
Old Time Extravaganza feat. The All Day Breakfast String Band (CAN)
18th May 2017
Presenter: LS Presents
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Event Duration: 180 minutes
Enjoy an old time extravaganza when The All Day Breakfast Stringband tour Australia.
The Montreal-based All Day Breakfast Stringband plays old time music from the southern and midwestern USA. Fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and voices join forces to confirm that the old music is still exhilarating.
The band formed gradually through bourbon-fuelled jam sessions in Montreal’s many public nature reserves, and solidified with recording sessions, as well as actual concerts for people who don’t spend all of their free time in parks. This semi-serious monkeying around has done quite well by the All Day Breakfast Stringband, taking them to beautiful spots around Quebec and Ontario as well as becoming an award winning band two years running at the Appalachian Stringband Festival in Clifftop West Virginia.
The fiddle has always been at the heart of old time music, and Max Evans makes his sound like the best bacon in the world popping and spattering in a burning hot cast iron skillet; Matt James’ banjo playing is as crude yet necessary as bacon’s timeless counterpart, the buttery fried egg while Andrew Kobus on the mandolin and Dara Weiss on the guitar chug like you did that pot of coffee after a night at the bottom of a whiskey bottle. This band may just be the best way to start a balanced day, or end an unbalanced night.
Enjoy responsibly.
Supports:
Southern Appalachian old timey mountain music played with gusto and authenticity, learnt directly from the masters during visits to USA festivals and band camps. Appalachian Heaven Stringband perform driving and sensitive fiddle tunes, dance tunes with curly toes, cheeky songs & disarmingly touching ballads ... delighting audiences young and young-at-heart!
Fat Cousin Skinny are all things old time. Recently returning from an exploration of Appalachian music and beyond in the United States, they've go a lot to share. They learnt from the greats in the homeland of the music, jamming with old-time musicians across the land. They travel light and instead of novelty t-shirts, Fat Cousin Skinny brought back two brainfuls of Hillbilly Haikus.
Come hear the banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocal chords and fiddle played through the vessels of two young travellers.
8.30 - Fat Cousin Skinny
9.15 - Appalachian Heaven Stringband
10.15 - All Day Breakfast Band