Past Event

The Ned Kelly Ball

11th Nov 2009

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Presenter: Malcolm Hill
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Event Duration: 180 minutes

Come and celebrate Australia’s favourite Hero/Rogue on the 11th of the 11th, the spookiest day on the Australian Calendar, at the Ned Kelly Ball.

Ned Kelly was hung on the 11th November 1880 after three years on the run that made him the most notorious of all Australians.

Featuring
MALCOLM HILL performing a musical version of Ned Kelly’s Jerilderie Letter
DAVE GRANEY
MICK TURNER (DIRTY 3) accompanying 1906 KELLY FEATURE FILM
THE STRINGYBARK HOUSE BAND (featuring the Baylor Bros)
MC HENRY SKERRITT
Prizes for best Ned beard etc - presented by GEORGE MCENROE

Doors open 7.00

MALCOLM HILL  - The Jerilderie Letter
In 1878 Ned Kelly put down in writing what he could not get anyone to listen to in his lifetime. The Letter was passed onto the authorities at Jerilderie but buried by the police.  Now, when the myth of Ned has completely overshadowed his life, we are able to access his intimate thoughts thanks to MALCOLM HILL who is spreading Ned’s word on his new CD, The Jerilderie Letter. MALCOLM HILL and his band will be joined on stage by an actor playing Ned and a uillean piper who will attempt to summon up the spirit of Ned who, if he felt like reappearing anywhere, would probably feel safe to do so at Trades Hall.

DAVE GRANEY is Australia’s No 1 rock n roll outlaw. He has held the Australian public at gunpoint for 22 albums of audacious highway thievery. The Captain Starlight of Australian music.

MICK TURNER, more pirate than a bushranger, has sailed the globe plundering treasures of musical jewels. Part of a band of vagabonds called DIRTY 3 he will be playing a live accompaniment to the remaining fragments of CHARLES TAIT’S 1906 film ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’, the first ever feature in the world.

The STRINGYBARK HOUSEBAND travel incognito for fear of bounty hunters. Known by various nom de plumes such as the Baylor Brothers and the Roadhouse Romeos they are much revered amongst the poor and disaffected for their 1880s style dance music