MUSIC ACTS

We are pleased to annouce the following artists will be performing at the 2019 Bobby Jack's Festival.

 

Unfortunately the amazing Donna Amini has regretably had to cancel at the last minute. We have added The Briny Sea to the bill.

The following acts will be playing in the main stage area on Saturday, April 13th. Festival Gates open at 11:00am.

START ARTIST
11.50am Welcome to Country
11.55am Dunghutti Dancers
12.15pm The Briny Sea
1.05pm Bellydance Earth & Sky
1.25pm Goldheist
2.20pm The Graceless
3.10pm Dave Favours & the Roadside Ashes
4.00pm The Lanterns
4.55pm Captain Tragic
5.45pm The Warts
6.40pm Syntax Error
7.35pm The Tambourine Girls
8.35pm Bellydance Earth & Sky
9.00pm UniGlo
9.30pm William Crighton

William Crighton

Having been described as a visionary and a penetrative lyricist, Crighton doesn’t buy into that, humbly and sincerely laughing it off. Discussing the album and compositions of Empire, Crighton says the driving force was “just being here. My 9-year-old daughter says, ‘hope is the one thing that brings us together’, I agree with her and think it could go either way. There’s more and more people realizing what’s going on and changing things for the better but on the other hand there’s a lot of greed and crazy out there holding on tight. A few years ago I asked a goodmate, a Wiradjuri bloke, if he thought a “great awakening” was coming and he said ‘they’re white fella words, we’ve been living sustainably for 100’s of thousands of years’ – That put me in my place and inspired me beyond measure.”

In 2017, Crighton released 7-inch vinyl ‘Hope Recovery’, accompanied Dan Sultan and CW Stoneking on their respective national tours, and performed to thronging crowds at WOMADelaide and Woodford Folk Festival. He showcased at Canadian Music Week, New York City’s Mondo Music Conference and the Folk Alliance International in Kansas City.

Quickly building a reputation as a world-class live performer, Crighton recently completed his debut Canadian tour, alongside JUNO nominated Terra Lightfoot.

Empire sees William Crighton expand his study of the human psyche, hard close-ups meet a roving widescreen lens. It is a songbook of breathtaking insight. The flame of the human spirit is, in Crighton’s hands, shown to be the most powerful force at work in 21st Century Australia: one that produces both soot and shadow, but also guiding light, illuminating both the painful past and the difficult path forward along which hope will always chime.

(words by Gareth Hipwell)

The Tambourine Girls

The Tambourine Girls was formed in 2014 by ex Deep Sea Arcade guitarist Simon Relf.
Their Debut EP "The End of Time" was released that year and followed up by their self-titled debut album in Novemeber 2016.
This year the band have released their 2nd LP WAITING FOR PLEASURE, just in time for singer Simon Relf to move to Paris for a few months while his wife, acclaimed painter Clara Adolphs, has a residency at The Cité Internationale Des Arts.
The band plan to take their new album on the road in late 2018.

SYNTAX ERROR

Syntax Error are a four piece Sydney guitar band that might strike some as post-rock, others as psychedelic and still others as the last outpost of a darker kind of Prog. This all-of-the-above comes from each member bringing their own unique sensibility to the music.

Most of their pieces are born out of improvising and letting those disparate influences create friction against each other, which leads to either harsh combustion or new and strange mutations. The music blurs spontaneity with composition, melody with noise, chaos with structure, light with shade.

Syntax Error are always an immersive experience.

GOLDHEIST

Where words fail, music speaks - a mantra which is encapsulated in the work of GOLDHEIST (aka Hester Fraser), charming audiences as a Finalist for two years running in the Toyota Busking Championships at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, and Winner of the prestigious People’s Choice Award in 2016. But it’s not all singing in the streets for GOLDHEIST. Her songs tell stories of love, life and adventure, painting vibrant pictures of the Australian bush, current affairs and events, not to mention a few broken hearts. In early 2014, she toured NSW with her debut release Dust, raising funds and awareness for drought in rural areas. This lead to further drought relief performances through Centacare New England North West, followed by appearances at the Quirindi Music Festival, RAW Visionary Melbourne, and a mini-tour to Byron Bay and Murwillumbah. She was the winner of BalconyTV Producers Pick for her live video performance of Wild Things on the rooftop of Sydney Harbour YHA, and in 2015, two GOLDHEIST songs were included in the soundtrack for independent feature film Beijing Being, which was selected for the 39th Montreal World Film Festival and the NYC Independent Film Festival. Following the death of her grandfather, the late Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser, she wrote and released The Camellia Tree, a musical tribute to his life and legacy. The subsequent media campaign, widespread radio play, and performance on The Morning Show helped to raise funds and awareness for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. This is an ongoing project to which GOLDHEIST lends her voice and her art, contributing to the call for changes to Australia’s controversial policies towards displaced peoples seeking asylum.

The Warts

The Warts formed in 2016 in Uralla NSW. Then they stuffed around for a year until they found what worked. It’s rare to hear a band like this these days, especially coming from a place with a population of 2500. Subterranean psychedelic kraut rock, reverb drenched garage, space sludge. The Warts are hard to define, but they are definitely seminal and brighter than the sun.

The Warts draw inspiration from many modern artists who are also too old or bored to care. Their list of ear punishments is diverse, weird and strangely familiar all at the same time. They sight everything from Lone Taxidermist to Clouddead. Masterdon to to Kyuss. Girl Band to Tonetta. Causa Sui to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Most of these artists no one has heard of, but this is normal. All great art and all great music movements are like this.

It’s their committed desire to formulate a new sounding thing that represents a shift away from overdone ideas. It’s a resounding anti statement about everything out there and everything in there. Their formula is both timely and fascinating. The blurring is deliberate. The precision accidental. The Warts achieve this rare freedom of expression both musically and lyrically and they always deliver with conviction. They’re not pretending and they’re not interested in popularity, it’s just them, Warts and all. It matters not whether it is understood. It only matters to experience it.

UniGlo

Zeta and Percival met a couple of years ago at a debate about why flip flops are called thongs in Australia. They bonded over a mutual fascination with the huntsman spider and are currently residing somewhere in the New England region

UniGlo’s sound is a fusion of different influences in music and life, ranging from electronic styles to punk, industrial and metal. Zeta’s lyrics tell tales of ordinary life, strong emotions, relationships and our workings on this planet as the human race. They are currently working on their debut album, due to be released in June.

The Graceless

The Graceless

The Graceless are a contemporary duo comprised of Ella Thomas and Grace Toakley. The girls have been playing together for just over three years now, and perform a range of indie / alternate covers as well as producing and composing original work. Their sound can be described as gentle with the use of acoustic guitar and experimentation through vocal harmony, with insightful lyrical arrangements designed to evoke an emotional response from their audiences.

OTHER ACTS INCLUDE

CAPTAIN TRAGIC • DAVE FAVOURS AND THE ROADSIDE ASHES •
THE LANTERNS • DUNGHUTTI DANCERS

THE GET OUT OF YOUR GARAGE STAGE IS A PLACE FOR EMERGING ARTISTS TO PERFORM THEIR OWN ORIGINAL MUSIC.
THIS YEAR IT WILL HAPPEN ON THE FRIDAY NIGHT, APRIL 12.

PLUS ...

The Squeaking Tribe Marionettes • BellyDance Earth & Sky
Mak’s Turkish Gozleme • Picket Fence Produce • Pho Plus • Dare’s Pies
Baghdad’s Falafel • Thank God For Food Mahal • Artisan Ferments
Bean about Espresso • New England Brewing Co.
+ AN ARRAY OF MARKET STALLS
• Lily's Kids Explosion •
... and much more!