Party: SONGSMITHS 2 - Hobo Grace, Mark Lucas & Steph Miller

Party: SONGSMITHS 2 - Hobo Grace, Mark Lucas & Steph Miller

SONGSMITHS 2
in this, the second in an occasional series of singer-songwriter showcases hosted by pbc booker Mark Lucas, the common element is three artists who've been chipping away at the folk/roots/Americana coal-face since long before the current revival.
Join us & discover what the test of time does for the muse.

Hobo Grace - Cletis Carr & Linda Mizzi
From the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Linda Mizzi and Cletis Carr blend folk, blues and country to create Hobo Grace.
Linda Mizzi has a warm and familiar voice that defies simple categorisation. Touchstone artists such as Eva Cassidy, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin inform her love of contemporaries like Patty Griffin and Gillian Welch. A highlight for Linda was leading her children's choir in a rendition of Cold Chisel's classic Flame Trees for the Australian hit film Little Fish starring Cate Blanchett.
Cletis Carr was Americana long before the term was coined. He was part of the Los Angeles 1980's cowpunk scene alongside the likes of Lucinda Williams and Dwight Yoakum before moving to Australia to found the critically acclaimed bands Big Whiskey and Hillbilly Moon. He was a fixture on the late 90's Nashville in-the-round circuit and spent the better part of the 00's in Sydney running acoustic music venues and songwriter nights for younger artists.

Mark Lucas
English born, Sydney based singer-songwriter, Mark Lucas has played many roles in the past 30 odd years. Arriving in Australia in 1981 with a suitcase and an old Martin guitar, he has been variously a banana farm hand, an insurance broker, latter-day Indian trader, worked in movies and bars, but always the troubadour, following the muse wherever it may lead.
Whilst an Americana, country/folk/roots feel prevails, Mark’s songwriting truly captures a spirit of place (Aussiecana anyone?), and with half a dozen critically acclaimed albums behind him he continues to explore the narrative soul at roots music’s heart.
If you warm to an honest passion for the craft of the singer-songwriter, you’re bound to find something to hang your hat on here…

Steph Miller and the Winter Station
Known nationally and internationally for his work in Roaring Jack and Eva Trout, Steph Miller has been performing his own songs, solo and in bands, for many years & enjoys a reputation as a fine storyteller who was folk before folk wore skinny jeans & a beard.

Invited: Damian Cunningham, Mindy Sotiri, Chris Hathway, Daniel Von Brews McCulloch, David Quoy, Melanie Horsnell, Sharlene Charli Rainford, Mark A Moldre, Steve Shepherd, Mark Jessup, Tery Breen, Victoria Wilkinson, John Encarnacao, Maryanne Burton, Steve Hunter, Zane Banks, Greg Dimmock, Cardinal Myrtle, Toni Swain, Mark Oats, Bryan Estepa, Damon Quinn, Simon Morel, Matthew Black, Andrew Barnum, Andrew Williams, Karl Broadie, Leticia Nischang, Demi Mitchell, Nick Payne, Lyn Taylor, David Messer, Gerry Nucifora, Drizabone Dion Dickinson, Geoff Rosenberg, Greg Tearne, Seb Bartels, Dan Stanley Freeman, Jim Conway, Marcus Peter Holden, Christophono Wilsono, Stu Tyrrell, Jason Walker, Mark Young, John Penhallow, Lilo Blyton, Katrina Jenns, Judy Coombes, Sire Craig-Darryl Skull-MacPeade, Nick Stathopoulos, Chris Maltby, Kristin Moore, Edmond Kairouz, Chris Familton, Craig Lyons, Kane Dyson, Daniel Hopkins, Andrew Frederick Donkin, Glenn Skarratt, Barbecue Brown, Ralph Marshall, Clare O'Meara, Vlasta Gunning, Darren Moffatt, Elizabeth Bryan, David White, Charlie Chan, Warren Fahey, Sandra Carozza, Rob Child, Leyne Elbourne, Daniel Moore, Pinchy Pincherson, Brett Hunt, Ernie Garland, Alannah Russack, Darren Cross, Sim Shame, Amy Goodhew, Gerg Em, Matt Galvin, James Thomson, Glen Davidson, Stuart Coupe, Roz Brown, Lynne Fisher, Michael Vidale, Brett Moses, Dennis Aubrey, George Washingmachine, Nick Rastrick, Jon Roberts, Mike McClellan, Keith Armitage, Andy Carr, Ica Icarus, Nick Kenyon, Leah Galvin, Suzy Connolly, Sean Callinan show more »