The Milton Theatre has locked in some well-known acts for the beginning of 2018, with two of them already a sell out.
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The theatre, located on the Princes Highway, will host various bands and performers throughout the year. See below for a list of concerts already secured.
Kim Churchill will play on January 19 to a sold out theatre and Paul Dempsey will perform on February 4 to a full house.
For tickets, visit www.thelittleboxoffice.com/miltontheatre/ or phone Country Leather, Milton on 4455 3056.
Backsliders
- Saturday January 13, 2018 - 8:00pm.
- Tickets $40
Backsliders have been playing, touring the festival circuit and recording for more than 30 years.
Their latest release ‘Heathen Songbook’ is the band’s fourteenth album to date, and is a varied and eclectic mix of 21st century original blues, as well as a number of versions of songs by artists as diverse as blues legend Robert Johnson, hillbilly banjoist Dock Boggs and swamp-rock icon John Fogerty.
Slide Guitarist, multi-stringed instrumentalist, songwriter and vocalist, Dom Turner, is the founding member of the group.
Drum and percussion virtuoso and songwriter Rob Hirst (of Midnight Oil), an acclaimed name synonymous with the best of Australian music, has been with Backsliders for 18 years.
Joining Dom and Rob is a young harmonica prodigy, Joe Glover.
Renowned for their electric mix of blues styles and captivating live shows, they will bring their latest hits to Milton.
Harry Manx
- Saturday, February 24, 2018 – 8.00pm
- Tickets $49
Canadian multi-instrumentalist Harry Manx returns to his fans in Australia with his newest take on his ‘Blues meets Ragas’ explorations.
In his most recent recording, ‘Faith Lift’, Harry incorporates a String Quartet creating cross-cultural music that references and expands both Indian and western music, and shifts the feel and subtext of his unique sound.
As Harry says, ‘the strings give my music such an amazing lift, it feels like I have wings’. Sitting centre stage playing drums and guitars, Harry drives the rhythms forward with deep grooves, soulful patterns and spacious tones.
Using his 21-stringed mohan veena (Indian slide guitar), a national steel guitar, a banjo, cigar box guitar, his voice, and harmonica to lay down his audible vision, the music carries the audience in a trance-like state.
The lyrics draw from the works of the mystic poets with words of inspiration woven into story lines about everyday people.
Harry will be accompanied by his frequent accompanist, Sydney-based pianist Clayton Doley.
Vince Jones
- Saturday, January 27, 2018
- Tickets $40
Vince Jones has set the benchmark for Australian Jazz singers since his emergence in the jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 70s and early 80s. His international career, which has seen him release 20 albums, has never hesitated in its musical evolution.
He is that rare genre-defying artist who creates music without borders. From Iris DeMent’s folk “Our Town” to his original piano heavy, new age “Wonderworld”, he comments, sometimes uncomfortably, about the world we live in.
His intuitive readings of the great American songbook are sensitively true to composer and artist. He is a wonderful trumpet player. He plays a little less and draws a good deal more from it than he did in early days.
A brief solo from Vince is worth a hundred notes played with less discretion. Particular about the musical company he keeps, he continues to enjoy playing with the best jazz musicians the country has to offer and his shows reflect the respect all involved have for the art form that is Jazz.
In Milton, Vince will be joined by Matt McMahon on piano, James Hauptmann on drums and Karl Dunnicliff on the bass.
Doug Parkinson
- Friday, March 15, 2018
- Tickets $59
Doug Parkinson – “Dear Prudence The 50th Anniversary Tour” Australia’s greatest soul voice Doug Parkinson celebrates 50 years of performing excellence with a new show Dear Prudence The 50th Anniversary Tour.
Hard to believe this multi award winning artist of soul and rock and box office hit musicals began his stellar career thrown into the musical deep end, only to emerge decades later as a household name, respected and admired by audiences and peers alike.
Doug Parkinson is highly regarded as a ’singer’s singer’, an artist capable of interpreting many genres of popular music.
After two Sold Out Australian National Tours – “Dear Prudence The 50th Anniversary Tour” revisits the roller coaster ride that has been Doug Parkinson’s remarkable journey, punctuated by both happy and not so happy events that have shaped Parkinson the man, a survivor in a business notorious for its uncompromising demands both personal and professional.
The repertoire includes interpretations of hits from such legendary artists as Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Marvin Gaye, Michael McDonald, The Beatles and The Great American Song Book, just to name a few.
A highlight of this exciting new show is Doug Parkinson’s unique renditions of his own hit records The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore, Without You, I’ll Be Around, and The Hungry Years.
But wait there’s more, as they say in the classics.
It’s also the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ White Album, considered universally as a masterpiece and the source of Doug Parkinson’s greatest recording triumph, the iconic and masterful Dear Prudence.
Asked to describe “Dear Prudence The 50th Anniversary Tour”, Doug Parkinson describes it as a symphonic tour de force.
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
- Friday, March 23, 2018
- Tickets $44
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band (USA) Renowned US Bluegrass singer-songwriter and guitarist, Peter Rowan, “The Voice of Bluegrass”, returns to Australia with his all-star Bluegrass Band, featuring Patrick Sauber (banjo), Blaine Sprouse (fiddle), and Paul Knight (double bass).
Rowan is a true legend of American Bluegrass, a direct link to the father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, having been lead-singer in Monroes band in the 60s.
He has released numerous albums of mostly original songs, and has performed and recorded with Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Gillian Welch, Tim O’Brien, Bela Fleck, Tony Rice, Del McCoury, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Flaco Jimenez, Peter Tosh and many more.
Today, at the age of 75, he is still touring constantly, writing new songs, and making new recordings.
The Lachy Doley Group
- Friday, April 6, 2018
- Tickets $30
Dubbed the Jimi Hendrix of the Hammond Organ, Lachy Doley is the most celebrated Blues Soul Rock Organ Player in the world today. A player who can pump, pamper and occasionally pound the most unbelievable sounds from a keyboard: sounds that are intense, ferocious and sometimes transcendent.
Recently going viral on Facebook with videos clocking up millions of views. His version of the Bill Wither’s classic USE ME is now sitting at 1.7 MILLION Facebook views alone.
Lachy Doley has seen much of the world, recording and touring with acts as diverse as Powderfinger, Glenn Hughes, Steve Vai, Jimmy Barnes, The Beautiful Girls – more recently recording on a new album of Joe Bonamassa’s which came out in early 2015. It was 2010 though, that saw the birth of The Lachy Doley Group and they have been heavily recording and touring ever since.
The group’s latest album Lovelight, released in January 2017, is on track to surpass their previous album by debuting at #40 on the Australian National Charts the ARIAS.
The Lachy Doley Group are a unique and refreshing sound in Blues today. A power trio consisting of Bass, Drums, Doley on the Hammond and the incredibly rare 70 stringed Hohner D6 Whammy Clavinet.
The Lachy Doley Group have played over 200 shows and festivals around the world since the first release in 2011.