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5 weeks across Europe for the Clermont Family Reunion!
Now as much as you would think for a family tour I might show a bunch of my family ,,, There will just a coupla people moments like this delectable lass for whom I am Grand father it seems! But tis [...]
Missing March 2025 🙂 Sandford Bush Festival VIC on “Steroids”!
The hands of Austral's Angus Barnaby & Caity Brennan joining my "super" Supper Club this round of Sandford adventure! Most Pics here taken by Clermont Going since 2018, head honcho Gazza approached me at Frances Folk Gathering in 2016 or 17 as [...]
2025 Feb – Yarra Junction Fiddlers / Melb Party/ Cobargo Fest NSW!
Yarra Junction Fiddlers Convention - over 40 years an annual part of my life! And here in the kitchen in 2025 with long timer legend as well, Kenny Joe Blake! You get the idea! And Oh! Yes! The Serenity here with Janet [...]
The Missing Bits of 2025 – Just January !!
Ah! Kick in the year with a Clermont's Clinic Teachers Finale at the Halcyon Stage, Woodford Folk Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=hjIGvvNqIciZy456&v=vudHfprBV1g&feature=youtu.be From the Musical Mayhem Series QLD ! Click here above to see it live! View to Stage with the Peoples [...]
The Missing Bits of 2024
And so it came to bear that my website since 1995 or there abouts, finally ground to a halt. The ancient programs I had milked to the last breath, finally ground to a halt! Yes I have bitten the proverbial bullet and [...]
Festival Round Up 2024 into 2025
Harmonica from Christian Marsh driving Marcus Church wild! January 2025 Some bonuses & some misses! SA Fiddler Lucy Kammerman confirmed fresh from teaching at Clermont's Clinic @ Woodford Folk Fest this summer adding to Sydney bonus Fiddler Adrian Keating who re-appeared [...]
Stolen Guitar Returned 2024
Latest luck !! MY STOLEN GUITAR - NOW FOUND & carried back to Oz (Aug 2024) by friends!! The saviour! Puppeteer Alex Barti (Check him out!) My Terada Acoustic Guitar of 40 years was sadly left on a train arriving into Hamburg Nov [...]
Meanwhile 2023
Mid year featured tours with Paul Wookey - here starting at home of Vikki Page with local friends joining in. A quick dash to a gathering on Magnetic Is for dear friend Dani Ceccarelli's 50th together with BluGuru & many [...]
Appearing 2022
BLUGURU INVITED TO BORNEO RAINFOREST FESTIVAL June 18 -20 2022 !!! Followed by Clermont appearing finally again with Totally Gourdgeous @ DENMARK WA Festival of Voice June 24 - 26 ! Then chase him to Black Mountain (Cooktown) Far North QLD [...]
Catchup 2020 Winter Prezzie
Hi Friends and tours/concerts listeners realm 🙂 ! Hoping to find you all somehow in progressing cheer! Plenty unknowns with the paths ahead, however .... I thought I’d do a composite email out / catchup within the tricky 2020 winter amongst [...]
Extraordinary July 2019 – March 2020
Hi Folks, we hope your years are being as kind to you as can. If you made it to any gatherings of the last years which we've brought near to you, a very warm extra thanks! Here's a catch up and [...]
Tour & Catchup 2018
Tour & Catchup - Bendigo to Mallacoota to Tamworth, Canberra and cross to Adelaide Oct 2018 Photo : Chris Bentley Concerts & Events near you over the next while plus some catch up! and even if we miss your [...]
2017 Review Tours Ahead
2017 Review - Clermont Tours ahead and 20 year Photo Almanac Book of Supper Club revealed ! Hi fine friends of the great decades of music! Quick News A good many of you have been part of the new paths [...]
Through & Around Tours 2016
Concert tours now from Melbourne through and around coast to Sydney/ Newcastle/ Tamworth etc Oct 2016 Hi Folks, a great set of tours & events coming up to take you through to the end of summer and starting this weekend in [...]
Clermont Path 2015
Newsletter 9/10/2015 Dear Friends of the Clermont path, thank you all so very much for your attendances, including celebrating our 17th year of musical adventures last January and/ or at Woodford Folk Festival last Xmas for our 3rd time - or [...]
Intense 2014
Newsletter 27/3/2014 Hi All, great to see many of you over the last year of intense touring - if you have any friends near any of these gigs, let alone yourself, please extend an invite. Four of my associated bands [...]
Knocking on Years End 2014
Newsletter 17/12/2014 Hi everyone, how is it we are already knocking at the year's end! If you were all busy enough to be able to say that, congratulations. If you overcame a struggle, helped a friend or a cause, created [...]
Help 2013
Newsletter 21/9/2013 HELP! 🙂 Time to invest in the Tall one! Post $$$ van repair assist request! New motor & diesel injector pump (must be made of Diamonds & Titanium!) Yes you've all been meaning to / waiting for that special [...]
Variously Met 2012
Newsletter 1/12/2012 Warm Tall Year's end/ Xmas etc greetings to you all that I have variously met, gathered, stumbled upon, grown up with, respected or confused along the way. With music we get to open communication between cultures - note to [...]
Naturally 2011
Newsletter 4/11/2011 And naturally for that matter, where are you? Yes, some of you are in distant nooks of the planet but with nearby friends perhaps! Thanks to the many for the support in my daughter's & her boyfriend's [...]
Fine Returns 2010 – 2009
Feb 2010 - 2009 The Hawkins of Frances water hole - of great solace & gatherings! L - R Pete Fidler, Jess Stocker, Carl Pannuzzo, Peter Denahey, Liz Frencham, Tami Neilson (Nth America) and Mark Mazengarb NZ, [...]
Bedazzling 2010
Newsletter 20/10/2010 Ah the bedazzling year that has been! The Chilean miners see the sky again and my last daughter goes independant. Dramatic times and places! You and your friends need a break! VERY SOON!!! Thu 21 Oct 8pm - [...]
2009 Clermont
His new Tour Project - Blues2Berserk 2009 Blues2Berserk Tour (gig guide below) Finally free from their bands (briefly), they've come to tell it all..... A twisted taunt of Celtic Blues Swing Bluegrass Jazz Indian adventure. The roads and flights between [...]
Happenings 2009
Newsletter 29/04/2009 Guitar News! It's BACK! Thanks All for keeping a eye out Tour News - "Blues to Berserk" from Melbourne round SE coast to Dorrigo/Coffs Harbour and across to Adelaide in May through June with Josh Bennett (Dya Singh [...]
Episodes 2008
2008 Newsletter .....in our last episode, you may recall a 'southern England' tour section was looming for Totally Gourdgeous, and I were enroute to Sicily (amidst Palermo above pic) with Mal Webb (flying on the day my passport - sooo [...]
