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 gentle plea to spread the word!
Other ways of supporting the players involved are below, after the Pics!
The Supper Club, BluGuru, Totally Gourdgeous, The Apostle String Band,
plus Kavisha Mazzella (with Rachel Johnston & Trent Arklesmyth – Two if by Sea) all shared some fine touring journeys, particularly this last year which I was most grateful to organise and share in – there was even Clermont’s (Tuition) Clinic at Woodford Folk Fest end of last year where Steve Berry (Ex- Three Chord Wonder days) plus 15 yr old Adelaide fiddle whizz Lucy Kammerman hit their straps by passing on special music knowledge!
but let’s quickly jump to some music plans ahead
July (Goldheist) / Aug (Kelly Country Pick) / Sept (Tasmania with BluGuru) / Oct (Mildura CM Fest) & November kicks into the summer with the Bluegrass – Made in Taiwan Re-union Tours (a 25 year celebration!).

Keep scrolling down for details!

JULY 5 – 20
Goldheist (with me) will tour these more secret places – of elves & ents – magic in music !
from Glen Innes north
through Tamworth (Enrec Studio Sat 6th),
Uralla (McCrossins Mill Sunday 7th 3pm !!)
Sydney ! (Folkswagon Session – Cafe Lounge – Surrey Hills) Wed 10th
Newcastle (The REX – Royal Exchange Salon Theatre) Thu 11th
,Murrurundi (Chicken in the Window Barn Fri 12th) ,
then back near Newcastle
and on to Sussex Inlet south! – see details at http://andrewclermont.com.au/gigguide.htm

Andrew with Jenny Lester (BC Canada) & Jack Melbourne (now Beechworth!)
From Halloween to Tamworth CM Fest (our 22nd Supper Club year!) end of January
A 25 year Re-union after 700 Concerts together in Taiwan in the mid 90s.
Leading Bluegrass artist Jenny Lester (Hungry Hill & Mark O’Connor Fiddle Camps!) had been on a holiday tour in ’95 from Canada – BC and bumped into myself and Adelaide’s Bluegrasser, Trev Warner, in the Pt Fairy Folk Fest green room – our jams were filmed by a Taiwan Documentary mob (though that was a detail we only learned years later).
Coincidentally some music agents from Adelaide had come back with word of a Bluegrass gig at Leofoo Adventure Park in Taiwan that year.
I received a call to be involved and a tumbling 3 years followed co-ordinating about 15 various Bluegrass players from Australia on rotation there.
Thus Bluegrass – Made in Taiwan!
our players!
Daryl (Jack) Melbourne (who had been touring with The Fargone Beauties), Jenny & myself became solid regulars for some years there.
I had the dubious job of running the Oz side of it for those years and then Jack became well entrenched there to the point of Art Director for the music department of one of the larger Museums in Taiwan! Not to mention the odd Bar & Pizza with music venues! I believe Jack clocked up some 3000 performances in Taiwan… give or take..
He extracted Aron Maclean from the Leofoo Can Can Show and the rest is history! The Supper Club/ The Pigs/ …even the guy who stunt-doubled for The Wolverine (Justin Sain !) was entwined in beginnings via Taiwan and that Adventure Park realm!
Paul Wookey from the Apostle Tours mentioned above who toured with me these last years, was also thick in the melee there! Wendy M Jackson whom I’d first met in Seville Expo, The ’92 Kangaroo Bar also got a call from me and was many years later, key to organising The Kelly Country Pick through most of it’s years as well!
Through this summer we’ll be aiming to unite as many of the former participants as we can!
There was a lucky capture of virtually the last concert I did there with Jack & Jenny – which boldly survives to tell the tale!
Live & Stormy : Bluegrass – Made in Taiwan – of the whole show as it distilled itself into. Above is the photo which hung for seemingly another decade, welcoming the patrons through the walkway to the various worlds of Leofoo Adventure Park – oh! And Jack, with Aron, also created the first Saudi Arabia show there as well (including training the Tiger!!)
There will be a curious assortment of stories attached to the tour shows ahead!

Back to 1995 – promo shot at Leofoo Adventure Park !

THE rest of SUMMER!!!
Keep an eye on the Gig Guide here as we get closer to each event!
http://andrewclermont.com.au/gigguide.htm
here’s the festival list you’ll likely catch Jen & I at.
Beyond MountainGrass Bluegrass Festival Thu 7 – 10 Nov VIC (The Reunion) and south NSW coast tour
Wirrina Bluegrass & Roots Music Fest 22 – 24 Nov SA (The Reunion) and concerts on the way across!
Maleny Bluegrass Convention Workshops 10 -15 Dec QLD (Jenny & I both Tutoring)
Woodford Folk Fest 26 Dec – 1 Jan 2020 QLD – TBC we hope !
Andrew Clermont’s Supper Club @ North Tamworth Bowlo 18 – 25 Jan NSW (huge line up including Totally Gourdgeous – our 22nd year)
then I’ll appear at my usual favs into FEB & MARCH
Yarra Junction Fiddlers Convention 14 – 16 Feb VIC (Always special)
Frances Folk Gathering 20 – 23 Feb VIC/ SA border (21st year)
Sandford Bush Festival 5-7 Mar VIC (near SA)
Phew! See you there or at House Concerts/ Halls/ Jams between!!
OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT!
So the years have generated a number of CDs & DVDs from the smorgasbord of music worlds we circle in.
Plus now there are the Supper Club T-shirts now as well as the epic 20 Year Photo Almanac Book of The Supper Club which includes most of the connected musos!
120 pages of extraordinary photographers work & stories through the 20 years! On special at a neat $100
And various style/ colour T-shirts too! $25 all inclusive of postage!
Give a hoy here or at at Ph 0407753809
Please invest if you can – it all makes the tours more possible!
Hope you can make it to a concert – or plan your own! We can help with House Concerts & Events
Yours most grateful for the years we can do all this!
Hugs always from Andrew Clermont (and just few co-project performers & helpers)