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 Melbourne!!

Matsumoto/ Wookey/ Clermont

and

All Corners Covered – Rachel Johnston & Andrew Clermont

followed by The Supper Clubs at Woodord & Tamworth Festivals

see it all here at http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/gigguide.htm
and http://www.andrewclermont.com.au/latestnews.htm

or zoom in on the excerpts attached here.

Plenty CDs & DVDs to catch up on at the concerts.

Paul Wookey joins Matsumoto & Clermont Tour.
Late Oct to mid Nov from Melbourne to Mallacoota far east VIC to New England mid north NSW and back to Harrietville VIC
for the happy Mountaingrass mingle!

Clermont first played with Paul in about 1982. Wookey & Clermont met Montz at Frances Folk Gathering on the SA/VIC border some 15 years ago. We have all become best friends in music and are very keenly looking forward to this special trip.

Introducing a hot and very unique trio of song harmony and musical journey with a strong but worldly bluegrass taste.

Montz Matsumoto http://montzbanjo.com/
From Kyoto, Japan, Montz met Andrew at the Frances Folk Gathering nearly 20 years back and became the most seen performer at Andrew Clermont’s Supper Club. He’s very pleased to introduce the magnetic Banjo whiz/ entertainer/ world traveled Matsumoto to the hallowed Rutherglen extended community. He has also been blitzing with The Pigs from Gympie to the Black Stump, and variously with The Borderers and festivals with Clermont.
Most people would probably associate the banjo with Appalachian hillbilly music and the film ‘Deliverance,’ however the charismatic Matsumoto’s eclectic brand of music is testament to the adaptability of the instrument to a wide variety of musical styles, including Japanese, Indian, Celtic, Reggae and of course the traditional Bluegrass as well. He cites Doc Watson, Ry Cooder, David Grisman, Tony Trischka as influences with Woody Guthrie strong on his latest CD. Wit and humour shine throughout his performance , honed from touring the world.
Plus!!

Paul Wookey www.paulwookey.com.au
..is a gifted musician and possessor of one of the most acknowledged and diverse talents to have emerged in this country over the last 2 decades.

During this time Paul has shared the stage with & won accolades from a great many performers, including American Blues great John Hammond and Jimmy Witherspoon,( for whom he played guitar replacing Robin Ford), and Vince Gill, the No. 1 country singer in the U.S.

Although reasonably adept at an old country ballad, (Paul was a Gold Guitar winner at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 1981!) his first love is the blues and old 50’s &60’s rock&roll.

Paul has toured with Mick Jagger, Joe Satriani, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Hammond, Charlie Musselwhite, Brownie McGee, Vince Gill, Jessie Winchester, Mark O’Connor, Dan Crary, Byron Berline, Albert Lee, Mickey Newbury, Ralph McTell… and the list goes on

And chameleon Andrew Clermont, a nutso Fiddler, Mandolinist & 3 time Bluegrass Guitar Champ to boot – 30 years touring – from Tom T Hall, Dya Singh, BluGuru to Totally Gourdgeous, All Corners Covered and a Golden Fiddle Award director!
Plus 20 years of the epic Supper Club at Tamworth CM & Woodford, National & WA’s Fairbridge Folk Festivals!

Andrew Clermont is touring with formidable and feisty cellist Rachel Johnston
with a selection from the tips of Scandinavia through UK to inner Outback & Oldtime.

Clermont leaving for a moment the curious Totally Gourdgeous, BluGuru, Dya Singh & Supper Club adventures
of the last 2 decades, and Johnston her many years of the Australian String Quartet (!) and touring with Missy Higgins –
here be some particularly fresh and soul stirring music.

Curious & twisted are the stories and songs. Tantalising and soaring are the works –
they will certainly draw upon all their histories and take us well beyond!.

Clermont is with the sensuous double size Mick Moffat F5 Mandola along side the Gilchrist F5 Mandolin and Roger Buckmaster Fiddle & 5 string version, plus ringing cast metal didgeridoo & White Swallow Banjo
beside Rachel’s near glowing Luis & Clark Cello.
Add Clermont’s 3 time Bluegrass Guitar Champ maneuvers to
Rachel’s gleaning of the worlds of Cello style and there be a feast to behold!

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Rachel Johnston & Andrew Clermont – All Corners Covered Tour !
Early December Beechworth to Newcastle