Harvester Moon Summer Concerts

Here's some advanced notice of some of the amazing shows coming up which include some international acts who are touring Australia and headlining major music festivals across the country...there's lots of holiday makers in town so book early to avoid disappointment. See below for further details.

Please note that we are open for our concert series dates, private functions and bookings for larger tables.

Dom & Jenny Phone 5259 3200 www.harvestermoon.com.au

Loren - Friday 8 January - 3 course Dinner & Show $45. With special guest Nigel wearne Loren possesses a rare energy on stage that demands attention. He has the natural gift of being able to tell a story in a song with skillful lyrical imagery while delicately balancing self-expression and audience connection. With a voice of silk, he absorbs inspiration from worldly destinations, experiences, from deep within himself and from some of the great songwriters and musicians that walked before him, channelling it into something original, captivating, and dynamic. Nigel Wearne is an Australian singer-songwriter who will compel you with an eloquent mystery from start to finish. ‘Wearne’s organic and evocative songs reflect honest performances with frayed poetic edges and intimacy’ ~ David Connoley, Geelong Advertiser

Collard, Greens & Gravy - Friday 15 January - Dinner & Show $45 Australia's leading blues band. The Melbourne-based trio have established themselves as one of Australia's leading blues bands with their low-fi, foot stomping country blues. Collard Greens and Gravy Silver Bird album won the Best Self-Produced CD award at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis during February 2005. Silver Bird, the bands third album, builds on the success of More Gravy, which won an ARIA Award in 2001. In 2001 they placed overall runner-up at the International Blues Challenge then successfully toured the United States. Book now... selling quickly. Ph 5259 3200 Bookings essential

PEARL - Friday 22 January - Dinner & Show $45 As members of the multi-award winning Goanna, Rose Bygrave and Marcia Howard helped create the unique vocal sound that even now sets them apart from every other Australian act. Since then they have established their individual reputations as acclaimed singer-songwriter, vocalists and performers on the world stage. Over 3 decades they have mesmerized audiences with their musical strength, fearless politics and their tender hearts. Their solo CD's have achieved the highest possible praise. It's been a long time coming, but now they are combining their refined skills for a musical treat not to be missed. Together they are pure PEARL

Phil Manning - Friday 29 January - Dinner & Show $45 One of Australia's best known guitarists, Phil has a single handedly turned more Australians onto the Blues than any other performer. Many Australians know him as a member of Chain, the legendary blues band whose contribution to Australian music and the development of the blues in this country is unparalleled.

Since the mid seventies, Phil has forged a brilliant solo career for himself. He has featured at all the major festivals and venues throughout the country, and the list of international artists he has toured with, performed alongside or recorded with is impressive. Here’s just a couple of acts you may have heard of! Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Kinks,Taj Mahal, B.B. King, Albert King, Robert Cray.....

Jordie Lane - Friday 5 February - Dinner & Show $45 “Jordie Lane's debut album may well come to be regarded as one of the most assured ever by a local artist”. Displaying the soulful tenderness of Ron Sexsmith and Ray LaMontagne..., Sleeping Patterns is a rare treat"- Rod Yates, Rolling Stone (4 stars)

"Young man, old soul. Jordie Lane is in his early 20s, but he sounds like an old-school troubadour, a man with a million stories to tell.” Jeff Jenkins, MAG (4 stars)

“... astonishing debut” - Chris Johnston, The Age (Melbourne) Magazine

Named in The Age (Melbourne magazine) Top 100 influential people of 2009, Melbourne’s Jordie Lane is becoming recognised nation-wide as one of our great song-writing talents. After releasing his highly acclaimed debut album Sleeping Patterns in June 09, Jordie has gone on to sell out album launches across the country, appear on ABC TV’s Spicks and Specks, and play shows alongside artists such as Cat Power(USA), Charlie Parr(USA), Old Crow Medicine Show(USA) and local legends Clare Bowditch, Ross Wilson and Tex Perkins.

Lauded as one of the most remarkable debut releases from a local musician, Sleeping Patterns was co-produced by Jeff Lang and Tim Hall and had been brewing in the subconscious of Jordie’s mind for four years. Recorded in little more than five days, the album features storytelling at its rawest, gutsiest, and most fragile. Sleeping Patterns was named Album of the Week on 3RRR, Radio Adelaide, ABC Sydney and ABC Radio National and DIG, and it was also nominated for The Age EG “Best Album” Award for 2009.

Josh White Jr (USA) - March 19 To Be Confirmed

JOSH WHITE, JR. is celebrating his 65th Anniversary in show business, beginning as a child star performing and recording with his legendary father Josh White, an original Carolina Piedmont blues player who pioneered the blues and spirituals: first to New York’s folk community, and then on to Broadway, nightclubs, and concert stages around the world in the 1930s and 1940s. He carries forward the immense musical and social activist legacy of his father and can take you back to the times when "House of the Rising Sun," “Strange Fruit,” “One Meatball,” “The House I Live In” and “Waltzing Matilda” first became popular songs to the masses, and to the experiences he shared with Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Bojangles, Leadbelly, Joe Louis, Woody Guthrie, Billie Holiday, Pete Seeger, Dorothy Gish, Burl Ives, Odetta, Miriam MaKeba and Nina Simone. In the meantime, Josh, Jr. has also established his own musical and activist legacy since becoming a solo artist in 1961, with more than a dozen albums ranging in a variety of styles, including his 1987 Grammy nominated instrumental album "Jazz, Ballads and Blues;" and with songs made famous by his father, songs by his artist friends, and his own self-penned positive message songs which have also been recorded by other artists such as Pete Seeger and Harry Belafonte.

Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan (Scotland) - Friday March 26 Scots Singer of the Year 08/09 & winner of the 2002 BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year, Emily Smith is widely recognized as one of Scotland’s finest interpreters of traditional song, a singer and songwriter of exceptional talent and skilled multi-instrumentalist (Keyboard & Accordion). Smith is accompanied by New Zealand born husband Jamie McClennan (Guitar, Fiddle & Whistle). Consummate performers, Smith & McClennan are often described by reviewers as exquisite, mesmerising and enchanting.

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