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boutique blues
Sydney Blues and
Roots Live at the
Luke Escombe
Fitz on May 15-1617 features many
outstanding you
talents.
The owners of the
Fitzroy Hotel have
worked hard with
the festival team and
sponsors to bring you
another completely
free event over three
night and two days
in May.
This small,
boutique festival is a
showcase for some
new and exciting
acts that are going
to show they’ve got
what it takes to keep
Blues and Roots
music alive and well
into the future.
The weekend
should well and truly
whet your appetite
for the Big Blues
and Roots Festival
in Windsor come
October.
The headline act
at The Fitz will be
Genevieve and The
Stones Throw. This
is the band and with
Jeremy Edwards on
guitar and they welldeserved headliners.
Sure to impress all who rock up to
the mini-festival are Claude Hay and
Luke Escombe.
Hailing from the Blue Mountains,
award-winning Australian solo artist
Claude Hay blends slide guitar,
bass and drums to create music
that invokes the best of stomping
traditional blues, hard rock and
booty-shaking funk.
All delivered with chops to burn
and a vocal range to match.
As winner of Best Live Act at the
Australian Music Independent Awards
(2013), Claude is perhaps the world’s
ultimate Do-It- Yourself musician forging his live sound on the back of
looping technology which allows him
to create a band vibe without the
band.
This approach has seen this
fiercely independent artist build an
audience for his music globally with
Claude Hay.
Bird In Hand Inn
PITT TOWN
81 Bathurst St, Pitt Town p 4572 3372
Everyday
tuesday All day & night
All Pastas $12
with garlic bread
trivia every tuesday
Starting 7.30pm
Great Prizes & Giveaways
wednesday Schnitzel $12.50
Full menu also available
thursday - sunday
Shuttle Bus Pick Up / Drop Off
Phone 0447 148 246
Sunday 10th May
MOTHER’S DAY
Menu
Entree
Pumpkin Soup with
Bread Roll
Shrimp Cocktail
Any 2 courses $28.50
Any 3 courses $35.00
the release of three award-winning
home-made albums plus a live DVD
release.
Luke Escombe is an awardwinning singer-songwriter, guitarist,
comedian and speaker.
His 2011 musical comedy show
“Chronic” took him to festivals
around the world, including the
Edinburgh Fringe and earned him a
nomination for a Green Room Award.
The following year his selfproduced album “Mantown” spent
nine straight months in the top 10 of
the Australian Blues and Roots chart,
earning comparisons to the likes of
Bruce Springsteen and Nick Cave.
Luke has performed for three
years in a row at Parliament House
in Canberra, as well as at the
New Zealand National Museum
in Wellington, the 2012 and 2014
National Medicines Symposiums, the
2013 Pharmacy Australia Congress,
and at conferences,
workshops, support
groups and nursing homes
across the country.
He is an ambassador
for Crohn’s and Colitis
Australia and a Champion
of Australian Pain
Management, and the
proud winner of a 2011
competition on radio
station Mix 106.5FM to
find “Sydney’s sexiest man
voice”
Earlier in 2014 Luke
simultaneously released
his first feature length
DVD “Chronic Symphonic”
along with 18-track live
album “Live on the Coast”.
Reviewing these
albums in the Sydney
Morning Herald, critic
John Shand wrote: “Luke
Escombe is funny and
brave, a showman and
an artist, a brilliantly
engaging lyricist,
expert tunesmith, fine
guitarist and exceptional
singer. Seldom is such
sophistication wrapped
in a coating of such overt
fun.”
See page 37 for more
info & contact details
Main
Creamy Chicken &
Mushroom Pie with Salad
Free glass of wine or
bubbles with meal
Roast Lamb with baked
& steamed Vegetables
Desert
Pavlova
Choc Molten Pudding
Mother’s Day Gift Basket
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Sundays
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24 May
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17 May
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31 May
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