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FRIDAY

 

PPROHIBITION JAZZ FEAT. ORCHARD BOAT

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM 22 FEBRUARY – 22 FEBRUARY

The Roaring 20s jazz & cocktails celebrations continue at Hotel Blue as they have been for every Friday night in February This week the Orchard Boat will sail into Hotel Blue.

Orchard Boat are Rob Weule and BJ Goodfellow, taking their gypsy guitar and accordion on a musical adventure through the Jazz, Irish, French and quirky pop music scene. Featuring stunning instrumentals and sublime vocal harmonies, The Orchard Boat sets sail and charters a course delivering a cruise of musical adventure. At times of favourable conditions, ‘The Boat’ docks and takes on extra crew members to enhance the journey, like ‘Deck-Hand’ Taylor Weule.

Join Orchard Boat this Friday Night, 6:30-8:30 pm. Come along early if you want a seat as it’s first come, first served. Bar & Kitchen open, family-friendly, free event. Live music @ Hotel Blue is brought to you by ‘Music in the Mountains’.

F#$%CK CANCER LET’S DANCE! AT BAROQUE ROOM KATOOMBA

8:00 PM – 11:00 PM 22 FEBRUARY – 22 FEBRUARY

A community fundraiser for two awesome human beings – Lis and Gill who are local Blue Mountains residents and life partners. In 2018 both were diagnosed with cancer which has obviously brought lots of stress and pressure financially, physically and emotionally. The Blue Mountains community is famous for our community spirit and coming out to support each other. This night is all about raising funds to support Lis and Gill and to celebrate community, friendship and life.

What to expect:

The night will feature 2… (yes 2!) Absolutely awesome dance-party bands, the Groove Co-op and Disco Frisco who will be stirring up the funk with non-stop soul and disco! Get your sequins and platform heels on and do it in a wig! Great Prizes to be won on the night for best disco wigs and funkiest dance moves. This will be a fabulously fun night to raise funds and to raise the roof for Lis and Gill!

PILABOXRED IN THE OCB

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM 22 FEBRUARY – 22 FEBRUARY

We are so excited to host Pila Box Red. This 3 piece band are fronted by Rick Altavilla – the man who could be tagged as the thinking bloke’s rocker. The band will be performing covers for us of some oldies plus 90’s and a couple from 2000. Live from 9:00pm, local band PilaBoxRed will be bringing their sound to the Old City Bank Bar

 

SATURDAY

 

LE HOT CLUB DE KATOOMBA | ROARING 20S FESTIVAL

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM 23 FEBRUARY – 23 FEBRUARY

This week, Julien Clement and Simon Watts will be dropping in for some French 20s classics and some gypsy jazz fun.

Australian violinist Simon Watts (String Theories, Skarrat & Watts) and French singer/guitarist Julien Clement (Belle Jar, Julien Joel Clement) team up for an evening of classic French chansons and an assortment of Hot Club swing jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.

Simon picked up the violin at the age of seven and has never stopped playing. After a classical training Simon was restless to explore other styles of music from the music of his Irish ancestry to jazz swings & steamy tangos and his main aim, when playing, is to bring pleasure to his audience and leave them wanting more.

Julien is a singer/songwriter & guitarist known for his many projects covering a wide style of music, here in Katoomba. For the Hot Club de Katoomba, he goes back to his French roots, keen to communicate the passion, drama and humour of French classic songs from the 20s and onwards.

ORCHARD BOAT PLAY LAWSON PUB

6:00 PM – 8:30 PM 23 FEBRUARY – 23 FEBRUARY

The Orchard Boat dock again at Lawson Pub in the restaurant. Always look forward to playing tunes here.

QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE MEDLOW BATH W/ THE SPYGLASS GYPSIES

7:30 PM – 10:00 PM 23 FEBRUARY – 23 FEBRUARY

Harking back to the speakeasy clubs of the 1920s and 1930s, The Spyglass Gypsies faithfully recreate the sounds of the Parisian ‘Hot Clubs’, in particular, the stylings of gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club de France. Part of the 2019, Roaring 20s Festival.

SENOR CABRALES AND WITCHES LEAP

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM 23 FEBRUARY – 23 FEBRUARY

Bring a platter of cheese and drinks, lay your own tablecloth and settle in for a unique folk event in the beautiful acoustics of this Historic Katoomba Church building. Señor Cabrales, a 6 piece band of traditional musicians from Northern Spain and Australia, take you on a Celtic journey from the wild Atlantic coast of northern Spain, through Brittany to the windswept outer islands of Scotland. Witches Leap’s soaring jigs, stomping polkas and convict gospel strike at the heart of Australia’s darker side with both humour and pathos.
Doors open 6:30 for a 7pm start

KING TIDE AND SKA’D 4 LIFE AT BAROQUE ROOM KATOOMBA

7:30 PM – 10:00 PM 23 FEBRUARY – 23 FEBRUARY

Music Hunter presents King Tide and Ska’d 4 Life on Sat 23rd of February in #Katoomba, so put on your #dancing shoes, these two bands have the spells to make the last person standing dance!
Doors open at 8pm

#Aria Award nominees from Bondi, KING TIDE, kick off at 9.30pm for 2 sets and are Australia’s’ premier original Rock Steady Reggae gut soul band!

Look n LISTEN to KING TIDE https://youtu.be/_oAXL7gK4I8

BLUESANGELS AT BLACKHEATH BAR & BISTRO

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM 23 FEBRUARY – 23 FEBRUARY

BluesAngels are excited to be first musical cab off the rank at this much awaited funky new Blackheath venue. The night will book out fast so best fb message them or get on email to secure a seat/table. blackheathbarandbistro@gmail.com

SUNDAY

THE BLUES ANGELS | ROARING 20S FESTIVAL

7:30 PM – 10:00 PM 24 FEBRUARY – 24 FEBRUARY

From jug band to jazz-infused New Orleans shake, Chicago blues bellow to bluegrass bounce, plugged or unplugged, the Blues Angels will warm your whiskers with their backhills bemoaning and beatnik beatitudes. Guitars and gobirons, mandos and banjos, the big bull fiddle and a thimbleful of washboard whaling, this is trad east coast blues the way we don’t often hear it. Pre-WW1 songcatchers matched with post-WW2 blues- bashers and modern times’ rootsabilly, augmented by the national-award-winning word wrangling of lead lilter Tom Flood. This is a rare treat in the Blue Mountains. Get on down ya hear!

It’s the Roaring 20s Festival, so Tom Flood and the gang will bring along some old-time folk and blues numbers to get your toes-tappin!