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There are many visitors who return to Dorrigo every year for this Festival because of the great atmosphere, and the opportunity to jam with fantastic and sometimes famous musicians under a shady tree or round the campfire. Along with this huge cast of entertainers, there is a full workshop programme covering a wide range of [...]
Australia’s newest Bluegrass & Old Time venue, the Yinnar Hotel in Gippsland, played host to the Strzelecki Stringbuster’s final End Of Month show for 2011 last week. Joining the boys this month were Coolgrass, who made the trek down the highway from Melbourne to entertain the crowd with their unique and irreverent take on Bluegrass, [...]
Australia’s newest Bluegrass & Old Time venue, the Yinnar Hotel in Gippsland, played host to the Strzelecki Stringbuster’s final show for 2011 last week. Joining the boys this month were Coolgrass, who made the trek down the highway from Melbourne to entertain the crowd with their unique and irreverent take on Bluegrass, fresh from Harrietville, [...]
Coolgrass head to New South Wales Bary Parks has just advised us that Coolgrass, one of the most hilarious and irreverent bands in the land, will be performing at Hornsby, Ku-ring-gai Folk Club on 17th September. Beatrice Taylor Hall, rear Willow Park Community Centre, Edgeworth, David Ave, Hornsby. Coolgrass includes Jim Golding on banjo, Doug [...]
Mountains of Music – 11th – 14th June 2010. Melbourne band Coolgrass have been selected to play at this year’s The Perisher Snowy Mountains of Music. Organisers state that the festival was a huge success last year – with an audience of some 3,000 people and 120 artists over 4 days. With Winter just around [...]
News just in from the Illawarra Folk Festival is that their program has been announced. The program reveals that the comically irreverent team of pickers masquerading as a bluegrass band, otherwise know as Coolgrass are scheduled to play at the 2010 Illawarra Folk Festival. Performance times and locations are: Fri 15/01/2010 08:15pm to 09:15pm – [...]
Blaugrass at the Folkus Room 17th Nov 2009 – 8:00pm Paul Duff from Bluegrass Parkway has alerted us to an upcoming gig featuring the unlikeliest combination of Australia’s talent. The all so traditional and highly reverent Bluegrass Parkway are joining the ever irreverent Coolgrass for a gig at Canberra’s Folkus Room at the Italo-Australian Club, [...]
Coolgrass, Victoria’s somewhat bent bluegrass phenomena has recently had their profile debuted on the Cybergrass website. Cybergrass writes: In addition to their own songs and parodies, Coolgrass tackle the likes of Mozart, Mancini, Chuck Berry, Queen, Duke Ellington and many more in a tongue-firmly-in-cheek bluegrass style. They’re based in Melbourne (Australia, not Florida) and can [...]
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