Foco Nuevo continues to bring great acoustic performances in the inviting atmosphere of the newly-named Ellen Taylor Community Centre (previously called Ahimsa House).
And a reminder that we’ve got hot meals on offer with our friends Manoli and Nayita bringing their Latin American cooking skills to Foco Nuevo.
Our guests for June are Julie Minto and the Acoustic Union String Band.
Julie Minto: Songwriter/ guitar / harmonica player and vocal powerhouse, Julie has performed solo throughout Australia including Warrego Winery, Tamar Valley Folk Festival, Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival and Redlands Spring Festival. She also is the lead singer of celtic-infused folk rock band “Thornlands” that has performed at the Cygnet Folk Festival, Wintermoon Festival, Folk Redlands and Woodford.[website].
Acoustic Union String Band: is a collaboration of four like-minded musicians – Chad and Michelle Swaby, Mark Ruff Cut Anderson and Alison MacKenzie – from the Darling Downs region sharing a passion for good handmade music.
Melodic tunes, with a ‘down on the farm’ feel. Largely influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Steve Earle blended with a mix of old time Blues, Country and Bluegrass melodies.
Jumping Fences will again be bringing their unique mix of original and Latin American songs with Sue Monk, Lachlan Hurse, Ross Gwyther and James Harper. [website].
Foco Nuevo is a reference to Brisbane’s FOCO Club, a lively and alternative performance space which ran on a weekly basis during the late 1960s.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Lachlan and Sue
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ACOUSTIC UNION STRING BAND
JULIE MINTO
JUMPING FENCES
Friday 26th June
8.00 p.m.
ELLEN TAYLOR COMMUNITY CENTRE
(formerly Ahimsa House)
26 Horan Street, West End
Hot Latin American meals, cakes, tea and coffee available
$10 / $7 concession
N.B. BYO
web
www.foconuevo.org.au
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Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe—Masters of War – Bob Dylan
There was a good roll-up to this gig.
Unfortuneately I missed the Jumping Fences’ set.
Julie Minto was good with funny & interesting original songs about an Oboe, unemployment, and housewife blues.
Acoustic Union String Band (great name, as Lach pointed out) introduced me to the rebellious music of Steve Earles, they did some old Dylan which is worth revisiting from time to time becasue of the political side of Bob Dylan.
I captured the tail end of a Steve Earles cover on my mobile. See
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRm2MeF90n4]
It was great to hear Ruff Cut Anderson (vocals, mandolin & bluegrass mandolin[with a hole like a violin]) doing Steve Earles songs backed up by Alison MacKenzie (mandolin, vocals), Michelle (fiddle, vocals) and Chad Swaby (Guitar, Fiddle, Blues Harp and Vocals).
Chad sang a great cover of the Dylan version of All “Along the Watchtower”.
—Bob Dylan All Along The Watchtower
Not only that, he did a Woody Guthrie song as well. Its a shame they didn’t do one of Pete Seeger’s songs. That would have gone down well. In all, a good night made better by people on stage refraining from mentioning Michael Jackson (who died that day).
Another thing, I wouldn’t mind hearing more vocals from the two women especially Alison MacKenzie.
Ian Curr
26 June 2009
Woody Guthrie
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VMbjknauE]
International cyberjam of Bob Dylan’s Masters of War
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyk1LgQ5-w]
See also Steve Earles
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4WOys7sWvU]
Check the Hendrix version of “Along the Watchtower”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs]