The Milawa Gourmet Region, the tourist destination of North East Victoria.

The Milawa Gourmet Region Association is offering a FREE accommodation package for two at the "2009 Beat The Winter Blues 'n Jazz" CLICK HERE for your free chance to win one night's accommodation package for two, including midday meal and evening meal for two.

BOOKING INFORMATION


Weekend passes available to all music performances -  $50 per person. $40 per person for groups of 2 or more. Under 16 years free. 
At venues a offering meal and music package deal, a weekend pass provides $10 discount. 
Casual walk in music performances, $10 per person, under 16 years free. 
Your weekend pass entitles you to a 10% discount at most Milawa Gourmet Region businesses 

Ask the friendly staff at the Wangaratta Visitors Information Centre for more details. 
Passes also available at Milawa Gourmet music venues.
 
For bookings & information contact the  Rural City of Wangaratta  
VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE  Toll Free: 1800 801 065


2009 PROGRAM DETAILS

Friday July 10 – Evening 

LINDENWARRAH COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL
Featuring - Collard, Greens and Gravy  
Start time 8pm  Entry: $10 or free for holders of Festival Pass
Drinks and snacks available at bar prices
Table bookings recommended: 03 57205777

MILAWA GOURMET HOTEL
Featuring - Terry Lockwood and Rudi Katterl  
Music  8pm til late.  Entry $10 or Festival Pass 
Dinner available from 5.30pm  
Bookings advised, 03 57273208 

Saturday July 11 - Daytime

CICCONE WINES - Old Butcher Shop Café
Featuring - Dave Diprose
12-4pm. Entry $10 or Festival Pass
Booking recommended, 03 57273878

MILAWA LODGE MOTEL
Featuring - Real Gone Blues
2-5pm.  Entry $10 or Festival Pass holders
Finger Foods, Local Wines, Tea & Coffee
03 57273326

JOHN GEHRIG WINERY 
Featuring - Collard, Greens and Gravy
From 2.30 - 5.30 Entry $10 or Festival Pass
Catering by King River Cafe
03 57273395










NOTE: Program details may be subject to change.
Please check this website closer to the actual dates







Saturday July 11 – Evening
 
LINDENWARRAH COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL
Featuring - Sue Pascoe-Johnson and Friends 
7-11pm, $85 pp, $75pp Festival Pass 
3-course meal  
Bookings essential 03 57205777

CAFÉ MADDISON (formerly Food on Wood)
Featuring - Paul Hicks 'Christmas in July' 
Two-course dinner 6.30  $55 pp, $45 pp Festival Pass
Bookings essential 03 57273850

MILAWA GOURMET HOTEL
Featuring - Phil Manning
Entry $10 or Festival Pass 
Dinner available from 5.30 pm - Music  8pm til late.  
Entry $10 or Festival Pass
Dinner/table bookings advised, 03 57273208 

THE PLOUGH  (Tarrawingeee)
Beechworth-Wangaratta Road
Featuring - Dave Diprose
Music 8pm. Entry $10 or Festival Pass
Enquiries: Steve 03 57273208

Sunday July 12– Daytime

PRODUCERS MARKET at  THE CROSSROADS, MILAWA
Gourmet foods, local produce
Featuring - Terry Lockwood and Rudi Katterl
10am-2pm. Free entry

BALLINGARRY LAVENDER
Featuring - Phil Manning 
11am Entry $10 or Festival Pass
03 57273935 

SAM MIRANDA OF KING VALLEY
Featuring - Luke Davies & Mel Tompkins
12 Noon Entry $10 or Festival Pass
Lunch bookings required, 03 57273888

CICCONE WINES - Old Butcher Shop Café 
Featuring - Real Gone Blues
12-4pm. Entry $10 or Festival Pass 
Bookings advised, 03 57273878

BALLINGARRY LAVENDER 
Phil Manning Workshop 2pm
Bring your own guitar 
03 57273935

SYNOPSIS OF PERFORMERS FOR 2009

Collard Greens and Gravy Formed in 1995 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 (IBC) in 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 IBC then successfully toured the United States. The IBC is an annual competition held by The Blues Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee to unearth outstanding independent blues musicians.

Collard Greens and Gravy is Ian Collard on harmonica, vocals, diddley bow and guitar, James Bridges on guitar and Anthony Shortie on drums and percussion. Legends like Muddy Waters, Jessie Mae Hemphill, R.L. Burnside, T-Model Ford and Fred McDowell inspire their guitar, harp and percussion combination. Collard, a gifted blues vocalist, won the Australian Harmonica Championships in 1996. A Hohner Harmonica endorsee, he has featured on many other recordings including Baz Luhrmans UK number one hit, Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen). Bridges' playing stands out among today's legion of blues guitarists; with taste and economy he creates an eerie style and feel that harks back to names such as Blind Willie Johnson, Son House and Robert Johnson.

Shortie completes the trio on drums. His technique is all his own; he plays intensely and dynamically on a one-of-a kind modified drum kit. Collard has dug deep into some wellspring of blues... and dug out a sound similar in trance-like rhythms to north Mississippi hill country blues. - Jeremy Loome, The Edmonton Sun (Canada) Collard Greens and Gravy have tapped into some deep subterranean stream that connects us all to the source of the blues. - Mark Doherty, Rhythms Magazine Eerie, haunting blues...it reminded me of a dark night on the Delta. Alligator Records President Bruce Iglauer describes Silver Bird Discography 2004 Silver Bird (BMM 284.2) 2001 More Gravy (BMM 240.2) 1999 Collard Greens and Gravy (BMM 227.2)

Paul Hicks - With a style critics have compared to the great storytellers Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Paul Kelly, singer-songwriter Paul Hicks has been tagged as someone destined for big things. The style is roots country but Hicks draws widely from a number of influences. Along with Springsteen, Dylan and Kelly, comparisons have also been made with John Mellencamp, Steve Earle and Sydney band The Flood.

Real Gone Blues - Alan Wright and Ian Barford play folk'n'blues music that casts a wider musical net than many blues acts. Alan is long-time bassist, singer and song-writer with Australia's premier cajun/zydeco band "Zydeco Jump", was part of that great "Chicago style" band "Blues Before Sunrise", and founder of Melbourne's own Doo Wop vocal group "The Ultrasounds". Ian has been a keen harmonica player for over ten years, playing and jamming with many of the Goulburn Valley's best musicians, including the "Night Owls" and "Strange Brew". Their music is rich, honest blues, true to its roots.

Terry Lockwood & Rudi Katterl Terry Lockwood is a compulsive performer whose joie de vivre and delicious baritone vocals ensure a good time! His passion for blues and roots music led to a collaboration with the talented Rudi Katterl, an eclectic and accomplished guitarist and record producer. Terry and Rudi recently recorded an album of largely original tracks, "Who's Using Who …….mmm?" They are massively entertaining live. The acoustic blues and roots revolution is alive and well and these two are up to their necks in it.

Sue Pascoe-Johnson and friends Sue Pascoe-Johnson has been singing ever since her father introduced her to the music of Louis Armstrong when she was 4. Though trained as an architect, she has always taken time to search out local musicians and sing wherever she has lived including Hong Kong, Singapore, London, New York, Sydney, Brisbane and now Melbourne. Not afraid to admit she is a great lover of the ballad, Sue pours a lifetime of experience into her interpretation of the lyrics, but before you label her as a torch-song singer, she'll belt out a blues with all the 'sass' of Bessie Smith. You can hear the influences of Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, Peggy Lee and Nina Simone in her singing. Sue delivers her brand of smooth jazz, latin, swing, blues and some soul with only the best musicians.

Phil Manning Phil is one of Australia's best known guitarists, he has turned more Australians onto the Blues than any other performer.The grandson of a dedicated Tasmanian bandleader, Phil grew up with music in his genes. 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. His experience spans three decades at the top of his field. His skilful touch and great passion for the blues have kept him musically progressive, always prepared to interest himself in new musical ideas whilst maintaining his stylistic purpose. The result is a gifted songwriter with an awesome guitar technique.

Luke R. Davies & Mel Tompkins Luke & Mel are an acoustic duo who plays a diverse mix of styles, drawing on the blues, old time country, bluegrass and various folk and roots styles. Both are strong vocalists with a feel for the blues genre. Luke (vocals, guitar and harp) will be known by many as part of the popular acoustic duo "Good Medicine" and has also played with hard-driving Chicago blues style combos. Mel (vocals, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and banjo) has performed in a number of folk/roots bands since coming to Australia in the early 80s. The two explore traditional blues of the 30s and 40s as well as delivering some interesting interpretations of more contemporary songs and some originals of their own. Two of North East Victoria's finest musicians entertain with a variety of songs, humour and versatility.

Dave Diprose Dave plays country blues the old way. Performing bottleneck guitar on resophonic instruments with a growling harmonica, he recreates the sound and energy of the Mississippi Juke Joints, just like it was back when the blues began. Dave also flatpicks up a storm playing traditional country/folk, swing and bluegrass and gets the joint jumpin'. Dave is a highly regarded songwriter who tells stories about growing up and living in Australia, drawing on experiences of five generations on the land, and songs that speak of irony and humour in relationships and domestic situations.

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