WA FOLK FEDERATION PRESS RELEASE JANUARY 2012
Perth Folk and Roots Club
Thursday 9th February 2012
8pm to 11pm at
Oxford Hotel
368 Oxford Street, Leederville
The W.A Folk Federation with the Oxford Hotel is establishing a Perth Folk and
Roots Club to be held on Thursday night once a month and has announced the
lineups for the launch on Thursday 9th February 2012.
The performances will be from 8pm to 11pm at the Oxford Hotel on 368 Oxford
Street in Leederville.
„The WA Folk Federation with the Oxford Hotels support will now have a club
venue to showcase folk and roots music in Perth to bring to people the best of folk
and roots‟, said Keith Anthonisz, Chair of the WA Folk Federation.
On Thursday 9th February, the WA Folk Federation will have The Lammas Tide and
Serge Rodriguez supported by the John Mc Nair and Keith Anthonisz duet.
The Lammas Tide is a five piece band with strong traditional folk sounds of fiddles,
mandolins, percussion and keyboards and recently launched a highly acclaimed EP
called High Tide in December 2011.
The band has influences from the vintage
sounds of Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull and 60s folk rock pioneers Fairport
Convention as well as traditional English and Scottish folk music. Reviews from
around Australia have been positive including Queenslands 4ZZZ 102.1FM Radio
which noted that; “These sounds are from the heartland of psych and yet it's so
different from the psych everyone else is doing right now. What you do get is
refreshingly energetic folk-rock.”
Serge Rodriguez recently joined the WA Folk Federation after contributing to a new
up and coming CD called “Going Home - Songs of the Western Australian Folk and
Roots Workshops”.
Serge is a Perth-based singer-song writer originally from Uruguay who is passionate
about social issues and on the contribution music makes to the community. He has
played in a band called Gypsy Earth and has written and recorded numerous songs.
„It will be a great to launch the Perth Folk and Roots Club with the support of The
Lammas Tide and Serge Rodriguez to present their talent to a new audience and to
bring awareness to the breadth of talent in Perth folk and roots music and in the WA
Folk Federation ‟ said Keith Anthonisz.
„Up and coming artists will also have the chance to do a couple of numbers to
introduce their music to audiences‟, Keith added.
Further information on Perth Folk and Roots Club for artists and the WA Folk
Federation is available via email on:
[email protected]
or on telephone 0424 108 888
For more information on the WA Folk Federation:
http://www.wafolk.org