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The Village Square

The Village Square

Blackwood Community Hall, Byres Road, Blackwood

The Village Square combines live music performance and storytelling. Set in an imaginary town long ago, The Village Square presents tales of love and loss, misfortune and mirth, the graceful and grotesque.

The memoirs sparkle with the magic of traditional mythology. In “One Way Ticket”, The Stone Mason, deafened by the shock of tragic events in his life, finds peace building a bell tower for birds to nest in. In “The Fog”, a thick cloud descends upon the village, sending the entire population into a deep sleep until the local dogs discover a way to rouse them. “Kind And Sorrowful” tells the story of a young man who is saved from drowning by the River Spirit with unforeseen repercussions.

Evocative, enchanting and above all, human, The Village Square is a combination of captivating music and spoken word.

Featuring Robbie Melville - guitar | Zoe Knighton - cello | David Wilkinson - The Narrator

Doors at 5:00pm | Show at 5:30pm

Supported by the Hide + Seek Festival

$20/$15

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Amie Brûlée @ Kingston Food & Wine Festival

Amie Brûlée @ Kingston Food & Wine Festival

Kingston Showgrounds, 54 Church Parade, Kingston VIC

Discover the best produce, food, wine and brews that Victoria’s goldfields and spa country has to offer at the region’s newest family-friendly event.

Set in the iconic grounds of Kingston Showgrounds in Hepburn Shire in country Victoria.

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Paper Mouse

Paper Mouse

Chisolm Street, 608 Chisholm Street, Black Hill

Chisholm St is thrilled to present Paper Mouse, a collaboration between singer/bassist Liz Frencham and guitarist Robbie Melville. A small town in rural Victoria was the accidental meeting place for Liz & Robbie when they crossed paths in a café in 2013 and decided to play together. From their first rehearsal it was evident that a lengthy musical relationship was on the cards. Frencham and Melville discovered a shared love of jazz, pop, and folk, and instinctively blended their influences into a warm, earthy sound like red wine on a winter's night. The obvious chemistry between the pair is intensified by a willingness to never play any song the same way twice. This results in an extraordinary musical empathy, full of surprises, light and shade, and a child-like playfulness. Folk rhythms dance with ambient loops; Frencham’s vocals tug directly on your heart, met by Melville’s beautiful harmonic dissonances, and every nuance is distinct.

$20 - $35

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Robbie Melville Quartet

Robbie Melville Quartet

The Jazzlab, 27 Leslie Street, Brunswick

We're warming up before heading into the studio in June. This gig will feature a bunch of arrangements of music from my solo album Tangled Trails, and five...actually six... new tunes written for the album. Featuring Maddison Carter - drums | Zoe Knighton - cello | Tamara Murphy - bass

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Voyage

Voyage

The Jazzlab, 27 Leslie Street, Brunswick

I'm sitting in for my good friend Diego Villalta, who is sadly unable to make it to his own album launch. Voyage’s critically-acclaimed members, vocalist Tom Barton, guitarist Diego Villalta and pianist Nathan Liow transcend their diverse musical backgrounds of jazz, electronic and experimental musics with spellbinding incursions into real-time sonic sculpture, displaying masterful instrumental command and seamless ensemble presence. Each Voyage performance is a microcosm of the reaches of the human experience, delving bravely into the mystical unknown and punctuated by eruptions of transcendental awe and beauty.

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Nat Bartsch Quartet

Nat Bartsch Quartet

Woodend Winter Arts Festival, Woodend

Pianist/composer Nat Bartsch presents ‘Hope Renewed’: a jazz/post rock reinterpretation of her ARIA-nominated classical album ‘Hope’. This reinterpretation brings the work to life with her jazz quartet, classical musicians and live ambient electronic effects. Hope in this context is an abbreviation of hopefulness and hopelessness; creating a space to sit with our worries and grief whilst also looking to the future with optimism. While Hope was a quiet suite composed during 2020, reflecting upon the Black Summer bushfires and pandemic lockdowns, Hope Renewed is an epic mosaic. It represents this post-pandemic era: the world has re-opened, and everything feels enormous. Featuring Robbie Melville (guitar), Tamara Murphy (double bass) and Maddison Carter (drums).

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Nat Bartsch Quartet – Busy/Quiet

Nat Bartsch Quartet – Busy/Quiet

Melbourne Recital Centre, 31 Sturt Street, Southbank

Nat is joined by her jazz quartet in a special performance in the Primrose Potter Salon at Melbourne Recital Centre, as part of Nat’s 2024 Artist in Residency.

They will premiere a new work composed as a companion piece to Nat’s 2023 Art Music Award-winning work Busy/Quiet; as well as music from their albums Hope Renewed and Forever More.

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Robbie Melville Quartet

Robbie Melville Quartet

303, 303 High Street, Northcote

We're warming up before heading into the studio in June. This gig will feature a bunch of arrangements of music from my solo album Tangled Trails, and five...actually six... new tunes written for the album. Featuring Maddison Carter - drums | Zoe Knighton - cello | Tamara Murphy - bass

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Robbie Melville Quartet

Robbie Melville Quartet

The Brunswick Green, 313 Sydney Road, Brunswick

We're warming up before heading into the studio in June. This gig will feature a bunch of arrangements of music from my solo album Tangled Trails, and five new tunes written for the album. We'll also be featuring special guest Stephen Hornby on bass to fill in for Tamara.

$15/$10

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