Tuesday 9 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE Helping feed people in need Tuesday 23 October Sacred Heart Mission has announced another fantastic line-up for its 11th annual fundraiser, The Heart of St Kilda Concert, at the Palais Theatre St Kilda, on Tuesday 23 October. Performers will include Archie Roach, Kate Ceberano, Tex Perkins & The Fat Rubber Band, Anne Edmonds, CDB, Margret RoadKnight, Linda Bull & Sime Nugent: Stardust, Colin Lane, Bob Franklin, The Cartridge Family, Thando, Nath Valvo, Loose Tooth, Bev Killick, Imelda Yalcin, Alma Zygier, The Meltdown, Rebecca Barnard, Billy Miller and the Caravan Choir and MC - Brian Nankervis The Heart of St Kilda concert is an annual highlight of the Melbourne live music and comedy calendar. A family-friendly event, it attracts Australia’s finest musicians and comedians who donate their time to support the work of Sacred Heart Mission and its Meals Program, which provides up to 400 hot and hearty meals daily to those in Melbourne experiencing homelessness, social isolation and disadvantage. The Mission serves over 160,000 meals each year out of its dining hall in Grey St, St Kilda and proceeds from this year’s concert will help to continue this inspirational work. Once again, the irrepressible RocKwiz co-presenter and ABC Melbourne broadcaster Brian Nankervis will MC the evening. With more exciting acts still to be announced, along with a few trademark surprises, the show is shaping up to be another wonderful night in the concert’s rich history Tickets via Ticketmaster EVENT DETAILS HEART OF ST KILDA CONCERT: Tuesday 23 October @ 7.30pm VENUE: Palais Theatre, St Kilda TICKETS Ticketmaster: 136 100 or ticketmaster.com.au A-Reserve $99; B-Reserve $79 #heartofstkilda www.sacredheartmission.org MEDIA ENQUIRIES – CAVANAGH PR Julie Cavanagh – 0419 306 540 or [email protected] Performers in the 2018 Heart of St Kilda Concert include: ARCHIE ROACH Archie Roach’s career has spanned three decades. His ARIA-winning debut album, Charcoal Lane, was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 50 albums of 1992. It was centred around Roach's heartbreaking song, Took the Children Away, a deeply affecting ballad about his own experience as one of the Stolen Generations of First Nations children who were often forcibly removed from their parents and communities and placed in non- indigenous institutions and homes. The song’s impact was immediate. It went on to receive a Human Rights Achievement Award, marking the first time that such an honour had been bestowed upon a songwriter and was added to the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection in 2013. His work has been recognised locally and internationally, in mainstream and indigenous circles. His music speaks the stories of his people, of this land and of the human condition. His voice - uniquely Australian and undeniably universal - continues to resonate for us all. Archie has faced his fair share of difficulties over recent years: the tragic loss of his longtime partner, collaborator and soul mate Ruby Hunter in early 2010 plus a serious stroke in late 2010 followed by lung cancer surgery in 2012. Despite these challenges, Archie continues to draw strength and healing from his music. KATE CEBERANO has been Australia’s high priestess of pop, an award-winning jazz singer, a record-breaking festival artistic director and has hosted her own hit TV shows, starred in acclaimed movies, and above all that, she is a songwriter with the talent to take a tune to the top of the charts. 24 albums over 30 years, with 13 of them achieving Platinum or Gold sales and dozens of major awards, making her one the most prolific and awarded voices of her generation. In November 2015, Kate was the first-ever female to be inducted into the Australian Songwriters Association Hall of Fame. Adding to this, in 2016, Kate was awarded an Order of Australia for significant service to the performing arts, particularly music, as a singer, songwriter and entertainer, and to charitable organisations. TEX PERKINS & THE FAT RUBBER BAND Tex Perkins has played a key role in Australian music. It’s understandably difficult to pull together a coherent picture of a man whose career has taken in everything from the ground-breaking experimental punktonica of Sydney mid-80s noiseniks Thug to the lilting, dark country of his recent material with the Dark Horses. There was the hard-edged pub rock of the Beasts of Bourbon, a snarling slice of filthy pub rock, to the evocative soundscapes of The Cruel Sea. Then there’s the Tex, Don and Charlie albums, which saw Perkins joining forces with the legendary Don Walker, Cold Chisel’s pianist and master songwriter and the son of the Clarence Valley, Charlie Owen, previously Australia’s best kept musical secret. Now is Tex’s exciting new (and long overdue) collaboration with Matt Walker (a great artist in his own right) and fellow musicians Steve Hadley and Roger Bergodaz. It's a blues swamp-groove kinda thing - a little reminiscent of some of the things in Tex's back catalogue. Many new originals also inhabit the setlist, including a few Cruel Sea covers! ANNE EDMONDS is one of Australia’s most exciting stand-up, character and banjo-playing comedians. Since bursting onto the scene in 2010, she has brought her exquisitely incisive characters, songs and worldview to TV (Have You Been Paying Attention? Hughesy We Have A Problem, as host of this year’s MICF Opening All Stars Gala), to clubs and to comedy festivals around Australia and all over the world. After a sold-out season and a prestigious peer award win at MICF, Anne took her show, You Know What I’m Like, to London’s Soho Theatre in January 2016. She toured her Barry-nominated show – That’s Eddotainment – around Australia, stole the show in ABC TV’s Fancy Boy and won the 2016 MICF Director’s Choice Award in with the True Australian Patriots. No Offence, None Taken saw her nominated again for the Barry Award in 2017, and she followed it up with a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe and a return to London’s Soho Theatre. The Edge of the Bush, the series she created, wrote and stars in for ABC TV, debuted in September 2017 to critical acclaim. Anne’s appearances as beauty and fashion expert Helen Bidou on Get Krack!n must be seen to be believed. Her live show Helen Bidou: Enter the Spinnaker Lounge, garnered Eddo her third Barry nod, and a Best Comedy Performer nomination at this year’s Helpmann Awards. CDB are pioneers of Australian R&B music. Individually, band members have created their own success stories, and carved out their place within the Australian Music industry. As teenagers, CDB were part of Melbourne’s south eastern urban scene, a movement that included musicians, producers, rappers, graffiti and visual artists, DJs, fashion designers, and dancers. Signed to Sony in their late teens, CDB’s debut album Glide with Me (1994) went platinum in Australia and Top 5 in France. Let’s Groove topped the ARIA chart and was the bestselling Australian single of 1995. CDB toured the world, playing with the likes of Boyz II Men, Kci and Jojo, Desiree and Tina Arena. They have returned to the scene with their new album Tailored for Now, released late 2017. Let’s Groove topped the ARIA chart and was the bestselling Australian single of 1995. CDB toured the world, playing with the likes of Boyz II Men, Kci and Jojo, Desiree and Tina Arena. They performed in Seoul to a live audience of 100,000 and broadcast to 17 million worldwide, and counted Julian Lennon, Tommy Emmanuel and Boys II Men among their fans. Their second album, Lifted (1997) had success with singles Good Times and Back Then. CDB returned to the scene with their new album Tailored for Now, released late 2017. LINDA BULL & SIME NUGENT: STARDUST For 30 years, the glorious voice of Linda Bull has comprised one of the most distinctive, versatile and emotionally charged sounds on the Australian music landscape. One half of the luminous Bull Sisters, Linda is one of Australia’s most soulful vocalists and interpreter of songs in her own right, as well as being a big Willie Nelson fan. Her special guest vocalist, Sime Nugent, has toured nationally and internationally throughout Australia, Europe and America and released more than a dozen albums with a range of bands in his 20-year career including indie folk duo Sweet Jean and three-time ARIA nominated band, The Wilson Pickers. Willie Nelson’s classic 1978 album, Stardust, is an unforgettable collection of pop standards reworked in Willie’s inimitable way and produced by Memphis legend, Booker T Jones. The album charted for ten years, achieved quadruple platinum certification, and won Willie a Grammy Award for his soul filled rendition of Georgia on my Mind. Channelling Willie and capturing the essence of the songs from Stardust, Linda and Sime take audiences on a journey through this timeless album. Says Linda: "The reason I love Willie Nelson is simple: when he sings, I believe him. I share his love of a good melody and relate to his tales of loneliness and heartbreak but also to his optimism, longevity and no-nonsense approach”. COLIN LANE As the ‘Lano’ from Lano & Woodley, Colin Lane was one half of Australia’s favourite comedy duo. They won comedy’s Oscar, the Perrier Award, and their series, The Adventures of Lano & Woodley played in more than 30 countries. In 2006 they said Goodbye with a tour that played to 125,000 people in 34 towns.