ANDREW & HEATHER PATTISON’S 2019 DIARY DATES June 8th, 9th & 10th Heathcote On Show & Winter Wine & Dine in Redesdale WINEANDMUSIC NEWS Sunday July 14th, from 2.30 pm Andrew’s 70th Birthday Concert NEWS FROM BURKE & WILLS WINERY at The Caravan Music Club, 1 Victor Rd, in Victoria’s Heathcote wine region. East Bentleigh (The South Oakleigh Club) APRIL 2019 October 5th and 6th Heathcote Wine & Food Festival Sunday July 14th .... November 1st to 4th The Best Heathcote Shiraz! Troubadour Venue On the Sunday morning of last October’s at The Maldon Folk Festival Andrew’s 70th Birthday Heathcote Wine and Food Festival we were Sat & Sun Nov 23rd, 24th Concert Party delighted to be approached by representatives of The Verandah Mini-Festival at The Caravan Music Club, East Bentleigh. The Heathcote Wine Appreciation group who at Burke & Wills Winery handed us a certificate that said that the Burke The actual birthday is on Tuesday July 9th, & Wills 2016 Vat 1 Shiraz was the winner of and in 2020 ... but the party is on Sunday afternoon, with a Best Wine in the Open Shiraz Section for the Sunday January 12th five hour concert featuring a great line-up of 2018 Festival ! This group of people come to the The Verandah Folk Club musicians and entertainers who have played a festival each year and taste as many wines as at Burke & Wills Winery part in Andrew’s life and career in music over they can, then each purchase a bottle of the wine January 24th - 27th the past forty years...... they consider the best, and then together over Troubadour Venue GLENN CARDIER, GREG CHAMPION, Saturday night’s dinner they all try all of those at Newstead Live! music festival MARTIN PEARSON, PAUL WOOKEY, purchases and vote on the overall best wine. March 6th - 9th ROSS RYAN, DEAN & CARRUTHERS, So Vat 1 rates again, after the 2015 won five The Burke & Wills Folk Festival PENNY LARKINS, KHRISTIAN MIZZI, trophies including the inaugural Premier’s We present music half a dozen times MANDY CONNELL & LAYLA FIBBINS, Trophy for Best Victorian Wine. and probably a couple more. a year in 3 different formats, all very We haven’t released the 2016 to the trade yet, relaxed and informal, but for a listening Music starts at 2.30, and if you want lunch even though we had it available at last year’s audience, not background music! ... beforehand you can book a table in the bistro in Heathcote Wine and Food Festival because the 1) Marquee concerts, with allocated the next room. The food is good and reasonably 2014 and 2015 had both sold out. Ideally we seating and a 2 or 3 course meal, 2) priced, as is the wine list. Book on 9579 4855 like our reds to be 4 years old before we release Verandah Specials, even more informal, The ticket price for the concert is $45, all of them, as we find they suddenly seem to open up semi outdoors under a verandah and shade with a simpler 2 course barbecue, and 3) which is going to the musicians and production around that age. We have, however, listed the 2016 among our currently available wines on the The Verandah Folk Club - an occasional costs, and you need to book on line through the folk club format with both booked back page of this newsletter, but we recommend Caravan Club - www.caravanmusic.com.au performers and open stage where anyone Book sooner rather than later as it may well sell cellaring until at least 2020 or 2021 to start can sing 2 or 3 songs .. usually a couple out early with this line-up! seeing it at its best. of times between Christmas and Easter, so ... more details in the next edition of this newsletter. Also the annual Burke & Wills Folk Festival in March, in the marquee, and the November Verandah Mini- Festival under the verandah and shade. BOOKINGS, INFORMATION for all Burke & Wills events: ph: (03) 5425 5400 or email: [email protected] Glenn Layla & Mandy Greg Updates and more info at:. Ross Terry Dean and www.wineandmusic.net Gary Carruthers Burke & Wills Winery 89 Coombe’s Lane, Mia Mia, 3444 - 101 kms NW of Melbourne on the Burke & Wills Track (Lancefield to Mia Mia road - yes, it’s bitumen), 31 kms NW of Lancefield, 7 kms. south of Mia Mia. MELWAY X909 H6, VicRoads 60 B2 Khristiantian Sat Nav Lat -37.047190, Lon 144.606172

SUBSCRIBE / UNSUBSCRIBE We post or email this newsletter once or twice a year to our club members. If you do not want to receive it, or if you have found it elsewhere and would like to be on the mail list, please contact us, via phone or email above. It is also available on our website Martin Penny Paul www.wineandmusic.net November 23rd & 24th .... our special Verandah Concerts Weekend mini-festival, with special guest GRAEME CONNORS as well as MICHAEL WAUGH with his trio, and two or three more to be confirmed closer to the date. Graeme, who will be playing on the Sunday afternoon, accompanied by Gary Carruthers and Jeff Camilleri, is one of the most successful artists on Australia’s scene, having won fourteen Golden Guitars at Tamworth, and having had a dozen songs recorded by Slim Dusty. However, he is not really country, more a contemporary singer songwriter whose biggest influences were Randy Newman and , and whose first album was produced by an impressed after Graeme had been the opening act on a Kristofferson tour. So perhaps think more along the lines of , who also recorded one of Graeme’s songs. He first came to my attention in the 1980s when he released his ‘North’ album, and tasteful ABC Radio presenter (and winemaker!) David Paterson played the whole album on his nationwide late GATEFOLD DOUBLE ORDER: 94939 QUANTITY: 500 FINISH/STOCK: STANDARD night show. The songs ‘I Head A Little Further North Each Year’ and ‘Let The Cane Fields Burn’

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Sunday January 12thAll songs 2019 written - Theby Mickey Verandah Newbury, published Folk by AcuffClub Rose. at Executive the winery producer Andrew Details to be announcedPattison. Producedcloser by to Rod the McCormack event. and LunchAndrew Pattison. from 12.15Mastered by $25. Jeff McCormack. CD cover design by Ramona Tilley. Painting of Mickey Newbury by Heather McCormack. $20 Concert from 1.30 featuring© 2018 country booked folk sing Mickey acts Newbury plus www.festivalfolk.com floor spots from all-comers. March 8th to 11thAll profits 2019 from the- Thesale of countryBurke folk sing& WillsMickey Newbury Folk will Festival. go to The Troubadour Foundation www.thetroubadourfoundation.com.au Everyone involved with the production Entertainmentof thisfrom project 5.00 has donated pm Friday their time toand 10.30effort (with pm the exceptionMonday. of engineering and manufacture). This project would not have been possible without the wonderful group of Weekendsingers and tickets musicians $125,who donated Day their Tickets time and their $50 recordings to the project, both in

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For all of the aboveinsert for eventsfurther information book about now the artiststhen - and pay go to onsee their the concerts day. and buy their 2018 Bill Chambers • Doug Ashdown • Eric Bogle • Gina Jeffreys • Graeme Connors CDs, they are fabulous. Greg Champion • Khristian Mizzi • Kim Cheshire • Kristina Olsen • Mike McClellan Other events: Peter Daffy • Peter Titchener • Rod McCormack • Suzette Herft Sunday July 14th - Andrew’s 70th birthday concert party at The Caravan Club, ... 2.30 to 7.30 concert $45, bookings www.caravanmusic.com.au Following on from the very successful tribute albums to Joni Lunch bookings in the adjoining bistro ph 9579 4855 Mitchell, Eric Bogle, Bob Dylan, Judy Small, Gordon Lightfoot October 5th & 6th - The Heathcote Wine and Food Festival. and a folk version of Dark Side Of The Moon is this special tribute Over 200 wines to taste, gourmet foods, live music. to one of Nashville’s all time great songwriters, Mickey Newbury. Info & bookings: www.heathcotewinegrowers.com.au/festival Some of his best known songs are performed by Mike McClellan, Gina Jeffreys, Bill Chambers, Peter Daffy, Rod McCormack, November 1st - 4th - The Maldon Folk Festival . We will be there hosting Graeme Connors, Suzette Herft, Eric Bogle, Kim Cheshire, Peter The Troubadour venue and our wines will be there. On line bookings: Titchener, Doug Ashdown, Khristian Mizzi, Greg Champion and www.ticketebo.com.au/maldon-folk-festival/maldon-folk-festival-2019.html Kristina Olsen. Songs include American Trilogy, Sweet Memories, January 24th - 27th - Newstead Live Music Festival. We will be hosting The San Francisco Mabel Joy, Baby Why You Been Gone So Long, and Troubadour stage once again, with some of our wines at the bar. How I Love Them Old Songs. On line bookings: www.newsteadlive.com All proceeds from the sale of the CDs go to The Troubadour For the above 3 festivals you will almost certainly be able to get tickets at the Foundation, a charity which exists to encourage and support folk events, but there are earlybird discounts for on line bookings. music and musicians in Australia. The CD is available for $25 + $3 packing and postage - email [email protected] . Friday - Monday March 6th - 9th 2020... Mr. Burke’s The Burke & Wills Folk Festival column Happy carrots everyone! Greetings from the dust bowl of the winery pad- docks, (which look nothing like this photo taken the last time it rained!) There isn’t a lot of grass around here at the moment – Heather has even been cutting us some green stuff from the vineyard each day - not as good as carrots ! - and it would save her a lot of time if she just let us all in to help ourselves, but she seems to think we wouldn’t know which bits not to eat …..… (a bit of a control freak really! – rumour has it she even has cellar door customers bringing their own nibbles! .... But that might have something to do with them hearing about her cooking……….) And the hay shed is pretty empty, I reckon if we play This is our annual party weekend. Well, it’s a bit more like a 4 day garden our cards right she’ll start party packed full of music than a festival. It’s smaller and more intimate than adding wine to our rations almost any other folk festival, with just one stage, 15 or so acts, and approx. 150 any day – I keep hinting! And festival-goers in the audience. The performers are world class. Andrew has had to get us a We keep the event for those that really want to be here, i.e the regulars and, couple of new big drinking if there is room, friends that they have recommended the event to. This way troughs .... apparently they we get to keep the fabulous, discerning, understanding and helpful crowd that make more water than our comes every year and feels it has some ownership of the event. old bathtubs. So if you have been before, and / or if you are reading this because you are on The vines did their best this our mailing list, then consider yourself invited, but make a booking soon, as we vintage but the dry start to the spring has seen them be a are usually booked out before Christmas. Well, the camping will be full; we may bit pathetic in how many grapes they bothered with! Low have a little bit of room left for day trippers, but no promises, so don’t delay. yields everywhere, Andrew says, but quality is great even (We’ll keep a waiting list, in case of any cancellations.) if there isn’t going to be much of it…. so you’d all better get Weekend tickets will again be $125, day tickets $50, and there is no charge for you orders in early! or I won’t share! camping. Meals and snacks available all day, and self catering in the camping ground is OK too. Music goes from approx 5.00 pm Friday through to around And I’ve got a secret! Andrew is turning 70 (secrets 10.30 pm Monday. Book now, pay on the weekend. aren’t any fun unless you share them!) And that means I At the time this is going to the printers we don’t know who will be get to run the show again while everyone goes and parties performing, but you’ll be able to find out closer to the event by looking on our in Melb – And I think he invited all of you, but you prob- website www.wineandmusic.net. ably have to pay… it’s that type of party .... someone said it’s at the Caravan Club…… I’ve seen caravans and they aren’t very big ……so if I was you I’d think twice about go- Vin Garbutt’s Finale CD ing to a party in one……. “All The Very Best” There also seems to be an extra redhead in the stable This was released at this year’s here….. I’m not allowed (ha ha) to say anything about Burke & Wills Folk Festival, and her……… but Heather seems to like her too…. So I guess it’s is now available through The alright (I’ll sneak a bit more in about her next time – she’s Troubadour Foundation. The CD a year older than captures Vin’s final ever performance Andrew .... and a in Australia, an hour long concert Pom to boot! ) No, on the last night of the 2016 Burke it’s not Angel, who’s & Wills Folk Festival. It was just almost a redhead by chance that Marina Hurley and looks a bit too connected her Zoom digital recorder cute at sunset. to our sound desk, little knowing (Actually, she’s too that we would never see nor hear bloody cute all of the Vin again. He died 15 months later, from heart troubles that had been plaguing time, and gets all of him for a dozen years. the attention these In true Vin style, in this concert he only manages four songs, the rest being his days) unique chat and hilariously daft story telling, so it is a wonderful momento for Thanks Pam for all of us who have had the joy of seeing Vin live. the photo by the The CD is produced by The Troubadour Foundation, a charity that strives to way. support and assist the folk arts in Australia. 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