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In 2024 we’re celebrating 50 years of arts and cultural development in the NSW Central West.
Join us for a night of dinner, entertainment, art and connecting.
We welcome old friends and new, people who are part of the Arts OutWest story and people who make the Central West’s arts and cultural scene tick.
Enjoy a night of cabaret style entertainment from the region (curated by Rob Shannon).
Food by Eat Your Greens: canapés, main, desert and coffee.
Also enjoy an exhibition of photography by Arts OutWest media associates and art by current Arts OutWest staff (opening from 2pm next-door in St Andrews Hall).
Dress: Dress for dinner. You might like to wear something that showcases talents from our region. For shopping ideas visit the Handmade map at Culture Maps Central NSW.
Ticket includes complimentary drink on arrival. Drinks for sale at the bar.
Starts 6pm for 6.30pm.
For accommodation options in Forbes visit the Amazing Forbes website.
We are also collecting interest in a bus travelling Bathurst via Orange to Forbes and rtn and/or car pooling options. Please let us know if you are interested when buying tickets (there is a question you can complete).
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Great Aunt Biography
Raw and austere, simple and bold; full of stomping feet and clapping hands, chants and harmonies, whispered words and soulful lament - that’s the music of Great Aunt. Listen, and you'll hear tales of joy and grief, whiskey and wine, gratitude and purpose-seeking.
Formed in 2016, the duo is a collaboration between songwriter/instrumentalists Megan Bird (mandolin, guitar, vocals) and Chelsea Allen (double bass, vocals, percussion), and draws inspiration from the traditions of old time, bluegrass, and gospel music, with loving and subtle homage to the pair’s diverse background in punk, jazz, roots, and folk music. The instrumentation and arrangements are bare and bold: using only various combinations of mandolin, guitar, or resonator with double bass and percussion, and the sonorous voices of Bird and Allen in harmony.
After a frenetic touring schedule throughout Australia in 2019, Great Aunt are currently busy in their home studio, producing and recording their debut full length album, ‘It's All Downhill From Here’ – due for release in mid-2020.
”Americana usually calls to mind the bayous of Louisiana, the pocket communities of the Appalachian mountains, or the great plains of the American heartland, but Melbourne, Australia’s Great Aunt prove that, despite its name, not all great Americana comes from the United States.” - Not a Sound, July 2019
Read MoreFormed in 2016, the duo is a collaboration between songwriter/instrumentalists Megan Bird (mandolin, guitar, vocals) and Chelsea Allen (double bass, vocals, percussion), and draws inspiration from the traditions of old time, bluegrass, and gospel music, with loving and subtle homage to the pair’s diverse background in punk, jazz, roots, and folk music. The instrumentation and arrangements are bare and bold: using only various combinations of mandolin, guitar, or resonator with double bass and percussion, and the sonorous voices of Bird and Allen in harmony.
After a frenetic touring schedule throughout Australia in 2019, Great Aunt are currently busy in their home studio, producing and recording their debut full length album, ‘It's All Downhill From Here’ – due for release in mid-2020.
”Americana usually calls to mind the bayous of Louisiana, the pocket communities of the Appalachian mountains, or the great plains of the American heartland, but Melbourne, Australia’s Great Aunt prove that, despite its name, not all great Americana comes from the United States.” - Not a Sound, July 2019
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