Saturday, 3 May
5.30 for a 6.30 pm start / 6.30 pm – 10 pm
Meals are not included in the price.
Please advise The Vine when you book your tickets if you wish to dine.
Venue: The Vine Hotel, Detour Rd., North Wangaratta
Cost: $35
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A fantastic lineup of talent for a magical night of music at the historic Vine Hotel.
Eugene Ball
A multi-award-winning Australian trumpeter, has received widespread national and international recognition throughout his professional career and has featured performances with some of the biggest names in music. Along with high-profile freelance performances, Eugene has toured nationally and internationally with Australia’s most celebrated groups, including The Hoodangers, the Andrea Keller Quartet, the Allan Browne Quintet, the Australian Art Orchestra, and the Bennett’s Lane Big Band.
In addition to being a sought-after performer, Eugene is a prolific composer, music director and arranger. He was awarded the 2011 APRA/AMCOS ‘Best Australian Jazz Song’ and a Bell Award in 2008 for the ‘Best Australian Jazz Composition of the Year’. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by internationally renowned ensembles, including the Melbourne and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras.
Complementing his outstanding record of professional achievement is Eugene’s academic and music education career. He holds a Master’s Degree in Performance (Melbourne University) for which he was awarded a Melbourne Research Scholarship and is a respected lecturer in trumpet, composition, arranging, and music education. Check out his music on eugeneball.com
Constantina Bush
is the alter ego of Kamahi Djordon King, a Gurindji man born in Katherine, NT. Kamahi grew up with artists all around him. He’s a painter and visual artist, an actor, a singer, a cabaret artist/crooner, a writer and a female impersonator performer.
He was the winner of the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards Best Work on Paper for his life-sized print of Constantina Bush, his deadly alter ego, titled ‘Attack of the Fifty-foot Black Gin’.
Kamahi based Constantina on some of the women from his community, but she’s strictly an alter ego; King doesn’t identify as a drag artist.
Nick Charles
With dazzling melodic fingerpicking on six and twelve-string guitars, stinging bottleneck slide, and a lifetime’s stories and songs gathered or written on the world’s musical highways, it’s no surprise that Nick Charles is labelled internationally as “Australia’s virtuoso of acoustic roots and blues”.
Nick has released nearly twenty albums on major Australian and US roots music labels during his extensive and acclaimed career. His recordings have garnered worldwide recognition, beginning with “My Place” and now his most recent release “, Guitar Music”. This recognition has succeeded in having Nick signed to the Grammy Award-winning label Solid Air Records USA (“Home of the World’s Finest Guitarists”). The only other Australian recognised by the label is Tommy Emmanuel.
Consistently averaging 150 shows a year in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, his music encompasses a delightful and eclectic mix of acoustic roots, including blues, folk and early ragtime jazz. Along the way, there are stylish nods to the Great American Songbook and the finest contemporary players and composers, from Chet Atkins to Lennon and McCartney to Leo Kottke.
Nick has been widely recognised in the industry for his talent and work. His awards include Port Fairy Folk Festival Artist of the Year 2014, twice winner of the Australian Song Contest, Song of the Year 2013 and 2014 (Australian Blues Awards), Album of the Year (MBAS) multiple times, Song of the Year (MBAS) multiple times, Solo Performer of the Year multiple times and The Age Victorian Blues Album of the Year 2016.
Nick is also an experienced educator and continues to share his vast depth of guitar knowledge and enthusiasm with his many students. Nick also writes columns for several music magazines.
Nick’s current projects include composing pieces for his next solo album; playing with the classic Aussie band, The Stars, alongside lead singer and long-time friend and collaborator, Mick Pealing; or performing solo or with Mick around the country.
Check out his music on charlesguitar.com
Don’t miss a great night!