Enjoy some finger-picking blues and soulful mouth harp when the Troubadour Folk presents Americana with a perfect twist on September 23.
Featuring Rory Ellis and Christian Marsh, along with the Night Owls, the event will be held at 7pm at the Everglades Country Club at Woy Woy.
Rory Ellis has toured extensively throughout Australia, mainland Europe and the UK and has recorded 10 studio albums, to national and international acclaim.
With more than 30 years of songwriting under his belt he has performed at top venues and some of the world’s biggest festivals to audiences of thousands, alongside greats such as Eric Bibb, Richie Havens, Robert Cray, Canned Heat, Charlie Musselwhite, Pokey La Farge, Renee Geyer, Russell Morris and many more.
When you hear him picking out tunes on the resonator blues guitar and sing with his unforgettably deep, soulful voice you would be forgiven for totally disbelieving that he once sang opera.
But his operatic background shows in the quality and presentation of his entertaining.
Americana is his chosen genre, but the music defies a simple label.
Ellis, playing finger-style guitar and all things acoustic, is joined onstage by his long-time friend and virtuoso harmonica player Christian Marsh.
Marsh is a world renowned master of the chromatic and diatonic harmonica, and has been a long-time Central Coast resident.
He has won the Gold Harmonica Awards in Tamworth three times, worked alongside harmonica giants such as Howard Levy, Larry Adler and Toots Theilemans and featured on many high profile Australian and International artists’ albums and stages.
The two will be supported by the Night Owls, originally from Queensland and now hailing from the Central Coast.
Stewart Porter, Jeannie Kay and Geoff Wright play a mix of bluegrass, country and folk.
Multi instrumentalists, they make their music with guitar, harmonica, mandolin, dobro and banjo and combine great vocals and harmonies to provide entertaining, foot tapping music.
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Troubadour Folk Club