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Catherine Britt has come a long way. No longer the innocent teenage girl who won the praise of Elton John after discovering her during a tour of Australia in 2002, she’s now an accomplished and mature singer-songwriter with three albums to her credit and a fourth due to be released this year. Catherine has toured, performed and recorded with some country music’s biggest names such as Keith Urban, Tommy Emmanuel and Buddy Miller who all contributed to her superb second album, “Little Wildflower.”
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| JUNE | ||
The Tinku Band dare to go where no Indian funk / rock outfit have gone before - they have taken on the mighty LED ZEPPLIN. The band - consisting of Australians and cliassically trained Indian musicians - have interpreted classic Led Zepplin tracks with a twist of Indian masala. Enjoy the sounds of a Sikh priest turned rocker as he hits the high notes that would make Page and Plant proud. The Tinku Band, based in Sydney's inner-west have been palying to sell-out crowds all over the country. Now it is Katoomba's turn..... Enjoy |
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Well known as the front woman for iconic Australian band, Magic Dirt, Adalita will be hitting the road in solo mode this coming June and July. These will be Adalita's first ever solo gigs and she is excited to be kicking it off in Sydney. The shows will feature brand new songs in Adalita's pared back, dark style with just electric guitar and voice. She is currently in the midst of recording her first solo record and is eager to road test the new material before heading into the studio. |
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| JULY | ||
Catherine Britt has come a long way. No longer the innocent teenage girl who won the praise of Elton John after discovering her during a tour of Australia in 2002, she’s now an accomplished and mature singer-songwriter with three albums to her credit and a fourth due to be released this year. Catherine has toured, performed and recorded with some country music’s biggest names such as Keith Urban, Tommy Emmanuel and Buddy Miller who all contributed to her superb second album, “Little Wildflower.”
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Yuletide in Katoomba Sat 4th Jul Dinner begins at 7pm
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Head up to the beautiful Blue Mountains for our famous Christmas in July Celebrations. We have great entertainment each and every Saturday throughout July and the first two weekends in August. Jan Preston, the Australian Queen of the boogie-woggie piano will be playing spiced up versions of your favorite christmas tunes, or you could choose to come and see Dr Dons Double Dose, a Sydney duo who will have you up and dancing to "Jingle Bells", with their rootsy, boogie, bluesy renditions. All of this great entertainment is accompanied by a full chistmas dinner, pudding, crackers and all the christmas flare you have been missing since december. And just before bed, it's always nice to warm up by the wonderful open fire and give out all your yuletide gifts. |
See our specials page for all details Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
VulgarGrad, that mysterious band of Russian criminals, are on tour in July
- launching their long-awaited new album, King of Crooks. Fronted by
Polish-born gravelly-voiced strongman and rough diamond of stage and
screen, Jacek Koman (he belted out "Roxanne" in Baz Luhrmann's film Moulin
Rouge), VulgarGrad are the only band in the country that play music by,
for, and about Russian thieves: raucous drinking songs, melancholy waltzes,
manic oompah and hot swing from the Cold War. |
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Tumbleweed Theatrical Productions presents an evening of cabaret and comedy Once upon a time, seven young women with backgrounds in comedy, musicals and impro came to know and love those meek and male-dependent icons - the Disney Princesses. Now, through darkly satirical, fast-paced sketches and polished song and dance numbers they explore old stereotypes and their nostalgia for childhood heroines. Who knows, maybe happy endings don't always require a prince! “THIS IS A MUST SEE SHOW AND 10 OUT OF 10, I WANT TO GO SEE IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW.” Funny Tonne, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2008 |
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Yuletide in Katoomba Sat 11th Jul Dinner begins at 7pm
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Head up to the beautiful Blue Mountains for our famous Christmas in July Celebrations. We have great entertainment each and every Saturday throughout July and the first two weekends in August. Jan Preston, the Australian Queen of the boogie-woggie piano will be playing spiced up versions of your favorite christmas tunes, or you could choose to come and see Dr Dons Double Dose, a Sydney duo who will have you up and dancing to "Jingle Bells", with their rootsy, boogie, bluesy renditions. All of this great entertainment is accompanied by a full chistmas dinner, pudding, crackers and all the christmas flare you have been missing since december. And just before bed, it's always nice to warm up by the wonderful open fire and give out all your yuletide gifts. |
See our specials page for all details Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
[Me] are purveyors of theatrical rock, combining classical piano, vocal harmonies, choirs, grooves and soaring guitars, which comes off like the soundtrack to a vampire movie set in revolutionary France – with laser beams. The Clarendon is one of them. Excellent. "In lieu of pre-gig research, [ME] turn out to be my unexpected discovery of 2009. Ridiculously talented…Freddy |
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Clint Crighton grew up in the snowy mountains of NSW, at 23 he has travelled throughout the world playing music.Now, primarily based in the USA he is back in Australia promoting the release of his latest EP "The April EP". He has recently performed support shows for Counting Crows and performed at ACER arena's "total concert experience" for The Who and Coldplay aswell as performing at the East coast Blues & Roots festival. |
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Yuletide in Katoomba Sat 18th Jul Dinner begins at 7pm
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Head up to the beautiful Blue Mountains for our famous Christmas in July Celebrations. We have great entertainment each and every Saturday throughout July and the first two weekends in August. Jan Preston, the Australian Queen of the boogie-woggie piano will be playing spiced up versions of your favorite christmas tunes, or you could choose to come and see Dr Dons Double Dose, a Sydney duo who will have you up and dancing to "Jingle Bells", with their rootsy, boogie, bluesy renditions. All of this great entertainment is accompanied by a full chistmas dinner, pudding, crackers and all the christmas flare you have been missing since december. And just before bed, it's always nice to warm up by the wonderful open fire and give out all your yuletide gifts. |
See our specials page for all details Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
Triple J Next Crop artist ELANA STONE (also Jackson Jackson, Hermitude), returns from a victory at Rockwiz to launch her new album ‘Your Anniversary’. |
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Yuletide in Katoomba Sat 25th Jul Dinner begins at 7pm
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Head up to the beautiful Blue Mountains for our famous Christmas in July Celebrations. We have great entertainment each and every Saturday throughout July and the first two weekends in August. Jan Preston, the Australian Queen of the boogie-woggie piano will be playing spiced up versions of your favorite christmas tunes, or you could choose to come and see Dr Dons Double Dose, a Sydney duo who will have you up and dancing to "Jingle Bells", with their rootsy, boogie, bluesy renditions. All of this great entertainment is accompanied by a full chistmas dinner, pudding, crackers and all the christmas flare you have been missing since december. And just before bed, it's always nice to warm up by the wonderful open fire and give out all your yuletide gifts. |
See our specials page for all details Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
Mary Coughlan is an impassioned performer who expresses herself best through the words and tunes of others. Her impressive new album has all the swaggering "nu-chanson" of artists such as Arthur H or the Tiger Lillies but with an extra, more accessible dimension. She knows it's not enough to sing literate words over competent backing - the sound must embody the meaning of the songs. Erik Visser's arrangements ensure that well-chosen tracks - such as Pornography, and Kirsty MacColl's Bad - gain in translation. Coughlan is not a rock singer, but she gives pieces such as Moon in a Taxi Cab an authenticity that few rockers retain after their first flush. Neither is she a jazzer, yet she wraps her voice around the contours of Some Cats Know (Leiber and Stoller) as sexily as Peggy Lee in her prime. She can do scary, too: witness the eloquent bile of Antarctica, and the pounding, punishing Whore of Babylon. Tom Waits has met his Irish match. We are so very hapy to have Mary back at The Clarendon again. Hr last show was amazing.
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FourPlay String Quartet defy all convention and any attempts at stereotyping. As much a band as a string quartet, they constantly blur the boundaries between styles and genres while maintaining their own original and true sound. FourPlay cover songs by a diverse array of bands: from Rage Against the Machine to Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead and Robert Johnson, and many, many more. They also write their own original compositions inspired by rock, pop, post-rock, neo-classical, jazz, klezmer, swing, folktronica, hip hop and more… no musical stone is left unturned, to the delight of their many fans. FourPlay shot to prominence in Australia and Europe in the very late '90s as a unique musical phenomenon – an indie rock band that just happened to be a string quartet! Forming as “a bit of a joke” to take part in their university band competition, FourPlay’s impact was immediate. Their take on Metallica and Beastie Boys songs blew people’s minds. They won the competition, surprising themselves most of all, and at the same time unleashing a chain of events that would bring them to the attention of the international media, and leading arts centres and festivals, paving the way to place them on stages across the globe. This is one quartet that you will never be able to pop into a box or neatly categorise, and that is surely something to celebrate in this homogenous age.
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| August | ||
Yuletide in Katoomba Sat 1st Aug Dinner begins at 7pm
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Head up to the beautiful Blue Mountains for our famous Christmas in July Celebrations. We have great entertainment each and every Saturday throughout July and the first two weekends in August. Jan Preston, the Australian Queen of the boogie-woggie piano will be playing spiced up versions of your favorite christmas tunes, or you could choose to come and see Dr Dons Double Dose, a Sydney duo who will have you up and dancing to "Jingle Bells", with their rootsy, boogie, bluesy renditions. All of this great entertainment is accompanied by a full chistmas dinner, pudding, crackers and all the christmas flare you have been missing since december. And just before bed, it's always nice to warm up by the wonderful open fire and give out all your yuletide gifts. |
See our specials page for all details Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
The Woohoo Revue w/ Mr Fibby Sun 2nd Aug Dinner at 6pm Music at 7:30 |
Be prepared for a night of exciting tunes, outrageous tempos, amazing playing and flashy dressing when the most exciting new gypsy band in the country, The Woohoo Revue (Melbourne) appear at the Clarendon on Sunday 2nd August with the highly theatrical Mr Fibby (ACT). The Woohoo Revue specialise in playing music for celebration- for dancing, drinking, and forgetting about tomorrow. Their wild tunes are delivered with virtuosic musicianship, bravado and a big sound that hits the dance floor like a herd of thundering elephants. The shows are part of a nationwide touring schedule which has taken the band throughout Victoria, NSW, Qld, Tasmania, SA and the ACT. Their debut CD, Dear Animals has been received strongly and has attracted airplay on Triple J, ABC radio and community radio stations across the country. It is an uncompromising, intense gypsy dance album that presents some iconic and powerful versions of traditional tunes. The CD takes the listener throughout Europe whilst staying true to the band’s Melbourne dance floor roots. People lucky enough to have seen The Woohoo Revue at Ironfest earlier in the year will know that this will be an incredible night. Expect a bold and brassy show from The Woohoo Revue and a melodramatic performance from Mr Fibby that combines Eastern melodies with Fantastical stories.
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Yuletide in Katoomba Sat 8th Aug Dinner begins at 7pm
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Head up to the beautiful Blue Mountains for our famous Christmas in July Celebrations. We have great entertainment each and every Saturday throughout July and the first two weekends in August. Jan Preston, the Australian Queen of the boogie-woggie piano will be playing spiced up versions of your favorite christmas tunes, or you could choose to come and see Dr Dons Double Dose, a Sydney duo who will have you up and dancing to "Jingle Bells", with their rootsy, boogie, bluesy renditions. All of this great entertainment is accompanied by a full chistmas dinner, pudding, crackers and all the christmas flare you have been missing since december. And just before bed, it's always nice to warm up by the wonderful open fire and give out all your yuletide gifts. |
See our specials page for all details Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
Sydney-born, Melbourne-based songwriter Laura Jean first came to national attention in 2006 with the release of her debut album Our Swan Song. Lush and pastoral, adorned with strings, woodwind and Laura’s beautiful modal harmonies, Our Swan Song was a critical and popular favourite, gaining Triple J high rotation and introducing Laura Jean as a powerful, exotic new voice in Australian music. |
Show only: $15.00 (+ bf) Show and dinner: $50.00 (+ bf) Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
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The Yearlings w/ King Curly Fri 7th Aug Dinner at 7pm Music at 8:30 |
With their trademark skeletally sweet harmonies and mesmerizing blues guitar, alternative blues and folk duo - The Yearlings - have had an outstanding last 12months with the successful release of their third and highly acclaimed album “Highway Dancing”. Praise and acclaim has continued to follow them on the live stage with performances in the last 12 months at the New York Guitar Festival, The Spiegeltent, The Basement, The Powerhouse and the Adelaide Guitar Festival. In 2009 the Yearlings continue their National Tour of their 3rd album (including stints at major Festivals) and plan to head to the USA and Canada in June and July due to fan demand. The Yearlings continue to tour nationally to sell-out crowds and perform at festivals including the Port Fairy Folk Festival, the National Folk Festival, Queenscliff, FUSE, Apollo Bay and the New York and Adelaide Guitar Festivals.
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Show only: $12.00 (+ bf) Show and dinner: $47.00 (+ bf) Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
Super troubadour, nothing more, nothing more, expect more instore, ever more ever more Back due to popular demand, it'll be great to have the fellas from the wonderful Tunes in Bloom record label playing in Katoomba again.
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Show only: $12.00 (+ bf) Show and dinner: $47.00 (+ bf) Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
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Described as passionate and fearless, Yamaha Australia endorsed musician Sophie Serafino mixes musical styles from around the globe, telling her story through her unique high-energy show. A violinist, singer and composer, Sophie has been described by the Daily Telegraph Australia as 'inimitable', by the Sydney Morning Herald as 'refreshing' and by Penrith Press as 'one of the few who deserve the title of diva'. Sophie has performed world-wide with her unique blend of music mixing world music with rock, dance, some Middle Eastern influence and classically inspired strings. Sophie and her band will perform tracks from her forthcoming album. Supporting the Sophie Serafino band is local Katoomba duo Liquor Flambe: cirque-style stunts mixed with classical music, a fearless stuntman and a fire performer, these two violinists will open the show in full circus style.
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Show only: $12.00 (+ bf) Show and dinner: $47.00 (+ bf) Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
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South Korean born, West Australian raised soul/roots songstress saritah (sa-REE-ta) brings a potent blend of melody, message and groove that will uplift and inspire. An energetic and captivating live performer, saritah is motivated by her belief that music can inspire positive change. Her songs combine conscious lyrics with soul, reggae and roots flavours, and are delivered with a sincere, raw energy and passion. Since the release of her debut album GRATITUDE in May 2004, saritah has toured consistently both within Australia and overseas performing over 400 shows. We are luckily next on the extensive list. Having just finished touring around the country with Ash Grunwald, we look forward to Saritas first show here at The Clarendon. |
Show only: $12.00 (+ bf) Show and dinner: $47.00 (+ bf) Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
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After their first show here at The Clarendon only recently, we are glad to announce that this great local act is returning. But this time, with strings aswell. Playjerise' music has been given great reviews since they relkeased their first album, Cross the Line, in 2006. With the latest album being released ealier this year, with a sellout tour, they are now travelling around with a complete string section. No doubt, they will be trying their best to improve on perfect. We can't wait for these two great shows. |
Show only: $20.00 (+ bf) Show and dinner: $55.00 (+ bf) Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
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The Fifth House is a five-piece group from Sydney, Australia. Their unique style is a blend of world acappella music with a jazz texture. They create a truly distinctive sound that's immediately engaging and makes you FEEL GOOD just to hear. "The group's strength lie... in the sprightly ensemble work..." Five and a half stars - Shane Nichols, Australian Financial Review. We are really excited to host such a talented group of performers. |
Show only: $20.00 (+ bf) Show and dinner: $55.00 (+ bf) Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
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After their first show here at The Clarendon only recently, we are glad to announce that this great local act is returning. But this time, with strings aswell. Playjerise' music has been given great reviews since they relkeased their first album, Cross the Line, in 2006. With the latest album being released ealier this year, with a sellout tour, they are now travelling around with a complete string section. No doubt, they will be trying their best to improve on perfect. We can't wait for these two great shows. |
Show only: $20.00 (+ bf) Show and dinner: $55.00 (+ bf) Booking line: 02 4782 1322 |
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With enchanting melodies,
insightful lyrics and a fresh-eyed His album Excuses Excuses
has been picked up by “Excuses Excuses reveals considerable growth in |
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COMING SOON..... Keep an eye on the website |
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