Live Shows Archives - Listening Through The Lens

Mar25

Ordinary Elephant – New Album and Australian Tour

Award-winning folk duo releases new album & extensive tour dates Ordinary Elephant Ordinary Elephant To Release “Honest’ May 3, 2019 Video For Lead Single Out Tour Includes Australian Dates Intro Listening Through The Lens first laid eyes on nomadic folk duo Ordinary Elephant as they received an award for Artist Of The Year at Folk Alliance International February 2018 in Kansas City Missouri. Another sighting at the...

Feb27

Cotton Pony Live

Read about Cotton Pony – the band the tour the EP the show Cotton Pony – photo LTTL An original four-to-five piece band based in Tasmania, Australia Cotton Pony are (nicknames to the fore!): Megan ‘Pennyfeather’ Turale (vocals/guitar), Joseph ‘Lurkin J’ Durkin (drums/vocals) and Thomas ‘T.W’ Willis (vocals/banjo/harmonica/guitar) and Cam ‘Chuckles’ Jagoe (bass). Add on the occasional lead guitar Simon ‘Chicken...

Jan08

Summer Nights 2019

Read our look at the Summer Nights 2019 mini-festival Summer Nights 2019 5 January Mossvale Park, Victoria By Rob Dickens The Setting Mossvale Park (which is pretty much in the middle of not much) has some historical and horticultural significance. It is an example of 19th century landscaping that demonstrates how European settlement (through Francis Moss) sought to radically modify the...

Sep27

The Station Inn’s New Monday Show

Read our review of The New Monday Show at The Station Inn Nashville Nashville TN 24 September 2018 TriFest Music Tour Words – Rob Dickens Images – Jim Jacob The iconic Station Inn in The Gulch in downtown Nashville hosts a regular Monday night show New Monday featuring a stellar line-up of singers and musicians. Here is a run-down of the personnel on stage this night. A wonderful band steeped in country,...

Sep21

Cruz Contreras Live

Read our review of Cruz Contreras live in Bristol VA/TN Birthplace of Country Music Theatrette Bristol VA/TN – TriFest Music Tour 20 September 2018 Words – Rob Dickens Images – Jim Jacob Front man of the alt.country outfit The Black Lillies Cruz Contreras is not only that. For quite some time he has been the ONLY man that has enabled a continuous thread as the band has evolved significantly in recent times....

May17

Grant-Lee Phillips – Live Review

Read our review of Grant-Lee Phillips live at The Thornbury Theatre Grant-Lee Phillips Live At The Thornbury Theatre 13 May 2018 By Jim Jacob and Rob Dickens Grant-Lee Phillips was raised in Stockton California before trying out film study in Los Angeles. After two critically-acclaimed releases in a band called Shiva Burlesque, he took a more prominent role in the next...