Thomas Kendall plays the songs of Doc Watson
2026-07-07 20:00 - 23:30 (Australia/Melbourne)
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer whose revolutionary flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques reshaped Appalachian folk, bluegrass, country, and blues music. Blind from infancy, Watson went from a street performer in North Carolina to a multi-Grammy Award-winning national treasure.

Moonee Valley Drifters play the songs of Hank Williams
2026-07-14 20:00 - 23:30
Moonee Valley Drifters play the songs of Hank Williams!

Hank Williams was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who arguably became country music’s first superstar. In a brief but explosive seven-year career, he wrote a catalog of emotional, honky-tonk classics before dying tragically of a heart attack at just 29 years old.

Craig Kelly & Joyce Prescher play the songs of Mark Lanegan
2026-07-21 20:00 - 23:30
Mark Lanegan was one of the great underrated singer-songwriters of the modern era, with a deep, smoky baritone drawing comparisons to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave. Rising to prominence with Seattle grunge band The Screaming Trees (I Nearly Lost You), he went on to collaborate with close friend Kurt Cobain, appeared as a featured voice across three Queens of the Stone Age albums, and became the brooding foil to Belle & Sebastian’s Isobel Campbell across three dark-folk records echoing Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra — alongside countless other collaborations and 11 solo albums.
Performed by Craig Kelly with Joyce Prescher.

Victor Stranges plays the songs of Stiff Little Fingers
2026-07-28 20:00 - 23:30
Victor Stranges returns to the songs that shaped him with Get Stiffed – a rare, one-night-only dive into the catalogue of Stiff Little Fingers, the Irish punk band whose songs defined a generation. As a teenage drummer in Melbourne’s underground ’80s band Drunk ’n’ Disorderly, Stranges cut his teeth on this material across the pub circuit. Now, 37 years on, he brings them back reinterpreted solo, with weight and perspective. Expect material from the band’s early run through their first split in 1983, spanning Inflammable Material (1979), Nobody’s Heroes (1980), Go For It (1981) and Now Then… (1982). Tuesday 28 July, 8:00pm at The Drunken Poet.

THE PRAIRIE OYSTERS playing the songs of THE SMITHEREENS!
2026-08-04 20:00 - 23:30
DAVE MILES and MICK EVANS (from THE PRAIRIE OYSTERS) present the songs of the best
band you’ve never heard of: THE SMITHEREENS.
It took some hard decisions to trim the set down when you have 7 albums of masterful power pop to choose from. But they have curated a 1 hour goldmine of great and memorable songs, from the achingly beautiful “CIGARETTE” to the stomping “TOP OF THE POPS”.
In an intimate “unplugged” setting, these songs will be stripped back to their essence to get a long- delayed hearing by Mick (drums, percussion and vocals) and Dave (guitar, harmonica and vocals).

Brittle Sun & Peter O'Shea play the songs of Velvet Underground
2026-08-11 20:00 - 23:30
Brittle Sun & Peter O’Shea play the songs of Velvet Underground

Scott Hamilton plays Townes Van Zandt
2026-08-18 20:00 - 23:30
“Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.”
Steve Earle.
“I’ve met Bob Dylan’s bodyguards, and if Steve thinks he’s going to stand on Bob’s coffee table in his cowboy boots, he’s sorely mistaken.”
Townes Van Zandt.
“A Song For “ The life of Townes Van Zandt. The telling of the life of the legendary Texan songwriter through his songs from beyond the grave to the beginning and back again.

Peter Baylor & Nick Hayward play the songs of Willie Nelson
2026-08-25 20:00 - 23:30

Brendan Lloyd plays the songs of John Williamson
2026-09-08 20:00 - 23:30
Brendan Lloyd plays the songs of John Williamson!
