DAVE'S DIARY - 14 DECEMBER 2006 - SUMMER 2007 TOURS

ROSANNE CASH HEADS SUMMER TOURISTS

Australian country music fans will enjoy the seasonal flood of international artists touring over the summer of 2007 but two of the biggest acts are unlikely to perform in Victoria.

Rosanne Cash's second Australian sojourn is likely to be confined to the Festival of Sydney in early January.

And so far North Carolina born Jim Lauderdale has only announced Tamworth dates in his second foray down under.

Lauderdale, who released two new discs here in November, played the Corner Hotel in Richmond on his 2002 tour with Kim Richey, Canadians Jason McCoy and Fred Eaglesmith and Audrey Auld Mezera.

CLICK HERE for a Lauderdale Feature from the Diary on January 19, 2002.
CLICK HERE for Lauderdale latest CD review from the Diary.

FRED EAGLESMITH TOUR #5

Eaglesmith is booked to return here for his fifth Australian tour in March with gigs at Byron Bay, Sydney and Melbourne.

Kieran Kane, drummer son Lucas, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplan are also returning here for Byron Bay and other gigs in NSW and Victoria.

They're promoting latest album Lost John Dean (Dead Reckoning-Shock) that also features another new tune penned by Welch and prolific progeny Dustin.

The quartet is touring to capitalise on popularity for a collective 18 albums dating back to 1982.

Other major country artists have also been booked for the 31st Port Fairy folk festival from March 9-12.

We'll have more about that later.

CLICK HERE for an Eaglesmith story from the Diary on March 27, 2005.

DALE WATSON BACK FROM TEXAS

Also making his fourth Australian tour is Texan honky tonker Dale Watson who will play NSW and Victoria.

Crosby, Stills & Nash also perform the winery circuit here in February - the same month as the return tour by U.S. husband and wife duo The Handsome Family.

Steven Stills toured here in the early seventies with his band Manassas and played the famed by ill-fated Mulwala pop festival across the Murray from Yarrawonga.

New Orleans born blues singer Chris Smither also returns here in March.

STEVE YOUNG AND MARY GAUTHIER

Georgian born Steve Young, who hails from Newnan - same hometown as superstar Alan Jackson - is also back here in January for his fifth Australian tour.

Young, now 64, and Louisiana born singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier play Harvest Festival at Red Hill and other Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide concerts.

Young's 12th album Primal Young was released worldwide in 1999 by Australian label Shock.
A new album Songlines Revisited Volume 1 was released in 2005.

CLICK HERE for a Young interview in the Diary.
CLICK HERE for a Gauthier CD review from the Diary on March 28, 2005.

DANNY GEORGE WILSON

Also playing at Red Hill are Irish singer Bap Kennedy, expatriate Australian Danny George Wilson and U.S. singer Laura Veirs.

CLICK HERE for a feature on Wilson from the Diary.
CLICK HERE for TonkGirl's Gig Guide for full dates.


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