WHAT'S ON
The Tarwin Lower hall hosts a wide range of live shows and films.
The Hall has hosted the Café Culture Series and the Festival of Small Halls. 2024 will include a series of events drawn from local community and touring acts supported by Regional Arts Victoria. These are live performances with music and standup comedy artists. Audiences are seated at tables for a cabaret style evening. Patrons can bring their own nibbles and drinks to maintain a relaxed atmosphere.
Bookings can be made for some events through Trybooking and door sales may be available unless sold out.. Booking details will be specific to each event.
Coming up...
Sausage Sizzle & Devonshire Tea's
Live Music with Eric Collier
Labour Day Market
Monday 10 March
8:00am - 1:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Plants and Presents!
Food trucks and fresh vegies, Thorpdale potatoes, orchard fresh apples and local honey!
Tarwin Lower Mechanics Hall
Friday 28 March 6:30pm
Hat Fitz & Cara
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Hat Fitz & Cara’s musical style is a unique combination of folk, roots and gospel blues with old time flavourings reminiscent of a time once forgotten. Hat Fitz is a “veteran” wild man of the blues scene in Australia. He has a record 18 straight appearances at Byron’s East Coast Blues and Roots Festival, a record that is not likely to ever be broken, and one which bears testimony to his amazing live performances and popularity with festival goers.
Cara draws on her soul background (she’s toured Europe and the United States with singers such as Jamiroquai and the hugely popular Corinne Bailey-Rae), and although blessed with a sensational voice she was not content to be labelled as ‘just a singer’. She has taken to drumming duties as well as washboards, flute and tin whistle, sometimes all at once.
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Together this pair will take you on a musical journey with ample, boisterous highs, and longing, bluesy lows. From the Australian outback to the Canadian shield, Hat Fitz & Cara put on a show that is guaranteed to energize and invigorate.
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Lucy Farrell
Odd, unconventional melodies, poetic, sophisticated song-writing and the bewitching clarity of Kent-born, Canada-based Lucy Farrell’s voice are made elegant with sparse, careful accompaniment on tenor guitar and occasionally viola, carving out a unique niche for an artist at the forefront of contemporary English folk music.
Finding an international audience among artists like Julia Jacklin, Emily Portman, The Weather Station, The Unthanks and Eliza Carthy, the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winner Lucy Farrell is not only awarded as a renowned composer and singer, but also as viola/fiddle/tenor guitar-player. Her work as a band member and collaborator with such artists and projects as Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band; Gluepot; Modern Fairies; The Furrow Collective; Carthy, Oates, Farrell & Young; and her duo work with Andrew Waite and Jonny Kearney, respectively has meant releasing a collection of her distinctive solo work has had to wait – until now. ​
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