A highlight on the Surf Coast music calendar is the Music to a Tee series, which plays its final round on January 22, 2016. And oh what a final round it is, with Backsliders, Stephen Cummings, The Band Who Knew Too Much, Tim McCallum, The Carers Choir and Growland set to perform. Rod Quantock will serve as MC. For those unfamiliar, the series is put together by the Karingal Foundation, which was launched in 2012 as part of Karingal’s 60th anniversary.
Karingal is a not-for-profit organisation providing a range of services for people with a disability or mental illness, older Australians and those disadvantaged. The Foundation is raising funds to build Geelong’s first fully inclusive community centre, the East Geelong Community Centre – and Music to a Tee plays a key role. To the music, and the Backsliders is one of Australia’s finest-ever blues outfits.
Self-described as playing a “Delta blues wall of sound”, the band with notch up 30 years in 2016. The band released their thirteenth album, Dark Side, in 2014. Further information on the Foundation can be found through karingal.org.au. You’ll also be able to pick up tickets through the site. (There is also a Music to a Tee concert on December 4 featuring The Black Sorrows, which you will find a blurb for in this issue of ‘In the Loop’.)