Jan Dandridge

Jan Dandridge has performed at many functions as a solo artist and as a duo Act with Don Gula, She also plays with her band "Little Miss Country and the Kick Ass Kowboys" as well as many other musicians. Jan started singing at a young age, starting out at the Presbyterian Church in Drouin and the BP Revue in Warragul. After a very long break from singing (where she was square dance caller, running a few square dancing clubs) She has been back singing mainly Country for the past 4 years. Performing regularly at Father’s In The Chapel (in Cranbourne), BAD Folk (Berwick), Peninsular, Outer East and Gippsland Country Music Clubs, The Entertainers Club and the Newport RSL. She has also performed at Festivals, Open Mic Nights, Nursing Homes, Over 55’s villages and private functions. Her repertoire includes anything from both Old and New Country, to Sing-A-Longs, to Folk etc. Playing guitar and singing both her own original songs and covers. She has recently released her debut album, “Holiday From Hell” in December 2007 which was recorded at the Hugh McDonald Studios in Kew, with her first CD launch in January 2008. the album includes 7 originals and 5 covers. Jan just loves to sing and perform and she says it's is a great joy to see smiles on the audience faces as they sing along.

Check out Jans myspace page Little Miss Country and the Kick Ass Kowboys

Fat Chance & Bluegrass Playboys

Fat Chance & Bluegrass Playboys are (left to right):

Monty Oliver (aka David Aumann) on mandolin and vocals. The mandolin that David plays is one of the many musical instruments that he has made himself. David Aumann is a well known local instrument maker, he makes beautiful stringed instruments - mandolins, mandolas, guitars and ukeleles. If you are interested in a getting a custom (and locally) made instrument please give David a call on (03) 8711-4421.

Snuffles Beddoe (aka Andrew Barcham) on 5 string banjo and vocals. It's all his fault!

Rolf Rosshire (aka Don Gula) on double bass and vocals.

Jet Laurell (aka Blair Webb) on guitar and vocals. The Bluegrass Playboys also perform some of the songs which Blair has written himself and with his wife Claire.

Fat Chance & Bluegrass Playboys have been well received at the Entertainers' Club, Harrietville Bluegrass Convention and the Newport RSL. If you would like to have the Bluegrass Playboys perform at your function please give Rolf (aka Don) a call on (03) 9391-9749.

Unwanted Men in Black and a Lady

Howdy Folks. With a genre variously described as Hillbilly Boogie,Cowboy,Roots,Folk, the Unwanted gang have now completed their third year of meanderings out from the stunted wastelands of the bleached bone & rock strewn , stringybark & wattle littered, drought stricken plains of the old Victorian goldfields. Apart from the usual pub and club gigs, the band more than acquitted themselves endearingly at no less than 10 Festivals, both large & small, through 2007 & 2008. From the pristine blue waters of the Port Fairy Folk Festival Fringe , to the headwaters of the Loddon River at Glenlyon (Glenfest), the local Guildford Blues & Roots Festival, Mt Beauty Music Festival in the lush north east, Barham Bush Bash (2 years running) on the Murray’s green banks, Guildford Banjo Jamboree (every year), Girgarre Moosic Muster and lastly, their hometown, 34th & 35 Maldon Folk Festivals. With irreverence, confusion and sometimes just plain class, they bullocked their way through the genuine old cowdy songs of yesteryear (the ones no one else has got the guts or ability to do!), and a liberal sprinkling of tunes from the great Mr Cash, as well as a few heartbreakers of their own. Festival goers were agog to finally discover a band with audacity, verve and uninhibited dribbling. The crowds just kept growing with each performance, and, despite the efforts of some so called professional sound engineers, both on and off stage, the encores were more than forthcoming ! The Unwanted gang have got so serious now that Mick Coates , continuously outdressed by the sartorial elegance of Ms Kitty’s plethora of 18th & 19th century petticoats, has even purchased himself, all the way from Arizona, a black pinstripe suit that Gary Cooper could’nt look more dapper in on his wedding day in "High Noon". As a matter of fact they are virtually identical. With Tex Turkey’s hair, appetite and sleep requirements getting longer, Tony the Lawman's badge being outshone only by his spurs, Waldo's beard getting tangled in his Tea chest bass, and Uncle Arthur refusing to wear his 1950s tie with the picture of Diana Dors on the back, they’ve just completed a 95min DVD of a live performance at the famed My Moliagul pub. Catch em at a gig and buy one. The best $25 you'll ever spend.