Source: Stobie Sounds newsletter & website

Updated 1 February 2012

show support for stobie sounds new cd

Two of Adelaide's finest alt-country outfits, Max Savage and The Yearlings are hitting the Wheatsheaf Hotel on Saturday 11 February for a concert raising funds to polish off a new Stobie Sounds compilation.

Max Savage was recently named as one to watch in Rip It Up's Hot Six, while The Yearlings are on the cusp of a tour of the Southern US on the back of an invite to perform in Memphis at the Folk Alliance International Conference. This is a great opportunity to see two of Adelaide's finest bands on the same bill for a great cause.

These two acts are contributing to "Banished Now From My Native Shore", featuring over 13 tracks from some of Australia’s finest contemporary musicians and essays from leading scholars and folklorists about the importance of Frank McNamara’s (aka Frank The Poet's) poetry. The album is due out in late Autumn 2012.

The poetry of Irish convict Francis McNamara forms an immensely important body of early Australian colonial literature. Through ‘Banished From My Native Shore’, Stobie Sounds (a  small not-for-profit community record label set up to help support the local roots music scene in Adelaide) invited contemporary artists to compose a song based around one of McNamara’s poems.

Nationally recognised artists such as Mia Dyson, Matt Walker, Hat Fitz, Sean McMahon and The Yearlings will contribute to the album along side the emerging generation of musicians such as Tom West, Todd Sibbin, Max Savage and Bearded Gypsy Band. The album will be a truly contemporary re-imagining of this important body of Australian poetry.

If you pre-purchase before February 11, you can get a free ticket to the Frank The Poet Fundraiser at the Wheatsheaf Hotel!

See the official site for tickets and more details.