Some exciting new initiatives for 2013 include the creation of a sizzling festival hub bar. Named The Bain Marie, the 200 capacity bar will be housed in the Northcote Town Hall Civic Square on High Street, Northcote.
Entrance to the bar will be free and will present a broad selection of music with heaps of bands, kid friendly lunchtime gigs, Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions, community participation events, guest speakers, workshops and music comedy.
A blend of craft brewers, spirit and wine makers have been carefully selected to stock the bar and are excited to deliver educational tastings and showcases of their tailor made products. Our 2013 stockists and bar sponsors are; East 9th Brewing Co. with Doss Blockos, Fog City Red Sangria, Lick Pier Ginger Beer; Golden Axe Apple Cider; West Winds Gin; 666 Pure Tasmanian Vodka; Tequila Tromba and a selection of locally produced wines provided by Humble Tumbler.
Open from midday till 11pm daily. Food Truckers will rotate through over the festival, stay up to date on our Facebook Page
The Royal Jellies, Wednesday 18 (Opening Night), 8pm
This rabble snaps a hyper-coloured homage to the polyphonic sounds of an era when jazz was king. Modern Melbourne meets New Orleans old school in The Royal Jellies. Frontline horns duke-it-out while the rhythm section cooks up raucous…
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Quarry Mountain Dead Rats, Wednesday 18 (Opening Night), 9pm
Taking it back to a simpler time, where the pickin’ was fast and the banjo was king, this five piece bring their raw & gritty version of bluegrass kicking and hollering into the modern day. Quarry Mountain Dead Rats establish an ‘old mate’ affinity…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: Country & Bluegrass, Thursday 19, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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Madeleine Paige, Thursday 19, 8.30pm
Madeleine Paige, fresh from touring as backing vocalist/guitarist in Kate Miller-Heidke’s band, is stepping out solo. Her golden voice, along with gentle acoustic guitar, creates a dreamy melancholy as she sings of love lost and found…
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Dan Parsons and his Band, Thursday 19, 9.30pm
The songs of 25-year-old Dan Parsons conjure up images of a seventies West Coast landscape. A natural musician who played the majority of instruments on his gorgeous, self-titled album; he accompanies himself with a deft acoustic guitar style…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: Urban Gypsy, Friday 20, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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James Teague, Friday 20, 8.30pm
Channelling some of the more inspired moments in the annals of folk, country, blues, psych‐rock and pop, James Teague has forged a sound that is remarkably distinctive. His sound is most easily recognised by intricate, dynamic arrangements…
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The Tiger & Me, Friday 20, 9.30pm
Melbourne sextet The Tiger & Me weave a rare mixture of styles and sounds as three lead vocalists exchange and merge tunes from whispered ballad to fevered maelstrom, from charming pop to explosive, dirty rock. In 2012 they signed to…
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PBS Get Up Morning show - live performance of Marieke Hardy’s radio play “Dick and Fanny Make The Rock”, Saturday 21, 2pm
Catch three hours of boutique, rocked out family entertainment as PBS’ Get Up Morning radio show hosts Fanta and Janelle present 3 hours of rollicking tunes…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: Shoegaze, Saturday 21, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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Pearls, Saturday 21, 8.30pm
PEARLS are a three-piece band from Victoria, Australia. They have been together since the start of 2011, releasing the split 7″ single ‘At Home With You’ in May on Glaswegian label RE:PEATER Records. In 2012 the Pearls EP was released, recorded…
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The Stevens, Saturday 21, 9.30pm
The germ of the Stevens began in 2009 when Alex Macfarlane met Travis MacDonald, after moving to Melbourne from the Central Gold-fields Region. After establishing a shared obsession for bedroom recording and favorites such as Wire…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Session & Crate Digger Record Fair - Genre: New Purchases, Sunday 22, 12pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment with a special 12pm - 3pm session…
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Shaky Stills, Sunday 22, 3pm
Shaky Stills are a locally based six piece band who play straight up good times original music in the keys of Alt-Country and Blues. With regular residencies at the Edinburgh Castle this crowd favourite…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: 70′s Rock, Sunday 22, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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Bogan Bingo, Sunday 22, 8pm
Bogan Bingo is best described (by themselves) as ‘half game show-half party’. It is a game of bingo, but throw in some 80′s rock anthems, DJ and washed up rock star of a bingo caller and you’ll see why Bogan Bingo has sold out every year…
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Vardos, Monday 23, 1pm
Livewire violinist Alana Hunt shreds through furious csardases, Hungarian restaurant serenades and traditional Transylvanian village music chased by Kirri (double bass), and Sofia (accordion), interspersed with stirring vocal laments from the Balkans…
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African Drumming with Appiah Annan, Monday 23, 3pm
Appiah Annan is Artistic Director of Asanti Dance Theatre an internationally recognised African drum and dance performance company based in Melbourne, Australia and Ghana, West Africa. They present an unforgettable experience of…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: 90′s Grunge, Monday 23, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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Electric Guitar Circle with Kim Salmon, Monday 23, 8pm
Join Kim Salomon for a special Darebin Music Feast produced event where he will share his iconic electric guitar skills with a small group of participants in the festival hub bar on Monday 23 September at 8pm. A select group will plug in and learn…
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Go Go Mama, Tuesday 24, 1pm
Go-Go Mama Dance gets the whole family moving. Come and learn to dance together, at these easy, dynamic and playful classes. Kids are free to participate, observe and play, whilst their carers dance and sweat. Bust a move with your baby…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: Soul Singers, Tuesday 24, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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House Hoods Heat #1, Tuesday 24, 7pm - 9pm
Introducing The House-Hoods! Where housemates and friends from your neighbourhood will be challenged to form a music act, perform at The House-Hoods Selection Heats on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 September…
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ManChoir - House Hoods Heat #1 Guest Band, Tuesday 24, 9pm
“We sing. We’re men. We’re from Melbourne.” Yes, that pretty much sums it up. Manchoir sing a’capella popular classics like Stevie Wonder and Outkast. Mostly local lads they gather each Tuesday night in the courtyard of a local music venue to…
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The Twoks, Wednesday 25, 1pm
Rough and smooth, epic and sweet, The Twoks are Xani Kolac (electric violin/vocals) and Mark Leahy (drums). Together they make dark, electric dancing music. Their songs scream, soar and sail. The Twoks have played St Kilda Festival, Woodford Folk…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: Rockabilly, Wednesday 25, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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House Hoods Heat #2, Wednesday 25, 7pm - 9pm
Introducing The House-Hoods! Where housemates and friends from your neighbourhood will be challenged to form a music act, perform at The House-Hoods Selection Heats on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 September…
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Big Smoke - House Hoods Heat #2 Guest Band, Wednesday 25, 9pm
Special guest local House Hood professional collaborators Big Smoke formed in 2009 combining the collective talents of members from former Melbourne indie band, Major Major, and Brisbane’s Tragic/Athletic…
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John Flanagan & the Begin Agains, Thursday 26, 1pm
With deeply honest storytelling, lush vocal harmonies and timeless melodies John Flanagan & the Begin Agains have drawn comparisons to Alison Krauss, James Taylor and Gillian Welch. They combine old-time/bluegrass instrumentation with…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: Americana & Hills, Thursday 26, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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Discotheque Music Club, Thursday 26, 8pm
The Darebin Music Feast special Discotheque Music Club - hosted by DJ DigiDog - will explore the contentious topic of “Cover versions that are better than the Originals”…
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Uke For Kids Family Orchestra & Workshop, Friday 27, 1pm
Yanai Morris of Uke4Kids, and now also The Uke Group, brings his incomparable capacity to remain calm in the face of potential chaos to this beginners’ workshop for all comers. Yanai has been teaching instrumental music to people of all ages for…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: African-Caribbean, Thursday 19, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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House Hoods Finals, Friday 27, 7pm - 9pm
Introducing The House-Hoods! Where housemates and friends from your neighbourhood will be challenged to form a music act, perform at The House-Hoods Selection Heats on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 September…
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Sentiment-O-Grams, Friday 27, 9pm
Pencil skirts and pencilled thoughts. Put your words into song with the Sentiment-O-Gram team in The Bain Marie. The Sentiment-O-Gram singers and scribes will help you to put your adorations into sweet doo-wop melodies and deliver them to your chosen recipient…
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AFL Screening, Chook Raffle & Bands! Saturday 28, 12pm - 6pm
Come and watch all the pre-match sheanigans and game live on the big screen in our pop-up festival hub bar. Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk & Chook Race will play. And you’ll be in the running for Chook Raffle prizes like you’ve never seen…
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Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, Saturday 28, 1pm
Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk play low down, down home, juke joint blues. Cementing their reputation as the hardest working blues combo in the country, 2013 has already seen Chicken Walk receive the famed golden boot at Golden Plains, tour the nation…
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Chook Race, Saturday 28, 8pm
Chook Race are a Melbourne three piece. Their bedroom recorded sound references Australian and NZ indie classics, international outsider favourites and the 60s teen garage explosion. In layman’s terms: they play a set of scrappy pop songs…
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Bogan Bingo, Sunday 29, 4pm
Bogan Bingo is best described (by themselves) as ‘half game show-half party’. It is a game of bingo, but throw in some 80′s rock anthems, DJ and washed up rock star of a bingo caller and you’ll see why Bogan Bingo has sold out every year…
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Open Decks BYO Vinyl Sessions - Genre: Old Black Blues, Sunday 29, 5pm
The Music Feast Open Decks - BYO Vinyl Sessions invites you to bring a few of your waxy music gems in and play them while kicking back and enjoying the festival hub environment for knock off drinks 5pm-7pm daily…
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The Harlots, Sunday 29 - Closing Night, 8pm
The Harlots are slick like pop, but ragged like garage; the Harlots sting like the new wave and burn like soul. Swelling dance floors and stage tents with their sultry brand of ego-rock since late 2010, Melbourne sextet the Harlots draw on the diverse…
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Howlin Steam Train, Sunday 29 - Closing Night, 9pm
As the name implies, HOWLIN’ STEAM TRAIN are ragged, relentless, and freakin’ fun. They’re a nice n’ boozy cocktail of rock, soul, boogie and a bunch of other stuff you can’t quite put your finger on. They’ve spent the summer serving it up…
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