Andy Baylor and the Banksia Band

Andy Baylor and the Banksia Band

Saturday 15 November
Doors Open at 7pm | show from 7.30pm

Andy Baylor and The Banksia Band offer a colourful folk/roots sound which encapsulates the essence of Australian music-making. Their polished, eclectic music draws together threads of ‘roots music’ styles including Country, Folk, Cajun fiddle music, old, deep blues and world music exotica, and seamlessly weaves these into a contemporary Australian bar-room symphony.

Andy has written and recorded a whole new batch of songs and tunes which he and the Banksia band will be unveiling over Spring and Summer. The band features a sweet string sound with the fiddles and violas of Sophie Dunn and Kate Connor, with Andy on electric surf, jazz-guitar, fiddle and vocals. This formidable front line is driven by percussionist/producer Denis Close’s exotic world percussion, the bass of Trent McKenzie, and Phil Collings' masterful jazz drumming.

“As with all my albums over the years, I have committed myself to heartfelt expression through my writing, my art and my music, to tell something of the place and times I find myself living in. Even though I may naturally be a fairly shy, quiet person, when I play and sing, I feel powerful - free to tell it like it is, and right where I should be.”

 The songs and tunes of Andy Baylor- Andy and The Banksia Band perform  their songs n tunes selected from their three popular and acclaimed albums ....'Down Where The Banksias Grow (2013), The Old Southern Line , (2018) and the most recent In Another Life (2024)

“As with all my albums over the years, I have committed myself to heartfelt expression through my writing, my art and my music, to tell something of the place and times I find myself living in. Even though I may naturally be a fairly shy, quiet person, when I play and sing, I feel powerful - free to tell it like it is, and right where I should be.” 

The songs and tunes of Andy Baylor- Andy and The Banksia Band perform  their songs n tunes selected from their three popular and acclaimed albums ....'Down Where The Banksias Grow (2013), The Old Southern Line , (2018) and the most recent In Another Life (2024)

Andy himself has been described as “Melbourne’s Roots Music Maestro” and he has  performed  with a who’s-who of Australian and International  music  in a career that started in mid ‘70’s Melbourne .

“Andy Baylor’s music floats on air with blissful melodies and flowing dance tunes”… …Jeff Glorfeld, the Age