Grim Fawkner & Alana Jagt - Strzelecki, Gippsland

GRIM FAWKNER & ALANA JAGT

And their bands... Live in Strzelecki!

Sunday 16th October sees the return of South Australia's huskily sung sweetheart Alana Jagt, on her "Goodbye Grote Bollen" tour. Sharing the stage and the tour is Bendigo's powerhouse Grim Fawkner Band, returning off the back of a recent Strzelecki show for local legend Mark Smith, as well as a recent Lardner Park show with Kasey Chambers & The Fireside Disciples.

Book yourself an afternoon of top-shelf original music and performance within the historic walls of the Strzelecki Community Hall, located at

1476 Korumburra-Warragul Rd, Strzelecki VIC (about 20 mins south of Warragul, 45 mins from Phillip Island).



Trialling something new in these universal times of crises, at checkout we've created an option on to "Shout a Stranger" - does what it says on the tin.

There'll be a small group of tickets kept aside for anyone who wants to come on the night but can't afford the ticket price. If you'd like to free up a ticket for someone you've never met to enjoy some live music, then pop one of those in your cart on the way out, we'll shout you back by sending you two download codes so you can get an album/EP from both Grim Fawkner and Alana Jagt (via Bandcamp! Not physical CD's, important to note).

Two digital releases for $15 AND you get to give someone the gift of enjoying live music - that's pretty darn good any way you look at it.

Make sure to put the right email address in at checkout so we can send you the download codes!

Tickets pre-sale $15+bf, or $20 cash on the day.

DOORS 1PM

Alana Jagt’s dynamic rasp soars over her blend of stormy folk-rock noir that's refreshing yet somehow familiar. Live she performs powerful, vocal-led solo affairs; playful trio shows; and with her six-piece twin guitar rock band.  

Born and raised on South Australia’s Iron Triangle, Jagt cut her teeth as a teen playing keys and singing harmonies in her parents’ ramshackle blues band. At seventeen she skipped to the capital and established a song-writing outlet as one half of folk-duo Buffalo Boyfriend. But the songs quickly outgrew the folk harmony outlet, and with the 2017 release of her solo debut Wilderness, Jagt steadily built a dedicated audience in her own right–one that has followed her from beloved little Adelaide venues like the Grace Emily to performances at Adelaide Guitar Festival, and supporting artists the likes of Abbe May and Mick Thomas nationally.

In early 2019 Alana released single 'Imagining Life' and has since enjoyed support slots with acts as diverse as Moju, Thelma Plum, Ella Hooper, Wagons, Paul Dempsey and Archie Roach, as well as performing at acclaimed Australian festivals including Porchland, Dashville Skyline and  BIGSOUND.

If you’ve seen Jagt perform live these past few years alongside these artists you’ll know that at Alana Jagt shows you're as likely to hear a Ween cover as you are a folk ballad; she's as big a fan of Aldous Harding as she is Sir Tom Jones.

Goodbye Grotebollen is the long-awaited full-length release from due October 2022. Granted, it's not exactly arriving hot on the heels of her sold out debut EP, Wilderness. Okay. True. A few things slowed up the process. There was this pandemic, and before that, an aborted studio session or two, not to mention pressing plant delays. And oh yeah, Alana's parents' house was destroyed in a fire.

That's actually how the record got its name. Sifting through mountains of cold black slush where the house used to be, Jagt discovered a charred, discoloured photograph depicting a cake of mysterious origins. "Turns out, my parents once worked in a tulip bulb sorting factory in Holland for a bit," she says. "When they were due to leave they brought in this farewell cake to enjoy with the other workers. Grote bollen translates to 'big bulbs'... there could be a Dutch pun happening there, I'm not exactly sure, but I eventually came to think of these songs as my bulbs and now I'm saying goodbye to them." 

It's this carefree eclecticism that immediately set Jagt apart from Adelaide's prolific 'Americana' scene. With a meaty rock band formed around Jagt's instinctive, distinguished song writing, and with their deft shape-shifting ability, Jagt can (and will) play a tiny gin bar one night and Brisbane's coveted BIGSOUND festival the next.

Goodbye Grote Bollen will be supported by a slew of full-band shows this spring and summer, and with lockdowns seemingly a thing of the past, her band is itching to hit the road. "It's a relief to finally put this record out there", Jagt says. "Because, as audiences will soon find out, we've got some pretty big new bulbs growing already." 

Grim Fawkner Band are a Victorian alternative indie rock outfit from Bendigo/Melbourne, and are the big stage culmination of folk/roots Bendigo singer/songwriter Grim Fawkner. From gritty, lusty blues to bouncy pop pieces, death ballads to love songs, there are no stones unturned in a set list, and Grim’s voice ropes it all together and anchors what might seem a disparate medley if it were sung by any other frontman. 

Grim is a Cole Clark endorsed artist, and has toured and performed with artists such as Marcus King Band (USA), Kasey Chambers, & The Waifs. He has played on stages at Byron Bay Bluesfest, Queenscliff Music Festival, Whare Flat Folk Festival (NZ), and Cygnet Folk Festival. Together, the band will be recording and releasing their first single in 2022, an infectiously soulful body mover called “Can’t Deny”. “The Withered Grapevine”, an album Grim recorded with Kasey Chambers between tour dates, can be streamed here: 

grimfawkner.bandcamp.com

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