Join us at the Petersham Bowling Club for a very special Friday evening when Dashville natives Magpie Diaries roll into town for an earthly alt-country folk jam, a taste test of the next album, their third full length record titled ‘Down By The River’ which is due for release in early 2027.

The first single lifted from the album, the subtle rollicking ‘Winters Back’ lends to the stripped back 'all strings' vibe of this next album, which was recorded around a kitchen table in a boat shed by the Huon River, Tasmania in the space of 6 hours.

Magpie laments, ‘this next album is a cracker, but it started out as a protest record of sorts, against the fact our previous album took over five years to make..’

He refers to the acclaimed Some Kind Of View, released October 2025, which is an incredible collection of ten songs, blending dreamy alt-country, with heartfelt lyrics written by Magpie and self-produced by the band on home soil at Dashville over that unsettling period of 5 years 2020-2025.

Blending soul, country, and ‘70s folk-rock, Some Kind of View is more than a collection of songs - it’s a time capsule, a heartfelt nod to family and to the land. Lush arrangements with trademark harmonies wrapping Magpie’s reflective lyrics in warmth and weight - as heard in singles Go Anywhere, Old Road, Love Is Hard, History, Time Moves On and Land For Sale, which received high rotation across ABC Country and various community radio across the country.

For this evening Magpie Diaries will be a five piece string band playing songs from all three albums and will be joined by the amazingly fun Charley Castle & The Boys in The Well.

'Fast-paced and infectious, Charley Castle leads her Boys in the Well to a new strain of Australian bluegrass. With guitar, double bass and mandolin, and tight-stack harmonies, the quartet marry traditional sounds with modern sensibilities and sweet southern hemisphere spirit.'

Thank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you there!

This is an 18+ Show.

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Getting to The PBC! Access to the club and main stage is via 12 stairs at the front of the venue. We are not wheelchair accessible currently but we are working on it! There is free, untimed parking on the avenue and Brighton Street and drop off/pick up is available via our driveway.

The Petersham Bowling Club acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which this show takes place and pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and emerging and extend those respects to the First Nations peoples of NSW and beyond.

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