Apollo Bay Music Festival serves up music that covers all bases

Over three days in April the award-winning Apollo Bay Music Festival presents a dynamic line-up of jazz, blues, roots, classical, comedy, funk, blues, rock, world and country, as well as street performance theatre.
By: VisitGreatOceanRoad.org.au
 
March 10, 2011 - PRLog -- Set against the pristine backdrop of the Great Ocean Road and the Otways hinterland, local, national and international artists gather to inspire and entertain.

From Friday 8 to Sunday 10 April 2011, more than 70 acts covering the quirky, the inspiring and the all-round entertaining will bring the 11 stages to life with colour and sound.

Highlights this year include the Songs of Vanda and Young, which pays homage to Australia’s greatest song writing team and members of the Easybeats, Harry Vanda and George Young.

Featuring an all-star line up, Dan Warner will perform Evie, (all three parts), the Dili Allstars have reinvented William Shakespeare’s Can’t Stop Myself from Loving You, and President Roots pull a punch with Yesterday’s Hero.

There's also The Tiger and Me revisiting Friday On My Mind, Chris Altman and Que Paso setting the stage alight with Sorry, the Vaudeville Smash present Love Is In The Air, Angie Hart to enchant with The Music Goes Round My Head and Dog Trumpet have chosen the more obscure Midnight Man.

Other acts joining the event include Minibikes, Sambrose Automobile, Jim Conway’s Big Wheel, Van Walker, The Pirates of Beer, Rattlehand, Almacknjack, Dirt River Radio and The Cactus Channel.

UK legend the punk inspired Attila the Stockbroker started as a punk bass player in 1977 and took his inimitable stage name during a short stint as a stockbroker’s clerk (he hated it and has earned his living as a poet/musician ever since. Attila performs one very special show on Sunday afternoon.

Other international headline acts include Grammy Award winners the Peter Rowan Blue Grass Band, and Charles Neville with Youssoupha Sidibe and the Mystic Rhythms. US legend Rosie Flores, Canadian Juno Award winners The Good Lovelies, and Beyond the Pale with Martha Tilston from the UK also make a welcome return to Australia.

The streets, the pubs, the church, the bowls club, the youth club, the surf club, the mechanics hall, the big tents…all are filled with music, and it’s this that brings people back year after year to the Apollo Bay Music Festival.

Geelong Otway Tourism’s Deputy Executive Director Terry Hickey is pleased about the impact the Festival has on tourism in the region. “With nearby attractions such as the Great Ocean Walk, the Otway Fly Treetop Adventures and Cape Otway Light Station, festival visitors can easily find other reasons to prolong their stay in the region after the last chords have finally faded away’, he said.

For more information on the Apollo Bay attractions, visit http://visitgreatoceanroad.org.au/great-ocean-road/destin...

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About Visit Great Ocean Road: The official website of the Geelong Otway region of the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia
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