Lime and Steel will play at Blackheath Folk at the Ivanhoe on Thursday, February 2, as part of their summer East Coast tour.
Local Blue Mountains folk favourites, the four-piece of Paddy Connor, Ian Morrison, Skye Mostafa and Maizy-Jane Coombes has been unloading rusty station wagons at folk festivals from Woodford in Queensland to Cygnet in Tasmania for years, rolling out folk noir ballads and dust-kicking hoedowns to appreciative crowds all the way.
Featuring roots-down grooves on the fiddle and banjo, along with thumping beats from a doghouse bass and drums, Lime and Steel take the Southern bluegrass sound and blend it with Australian storytelling, gritty Irish folk and pub-rock.
The result is a unique home brewed feel.
Equally at home on festival main stages, at sweaty pubs or harmonising around kitchen tables, Lime and Steel’s original songwriting gems have featured them in a range of songwriting awards, splashing on just enough paint to get a loving glimpse of the darker side of the Australian soul.
Rhythms magazine describes them as having “humour, pathos and infectious melodies”.
Lime and Steel call themselves “Bogan bluegrass, cut with equal parts charm and cheap wine”.
Folk music at the Ivanhoe Hotel, Blackheath, is on Thursday, February 2, starts at 7.30pm. Floor performers are welcome. Inquiries, call Christine Davies 4787 7246.