Singer-songwriters Bill Jackson and Frank Jones are bringing their Kitchen Table Tour to the Stratford Courthouse on Saturday, February 15.
Bill Jackson has firmly established himself over the past few years as one of Australia’s finest singer/songwriters. He has released eight solo albums and toured North America four times.
Steel & Bone was awarded Folk Alliance Australia Radio Presenters Album of the Year in 2008 and his song Something in Blue was covered by legendary Americana
artist David Olney.
The Wayside Ballads Vol 2 was nominated for a Music Victoria Award in 2016 while his 2021 album The Wayside Ballads Vol 3 was awarded Contemporary Album of the Year at The Australian Folk Music Awards.
He has just released a new album, 1965. Many of Bill’s songs are co-written with his brother, Sale resident and local historian, Ross Jackson.
Paul Kelly said: “Frank Jones sings songs about people that walk down the same streets I do, cross the same rivers, drink the same brand of beer. I know the people in his songs.”
As a founding member of The Whirling Furphies, Frank penned Melbourne’s iconic anthem, My Brown Yarra, one of the great songs about Melbourne. Frank has won the Lawson Paterson Songwriters’ Award (Port Fairy Folk Festival), two Labour Day Song Awards, an Apollo Bay Music Festival Song Award and an Australian Songwriters’ Award.
His songs have been nominated for the 2013 Aria Song of the Year, 2013 APRA Urban Song of the Year and APRA Most Played Australian Work of the Year, reaching number eight on the 2011 Triple J Hottest 100. His lifetime of cross-genre songwriting includes five outstanding albums of his own and a multitude of songs written for and co-written with other artists.
Bill and Frank will be joined onstage by multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Weddings Parties Anything, Dave Steel.
Tickets can be purchased at the Stratford Courthouse Theatre website.
