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BIG NEWS: My big Christmas present was a visit from our old friend and music legend Brendan Gallagher to embed himself in the house for three days while we laid nine bed tracks for my next album, the fifth and first in 26 years. We fought of corellas, dogs, trucks, children and the coffee machine to set the foundations for a release in April all being well. Watch this space

Just a week out from Christmas and the Robertson Public House and Kitchen was hosting Loki Hines Open Mic as it does every month. Invited to perform I felt that a little Christmas cheer was required so turned up as PeterClause with the appropriate shirt and trousers.. the hat is by others.. well.. somebody had to do it! The audience assembled joined me in a rousing chorus of the classic Australian Christmas carol The Three Drovers and a great night was had by all.

Wasn't playing at the BFF in 2024 but still deeply embedded as brand partner and official photographer. I designed the brand assets for the year, produced the program, signage and other collateral, and was an official photographer for the event. I have to say that it's a lot less effort being a performer - note to self! But, I got some simple wonderful shots.. this is Ais O'Neill making her festival debut after winning the NSW Folk Federation's under 19 Young Folk Musician of the Year. Accompanying her on Irish Bouzouki is her dad Ken O'Niell from Kejafi. I love the warmth of the communication between them.

Never been to Humph Hall before this event.. the night after the Leonard Cohen event in Canberra. Arrived to find an old Uniting Church that had been converted into a rehearsal/concert space and a private home.. just terrific. Went on to do a good long show with a wonderful audience which included the hosts, Wayne and Gial and a group of members of 'Loosely Woven', an a cappella choir based at the Hall. This is Wayne, Gial and me after the event.. I'm the boring one in the middle.

If you’ve got a special place in your musical heart for Leonard Cohen you'll understand the excitement about this event. The wonderful Mikelangelo (Michael Simic) masterminded a Celebration of the Life and Music of this legendary singer-songwriter, poet and novelist at The Vault in Fyshwick on November 8th, 2024. With a fabulous backing band known as the Band of Mercy, and a collection of great artists such as Fred Smith, Shortis and Simpson, Alice Cottee, Tom Woodward and others including yours truly, Mikelangelo sung and danced and audience of over 450 to the end of a wonderful night. Here we are performing Cohen's ANTHEM. 

Had a terrific night with Craig Sinclair and Lara Norman who run the Lookout House Concerts in Blackheath. Wonderful group of people gathered in the warm atmosphere of their home.. a very generous way of bringing joyous music to the Mountains.

Back in 1979 I toured across America with my little family (well.. four kids under seven, nine suitcases, two guitars and four teddy bears) to record my second album with folk legend Noel Paul Stookey (Paul of Peter, Paul & Mary). Two months living in a cottage across the duck pond from Noel's house in Blue Hill, Maine, recording in his Hen House Studios, singing around Maine (that's him and me together in Maine in the pic), meeting extraordinary people and having lots of fun. 45 years later Noel is releasing a CD with three songs from him, me, John Stuart and Kevin Roth.. three songs each. The CD is called Neworld Sampler and will be distributed across the US by Hudson Harding Music. I'll keep you posted.

This is now my third foray into the USA in about six months via the generosity of the American folk organisation, Hudson Harding Music. Erik Balkey and Bill Coyle are artist’s representatives for CD distribution and promotion to folk radio across the States. The first connection was through my song Waited Too Long.. then a collaborative album with my old friend Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary fame – three songs each from him, me, John Stuart and Kevin Roth. This time they have put two new songs into circulation.. Same Science and Coat of Many Colours. Fingers crossed Tronald Dump gets to hear them! You can watch video of all three songs HERE.