SONG LOUNGE – MON 12TH April

April boasts a first for Song Lounge: two shows in a month!  And this is because there are so many talented singer songwriters around the place, touring, launching new music, and wanting to perform.

April 12th will showcase a fantastic line-up featuring Michael Strong, Leah Miche and Dave Mann with Jaimi Faulkner.  Michael is a WAM Song of the Year Award winner and is a wonderful talent.  Leah, best known as front woman for the Miche Suite, is bringing gorgeous bass player Sarah Clare along with her and a guitarist friend who has been playing with Leah since Leah’s mishap cutting a tendon in her thumb preventing her from playing her beloved guitar.  Jaimi and Dave are currently touring WA as a duo and appear at The Ellington as part of this tour – their set should bring the house down.

Michael Strong

www.myspace.com/michaelstrongmusic

Michael Strong was born in the Southern Blues delta of Bridgetown.  During his later teenage years, he tired of the dirty South, crashed his car and moved to Perth. It was in this gentle city that Strong pilfered band members from the cream of the alternative crop, delighted to find that they were able to mix a new kind of life into his unique – and sometimes strange – folk/pop songs. And so it was in this manner that Strong became the father of Michael Strong and the Ghost Anyway. Encompassing a diverse range of styles, ideas and moods, Strong and co. produce a realized and original sound, somewhere around the edges of folk, pop, and alternative rock. Strong’s lyrics engage and tickle the mind with their poetry and intelligence, depth and vibrance.

Leah Miche

www.myspace.com/leahmiche

Perth singer songwriter Leah Miche is an acoustic blues and roots singer songwriter known around the traps for her intriguing song writing, earthy powerful vocals and incredible onstage energy and presence. Also the front woman for the successful Perth roots trio ‘Miche Suite’, Leah has performed throughout the state in festival line-ups and frequent regional tours generating a devoted following.  Leah’s performances are gutsy and engaging, and will be sure to capture your heart.

’With an incredible voice and onstage energy, Leah Miche takes Roots music and gives it a much needed make over’’. Mike Wafer X Press Magazine

Dave Mann

http://www.davemanncollective.com/

Dave Mann with his battle worn guitar has been travelling Australia and overseas, for the last five years performing his down to earth acoustic songs with passion and intimacy. Open-tunings, slide guitar and Dave’s dynamic vocals create a rich combination of raw roots energy with soulful tender lyricism that cuts straight to the truth.  So, with one of WA’s best bass players, Roy Martinez, something very special is communicated. Always fresh and spontaneous. Forget pretences this is just quality music guaranteed. A bloody good show!

Jaimi Faulkner

http://jaimifaulkner.com/

Jaimi Faulkner has a reputation as gifted songwriter, exciting live performer and accomplished musician, and it’s a reputation that’s well deserved. Brought up on a diet rich in Blues, Country and Folk music, Jaimi’s music logically reflects these genres, but with a quality and voice that is uniquely his own.

Song Lounge is on Monday 12th April at The Ellington Jazz Club, 191 Beaufort Street, Perth.  Doors Open 7pm, Show Commences 7.30pm.