To kick off November head to The Pub for a Live Music Weekender with four unique acts performing across six shows in a back-to-back showing for the ages.
The Airlie Beach Hotel is bringing back three fan favourites and a new band to the Bar Top Stage in its November 4 to 6 live music spectacular.
The Live Music Weekender is brimming with fanfare as some of The Pubs’ fan favourite acts return.
Geed Up will put the festivities in gear on Thursday and Friday, followed by the sultry sounds of soulstress Lisa Hunt on Friday and Saturday nights. There’ll be the bombastic Official Blues Brothers Revue for Saturday afternoon, and finally Jeff Duff and The Great Southern Band with the music of Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears for the Sunday climax.
Geed Up will set the tone for the Weekender in their Thursday night shows from 7pm to 10pm. They’re an act like no other – they’ve rocked out at the Airlie Beach Hotel to blissful applause time and again – and they’ll be doing it twice this time! On Friday arvo, they’ll get the crowd pumping from 2pm to 5.30pm.
Then it’s all the headliner: Lisa Hunt and her show Forever Soul – a Motown mashup of soul, funk, disco, and R&B in the evening.
Last time the beautiful and bodacious performer graced the Bar Top Stage, she tore down the roof.
Her undoubted stage presence has lured enormous crowds to the Hotel on numerous occasions – and this time it will be no different. The now Byron Bay-based singer will be returning to treat the seaside town again with her powerful voice born from the great African American tradition of gospel music.
A storied career with countless compilations around the globe, both as singer and songwriter, Hunt has sold more than a million records.
She’s an ‘80s soul sensation who’s kept the music pumping all that time, sharing the stage with music greats like Eric Clapton, James Brown, and even Andrea Bocelli, and now she’s back at the locals’ favourite local, and the crowds are going to be loving it.
She’ll bring down the house on Friday and Saturday nights from 7pm to 10pm, but, before her, the Official Blues Brothers – endorsed by Dan Akroyd himself, as well as the late legend John Belushi’s wife, Judith – will bring the jazz.
The upper echelon show brings the boys to the Airlie Beach Hotel on Saturday, 2pm to 5.30pm before the headlining Hunt’s pitch-perfect performance on Saturday night.
And on Sunday, for the massive weekend’s crescendo, The Music of Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears will be played to perfection by musical journeyman Jeff Duff and The Great Southern Band.
One of Australia’s finest vocalists with seven of the hottest vocalists in the land, Jeff Duff brings some of the best of America’s horn-bands alive in this incredible new show – and, adding to the mix, Duff treats audiences to a little of his David Bowie covers to boot.
Don’t miss this massive weekend at the Airlie Beach Hotel.
WHAT: Live Music Weekender
WHEN: Various times across November 4 to 6
WHERE: The Airlie Beach Hotel
Four separate acts – massive bands, big shows, and loud music – at the Airlie Beach Hotel in November
Songstress Lisa Hunt headlines The Pub’s Live Music Weekender event in a much-anticipated return to Airlie Beach
27 album veteran and Australian tenor Jeff Duff will end the weekend’s festivities with an incredible new show
