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MADASS FOLDS UP THE BANNER AFTER SEVEN YEARS

After seven years of bringing you some of the best live music in Brisbane, The Madass Acoustic Music Club will be pulling the plug the last week of February on weekly Thursday music nights. Nothing good lasts forever and the Madass is not dead - it’s just resting - and will rise again in a new form to periodically present a series of special event concerts at various locations. Look out for them in the Folk Rag.

The club was started by Danny Holmes in 2002 at The Winery, West End and carried forward by Rose Broe and Alison MacKenzie, with able help from Ewan MacKenzie (website) and Mark Smith (sound). It moved to the Broadway Hotel, and then to the Muddy Farmer where it has been for the last two years.

Apart from the multitude of booked acts (well over 400 different performers!) that have played during the club’s time, a host of other people ran raffles, drank drinks, announced acts, sang sessions, improvised instruments, provided door kisses and listened with joy to the numerous acts.

Performers at the club have come from as far away as the Faroe and Shetland Islands, the USA, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, but most of all, the club has showcased the wealth of local talent we have been privileged to enjoy. It has been a supportive, egalitarian environment that has nurtured the inexperienced and delighted the seasoned pros with a warm, listening environment. Many well-known artists cut their teeth as blackboarders at the MadAss.

Highlights have been too many to mention, but there has been many a cracker-of-a-night at the club.

We Madassers would like to give sincere and heartfelt thanks to all those who have had an involvement with the club - the performers, the audience, the venue hosts, the production team, and especially the Folk Rag for its continuous support.

Rose & Alison

PS - a new commitee is being formed with a view to continuing a folk club without or without the Madass name....stay tuned....

For other great folk music events around Brisbane always go to The Folk Rag.