Hurray for the Riff Raff (New Orleans) - Melbourne



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The Corner Hotel

57 Swan St, Richmond, Melbourne, Australia

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The Corner Hotel is an iconic live music and entertainment venue located in the heart of Richmond, Melbourne. It offers a huge variety of music, comedy, and events, from international acts to local talent. Their fully-licensed bar and restaurant features a range of international cuisine, as well as a selection of craft beers and spirits. The large stage area is fitted with state-of-the-art lighting and sound, while the adjoining beer garden is the perfect place to chill out in the warm weather. The Corner Hotel's large, open spaces can also be hired for events, either casual or formal. The staff are known for their friendly, welcoming attitude and have made it a popular spot for music and entertainment lovers.

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???? TICKETS: https://goo.gl/yKedcZ With musical influences from places as diverse as New Orleans, The Bronx and Puerto Rico, Hurray for the Riff Raff’s sound is all their own, and it’s sure to delight Australian audiences when they return to Australia in 2018. The band is fronted by Alynda Segarra, a creative powerhouse who began her musical career when she ran away from home at 17, busking for survival across American and honing her craft through dreams of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie, and Woody Guthrie. Since then Segarra realized she is a Puerto Rican kid from the Bronx with a different story to tell. She created four albums with Hurray for the Riff Raff including ‘Small Town Heroes’, featuring “The Body Electric,” a song that NPR’s Ann Powers called “The Political Song of the Year” in 2014. Their latest album is called ‘The Navigator’ which Seggarra describes as being about “this girl who grows up in a city that’s like New York, who’s a street kid, like me when I was little, that has a special place in the history of her people.” Through ‘The Navigator’, the listener hears an ambitiously interwoven, cinematic story of a wandering soul that finally realized she needed to connect with and honor her ancestors. For ‘The Navigator’, Segarra quickly went to work with producer Paul Butler, whose work with British soul singer and former Bluesfest allum Michael Kiwanuka she deeply admired. Segarra also drew early inspiration from another Bluesfest favourite, Rodriguez, a Mexican-American who translated working-class stories from Detroit into powerful rock ballads, and the Ghetto Brothers, an underground band from the 1970s South Bronx who stitched Puerto Rican nationalist messages into a rough-hewn fabric of Santana and Sly and the Family Stone Afro-Caribbean funk. Their sound has been compared to Gillian Welch, Laura Marling and Rhiannon Giddens and has created a huge buzz -this band has next big thing written all over them! The potent lyrics and danceable beats of Hurray for the Riff Raff will hypnotise Sydney and Melbourne audiences in March 2018. Supported by MOJO JUJU and JUNE JONES (Two Steps on the Water) MOJO JUJU "Mojo Juju is a living and breathing dream. Such natural swagger as this does not come often." - Au Review. "Mojo Juju is one Wow-worthy performer” - The Music "This stunning album weaves an emotional tapestry of life, loss, love and regret" - 5 Stars, The Herald Sun “This is such sweet soul from Mojo Juju, an artist who just seems to go from strength to strength.” - Double J Formidable. Enigmatic. Genre-defying. Fragile. Ballsy. Ambiguous. Raw. Mojo Juju has been called many things and yet she is forever hard to define. By her own explanation, Mojo has never felt comfortable with being categorized and is increasingly deliberate in avoiding labels and defying genres. As a result, it is only in experiencing her live shows that one can begin to understand the full breadth of this dynamic artist. Her current band are a tight, exotic, dark and rhythmic powerhouse, featuring several members of instrumental soul / hip hop ensemble The Cactus Channel. Regardless of genre, whether solo or backed by a full band, it is evident that at the core of Mojo Juju’s song writing is a raw emotional honesty. It is juxtaposed by a razor-sharp wit and a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour and it is carried by her voice, which is often almighty powerful, sometimes heart-achingly vulnerable and always the centrepiece of her work. JUNE JONES (Two Steps on the Water) June Jones is a songwriter woman creating bittersweet and occasionally melodramatic songs on stolen Wurundjeri land. Best known for her band, Two Steps on the Water, her solo project is a little more stripped back and downtempo, though no less self-indulgent.