Stereo Stories
Jane Caro. Albury 2025.
We had the privilege of performing two shows in 2025, to our ever-loyal audiences in Albury and Williamstown.
Head to our Facebook page for some footage from our Albury show on September 13 and to this website for our little galleria.
See our Williamstown photo essay by Eric Algra.
Next year? We’ll see how the planets align.
Footage above and below is from our show at Write Around the Murray on September 14, 2024. Above, author Danny Katz is ‘conducting’ the band, with cellist Laura Sheridan and accordionist Julie Merritt in the foreground. Below, Ninety seconds of Martina Medica pouring her heart and soul into the final verses of the Sinead O'Connor song Jackie, after Rijn Collins had delivered a stirring tribute to the late, great Irish singer and humanitarian.
For past gigs, visit our concerts page.
To enquire about booking us, contact director Vin Maskell via our contact page or via email: sterestorieseditor@gmail.com
“Unforgettable night. Stories; memories; fragments of life; moments in time; all told within the mood of music. At times soft and seductive, at other times throbbing and beating; stories in stereo. Rich and enveloping, the words and tunes weave together.” Donata Carazza, director, 2022 Mildura Writers Festival.
'An utterly unique concept' blends music and memories - read more at The Age, 3 January 2022
Every so often you come across a song which can demolish you; take you down in slow-mo, floor by floor like an old hotel, ending in a puff of plaster and dust. Maria Majsa, writing about Between The Bars by Elliot Smith.
… AND THE BASSMAN PLAYS. Words by Bill Arnott. Music by Michael Averill
Flashback to the sixties, people living in the cities you got beatniks crossed with hippies sporting horizontal stripes and small goatees play a jazzy, minor chord, learn to smoke, renounce the lord
(ONCE I HAD A) SECRET LOVE by ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINK. Story and artwork by Chris Rees.
At some point the peg began to sing, and the song it sang was (Once I Had A) Secret Love.
(SITTING ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY by OTIS REDDING. Story by Bill Arnott.
In the lee of an old wooden dock with barnacled pilings, fishing boats bobbed at anchor.
$$ Spoilers $$ by Jarrow
David Oke The Dancing Dog, Footscray, May 2015 Heather and I grinned and looked at each other through the night, as if to say, ‘How did all this happen?’ ‘Is our son really this good?’ and ‘Who would have believed this?’
10th anniversary concert this June
Celebrate 10 years of music and memoir at Willy Lit Fest on Friday 14 June.
1952 VINCENT BLACK LIGHTNING by RICHARD THOMPSON Story by John Butler
I’m standing at the end of a long queue talking to a complete stranger. We both agree we never do this sort of thing. Myself, I’ve generally abided that warning about meeting your heroes.