LIVE MUSIC with ' Michael Menager Trio ' at the Tathra Hotel.
Sun 15th October 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Free admission.
The Michael Menager Trio was born at Cobargo Folk Festival 2017 and has been a feature of the South Coast music scene ever since. The current lineup features Sats Kramer (Kara Coen Band) on guitar, Dan Efraemson (Malumba) on violin, and singer/songwriter Michael Menager on guitar and vocals.
Michael’s lyrics cut along a philosophical edge, his style cuts across the musical spectrum from blues and swing to country and early rock n’roll, and his stories cut through the inner landscape of a poet and traveller – all framed and embellished by Kramer’s jazz/rock-influenced guitar and Efraemson’s hauntingly lyrical violin.
New album Michael Menager’s LINE IN THE WATER
Following Clean Exit (2014) and Not the Express (2016), Michael Menager’s Line in the Water is yet another testament to a gifted songwriter. A longtime resident of rural NSW, Michael bases some songs here on calamities in nature - but solely to provide insight into our common struggles. There is a richness in Menager’s lyrics that bears returning to over time; depths there to be mined.
Menager’s songs reflect the Americana traditions of folk, blues and spirituals. The title track,
“Line in the Water,” begins with the Disciples “fishing down in Galilee,” then pans to a rough neighbourhood in Central LA and to a different sort of fisherman entirely. “Flesh Against Bone” personifies our present times, where “The light that’s left will not reveal/what is the truth and what’s a lie.”
Songs that are clear, direct, true and worth returning to - that’s my final word on Line in the Water.
Reviewer: Robert M Gardner (Theatrius.com)
Member, San Francisco Theatre Critics Circle