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Hi everyone! Our recent New Sheiks tour was brilliant!!! - Thanks so much for your support! Starting on the 12th of October we were on the road with Leigh Barker and The New Sheiks through Victoria, NSW and Tassie until November 7th. We sold lots of the Bell Award winning "Best Traditional Jazz Album" as well as loads of Leigh's beautiful back catalogue albums.
There's some great info on the band, MP3 clips and photos on our tour BLOG: www.thenewsheiks.wordpress.com
We posted exclusive audio, video, photos and of course the inevitable touring anecdotes...! A great documentary in itself.
The New Sheiks will be returning in 2012 for the Eltham Jazz & Blues Festival on February 26th and we're putting together our next tour, bringing Matt back from Paris and looking forward to getting our audience up and dancing again!
See you at a gig soon!
"From the first moment I saw Heather playing, I was excited to see a new, unique female presence in the blues and roots music scene.
It is great to see
Heather helping reintroduce some important and often neglected early blues styles to a modern audience."
Fiona Boyes
"I have shared the stage with Heather Stewart on many occasions, she can draw from her classical experience and play right from the heart... but then she can turn it all around and play some down home dirty blues right from her gut"
Jimi Hocking
Click to read more about Heather Stewart.
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| Sun Feb 12
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7:00 pm |
Bistro Gitan - Private Function
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more info
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| Sun Feb 19
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3:00 pm |
Sundays @ Graduate House with Heather Stewart Blues
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Graduate House Melbourne University, Carlton, VIC |
more info
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| Sat Feb 25
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9:30 pm |
Heather Stewart at Paris Cat
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Paris Cat Jazz Club |
more info
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| Sun Feb 26
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5:00 pm |
The New Sheiks with Heather Stewart @ Eltham Heritage Jazz & Blues Festival
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Main Stage at Eltham Jazz Festival, Melbourne, Vic |
more info
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| Thu Mar 08
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8:00 pm |
Heather Stewart @ Mission to Seafarers
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Mission To Seafarers, Melbourne City |
more info
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| Thu Mar 15
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8:00 pm |
Heather Stewart @ Mission to Seafarers
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Mission To Seafarers, Melbourne City |
more info
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| Sun Mar 18
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12:00 pm |
Heather Stewart Trio @ Mordialloc By The Bay Festival
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Mordialloc By The Bay Festival - MAIN STAGE |
more info
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| Thu Mar 22
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8:00 pm |
Heather Stewart @ Mission to Seafarers
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Mission To Seafarers, Melbourne City |
more info
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| Sun Mar 25
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6:30 pm |
Heather Stewart & Andy Baylor's Double Fiddles @ Drunken Poet
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Drunken Poet, Melbourne |
more info
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| Thu Mar 29
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8:00 pm |
Heather Stewart @ Mission to Seafarers
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Mission To Seafarers, Melbourne City |
more info
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| Wed Apr 04
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7:00 pm |
The New Sheiks 2012 Big Tour! Dates, States & Venues TBC soon!
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more info
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Event Details
- Sunday, February 12
- Bistro Gitan - Private Function
- 7:00 pm
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Event Details
- Sunday, February 19
- Sundays @ Graduate House with Heather Stewart Blues
- 3:00 pm
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Graduate House Melbourne University, 20 Leicester Street, Carlton, VIC
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- Special afternoon performance by Heather Stewart Trio on Sunday 18th February 2012. This concert will feature Heather Stewart on voice and violin with local blues stars Dan Dinnen (2009 BPOY winner), Leigh Barker (2011 Bell Award Winner), Ben Hendry (Flap). 3pm performance for one set. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Heather performing beautiful old and new blues and cajun songs.
- Tickets: Buy tickets
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- Saturday, February 25
- Heather Stewart at Paris Cat
- 9:30 pm
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Paris Cat Jazz Club
- Featuring the hugely talented Heather Stewart, John Scurry, Howard Cairns and Eugene Ball for this night of beautiful standards - Billie Holiday tunes, jazz violin, beautiful standards! Come join us
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- Sunday, February 26
- The New Sheiks with Heather Stewart @ Eltham Heritage Jazz & Blues Festival
- 5:00 pm
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Main Stage at Eltham Jazz Festival, Melbourne, Vic
(MAP)
- See the Bell Award winning NEW SHEIKS perform on the main stage at the 2012 Eltham Jazz & Blues Festival
Featuring the talented Eamon McNellis, Donny Stewart, Andy Swan, Andy Baylor, Leigh Barker and Heather Stewart. All star line up!
Stay tuned for their 2012 tour - pianist Matt Boden is returning specially from Paris to relive the 2011 musical journey!
http://thenewsheiks.wordpress.com/
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Event Details
- Thursday, March 8
- Heather Stewart @ Mission to Seafarers
- 8:00 pm
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Mission To Seafarers, 717 Flinders St, Melbourne City
(MAP)
- This March features a special series of Thursday night concerts by Heather Stewart and John Scurry. The show will be 8pm to 10pm every Thursday at Mission to Seafarers on Flinders St, (west of the Flinders Street station).
The concerts will feature new and beloved repertoire by this wonderful band who perform monthly at The Paris Cat with special highlights from their upcoming 2012 Heather Stewart Sings Billie album.
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Event Details
- Thursday, March 15
- Heather Stewart @ Mission to Seafarers
- 8:00 pm
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Mission To Seafarers, 717 Flinders St, Melbourne City
(MAP)
- This March features a special series of Thursday night concerts by Heather Stewart and John Scurry. The show will be 8pm to 10pm every Thursday at Mission to Seafarers on Flinders St, (west of the Flinders Street station).
The concerts will feature new and beloved repertoire by this wonderful band who perform monthly at The Paris Cat with special highlights from their upcoming 2012 Heather Stewart Sings Billie album.
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Event Details
- Sunday, March 18
- Heather Stewart Trio @ Mordialloc By The Bay Festival
- 12:00 pm
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Mordialloc By The Bay Festival - MAIN STAGE
- Heather Stewart Trio will make a special appearance for the 2012 Mordialloc By The Bay Festival!
Trio featues Heather Stewart on blues vocals and fiddle, Dan Dinnen on guitar and harmonica and the talented Ben Hendry on drums and percussion.
*There may also be a special guest bassist for this performance!!!
The Trio perform a 45minute show on the Main Stage at 12pm. Don't be late!
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Event Details
- Thursday, March 22
- Heather Stewart @ Mission to Seafarers
- 8:00 pm
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Mission To Seafarers, 717 Flinders St, Melbourne City
(MAP)
- This March features a special series of Thursday night concerts by Heather Stewart and John Scurry. The show will be 8pm to 10pm every Thursday at Mission to Seafarers on Flinders St, (west of the Flinders Street station).
The concerts will feature new and beloved repertoire by this wonderful band who perform monthly at The Paris Cat with special highlights from their upcoming 2012 Heather Stewart Sings Billie album.
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Event Details
- Sunday, March 25
- Heather Stewart & Andy Baylor's Double Fiddles @ Drunken Poet
- 6:30 pm
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Drunken Poet, 65 Peel Street, West Melbourne, Melbourne
(MAP)
- Don't miss this early evening concert by Heather Stewart and Andy Baylor performing an eclectic and engaging collection of Blues and Cajun tunes. Following the amazing Australian songstress LIZ STRINGER, we will be listening to her and starting right after at 6.30pm for two sets. Don't miss DOUBLE FIDDLES at the POET!
- Price Info: free entry
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Event Details
- Thursday, March 29
- Heather Stewart @ Mission to Seafarers
- 8:00 pm
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Mission To Seafarers, 717 Flinders St, Melbourne City
(MAP)
- This March features a special series of Thursday night concerts by Heather Stewart and John Scurry. The show will be 8pm to 10pm every Thursday at Mission to Seafarers on Flinders St, (west of the Flinders Street station).
The concerts will feature new and beloved repertoire by this wonderful band who perform monthly at The Paris Cat with special highlights from their upcoming 2012 Heather Stewart Sings Billie album.
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Event Details
- Wednesday, April 4
- The New Sheiks 2012 Big Tour! Dates, States & Venues TBC soon!
- 7:00 pm
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- Matt's returning from Paris again - he can't help himself and the audiences requested our return much sooner than we'd anticipated! Yes - The New Sheiks are doing another tour this April! We'll be on the road again from April 4th for 2-3 weeks so look forward to seeing you at one the gigs. They'll be up and after it's success last year we'll once again put updates and funny stuff on the BLOG: thenewsheiks.wordpress.com
Some of us will be at Eltham Jazz Festival very soon (before Matt returns, but) with some amazing and swinging musos!!
Sunday 26th February 5pm - IT'S THE PARTY & DANCE SET!
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Heather Stewart Trio @ Wangaratta Festival! HST festivals and local gigs, like Grumpy's Green (Fitzroy) have been cookin' and audiences crying out for more! In 2012, we return with a new collection of tunes with more of the gutsy, heart-wrenching old blues sounds you love! Heather is currently writing and collecting tunes for the next blues album!
See you at Mordialloc By The Bay Festival March 18th! 
2011 Vic/Tas Music Awards -Get Your Fingers Off It Judged by five independent radio presenters Derek Guille ABC 774, Helen Jennings PBS 106.7, Max Crawdaddy RRR 102.7, Werner Martin 3CR 855 and Matthew Frederick PBS 106.7. Heather Stewart's album "Get Your Fingers Off It!" and original song "Wayward Woman" WON:
- The Debut Album award
- Female Artist of The Year
& received second place:
- Producer of the Year Phil Manning, 2nd - Heather Stewart
- Song of The Year Collard Greens & Gravy, 2nd - Heather Stewart
- Solo/Duo of The Year Phil Manning, 2nd - Heather Stewart
- Band of The Year Collard Greens & Gravy, 2nd - Heather Stewart
- Album of The Year Collard Greens & Gravy, 2nd - Heather Stewart
- *Plus the MBAS Best Self Produced Album in 2010
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