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23.01.2022 Wooooaahhh we're half way there! The touring team are riding high with excitement from the past weeks shows and are excited to visit Rainbow Beach Community Hall tonight. We are so happy to be back in this lovely town tonight with Karl S. Williams - Musical Fool and women in docs. Tonight's show will by opened by Joel Makauskas, a singer/songwriter who specialises in live acoustics, looping and beat boxing. His performance will feature both originals and covers and will mash ...up some of your favourite classics. Refreshments will be available from 5.30pm Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. See you tonight! #HallsSummer #ArtsQld #artsfunding #thisisqueensland #qld #queensland #liveinqueensland #community #music #travel #roadtrip #ontheroad #aussiemusic #explore #australia #ruralhall #friends #family #folk #folkmusic #contemporary #livemusic #smallhalls #inspiration #tour #blues #singersongwriter #excitement #happiness #love

22.01.2022 The sunflowers on the Darling and Southern Downs never stop being amazing. We’re taking our lead from them and turning our faces to the sun! (And away from the roadworks on the Cunningham) See you beachside Team Halls - tonight we’re back with our friends in Mudgeeraba! Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Second last show with @womenindocs and @karlswilliams! #HallsSummer

21.01.2022 We're on our way, Glen Aplin! The Glen Aplin Memorial Hall has hosted many community celebrations, weddings, wakes, markets and dances along with sporting and social activities. Tonight, it is Festival of Small Halls' turn with Karl S. Williams - Musical Fool and women in docs, supported by the band Nine Year Sister. 'Nine Year Sister' is a multi-award winning independent pop/folk duo comprised of singer/songwriters from Stanthorpe QLD, Jennie Wardle and Emma Wardle. Calling... themselves 'Nine Year Sister' (being sisters nine years apart in age), Jennie and Emma write and record original songs and independently release music. In January 2020, Nine Year Sister released their second CD album titled 'A World Is Waiting', which has received airplay on the ABC and various other Australian & international radio stations. Doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm start. See you tonight! #HallsSummer #ArtsQld #artsfunding #thisisqueensland #qld #queensland #liveinqueensland #community #music #travel #roadtrip #ontheroad #aussiemusic #explore #australia #ruralhall #friends #family #folk #folkmusic #contemporary #livemusic #smallhalls #inspiration #tour #blues #singersongwriter #excitement #happiness #love

18.01.2022 We're spending this hazy time between Christmas and New Year slowing right down, getting ready to start as we mean to go on through 2021 by pausing and really soaking in the gratitude for all we experienced in 2020. It was a tough one, but full of so much love, kindness, resilience and community. One element of our 2020 operations that brought us so much gratitude was our Internship programme. We welcomed Julia and Lucy into our office to undertake Associate Producer interns...hips from August - November, and they lit up our days with their easy humour, brilliant efficiency, love for the communities they worked with and wonderful enthusiasm. In partnership with CQ RASN, we also welcomed Will and Kai onto the road teams to learn about technical production and tour management across a combined total of 23 venues in Queensland, from Ravenshoe to Cunnamulla to Springbrook and everywhere in between. These guys were tough to say goodbye to and we're so grateful for the infusion of excitement, promise, hope and a wonderful future that they filled us with. These four legends are out in the world now - finding the right places to commence full time careers in the arts that range from sound and lighting in world class venues to creating independent tours as artists to producing brilliant shows with some of Queensland's best companies. We're so grateful for the many hours we spent teaching, and learning with these great young people and we can't wait to see what they do next. Special shoutout to last year's intern Izzy Bartlett for setting us up on the best possible foot for the year by getting up at 7am on January 1st to bake scones for the very first Small Halls show of 2020 at the Woodford Folk Festival.

18.01.2022 Last night in Rainbow Beach <3 We adore this community and so happy we could come back this year! Don't forget folks, tonight in Glen Aplin and Sunday in Eudlo are totally sold out - limited tickets remaining for Cooroy and Mudgeeraba! And then we're done for 2020!!!!

18.01.2022 Tomorrow is the last day of 2020. Over this insane year, we were lucky enough to perform 47 shows and three festivals across Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland. Less than half of what we had planned, but more than double the experiences. What a journey! We started the year side by side with our friends in the shadow of bushfire. We sang in the ashes of small towns with communities ready to rise like phoenixes. Over the year, we were welcomed,... alongside thousands of patrons, to small halls in little towns, each with a story, a particular kindness, a special food and a welcome all of its own. We ended in the same spirit - standing proudly besides communities with grit, and with guts, who'd been rocked by a global pandemic but for whom leaving anyone behind was never an option. We kept in touch and heard about how people had been generous to those who were isolated, how the rains finally came and how much people loved their dogs (ok that was us). Thanks to touring artists Siobhan Miller and bandmates Rosie, Innes and Euan; Jack Carty; Shellie Morris Music and Hussy Hicks; women in docs and Karl S. Williams - Musical Fool; and with particular love, to The Paul McKenna Band and Alana Wilkinson who were pulled off their tour two weeks in, and Colin Lillie Music and Iona Fyfe who never even got to the airport. Please continue to follow and support these wonderful artists. Thanks also to the 44 wonderful emerging artists who joined us as local supports - you made our jaws drop! Thank you to our amazing crew, our dear Harry of Premier Sound and Lighting, and Josiah, who made everything so beautiful, and to Tour Managers Kate Atkinson, Steph Suess and Jenna Koda for keeping the show on the road. Thank you to our family of partner festivals - Woodford Folk Festival, Cygnet Folk Festival, Illawarra Folk Festival and Port Fairy Folk Festival were inspiring, wonderful and enriching. We missed National Folk Festival, Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival, Queenscliff Music Festival and Mullumbimby Music Festival - and what was to be our first time at Fairbridge Festival - so much! We can’t wait to be back sharing the joy of music with you all. To our beloved community hosts across Australia, to the ones we got to visit and the ones we didn't, we love you. Thank you for choosing us. We'll be capping off 2020 with our Scottish friends at Year of Scotland Australia 2020 tomorrow night with a special premiere of some of the wonderful music planned to be presented through 2020. See you on the other side! In the spirit of community - Team Halls #thankyou by Kate Atkinson Photography, Leesa Gentz (Hussy Hicks), Brad Marcellos and Jenna Koda

14.01.2022 Sitting with the beautiful community of Glen Aplin ahead of tonight’s show hearing about fire safety, resilience and recovery. Wonderful feeling of heading in the same direction, all together. Perfect ahead of our fourth last show on this tour with @womenindocs and @karlswilliams. Can’t wait for tonight with @nineyearsister joining us to open the show! This place is so beautiful #HallsSummer #discovergranitebelt #community

14.01.2022 The team are running high on endorphins and are excited for tonights SOLD OUT show at The Hub, Eungella. The hall was originally an old army hospital situated at Mackay Harbour and donated to the RSL. It was dismantled, loaded onto a truck and taken to its present location at Eungella where it was reconstructed by a builder and community members. If the hall could talk, it would recount may memories of the Dairy Queen and Cattlemen's balls, dances, church services, fetes, sh...ows, movie nights and more recently, Friday Night dining and monthly markets. Our hall was damaged in cyclone Ului and thanks to grants and fabulous community members it has been restored and is in better condition than ever. It is now known as "The Hub". Food available from 5.30pm. Vegan Lentil Curry $9 Beef & Gravy Rolls $9 Chip & Sweet Potato Wedges Eungella Hall stands on lands traditionally owned by the Widi people.

13.01.2022 Likely to be our final ticketing update for a bit - here goes!! Thanks to new Covid density relaxations, Innisfail tonight will have tickets available on the door. This the last show in the north you can get tickets to - the much smaller halls of Bluewater and Eungella are completely SOLD OUT. Next week, Captain Creek remains firmly SOLD OUT but Rainbow Beach has just released more tickets to the previously sold out performance! Hurrah!!... Finally, Glen Aplin has limited tickets remaining, and Mudgeeraba is not far behind. Cooroy has added more tickets but Eudlo is also totally SOLD OUT. See you in a hall near (ish) you! #HallsSummer #livemusic #communityhalls #love #ontour #smallhalls

11.01.2022 We ADORE this interview - what great writing from Blank! Thanks for the support team :)

11.01.2022 Hello again, Bluewater! We're looking forward to seeing you all tonight at Bluewater Community Centre when we roll into town with Karl S. Williams - Musical Fool and women in docs. Opening the show tonight will be local group, Littmus Steampunk Band. "Say goodbye to Steampunk...I don't think so." The impeccably dressed, Littmus Steampunk Band still has trouble accepting the 20th century, let alone the 21st. Playing a folk/cabaret style of music with Victorian/Steampunk aes...thetics in original songs. Doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Don't forget, tickets are SOLD OUT! #HallsSummer #ArtsQld #artsfunding #thisisqueensland #qld #queensland #liveinqueensland #community #music #travel #roadtrip #ontheroad #aussiemusic #explore #australia #ruralhall #friends #family #folk #folkmusic #contemporary #livemusic #smallhalls #inspiration #tour #blues #singersongwriter #excitement #happiness

07.01.2022 As our family of music-lovers across Australia know, our tours in 2020 were to be part of the Year of Scotland Australia 2020, a year-long celebration of Scottish music, food and culture with more than 35 wonderful Australian festivals, events, tours and other celebrations. As you also know, almost nothing in 2020 went as planned and our tartan had to be folded away in March for the time being. Since we’re not able to celebrate Hogmanay together in person tonight, we present... this video from the team at Year of Scotland Australia 2020, delivering a special festive message from the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture, Ms Fiona Hyslop and some excellent tunes from five artists who either were or were intended to be a part of YOSA - Ryan Young, Elephant Sessions, HEISK, Rachel Hair : Harp Player & Ron Jappy and Breabach. Pour a wee dram and get your jig on with us tonight! *points if you tag us in your Auld Lang Syne singalong!!! New Feed/Premiere Announcement Image taken by Kate Atkinson Photography on the Autumn Tour 2020 with The Paul McKenna Band and Alana Wilkinson in Mount Benson, SA

06.01.2022 Tonight, Festival of Small Halls makes its inaugural visit to Innisfail. We are so excited to be joining you with Karl S. Williams - Musical Fool and women in docs tonight in the beautiful Innisfail Shire Hall. Opening the show tonight will be Robert Cini. Hailing from Innisfail, multi-award-winning singer/songwriter Robert Cini’s deeply melodic songs, infusing multiple genres, accompany a truly unique aura on stage and ability to capture audiences and passers by with his as...tonishingly powerful soulful voice. Fresh from the long-awaited release of his debut album ‘Imaginary Fun’, Robert embarks on a new beginning after overcoming serious health issues including Thyroid cancer and a life-long battle with a progressive vision impairment, along the way to making the album. The album testifies to a new authentically raw-earthy sound, showcasing Robert’s prodigious songcraft and has already garnered huge success with the song ‘Different Road’ awarded ‘Best song in the Folk/Acoustic genre’ at the recent Australian Songwriters Assoc. Awards in Sydney. Robert picked up a second award for ‘Best Live Performance’ of the night after taking to the stage to perform the winning song to a record sold-out crowd. His songs receive regular rotation on radio in Queensland, interstate and overseas. It follows the previous success of his self-titled EP which included Australian Songwriters Award winning song ‘Haven’t You Noticed’. Doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Innisfail Shire Hall stands on land traditionally owned by the Mamu people. #HallsSummer #ArtsQld #artsfunding #thisisqueensland #qld #queensland #liveinqueensland #community #music #travel #roadtrip #ontheroad #aussiemusic #explore #australia #ruralhall #friends #family #folk #folkmusic #contemporary #livemusic #smallhalls #inspiration #tour #blues #singersongwriter #excitement #happiness #love

06.01.2022 Give a warm welcome to a new member of our halls family, Captain Creek. We are so excited to be performing at the Captain Creek Community Sport & Recreation Hall tonight with Karl S. Williams - Musical Fool and women in docs. Festival of Small Halls Captain Creek will be supported by Murphy Road. Murphy Road is an Agnes Water CQ based duo combining the talents of Bryan Williams on guitar and Tina Sanderson on vocals. Known as Duosity until their rebranding in October 2020, ...Murphy Road delivers eclectic sets of originals and covers. Bryan is a true musician, with decades of experience playing venues across Sydney, Canberra and more, his style flows effortlessly from classic rock and blues to sensitive ballads. Following a 20-something year break after humble beginnings in a rock quartet in the early 90’s, Tina returned recently as MissT performing jazz/pop, and now brings her own unique vocal style, a combo of raw and a little sweet. With diverse backgrounds comes an equally diverse sound and set list. Food and drink available for purchase. Doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm start. See you soon! #HallsSummer #ArtsQld #artsfunding #thisisqueensland #qld #queensland #liveinqueensland #community #music #travel #roadtrip #ontheroad #aussiemusic #explore #australia #ruralhall #friends #family #folk #folkmusic #contemporary #livemusic #smallhalls #inspiration #tour #blues #singersongwriter #excitement #happiness

05.01.2022 Some lovely photos from Deb Neill Photography at the Belli Hall last week. Such a gorgeous night! We love you Belli! Don't forget, tonight in Captain Creek is totally sold out but there's still some tickets to Rainbow Beach tomorrow if you're keen to get amongst the magic!!

05.01.2022 Welcome to 2021! We are starting off our New Year with.....laundry. (And full water tanks in the background, hurrah!) Clean bunting ready to go up in some gorgeous halls.... we can’t wait. What are you looking forward to this year? #2021 #newyearnewstart #fresh #clean #breeze #optimism #hope #excitement #renewal

01.01.2022 Cooroy, here we come! It's our third last show with @womenindocs and @karlswilliams and that heady mix of sadness at the impending end along with all the excitement and joy of meeting each community is making us dizzy. Tonight we're in Cooroy and the show will be opened by lovely local support Tilly Wright. Tilly Wright is a young guitarist and songwriter from the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. She takes inspiration from memories, dreams, hopes and the beautiful bush land aroun...d her home. Tilly started creating music only two years ago, and has been passionate about it ever since. She finds music therapeutic, and a way to express her soul. We can't wait to have Tilly join us! Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start and if you're hungry for dinner during the interval, the RSL next door is doing a special takeaway menu for the show. It's been so wonderful witnessing communities banding together and working so hard to reunite communities in their treasured halls after such a tough year. Please, play your part in your community and remember physical distancing is a requirement to run these events. These are volunteer-run shows and your hall needs each person to play their part in making sure we can all keep going to shows together.