Following their sold out Brisbane show last year, John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew will make a triumphant return to Brisbane and Noosa with The Redgum Years in August.
John Schumann is the singer-songwriter and unmistakable voice of legendary Australian folk-rock band Redgum and takes to the stage with his six-piece band, the Vagabond Crew.
“The Vagabond Crew persuaded me to revisit the Redgum repertoire,“ said Schumann.
“It was the band’s idea to call it The Redgum Years and play Redgum’s most popular, enduring songs.“
The set-list includes the anthemic I was only 19 and It doesn’t matter to me, The Long Run, I’ve been to Bali too and Diamantina Drover.
Tickets to the Noosa show at The J sold fast so the venue opened the mezzanine to make more seats available.
Schumann said he’d loved the Noosa region since the original Redgum days.
“Noosa folk are fiercely independent and protective of Noosa’s beautiful natural heritage,“ he said.
He said Redgum always enjoyed strong support in Brisbane, especially in the ’80s under Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s regime.
“Brisbane is special in my heart because in the Joh years you had to be courageous to come to a Redgum concert with the Special Branch in attendance. We pull good crowds in Brisbane, progressive people with a sense of humour,“ he said.
The support act is singer songwriter Michael Waugh whose new album, Beauty & Truth paints vivid, joyous, funny and loving pictures of growing up queer in rural Australia.
Schumann says Waugh was a good fit for The Redgum Years.
“Michael Waugh mentioned Redgum as an influence so I checked out his music and thought it was fantastic,“ Schumann said.
“He is singing Australian stories in an Australian accent, using Australian place names.“
John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew play The J in Noosa Heads on 23 August.
