SOME OF MY PAST SHOWS
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Thank You For The Welcome – 50th Anniversary Show
Gathering a half-century of songs and stories into one heartfelt performance.
Friday, 18 March 7:30 – 10:30pm
ALBERT PARK PORT LOUNGE | 5 Aquatic Dr, Park Lake, Vic, 3206, Australia
ALBERT PARK PORT LOUNGE PRESENTS…Jan Wositzky OAM – March 18th 2022 5 Aquatic Drive Albert Park Lake (next to the Point Restaurant) $35/$30 cash only at door (no cards) Remember proceeds go to the artists after our direct costs, we do not profit from these gigs, feel free to pay more at the door because every extra dollar will go to the artists. Doors open at 7:30 pm Includes bread & dips before the show and hot party finger food in the interval. Drinks from bar at bar prices.
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Steampacket and Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky present
Thank You For The Welcome – 50th Anniversary Show
Gathering a half-century of songs and stories into one heartfelt performance. With Jack Norton: guitars & bouzouki & Wendy Rowlands: piano, sarangi, accordion, violin; Ian White: banjo & special guests
Sunday March 20 @ 3.30 for 4.00 pm | Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, 30 Hargraves St Castlemaine
Bookings here
Fifty years after innocently stumbling into a life in the performing arts, and having now received an Order of Australia for his contribution to music and storytelling, Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky is celebrating the milestone with Thank You For The Welcome, a concert packed with his favourite stuff – songs and stories Jan believes are worth remembering into our future.
“The show was intimate and moving … delivered with such ease and sensitivity, stories of love and tragedy, backed by Jack’s beautiful guitar playing.” (Adele Duffy, Steiglitz, 2021)
And…
BILARNI
Sat. 1 @ 7.30 pm
Barfold Hall
Kyneton – Heathcote Road, Barfold
$25 incl. supper afterwards
Book: www.trybooking.com/XAEU
Enquiries: Sandra 0412 224 315 / 5423 4225
Presented by Barfold Hall Committee
BILARNI
Sun. 2 @ 2pm
House Concert at Keith & Jenny McKenry’s
Dandura Alpacas
Fenton Drive, Harcourt Nth
$25 incl. afternoon tea
Book: 5439 6525
BILARNI
Sat. 15 @ 2.00 pm
GYRACC – Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts & Culture Centre
328 Stuart Hwy, Katherine, Northern Territory
$20/25 Book: http://www.gyracc.org.au (under What’s On)
A STORYTELLER’S GUIDE TO STORYTELLING
Workshop
Thurs 20 @ 7.00pm
Red Hot Arts, 67 Bath St, Alice Springs
$20 ($40 for workshop & BILARNI)
Book: https://redhotarts.com.au/event/a-storytellers-guide-to-storytelling/
BILARNI
Sat. 22 @ 7.30 pm
Totem Theatre, 8 Wills Terrace, Alice Springs
$25 Book: https://redhotarts.com.au/event/bilarni/
BILARNI
Sun. 23 @ 1.00 pm
Totem Theatre 8 Wills Terrace, Alice Springs
$25 Book: https://redhotarts.com.au/event/bilarni/
BILARNI
Thurs. 27 @ 6.30 – 8.30pm
Barkly Regional Arts 65 Staunton St
Tennant Creek
$10 Book: https://www.universe.com/bilarni
October 2018
FIE UPON PUSILLANIMITY!
A new show about the 1851 Monster Meeting of Gold Diggers
Sun. 7 @ Steiglitz
In the Brisbane Ranges (b/w Ballan & Geelong)
this is a Greens Fundraiser and semi-private
but if any of Jan’s contacts want to come contact Jan directly.
FIE UPON PUSILLANIMITY!
A new show about the 1851 Monster Meeting of Gold Diggers
The Muddie, Mallacoota Vic
Thurs 11 @ 7.00 for 7.30 start
Pre bookied $20.00/ at the door $25.00
Kids under 12 free with adult
Bookings: Mallacoota Community Opshop
FIE UPON PUSILLANIMITY!
A new show about the 1851 Monster Meeting of Gold Diggers
Sat 13 Oct. @ 2pm
Montreal Gold Mine
769 Wallaga Lake Road,
Wallaga Lake, Bermagui, NSW
$20 Book: /www.trybooking.com/XWBX
www.montrealgoldfield.org.au
A STORYTELLER’S GUIDE TO STORYTELLING
Workshop
Sun. 21 @ 10am
Stories of Influence
Tyers Beach Hall
1 Mill Point Rd, Toorloo Arm (near Lakes Entrance)
$60 for weekend
Teri Young with Randal Muir, supported by Fay white and Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Saturday April 7 @ 7.30
Guildford Music Hall, Guildford Hotel
$16/12 conc. Bookings: 0477 576 642 & www.trybooking.com/UYDF
Meals are available from 6pm.
Teri Young with Randal Muir, support Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky with Goose’s Bridle to end the night.
Sunday April 8 @ 3 – 6 pm
$25 includes cheese platter BYO Drinks
Enquiries: 0400 526 166
Bookings: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/teri young lauriston hall
Having just completed a hitch-hiking house concert tour from Brisbane to Melbourne (yes, really!) and delighted the crowds at the National Folk Festival in Canberra with the release of her second album, award-winning singer-songwriter Teri Young is set for two special shows – at Guildford and Lauriston.
On tour with consummate jazz musician Randal Muir, Teri will be supported by a variety of local musical identities – uke band Goose’s Bridle, singer Fay White and storyteller/musician Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky.
And that’s ‘supported’ in more ways than one, for both Fay and Jan, having heard and loved Teri’s songwriting have got together to help her put on these shows. The word is from Fay and Jan that whilst Teri is relatively unknown around central Victoria that she’s a compelling, intimate performer and audiences should take a punt and go out to either Guildford or Lauriston out for a treat.
Hailing from Tasmania, Teri Young’s poetry takes inspiration from ‘the island’. Many of her songs are situated in a particular time and place, and about everyday realities. She has a keen perception of the intricacies of human relationships – amongst families, lovers, friends, fellow community members – and sings about the stories that unfold between them. Her songs are romantic, political, poignant and funny, some groovy, some exquisitely graceful.
Teri’s other vocation in life is nursing. She works on palliative care and general medical wards, finding the practical caring role to be a necessary spiritual balance to the bardic work of songwriting and performing.
Teri’s musical partner, bassist Randal Muir, has been a professional jazz musician since the early 90s, collaborating with a huge variety of jazz, blues, soul and funk musicians from around the country as well as teaching accordion and piano at the Uni TAS Conservatorium. Randal’s jazz background and expressiveness of his improvised melodies and subtlety of his harmonic and rhythm ideas shines through in Teri’s folk style songs.
You can listen to Teri’s music at: www.teriyoungmusic.com
At the Lauriston gig local ukulele champions Goose’s Bridle will end the night playing some fun music, with maybe even a dance.
Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky is a banjo-weilding, folklore loving, story collecting treasure. He was one of the original members of The Bushwackers and has for over forty years been sharing melliflous flows of historic and less historic songs and stories, each painted in vivid detail and spiked with larrikin humour.
Fay White brings songs old and new, grown from local issues and universal themes. ‘Fay White is a poet for our times. or the past 30 years she has written songs that reflect and inform contemporary living. Fay’s singing compels and inspires. She can turn a crowd into a choir in three minutes.” (Therese Virtue. The Boite.)
We (Bill) Harney in a land where everything and nothing is black and white.
0400 193283 & www.ruralcommunities.com.au
Sun 29 @ 3.00
Acclaimed storytelling theatre. In a land where everything and nothing is black and white, ‘Yarn’ Wositzky tracks the ‘expert’ on Aborigines, the greatest yarn spinner of them all, WE (Bill) Harney (1895-1962).
July 1 – Baynton
WHEN Sat. 1 July @ 7.00 for 7.30 start
WHERE Baynton Hall, 51 Darlington Rd, Baynton
(between Kyneton & Heathcote, near Mia Mia)
0427 237 144
July 8 – Queenscliff
WHEN Sat. 8 July @ 5pm
WHERE Queenscliff Uniting Church
(Cnr Hesse & Stokes St.)
We (Bill) Harney in a land where everything and nothing is black and white.
We (Bill) Harney in a land where everything and nothing is black and white.
WHEN Sunday 20 January @ 5pm
& Wednesday 22 January @ 8pm
DONE & DUSTED
OCTOBER 2016
SOUTH-EAST CORNER: BUCKLEY MINI-TOUR
Saturday 22 October
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Directed by Paul Hampton
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
WHEN:
Saturday 22 October @ 7 pm
Show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE:
Nowa Nowa Hall, Nowa Nowa
(10 ks from Orbost)
COST: $20
BOOK: Just Books at Lakes Entrance & Bairnsdale
www.trybooking.com/MQTR
info@ruralcommunities.com.au
5155 7218
Adult themes. Suitable for 12 + years
My show on this day is part of a larger event titled Stories on the Hill, all held in the Nowa Nowa Hall.
Stories on the Hill (Afternoon $10)
2.00 – Welcome – Wayne Thorpe – cultural educator and dancer
2.30 – Graham Sheil’s particular interest is mythical stories within a contemporary setting. Graham has had more than 100 short
stories and plays published.
3.30 – Bruce Pascoe – East Gippsland author will talk about his writing and game changing journey that led to his award
winning book Dark Emu and his new book: Mrs Whitlam a children’s story of a beautiful Clydesdale.
Stories on the Hill (Evening $20)
7.00 – The Go Between: William Murrungurk Buckley – the white man who went black and came back.
9.00 – Supper and conversation – what these stories connecting stories mean today, with Jan, Bruce and Graham.
Dinner options – Book at Mingling Waters (5155 7247) or cook at Nowa Nowa Camp Park
Accommodation – Book at NN C’ Park, Mingling Waters C’ Park or Nowa Nowa Hotel
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Directed by Paul Hampton
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
WHEN:
Sunday 23 October @ 3.00 -4.30 pm
Show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE:
The Muddie – Mudbrick Pavillion
Maurice Pavillion, Malllacoota
COST: $25
BOOK: Pickets Gift Shop, Mallacoota
Adult themes. Suitable for 12 + years
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Directed by Paul Hampton
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
WHEN: Saturday 29 October @ 7.30 for 8pm start
Show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE: Candelo Town Hall
Candelo (28 ks from Merimbula)
COST: $25/ $20 concession
BOOK: cas.org.au
Presented by Candelo Arts Society
Adult themes. Suitable for 12 + years
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Directed by Paul Hampton
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
WHEN: Sunday 30 October @ 2.30 for 3 pm start
Show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE: Murrah Hall
3141 Tathra -Bermagui Rd
Murrah
COST: $20/$15 concession
BOOK: www.trybooking.com/NART
Adult themes. Suitable for 12 + years
South-East Queensland
September 2016
Friday 2 September
SONGS & YARNS
For the first time in many years, storyteller, singer and musician Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky will be visiting southern Queensland, performing his renowned brand of solo shows, where every song turns into a storyabout smuggling taipans or an Indigenous dance, and the stories all segue into characters like WE (Bill) Harney, all laced with music on banjo, harmonica, bones spoons and bodhran, peppered with Jan’s anecdotes of getting into places like Kerry Packer’s house (but was Kerry home?), and moving on to Turkish poetry of Gallipoli, with special material from Queenslanders such as Don Henderson as well as original and traditional Australian songs, all culled from a lifetime of travelling, listening and hanging out in the interesting places – such as Uluru for the 1985 handback – and much more, all strung together by a performer who just loves to entertain people. In all, it’s probably not worth missing.
WHEN Friday 2 September @ 6.30 for 7:30pm start
WHERE Cooroy Butter Factory 11 A Maple St, Cooroy (140 k north of Brisbane)
COST $20 & $15 concession
BOOK https://www.trybooking.com/
We (Bill) Harney in a land where everything and nothing is black and white.
http://www.magdacommunityartz.org/#eventbooking – for more info about the show.WHEN
Bilarni
Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky tracks the ‘expert’ on Aborigines, the greatest yarn spinner of them all,
WE (Bill) Harney (1895-1962) in a land where everything and nothing is black and white.
WHERE St Cuthbert’s Chapel
Menzies Creek. (Corner of Railway Parade) Map 126 G-1
BOOK On-Line: https://www.trybooking.com/MDBL
Text SMS: 0431 133 599 with name, quantity and type of tickets required.
Confirmation will be sent within 24 hours
June 2016
Saturday June 11 – Buninyong
Bilarni
Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky tracks the ‘expert’ on Aborigines, the greatest yarn spinner of them all,
We (Bill) Harney in a land where everything and nothing is black and white.
Sunday 19 June – Castlemaine
Bilarni
Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky tracks the ‘expert’ on Aborigines, the greatest yarn spinner of them all,
We (Bill) Harney in a land where everything and nothing is black and white.
WHEN Sunday June 19 @ 2.00 for 2.30
WHERE House show in Campbell’s Creek. Location revealed when booking.
COST $25 includes wine, nibbles, tea & coffee
BOOK With Jan: 0417 332 065
Bilarni
Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky tracks the ‘expert’ on Aborigines, the greatest yarn spinner of them all,
We (Bill) Harney in a land where everything and nothing is black and white.
Bilarni
Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky tracks the ‘expert’ on Aborigines, the greatest yarn spinner of them all,
We (Bill) Harney in a land where everything and nothing is black and white.
WHERE The Living Room House Concert Nightcliff (Darwin)
May 14 – Saturday – Queenscliff
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Directed by Paul Hampton
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
WHEN: Saturday May 14 @ 1.oo pm
Show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE: Queenscliff Literature Festival
Point Lonsdale Board Riders rooms
Point Lonsdale Rd
Pt Lonsdale
COST: $25 BOOK: Try booking
Friday 20 May – Braidwood NSW
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Directed by Paul Hampton
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
WHEN Friday May 20 @ 7.30 pm
WHERE Braidwood Folk Club, Anglican Hall, Wilson St, Braidwood
COST $15 adults, $10 conc. & under 18? (Suitable for 12 and over)
BOOK Sue: 02 4842 8142
Sunday 22 May – Canberra
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Directed by Paul Hampton
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
WHEN Sunday May 22 @ 6 for 6.30 pm. Sausage sizzle @ 5.30.
WHERE House concert in Canberra. Address given when booking.
COST Suggested Donation $20. Light Supper provided
BOOK For details please email Lance at lancewgreen@gmail.com
or call Lance 0414 859 033
March 5 – Saturday
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Directed by Paul Hampton
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
WHEN: Saturday March 5 @ 7pm
Show is 75 minutes – no interval
Supper afterwards
WHERE: Baynton Hall , 51 Darlington Rd
(b/w Youngs Rd & Mission Hill Rd)
Baynton, Victoria
(Between Kyneton & Heathcote, north of Lancefield)
COST: $20 BOOK: www.trybooking.com/KEWQ
Or at door on the night if seats available
All information: Martin McKenna 0427 237 144
April 2 – Saturday
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
Directed by Paul Hampton
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
WHEN:
Saturday April 2 @ 1.30 pm
Show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE:
Boom Gallery, 11 Rutland St, Newtown, Geelong
With the exhibition William Buckley … Belonging
This exhibition attempts to share this most gallant Australian story through the eyes of artists Deb Fisher, Natalie Anderson, Ren Inei, Cricket Saleh, Viktor Cebergs and Shelley McKenzie. This major exhibition will explore and interpret each artist’s personal response to the William Buckley story.
COST: $20 adults, $15 conc & under 18
(Suitable for 12 and over)
BOOK: Online is preferable: BOOK HERE
Ph: 0417 555 101 / 0428 305 639
Or at the venue Mon-Sat 9-4 pm
Sunday 10 January
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzk
Directed by Paul Hampton
WHEN: Sunday 10 January
6.45 for 7.30 start
Show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE: Under the big tree at Kavisha & Andy’s place
15 Wheeler St Castlemaine (entry at side gate)
COST: Adults $20, Concession & 12-18 year old $15
(Not suitable for under 12)
BOOK: Text or email: 0417 332 065 / jan@janwositzky.com.au
There is a limit of 35 seats so get in early!
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
Monday 11 January
ÇANAKKALE. GALLIPOLI. Lest We Forget
Story music theatre show re-telling Gallipoli with Turkish & Australian song, poetry and story.
WHEN Monday 11 January, 2.00pm
WHERE Benalla Library, 2 Fawkner Dve, Benalla
COST Free
BOOK 03 5762 2069
Wednesday 13 January
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzk
Directed by Paul Hampton
WHEN:Wednesday 13 January 8.00pm
Show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE: Uniting Church, Queenscliff
COST: $20 (Not suitable for under 12)
BOOK:unitingqueenscliff.org.au
5258 2854 or info centre
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
Thursday 14 January
SOLD OUT
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzk
Directed by Paul Hampton
WHEN: Thursday 14 January
6.30pm Show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE: Mangowak Amphiteatre Series No. 1
Distillery Creek Picnic Ground, Aries Inlet
COST: $20/ children $10/ Family (parents & 3 kids) $50
(Not suitable for under 12)
BOOK: Great Escape Books: 5289 7052
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
Sunday 17 January
The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley
The story of the white man who went black and came back.
Written & performed by Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzk
Directed by Paul Hampton
WHEN: Sunday 17 January, 5.00pm
The show is 75 minutes – no interval
WHERE: Uniting Church, Queenscliff
COST: $20 (Not suitable for under 12)
BOOK: unitingqueenscliff.org.au
5258 2854 or info centre
The show is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3oz26FC1E
Sunday 11 October at Harcourt Nth
‘ÇANAKKALE. GALLIPOLI. Lest We Forget’
Story music theatre show re-telling Gallipoli with Turkish & Australian song, poetry and story.
Dandura Alpacas, 121 Fenton Drive Harcourt North Vic 3453
(map www.dandura.com)
$20. Includes afternoon tea
(Primary school age kids and under are free)
BOOK: Keith or Jenny: 03-5439 6525, or email: fangedwombat@bigpond.com
Opening set from Summer Rain
Saturday 17 October
‘ÇANAKKALE. GALLIPOLI. Lest We Forget’
Story music theatre show re-telling Gallipoli with Turkish & Australian song, poetry and story.
Patchwollock Music Festival
In the Mallee
Show at 2pm in the church, with an 11am set of songs & stories on Main Stage.
August 2015
Tues Aug 11, 7.30 pm – Ringwood East
‘ÇANAKKALE. GALLIPOLI. Lest We Forget’
Story music theatre show re-telling Gallipoli with Turkish & Australian song, poetry and story.
Victorian Folk Music Club
East Ringwood community Hall
Knaith Rd, Ringwood East (in Melways as Red Cross Hall)
Start time: 8pm (support act then Jan)
Tickets: $12
Bookings/enquiries: Maree – 0411 750 462
Sat Aug 15, 7.30 pm (doors open 7.00_ – Hepburn Springs
‘ÇANAKKALE. GALLIPOLI. Lest We Forget’
Story music theatre show re-telling Gallipoli with Turkish & Australian song, poetry and story.
Words in Winter Festival
The Grande Cabaret Club
1 Church Ave, Hepburn Springs
Start time: 7.30pm
Tickets: $15/$20
Bookings: www.reybookings.com/IEUD
Thurs Aug 23, 7.30 pm – East Brunswick
I am part of a songwriter’s gig, along with Kate Crowley, Lucy Wise, Loiusa Wise, David Hyams & Frank Jones – a wonderful line up! Theme for the night – ‘Out of Town’.
The Writer’s Block #6
Lomond Hotel
Cnr Nicholson & Blythe St, East Brunswick
Free